Colonia Expansion
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I think currently you can only do it from the bubble, so
Currently, new claims have been put on hold by FDev, and colonization at the moment is only happening in the Bubble. Hopefully by the tick they would have worked out the issue that put on hold new claims.
We do, FDEV have said that we can only colonise from the bubble at the moment, so that seems to be pretty definitive to me.
I was in Colonia from shortly before Odyssey launched until the day after Trailblazers launched, at which point I came home to the bubble for the first time in years on my carrier.
Colonization was not enabled out there when I left, before the pause. I made it back to the bubble the day before they turned it off.
Colonization was not enabled out there when I left, before the pause. I made it back to the bubble the day before they turned it off.
I think they will but be wary of anyone saying "soon" or claiming a launch date because FD hasn't said anything.
You can always make own route from bubble to colonia - then proceed with expanding colonia once done that - good luck with that though, its gonna take quite some time, I recon!
Well, it could be done in stages as there are several land ports all the way to Colonia. It would still be a massive job though.
As someone else noted at one point, the fleet carriers all have a system colonisation service that's disabled... so... there's the potential for FDev to enable that service and allow colonisation wherever you want. They probably won't enable it but we can dream about it
Me after reading this
Something is telling me this feature will available from inhibited systems only, only difference you wont have to fly to station to order a colonisation ship.As someone else noted at one point, the fleet carriers all have a system colonisation service that's disabled... so... there's the potential for FDev to enable that service and allow colonisation wherever you want. They probably won't enable it but we can dream about it
To be frank, this is most probly, an long range scenario wich would unfold, given there would be no further changes to colonization, in every possible direction where it could happen.
I can see it taking several months or couple years of dedicated groups to connect each existing port on bridge route via colonization systems, all the way up to colonia, thus expanding it and making the true colonia bridge (where every system on the way is colonized), and kinda "bring" colonization from bubble to colonia, if there would be no other options or ways to expand colonia.
It seems far, but already exising systems are about 500ly from each other on average, all the way to colonia. It would be long process, but certainly possible within current possibilites.
I think Colonia is FDev's wild card system. In that I don't think it, nor us can do much with it, until it's determined what its future is going to be, or some narrative takes the masses there. Some of us thought it would be humanity's fallback system, for when we were pushed out of the Bubble by the Thargoid. That the war would essentially be 'unwinnable' for this purpose. Especially in the beginning of the war, when it seemed like people were struggling to make a positive impact each cycle. But then FDev waved the magic wand and it became much more manageable. So much seemed to (initially) link Colonia to the Thargoids, starting with the strange emergence and disappearance of Holloway Research, and some of the early CG's to deliver Thargoid/ Guardian commodities to Colonia. Nothing came of it.
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If a dedicated squadron worked nonstop and managed 100LY per week, it would still take a little over two years, assuming a fairly direct path can even be scouted with gaps no further than 15LY. There have been player groups that dedicated before, so anything is possible. An individual, though, chaining off her or his own systems, can only manage up to 15LY per week, more realistically an average of 10-12, creating only systems that will never provide the needed supplies for further expansion. It would take over 35 years of constant effort. I love this game (overall), but I can't see it running that long.
This is certainly doable. You have to go somewhat indirect for the first 5000 LY or so to stick close to the galactic plane, but after that the star density increases enough closer to the core to allow a mostly straight-line route.
(Because of just how much of the galaxy's mass and star count is in the galactic core, you can reach >99% of all stars with a 15 LY range, yet you can't even get as far as the Witch Head Nebula in the region around Sol)
Fingers crossed but as of yet there has been no replies from Frontier on the Forums in the Colonisation Pause thread and a fair few people have asked there and in other ongoing threads. For the moment I remain mildly optimistic that way won't be too disappointed when it doesn't happen lol