I suppose the ingame codex needs a link to this livestream.
Yeah, but in the meantime that's what forums are for
Elite Dangerous | System Colonisation Beta Details & Feedback
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Yeah, but in the meantime that's what forums are for
I did do the ignore function on him too. Its more tiring reading useless rabble like that than it is for me to solo my 60kls Primary Orbis without a FC. (Yep I was one of those people and I'm seeing positives in it)
I am also confirm that CMM has be buffed or the marked drain has lessened. Managed to get plenty of tons today for my project. 9k out of 53k CMM left to go.
In the facility placement options "left" and "right" aren't in the same order, which is... a bit unusual UI design.
Plus: having some presets would be nice.
EDIT: Oh my, i cannot exit the placement before i go to the options, and bind a key to "Exit Camera Suite", which isn't in the "colonization" options, but ... where? I will search it. Well, it is not "Exit Free Camera" from the "Free camera Menu". Please preset "Exit" with "X"
Edit2: Oh... it is "Exit Placement Camera" that is conveniently labeled differently than "Exit Free Camera" in the placement screen when the Camera is on.
A help for this would be good. How am i supposed to know which stuff to bind?
At least I am not stuck in this mode after relogging.
There goes allocated half an hour for placing the settlement.
Really hard to manage this UI design. Sit in front of a placement situation where i don't know what I am supposed to do and what it is i am lacking :-(
Edit3: Figured it out. But using the UI for the setllement placement should not be a skill check. That is not fun.
So i placed the settlement in the end by flying up and down in the ship. Really not intuitive.
Is there some kind of fixed distance to the ship when starting the dialog? I was flying down until the SC Suite was active and then went into placement mode. Proposal: autocorrect for ship altitude with the initial render distance? Was seeing exactly nothing.
Plus: No light when placing.
Plus: having some presets would be nice.
EDIT: Oh my, i cannot exit the placement before i go to the options, and bind a key to "Exit Camera Suite", which isn't in the "colonization" options, but ... where? I will search it. Well, it is not "Exit Free Camera" from the "Free camera Menu". Please preset "Exit" with "X"
Edit2: Oh... it is "Exit Placement Camera" that is conveniently labeled differently than "Exit Free Camera" in the placement screen when the Camera is on.
A help for this would be good. How am i supposed to know which stuff to bind?
At least I am not stuck in this mode after relogging.
There goes allocated half an hour for placing the settlement.
Really hard to manage this UI design. Sit in front of a placement situation where i don't know what I am supposed to do and what it is i am lacking :-(
Edit3: Figured it out. But using the UI for the setllement placement should not be a skill check. That is not fun.
So i placed the settlement in the end by flying up and down in the ship. Really not intuitive.
Is there some kind of fixed distance to the ship when starting the dialog? I was flying down until the SC Suite was active and then went into placement mode. Proposal: autocorrect for ship altitude with the initial render distance? Was seeing exactly nothing.
Plus: No light when placing.
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If you need any help, let me know. I work next 8 straight days but I can help here and there. My discord is Vilkarin, and apparently you cant search for people with quotation marks or I would have you add "Rougarou" and I would lend you a hand. Shoot me a message on Discord sometime, I have about 6k units of CMM Composites on my carrier I can give to you, I just park next to your construction ship, set friends only and put it dirt cheap. I am alone doing this since my squadron is small and all members play occasionally so I respect your progress greatly. Reach out and I will share my stock so you can save time and credits instead of running back and forth from surface settlements. We can do this together, I ain't about to let a fellow CMDR build a large station entirely on their own.
Seconded, such details should be explained and visible in the UI.
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I cannot place a star harbour on the planet's surface even though I have fulfilled the requirements. When I try to place the starport on the surface, the hologram of the station is not available. However, the holograms of the small settlements and outposts on the surface are displayed.
How can I then build the starport dear FDev?
How can I then build the starport dear FDev?
I do have to say, having multiple construction projects on now, the little chaff commodities are a tad annoying. Stuff like steel and the like is fine, I can fill a hold with that, but the little things like food cartridges and microcontrollers that only need a dozen or two each are a bit fiddly.
