Forcing any player to visit ANY engineer is bulldung.
Forсing players to visit colonia engineers it is oppression
- Thread starter Barlog M.
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In all honesty I hope that particular mod never happens. Distance has been compressed enough as it is.If you need Long Range 6, then probably a trip to Colonia is a walk in the park
Noob!
Fascinating system. One of the planets has a load of parallel chasms, with geysers all over the place looked like gods combover complete with dandruff.
I know it feels a bit dreadful (I felt the same way), but actually, once you have a semi-decent jump range, the trip can be a fun one. Explore along the way, test out the neutron highway - even a short trip outside the bubble by a few 1000 LYs will give you a few first time discoveries if you spend some time out there and scan things. Visit the stations along the way might be a good idea as well, and I know there are a few quests you can pick up to courier data to Colonia for a bit of cash. There are some interesting things to see out there (nebula, new lifeforms, interesting star formations) if you do a little research before you go.
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Absolutely, thats how I do it too. But that is not a minor addendum: Colonia is inly four hours away, unless you want any kind of fun.. Colonia is to most of us very far. I like that, but lets not pretend colonia is just around the corner.
Traveling to Colonia is not difficult, please.
As usual, this.
Travelling, in ED, is only an endless repetition of button-presses if YOU decide that's what it should be.
I started heading back from Colonia last Friday.
Course, since I was "only" 11KLy from SagA, I thought I'd pay it a visit on the way.
Checked out Explorer's Anchorage and the prison ship while I was in the neighbourhood.
Also, on that note, what's up with those L-Type anomalies?
Frisky little fellas, aren't they?
I thought I'd try and scoop one but it didn't like it and then started bouncing around my Annie.
But I digress.
After that, I started back to the bubble but decided to visit all the nebulae on the way.
I tend to plot routes of around 1000Ly at a time, honk-jump some of the way, FSS-scan any system with an M-Class star or with a lot of planets, browse the Galmap and change course to visit anything that looks interesting.
Travelling, in ED, is as interesting, or dull, as you choose to make it.
Then do not do it, simple as that. Or give it some time, maybe some other incentive to go there will appear.
In my case the incentive was the CG near Sag A*.
However, pressing a button 200 times WITHOUT using any part of brain or body... well it is quite an achievement
I'm still flyingshirtlessshieldless, laughing at all you G5 SCB OCDers
Me too.
SCBs are soooo 2017.
There's better ways to build a ship, now.
For me, at least.
Tangent...I'm still flyingshirtlessshieldless, laughing at all you G5 SCB OCDers
Okay, sometimes I use shields, but SCBs are of the devil.
I have an SCB on my anti-tharg ship, but it's been a long time since I flew it last. Was actually trying to use heatsinks, but in trying to find the key,
Kept wondering if the Thargs had some new capability sending your heat over 300%
- Accidentally dumped a bunch of SCB uses
- Turned on Silent running without noticing
- Kept fighting the thargoid and hadn't dumped heatsinks
Kept wondering if the Thargs had some new capability sending your heat over 300%
Were they around 1000ish years ago?
Blueprints available in Colonia and not in the Bubble weren't put in to "humiliate" anyone. There is a reason they are there.
The four Colonia Engineers were given all blueprints between them, but at level 1. They were also given the ability to improve. And Colonia residents then put in a LOT of effort, gathering mats and engineering the same modules over and over again, to level them up.
In a few weeks, one of my alts will be ready to migrate to Colonia. She'll be arriving in a partially-engineered Clipper and transferring a partially-engineered Courier. She'll have ranked-up with the four precursors of the Colonia Engineers, but then discarded all pinned blueprints ready for a fresh start. She will be unable to unlock Petra Olmanova for some time (needs Expert combat rank), and the others still suck in many areas. But that's my choice, and I won't be claiming to be "oppressed".
The four Colonia Engineers were given all blueprints between them, but at level 1. They were also given the ability to improve. And Colonia residents then put in a LOT of effort, gathering mats and engineering the same modules over and over again, to level them up.
In a few weeks, one of my alts will be ready to migrate to Colonia. She'll be arriving in a partially-engineered Clipper and transferring a partially-engineered Courier. She'll have ranked-up with the four precursors of the Colonia Engineers, but then discarded all pinned blueprints ready for a fresh start. She will be unable to unlock Petra Olmanova for some time (needs Expert combat rank), and the others still suck in many areas. But that's my choice, and I won't be claiming to be "oppressed".
Anarchist scum are fine, they're doing their best, trying to make a better galaxy in their own way.
The chain smoking engineer on the other hand... YOU DO NOT NEED THAT MANY CIGARS. STOP TELLING US TO GO AND GET YOU MORE CIGARS. YOU'RE GOING TO DIE OF SOME HORRIBLE RESPIRATORY ILLNESS SOON ANYWAY.
Flying to Colonia is far less annoying.
There are engineers I haven't unlocked, don't need the junk they are working on. I will be out near Colonia soon, but it may be a month or two before I actually get around to docking anywhere though, I don't get the "jumping is boring" thing, but everyone to their own I guess!
Didi "Off her Face" Vaterman is just as bad...seriously, who needs that much Lavian Brandy on a regular basis?!
Again, you are just after convenience. If you want the smiles, put in the miles.
