Open colonization in Colonia
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I think its considered unfair to the people unable to relocate themselves to Colonia. Despite carriers able to take them there. You just won't have the same freedom.
Plus there is quite lack of available population in that region(are there even inhabited planets?) to make mass colonization possible.
Thirdly, it won't take long for colonizers will reach the core from there; a highly prestigious location that will be hoarded like crazy.
Plus there is quite lack of available population in that region(are there even inhabited planets?) to make mass colonization possible.
Thirdly, it won't take long for colonizers will reach the core from there; a highly prestigious location that will be hoarded like crazy.
There's nothing about your post that's accurate. EVERYONE can go there--not that this matters in the slightest. After mere weeks of starting Elite Dangerous I migrated to Colonia. And THAT was when you couldn't plot more than 2000ly at a time and I had no clue about Neutron star boosting. It took me 3 months. So, there's not a single player that CAN'T go there. As for populations, there's PLENTY. And the whole point OF colonization is to claim AN UNINHABITED system. So, my point still stands.
None of the outposts are dead. That's just a simpleminded response.
The thing about the core is that it's extremely densely packed with stars. Any system will have well over 2000 (two thousand, not a typo) other systems within its 15 LY colonisation radius. Hoard all you like, they're not going to run out.
(This might cause all sorts of interface weirdness, mission generation chaos, etc. Who knows what wasn't designed to work properly with that sort of star density...)
The other thing is that starting from Colonia doesn't really do much other than change exactly when that happens.
- if all inhabited systems gain contacts, there's an inhabited one a few LY from Sag A* and we find out immediately
- if it's just Colonia which gets added, then it's 10kLY to the core and it'll take about a year or two to build the bridge to it if some big group makes a project of it
- if they don't open it up further, then it's under 25kLY from the current furthest colony in that direction and it's still only a matter of time [1]
[1] Colonia is about 18kLY from the Lagoon Nebula, which there's already a project to reach, so it's also only a matter of time before it becomes possible to colonise from. Just needs players to put in the effort to build that chain outwards after the Lagoon project is done.
No it's the simple reality that screaming at the screen won't change. Colonisation is still in it's test period. Colonisation is tied to the bubble for testing. There's still major bugs with colonisation that they're working on so testing isn't likely to end just yet. If you want colonisation in colonia go help the bridge or wait for them to actually finish it.
NONE of that matters. You completely miss the point of colonization. Utterly and completely. I should actually be able to colonize ANYWHERE. All of the "limitations" are artificially imposed by Frontier.
you can do without the capitalizations. no need to yell out your frustrations. Nobody is going to listen to that.
Well, you can't.
Although the disabled colonisation contact in Jaques should be a clue about their intent once it becomes a complete feature. Why have it there if it's not meant to be activated once ready?
Slight correction: in the first month or so, Nav Comp couldn't calculate more than 100 LY.
I remember it vividly, it was unable to calculate the Rares routes of ~140 LY, you had to pick a mid point. Going 140 LY seemed like an adventure.
(and I went to Sag A with that Nav Comp
)Yes. "Limitations" can make for a more interesting game. To an extent the limitations are the game.
If we didn't have these limitations (and other limitations like "building stations requires cargo delivery", for that matter), someone would have put a colony in the Lagoon Nebula within a day or two of colonisation opening. Job done, nothing much to talk about here.
We have these limitations, so it's a major project for tens (perhaps hundreds) of commanders to build the bridge, which is itself passing through interesting areas along the way and opening them up to colonisation too, so rather than a single-system chain it's a thicker column extending from the bubble, developing side branches and clusters and so on as it goes.
True, but by the time Colonia existed at all the limit had been increased to 1000 LY.
When was Colonia founded? It was months and months later, IIRC it had to do with chasing the Jacques station which went there.
It was not in the first three-four months at least.
Anyone remembers?
Jaques station was found in Eol Prou whatever in June 2016.
Colonia was founded in the September.
I have visited Colonia once. That was a small barely populated region (from Inara it is still the same), and from reading, some commanders/groups prefer it exactly for that.
With current Colonization rules, it will be Bubble in size and population within a week. If someone want play in the bubble, he/she can go there...
Exactly what do you qualify as "yelling" or "screaming"? Other than for appropriate emphasis, I type in normal-case. Seriously, people.
I live there. It's not as "small barely populated region" as you've convinced yourself. Again, that doesn't matter. The entire point of colonization is to establish new colonies elsewhere. This isn't rocket science, folks.
Missing the point of feedback during a beta. It's not only about what's broken. It's about features and capabilities.
I stand corrected on that. But the point I was making is that, even back then, there was nothing other than ambition and courage that stopped anyone from going anywhere, and that someone as inexperienced and ignorant of a lot of Elite Dangerous features/aspects as I was could make their way to Colonia. These days, I can make the trip in 4 hours.Slight correction: in the first month or so, Nav Comp couldn't calculate more than 100 LY.
I remember it vividly, it was unable to calculate the Rares routes of ~140 LY, you had to pick a mid point. Going 140 LY seemed like an adventure.
(and I went to Sag A with that Nav Comp