It'd be nice to have some sort of depot we could dump stuff into and have it distributed to the local construction sites over time - not necessarily quickly, maybe even scale it on distance, just so we can bring in a full haul of the stuff (or just remember "my stuff needs food carts") and dump it off without having to deal with tail ends of this or that clogging up a carrier (which aren't exactly very mobile right now)
Or hell, just having a local warehouse for stockpiling stuff without the distribution angle would be something.
Edit: while I'm at it, having the commodity market say "hey, you need x tons of this for your various construction projects" the way it does for missions would be extremely helpful.
It'd be nice to have some sort of depot we could dump stuff into and have it distributed to the local construction sites over time - not necessarily quickly, maybe even scale it on distance, just so we can bring in a full haul of the stuff (or just remember "my stuff needs food carts") and dump it off without having to deal with tail ends of this or that clogging up a carrier (which aren't exactly very mobile right now)
Or hell, just having a local warehouse for stockpiling stuff without the distribution angle would be something.
Edit: while I'm at it, having the commodity market say "hey, you need x tons of this for your various construction projects" the way it does for missions would be extremely helpful.
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Like give players an Architect Megaship, but only one can be active at a time and has a demand based on overall needs of the system. You fill it up and it distributes everything at a certain amount daily. Make it a "rental", it has upkeep so you cant drag your feet on it and have to weigh if its worth the credits per day. I can see a feature like that working for players like me who work 8 straight days and cant be on much between my 12 hour shifts.
Well even overall good, I would like people's attention to the following issues (I tried post it in threads but get deleted immediately):
o7 commanders,
I believe many of you had a crazy but productive week last week as a system architect, and work on transportations just as I did. As I can see now the elite dangerous online players hit new peak in the past few days. This is quite a great thing, as this game becomes better and shows great potential with new contents released and exciting plans on the shelf. All the commanders see the effort that FDev put on to it, to make it a way perfect space game. And new players emerging while AFK players back online makes the galaxy busy(or maybe way too busy).
However, there are also bad things happening. The following one you may already know, and noticed in forum threads:
To be brief, I omit the cmdr names and specific info.
Player 1 aims to colonize a system he wants for a long time, he logged in the game as soon as the update released. But he tried multiply times claim the system, only to find there's an error that prevent him from a successful claim. So he tried to created a ticket to figure out what is happening.
Meantime, Player 2 came online, and he searched nearby systems, found the same system a perfect colonize place. He didn't even know someone tried to claim this system, only see it shows claimable on galaxy map. So he started his claim, no glitch happens at this time. He started the construction work right after the claim was successful. By the time on server maintenance Feb 27th, he finished over 50% of the construction work.
The next day morning, FD Customer support processes the Player 1's tickets, and immediately decided to revoke the Player 2's claim, with NO communication, NO negotiation, NOT EVEN AN INFORM. They removed the system claim from Player 2, although the progress from Player 2 seems to be normal and the construction of primary port went half way.
The system shows invalid for a while, then back to unclaimed status. Player 2 noticed this and created a customer ticket then. Meantime, Player 1 tried to claim the system again, but run into the same issue unable to claim it.
This time comes the Player 3, he located this system and claimed it, it was a successful claim. He started the primary port construction shortly after that. Now the time FD customer service respond to Player 2's tickets, the FDCS replied to player 2 that this situation is "odd", while for some reason not mention anything regarding the whole story, nor further help. Player 2 has no way but trying to post threads on forum to seek help.
So for the whole thing, I would say,
Player 1 is a victim, he was sniped by the server glitch and never make it a successful claim to the system he wants.
Player 2 is obviously a victim, he claimed a system, put effort to the construction, and lost it.
Player 3 is a victim, despite he is the final owner of the architect, he received doubt from Player 1 and 2, questioning he get the ownership in an appropriate way.
So this is the things turns out on the way of "First Come, First Serve".
Furthermore, 5 days after all these above happened, Player 2 finds he got TOTALLY IGNORED by FDev customer service, NO RESPONDS, No EXPLANTIONS, NO ACTIONS, NO PLAN, NO RESETTLEMENT, NOT EVEN AN APOLOGIZE.
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLLE, THIS IS DISAPPOINTING !!!
And this is not the only case, commanders reported lost their system architects even when they finished primary port. Things like it happening all over the galaxy right now!
For years I played this game and recommended it to many of my friends. With such huge potentials, I believe it can be the best space game with the unreplaceable 1:1 interactive galaxy.
