So we learned this week that Frontier have two years of game narrative laid out already. This includes the Vanguards update and more new ships coming this year. But can I please ask...
Is the end of the colonisation beta, or changes to it, anywhere in this two year plan?
So commanders have been spreading out into the galaxy building colonies. I've built three. One close to the bubble where, like everybody else, I threw just about everything at the wall to see what would stick. I then build another one further out that I later realised is in the wrong place, and a third further out still that is beginning to look like it's also in the wrong place. My ultimate aim, so you know, is to get out to the Tenebrae region on the eastern spiral arm... somehow.
The first colony produces tritium, but not too much of it. The second colony produces pretty much nothing at all. The third colony produces huge volumes of metals used for colonisation, along with tritium. However there's nowhere else nearby that's unclaimed or currently claimable where I could build a high-tech economy. If I could do this then I'd probably never return to the bubble ever again.
But there are TWO huge problems with colonisation.
1) There's really nothing to do in these colonies once they're built
2) When there aren't any suitable systems to colonise, we have to sit and wait, for weeks, sometimes months in the hope other Commanders will also build that way
But then there are two problems with each of these two problems.
1) Colonies just behave like normal systems in the game, there's actually no incentive or personalisation for the commanders that build them
2) Unless you can create a colony that serves a very specific, and much needed purpose, there's little incentive to stay there and further curate it
3) If I don't want to colonise a system that only has one or two stars in it, or no landable planets in it, why would I assume any other commander does?
4) Sitting, waiting, checking, and searching isn't gameplay
What we need is, for the love of god, and end to the colonisation beta, bringing with it any changes that are currently planned or in development.
Right now, colonisation is deeply flawed. There's such potential and there have been so many great suggestions made by players on these forums, but all these people are being met with a constant wall of silence.
Right now, it's more likely the NEXT UPDATE will be released before this current update is finished. That can't be right, surely?
Is the end of the colonisation beta, or changes to it, anywhere in this two year plan?
So commanders have been spreading out into the galaxy building colonies. I've built three. One close to the bubble where, like everybody else, I threw just about everything at the wall to see what would stick. I then build another one further out that I later realised is in the wrong place, and a third further out still that is beginning to look like it's also in the wrong place. My ultimate aim, so you know, is to get out to the Tenebrae region on the eastern spiral arm... somehow.
The first colony produces tritium, but not too much of it. The second colony produces pretty much nothing at all. The third colony produces huge volumes of metals used for colonisation, along with tritium. However there's nowhere else nearby that's unclaimed or currently claimable where I could build a high-tech economy. If I could do this then I'd probably never return to the bubble ever again.
But there are TWO huge problems with colonisation.
1) There's really nothing to do in these colonies once they're built
2) When there aren't any suitable systems to colonise, we have to sit and wait, for weeks, sometimes months in the hope other Commanders will also build that way
But then there are two problems with each of these two problems.
1) Colonies just behave like normal systems in the game, there's actually no incentive or personalisation for the commanders that build them
2) Unless you can create a colony that serves a very specific, and much needed purpose, there's little incentive to stay there and further curate it
3) If I don't want to colonise a system that only has one or two stars in it, or no landable planets in it, why would I assume any other commander does?
4) Sitting, waiting, checking, and searching isn't gameplay
What we need is, for the love of god, and end to the colonisation beta, bringing with it any changes that are currently planned or in development.
Right now, colonisation is deeply flawed. There's such potential and there have been so many great suggestions made by players on these forums, but all these people are being met with a constant wall of silence.
Right now, it's more likely the NEXT UPDATE will be released before this current update is finished. That can't be right, surely?
