Distant Worlds 3 - "The Shoulder of Orion" Colonization Event
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The organisers have politely asked that we do not bring our personal carriers.
Hi, and welcome to the DW3 Colonisation event.
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There's an option on the form to indicate whether you're bringing a carrier to help build the colony, so I think the no-carrier request is for the actual expedition itself next year.
Good point.
For the Expedition. This is the colonization event. Fleet carriers are welcome for the event, but not the expedition.
Single jumps.
Is it possible to sign up during the event? Right now I'm in the bubble and IRL out of country from Saturday onwards until the end of March.
Absolutely.
That was for the Expedition itself next year. For the Colonization Event, they actually want volunteer carriers to help with the commodity hauling
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Sign up and tell them how much you are able to carry in your cargo. Then when the time comes you can pick up some materials and bring them to the designated system. The sign up form has all the info there. Sign up Link
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Don't know what the organizers planned this time, but the usual procedure for hauling group activities is:
- carrier is stationed in the source system
- players with cargo ships haul cargo from the souce stations to the carrier (i.e. sell the commodities to the carrier). Depending on the generosity of the carrier owner, they may make a profit or not - but if you need credits to participate, post a request or ask in system chat, and usually a way can be found. Depending on the source stations, a medium pad cargo ship (i.e. Python Mk.I or Type-8) might be the best bet, but it can't hurt to also have a Type-9 available.
- once a carrier is loaded up, it's up to you whether you want to park on that carrier to be transported to the unloading system, or want to stay in the source system to help filling up the next carrier (it's often communicated in the group or system chat at which end more support is needed at the moment)
- in the unloading system, buy the commodities back from the carrier and ship them to the destination station.
- repeat untril done or your playtime is up.
For this kind of base building activity, I'd imagine that the buy price at the source station, the sell price to the carrier, the buy price from the carrier and the sell price to the construction ship would be reasonably matched, so any loaders/unloaders won't make much of a profit or loss - but you'd need the ready cash to fill up your cargo hold at least once.
What a useful answer. I was wondering about that but just assumed we do it Operation Ida style and thus didn't ask.
Update: you might be interested in this message on the Fleetcomm Discord (check the start of this thread on instructions for getting access) for the official take on the procedure.
Right. Excited officially. All signed up.
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The Orion Cloud is fairly close to Thargoid country...any ructions anticipated? I can't imagine they'd be happy to see more pesky humans colonising on their doorstep given their departing (pictorial) message.
Hmmm. Maybe, just maybe, DW3 is going to be the first joint Human-Thargoid expedition and the first steps toward peaceful coexistence? What a turn of events that would be!
Make it happen Frontier
- "There are older and fouler things than 'goids in the deep places of the galaxy" - Space Gandalf.
Well, I dont think we have any in-game mechanisms for getting along peacefully with a non human language speaking species, but it would be interesting.