Please DO something, at least make some official plan on these issues and settle these commanders lost their architect role!
I KNOW THAT FDEV YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPENS.
o7 commanders,
I believe many of you had a crazy but productive week last week as a system architect, and work on transportations just as I did. As I can see now the elite dangerous online players hit new peak in the past few days. This is quite a great thing, as this game becomes better and shows great potential with new contents released and exciting plans on the shelf. All the commanders see the effort that FDev put on to it, to make it a way perfect space game. And new players emerging while AFK players back online makes the galaxy busy(or maybe way too busy).
However, there are also bad things happening. The following one you may already know, and noticed in forum threads:
To be brief, I omit the cmdr names and specific info.
Player 1 aims to colonize a system he wants for a long time, he logged in the game as soon as the update released. But he tried multiply times claim the system, only to find there's an error that prevent him from a successful claim. So he tried to created a ticket to figure out what is happening.
Meantime, Player 2 came online, and he searched nearby systems, found the same system a perfect colonize place. He didn't even know someone tried to claim this system, only see it shows claimable on galaxy map. So he started his claim, no glitch happens at this time. He started the construction work right after the claim was successful. By the time on server maintenance Feb 27th, he finished over 50% of the construction work.
The next day morning, FD Customer support processes the Player 1's tickets, and immediately decided to revoke the Player 2's claim, with NO communication, NO negotiation, NOT EVEN AN INFORM. They removed the system claim from Player 2, although the progress from Player 2 seems to be normal and the construction of primary port went half way.
The system shows invalid for a while, then back to unclaimed status. Player 2 noticed this and created a customer ticket then. Meantime, Player 1 tried to claim the system again, but run into the same issue unable to claim it.
This time comes the Player 3, he located this system and claimed it, it was a successful claim. He started the primary port construction shortly after that. Now the time FD customer service respond to Player 2's tickets, the FDCS replied to player 2 that this situation is "odd", while for some reason not mention anything regarding the whole story, nor further help. Player 2 has no way but trying to post threads on forum to seek help.
So for the whole thing, I would say,
Player 1 is a victim, he was sniped by the server glitch and never make it a successful claim to the system he wants.
Player 2 is obviously a victim, he claimed a system, put effort to the construction, and lost it.
Player 3 is a victim, despite he is the final owner of the architect, he received doubt from Player 1 and 2, questioning he get the ownership in an appropriate way.
So this is the things turns out on the way of "First Come, First Serve".
Furthermore, 5 days after all these above happened, Player 2 finds he got TOTALLY IGNORED by FDev customer service, NO RESPONDS, No EXPLANTIONS, NO ACTIONS, NO PLAN, NO RESETTLEMENT, NOT EVEN AN APOLOGIZE.
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLLE, THIS IS DISAPPOINTING !!!
And this is not the only case, commanders reported lost their system architects even when they finished primary port. Things like it happening all over the galaxy right now!
For years I played this game and recommended it to many of my friends. With such huge potentials, I believe it can be the best space game with the unreplaceable 1:1 interactive galaxy.
Please DO something, at least make some official plan on these issues and settle these commanders lost their architect role!
I KNOW THAT FDEV YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPENS.
Pivoting off this... this is kinda why i wish they left CMMs as they were.
The challenge here feels like a "hauling grind" to start with when people have singular projects, close to the bubble... but if we just watched what happened next... colonies would have built out heaps of CMM sources, but those little ones and twos you need to source in bulk as the amounts of systems you architect grows... suddenly CMMs wouldn't be the stick point because nobody put HT or agri facilities up.
CMMs were part of a more complex logistics problem which I'm now worried is just a little more unbalanced, because now CMMs are functionally identical to Steel and Titanium which are really "Bulk source" items.... an aspect that's somewhat lost in the noise now.
Where exactly did you hear it?
Could it be coming from the new beacons maybe?
I'll be done with my outpost construction in a few days and will keep an ear out for it. Others though have already finished theirs, someone might have heard it already
Your system is just ~80k LY from mine though, will drop in to take a look around later
Dont the colonisation beacons make the noise when you dump them out? It sounds duller and more muffled from a distance, but it's basically the FSS honk.
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which is absolutely fine.... but then it should be profitable delivering all the stuff for it