What really makes me angry, is the fact, that FDev calls the whole thing "feature complete".
Maybe it is "feature complete", when the "feature" planned to release was "make players claim systems and build stuff in it".
But as ED is a rather complex game with lots of possibilities to fiddle things around, there is just not enough information and ingame-tools available, to really make colonisation a viable extension to the base game.
We get so much information and ingame "hands on controls" on things like "how to customize ships to the max" and get the tools to do so (huge outfitting markets with hundreds of different items to put on a ship, lots of different ships available with varying stats, engineering to futher push stats, and - most importantly - detailled numbers of how things change when equipping items to a ship, do engineering, etc.). So we can really look at what we get and review it later in the ships menu in great detail (jumprange, shield power, etc.), also.
And yet for colonisation we just get a handfull of ingame menus, buttons and a bunch of stats what we don't really know what they are meaning just to let us hope, what we are presenetd with really plays out as promised in the long run (aka after hitting the "build" button). With - at the moment - no chance to really get a glimpse of the real numbers of the systems we are trying to evolve. Not on a facility level, nor on a market neither on system level.
And I'm just talking about usability and information here and not even addressing just plain bugs that could lead to completely brick a system like facilities not being placed to the spot we initially started them after finishing the build.
I'm just feeling sad at the moment, as I really was eager to do colonisation. For the moment I just finish one more primary settlement, I have ongoing, and leave it be until "beta" is somewhat over.
In the meantime I will most likely just try to get the systems I already colonised to have my favourite minor faction the controlling one. Oh wait... In the systems I want to influence there are no ticks happening since over a week to change factions, as BGS seems to be broken somewhat, too, after introducing PP2.0 and getting even worse after introducing colonisation...
Well, guess I will ship grumpy old tards to Sirius Atmospherics then...
But I'll do my best to make it viable.
