sadly a refinery settlement i built despite showing as complete is un-dockable etc. v frustrating as was hoping after last patch and todays tick over, it would finally join the land onf the living (3 weeks and counting). In that time I've built an asteroid station and it came on line with no issues...
Elite Dangerous | System Colonisation Beta Details & Feedback
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I agree that this is how I would expect it to work. And some cmdrs like me initially assumed a balanced infrastructure would make a good strong colony. Because it makes sense. Unfortunately that does not appear to be the direction Frontier went with this.
It looks like Frontier's ideas are still evolving so who knows how it will end up.
If you could post a screenshot of your orbis market that would be a great benchmark for others to compare to.
Overview of Trailblazers Experience
(Week 6)
Current Progress and Objectives
To better contextualize where I am.
I spent a little more time this week loading up the carrier. The distance I had to park it away from Trailblazer megaship means that the loading process is by no means as quick. I need to weigh the benefits of having all those materials in one place versus the nav time required to go back and forth. I can usually fill my carrier in one evening or less.
With the BGS having moved forward some, my interest returned a little, even though the results of the election and the outbreak that sort of interrupted it don't make sense. I feel like changes are being made in the background that are making it hard to plan. (Which was evident by the economy rollback of stations.)
I have begun construction on System #4. Getting closer to my goal of filling up that colonies page.
Sometimes, All You Can Do Is Laugh
I can't say I'm as frustrated this week. I see the changes being made on the back-end without notice to users who spent, now over a month, of time building up these stations. Having the revert hit stations like I'm hearing just ... Haha. I can't do anything more. My primary stations are all still just generating biowaste and hydrogen anyway, so none of this has (as of yet) impacted my stations.
All I can do is wait.
That being said, if Frontier is planning changes to the back-end data.. shouldn't the people that have been investing their time in this at least have something to look at to know if these changes we are seeing are intentional? How are we to know what's a bug and what's not? Assuming we're treating this like a beta, and not the feature-incomplete-appearing state it is now, shouldn't we know how some of this should function? Even at a high level? It sounds like Frontier is still making decisions outside of the stated scope of what this beta was for.
Unrelated note, I ordered Virpil equipment. I can't wait to see how it'll feel to fly with that.
Statistics
System #1 - Orbis Port; 5 Infrastructure
System #2 - Coriolis Port;
System #3 - Coriolis Port;
System #4 - Coriolis Port under construction
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I hope they deactivate it and take it back for a few months to work on it, test it, then deliver something with decent gameplay, usable UI, and doesn't change every 5 days without warning, we have gone from sorta-ish working, to suddenly working with planetary influences, to it being "reverted" into poop factories for everyone.... When planetary influences weren't even that bad outside of the fact that they happened with no warning, no way to mitigate damage to already existing stuff (No undo/refund button strikes again...)
Look, fdev, if you are going to hand 10 yrs of technical debt to juniors, you better give them some extra time, its a stretch to call this "minimum viable product".
Look, fdev, if you are going to hand 10 yrs of technical debt to juniors, you better give them some extra time, its a stretch to call this "minimum viable product".
Considering refinery hubs - not actually settlements - have no landing pads, they are indeed undockable. But, if the economy backend systems serverside are functioning, the refinery hubs should impart refinery economy influence to nearby colony surface ports and/or colony orbital stations.
Really puzzled as my coriolis was producing metals and was orbiting a planet with a refinery hub and extraction settlement. It had been producing agricultural and industrial products (before the revert as I think it was previously pulling the agricultural economy from 3 agricultural settlements on a different planet) so I thought everything was okay. I added another refinery hub (so 2 x refinery and 1 x extraction) and all of a sudden, its now only producing minerals (I take it from the extraction settlement) but the metals have now disappeared (literally as soon as I added the second refinery hub). I am so confused, is this another bug ?
Wow - just seen a screenshot on FB showing that builds are now properly integrated with the Market screen, so you do get the little globe icon and the amount of CMM Composite you need! Thanks for listening FDev, that is a brilliant UX improvement
I hope so. I would like to know if this primary port, I had no choice in where to place, got any chance other than biowaste. Because none of the moons allow for planetary building. I picked the system on day one because it got some nice ring bodies for mining. May just be a waste in the end (including the Arx spend on renaming the station).
Personal opinion pause the rest of the road map for the year focus on fixing colonization then continue.
the server hamsters plonked my latest installation a tad close to the host star! dropping off materials was tricky as light so bright that almost impossible to see the landing bays blue clearly unless coming at them from an acute angle. Resting temp not doing anything was 65. Over shooting landed you into the stars atmosphere! When leaving activating any thing approaching cruise speed instantly put you into critical heat mode and jumping felt like playing chicken with the sun. I can't be the only one in this predicament!
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nope, my system (Pegasi Sector AG-N b7-8) has an asteroid belt 5 ls from the star Rose Relay does this to me sometimes depending on where in its orbit it is.
My Coriolis is 1.64 Ls from the center of the sun.
It is toasty warm. Of course the diameter of the sun makes a difference.
eeeeek lol
Settlements have landing pads no? I chose the largest side so I could park my anaconda and future panther. hubs are like installations that you can't dock at as I understood it. its annoying as i have no more spare slots on the planet with one being taken up by this settlement not being active.
Settlements have landing pads. But hubs do not. There are no refinery settlements, there are only refinery hubs, unlike the other economy types available.
Hubs & Installations - no landing pads.
Surface Settlements - landing pads but no below ground ship elevator. No shipyard. Can't store a ship.
Surface Port - landing pads with shipyard & outfitting potential.
Also Surface Outpost - landing pads that go below surface. Outfitting potential. No shipyard.