It's specificaly for the big port that I would like to know, does the market of your main station evolved alongside or not?
Elite Dangerous | System Colonisation Beta Details & Feedback
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For getting my Coriolis done, I did 20 hours of hauling last weekend. For smaller things like non-stations (except the tier 3 port), I'll do a couple of hours per day so as to avoid burnout.
After claiming the system and setting up the beacon, you choose what primary station you want to build. That determines the effort required. Options vary, if you want to build a starport (with Coriolis being the easiest), the fee is hauling about 55-70k of goods within four weeks for the initial starport (as I get it, there is no time limit for building subsequent ones), and I would recommend a specialized Cutter for it, it's a whole lot of stuff. Got to 60% in a top engineered Cutter, solo, in about a week, playing 2-3 hours a day. Stations are way cheaper and can be done in a couple of days without too much effort, so there's an option for everyone. You decide. But definitely go and try it, it's fun!
O7,
I think this bit is a good idea because it would allow people to chain to a profitable PvP system and then release the systems they did not want for other players.
I also think it might be nice to have a 'smaller' carrier no upkeep except fuel. Due to this it has no facilities except storage, I'd suggest storage for fuel and resources are separate and maybe a few ships could be stored too, say one of each size can be stored. As a single casual player, the normal carrier is out of my remit but something smaller would be good to have as a taste of what one is like.
After claiming the system and setting up the beacon, you choose what primary station you want to build. That determines the effort required. Options vary, if you want to build a starport (with Coriolis being the easiest), the fee is hauling about 55-70k of goods within four weeks for the initial starport (as I get it, there is no time limit for building subsequent ones), and I would recommend a specialized Cutter for it, it's a whole lot of stuff. Got to 60% in a top engineered Cutter, solo, in about a week, playing 2-3 hours a day. Stations are way cheaper and can be done in a couple of days without too much effort, so there's an option for everyone. You decide. But definitely go and try it, it's fun!
O7,
Doesn't sound too bad! I'll def give it a go, thanks O7
I had to go to the architect view and click on it from there.
EDIT: sorry, not the architect view, the point of interest view then select construction sites.
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Very interesting.
If there is any good news to be found, it's that the galaxy contains so much real estate that eventually things can be sorted out without harshing the mellow of different play styles. At least, that's my hope.
I've mentioned it elsewhere, but the Trailblazers beta launch reminds me of a sea turtle documentary. Thousands of baby sea turtles have hatched and are now scampering out to the ocean.
I sort of expected this to happen... another way to describe it would be like two weather systems (BGS and Colonisation) colliding together. This wave of humanity, 8000+ strong, is creating an event that is impacting players, systems, factions, assets, etc. in many ways.
But I think in time, through changes in mechanics, and through dispersion, things will settle down.
The data below is based only on my personal experience.
- Type 9 Heavy (pre-engineered SCO FSD).
- 744T cargo limit.
- FSD limit around 30LY (fully loaded).
- Fleet carrier used as a stationery way point for storage; I found it was more efficient to use the T9 for single jumping between my supply depots and the colonization ship.
- I believe the minimum required colonisation structure is an orbital outpost (with small + medium landing pads).
- The materials required to do that are approx 21,400 tons (the last one I completed was 21,391 tons of material).
- 21,391 tons / 744 cargo space = 28.75+ cargo drops. So, if you had a single CMDR working the job, that CMDR would need to dock and drop at least 29x to offload all the materials needed. A group of 5 CMDRs working like ninjas would each need close to 6 drops each. 30 CMDRs who load up could in theory make one drop each.
- I very casually timed myself making a single round trip run. It involved one jump to a planetary base, and then a jump to the colony ship. Therefore, it involved a full cargo run from the surface port to the FC in another system, and then a return trip empty from the colony ship back to the surface port for resupply
- I clocked myself at a casual time of just over 10 minutes and 36 seconds (636 seconds).
- Around 42% of that time (270 seconds) was from the planetary port to the colonisation ship.
- Around 58% of that time (366 seconds) was taken from the colonisation ship to the planetary port. The difference there was due to the greater time required to properly line up the planetary landing.
- One of the challenges involves finding close locations for every material....that is where you are going to tack on more time. I had to swap out the T9 for the T8 for a few items, and I also had source depots more than 1 jump from the job site.
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Yea, checked my station and its supposed to be online but still just has shaun manning the apex station in the dark.
i think the payout fits for small colonies, i expect the millions to offset carrier costs would come out of a fully developed system, im talking full ground outposts, stations on every major planet, other installations, neighbouring developed systems for trade, things like that would generate massive income
For me personally. To build a Coriolis star port as a solo player it took me 12-14 SOILD hours to knock off the Aluminum / CMM / Steel / Titanium needs. To knock off the rest took a couple of days of not so focused trading. (Bounty hunting / mining for a 'break') - All up, took me ~4 days to complete. I work full time and have a family / life.
It's good that the Colonisation ships pay well for your goods. I have quite a healthy CR balance now and a good chunk of that is earnings from the Coriolis build.
I also went from Trade Elite 1 to well into Trade Elite II.
I got a little 'hyperfocused' towards the end of the runs... just one more run, then bed...
But honestly I found this grind better than the "Scan a plant, move xxx metres" Bio grind.
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Many outposts/stations didn't flip over with the weekly tick like they were supposed to. It's a known bug.
I need roughly 8 hours for an outpost
My first station, completed on 02 March, is still showing "Under Deployment". No people in it. What gives? Haven't some of them for other players gone active?
There are people in the ground settlement in the same system, that I made afterwards!
There are people in the ground settlement in the same system, that I made afterwards!
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Don't build single outpost systems then, fully develop your system and you may get to 5mil.
All this building single outpost systems and then moving on is just locking other folks out of systems that may have developed them into something worthwhile.
is the Coriolis full service? Outfitting/shipyard/livery/etc?After claiming the system and setting up the beacon, you choose what primary station you want to build. That determines the effort required. Options vary, if you want to build a starport (with Coriolis being the easiest), the fee is hauling about 55-70k of goods within four weeks for the initial starport (as I get it, there is no time limit for building subsequent ones), and I would recommend a specialized Cutter for it, it's a whole lot of stuff. Got to 60% in a top engineered Cutter, solo, in about a week, playing 2-3 hours a day. Stations are way cheaper and can be done in a couple of days without too much effort, so there's an option for everyone. You decide. But definitely go and try it, it's fun!
O7,