Very interesting - out of curiosity, are you engaging in much of the colonisation feature and if so, are you enjoying the self discovery elements? what have you built so far etc.
Yes, loving colonisation. I finally have a use for my Fleet Carrier!
I have colonized 4 systems so far. Each one completely different from the others. None are finished yet, but each one is more strange than the prior. I have learned so much about the mechanics, how to minimize hauling, how to make the best use of fleet carriers and teams of players. How to easily source materials and keep my sources as secret as possible (avoid sending data to inara!) so they don't get swamped by every commander on inara. I have found a few gem systems that give me almost all the materials needed in one place.
Learning what type of construction does what has been more difficult because it is so inconsistent right now. I don't think it is working correctly so I am not really concerned with it at this point.
I have also become very good at all the fleet carrier features which up until Trailblazers, I had no use for at all. Now I couldn't live without them. It really does add a lot to the fun. The planning on how to fill 5 carriers is unexpectedly fun. Then getting all my friends to fill them up with me and then picking systems together and parking each carrier in a different colony system.
I have held off on starting any of the big orbitals or ground stations. Too much is unknown and probably changing to make that kind of time/material investment. I think know where they will be placed, just haven't started the process until the feature works right and is more stable. I'm content to watch everyone cry about how it doesn't work right yet.
I am deliberately making systems like nobody would ever do if they were trying to build a viable system, looking for edge-case weirdness.I don't care about viability, I am looking for oddball/unexpected results. Way more fun than trying to build the perfect system. And when another commander finds my colony it will be an epic W*T*F moment - "what kind of an idiot builds a system like this???"
Well, me. My kind of idiot.