my theory looks like this
The working theory on how you get a refinery is to have a colony- style outpost/ coriolis/ orbis in orbit of a body that has surface sites... you then put some refinery hubs down on the surface and it influences the orbiting facilty to get a refinery economy.
This is ridiculous even for someone who has been in the game for 10 years and have literally everything you can achieve in the game. I've been here since Gamma and this is literally one of the worst implementations FD has ever made, I'd put it right up there with Gnosis situation. But for some reason some people just love to suffer and think others should too.
you should extend your wording into "What you can't do is build a Tier 3 station as primary Port on your own if you're a casual player", as after that you have all the time in the world.
Dude, if you don´t like it do something else. Nobody forces you to get involved into colonization. Same with me and mining - I hate it, so - no mining for me, thanks. Same for AXI, PP, PvP and some other stuff.
It's not about the amount of time spent, but about the ways of implementing the time spent. If it was 30/30/30/10 from each mechanic in the game, such as exploration, combat, trade, xenobiology, etc. to colonize the system, that is, they would REALLY WORK ON THE MECHANICS, the question of time would not arise at all, since there would be banal GAMEPLAY DIVERSITY. All we have now is an unimaginable amount of howling and nothing more. People offer and want to order resources not because they like to look at the timer in the table, but because THERE ARE NO ALTERNATIVES and knowing FD, they will not implement deep mechanics ever, so ordering resources is simply the simplest thing that can be done to give players an alternative and fit into their "minimum finished product" policy. As for "rich players with a bunch of stations", they will build them without money, large squadrons will have an advantage over small ones or solo players, regardless of the availability of credits, but simply because there are thousands of people. AXI is already in the Pleiades and they did not need credits for this. In extreme cases, we have 400 billion systems in the galaxy anyway. And why does everyone decide that if you implement an order goods for credits, then tomorrow a solo player will build Orbis in a minute? God, there are a million and one ways to balance this based on the number of credits needed, delivery time and other things that are already in the game code and only require UI implementation and common sense. sigh
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I'll figure out where to go and what to do myself, thank you very much. I'm not going to justify bad game design. And i give feedback, in feedback thread, which FD loves to ask for and then not use. The approach "don't improve anything, don't think, don't take advantage of opportunities and drown out any criticism" is absolutely destructive and almost literally the reason why half the game is broken for years and FD almost went bankrupt until they remembered, they still have almost killed golden goose
Oh yeah. The Thargoid War, where the titans spent a lot of time doing nothing, and the amount of grind to start a bombing run was so high that even experienced AX pilots would quit. That war where they changed numbers on the fly, destroying the efforts of entire squadrons, causing players to leave the game in droves. Yeah, I remember that, I was there the whole time.
Let's also be able to pay to teleport to Beagle point or Colonia in a minute for a billion or 25000 Arx, destroy a Titan for 5 billion or 50000 Arx.
In fact, it's a bit confusing. PP 2.0, from which essentially nothing was expected, turned out to be so much more complex mechanics and more progressive in terms of "less crazy, monotonous grind" than such an important thing as the entire system colonisation. ¯\(ツ)/¯
This behavior has a name here, but we don't call it. Kind of like Voldemort. Resistance is futile.
