I got 320 from my last visit. If I pair that with the other things my station needs, I'll top them off well before I finish the others.Just finished the last of my demands - CMM supply is better after the change but still not plentiful. Might wait to get starter on my asteroid base
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I've been seeing them in the 600-700 range more now. Still not quite a Cutter. And this is when most aren't playing - interesting to see how it holds up when more players are online 
Had to leave 300-odd behind in my 792 capacity "cheese" cutter, just now..
Does the colonisation contact appear in contacts in the new station? From a stream I saw, it looks like they do, and you could begin colonising a new system immediately on primary port completion, but would be nice to confirm.
I've been seeing them in the 600-700 range more now. Still not quite a Cutter. And this is when most aren't playing - interesting to see how it holds up when more players are online
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Given the way stations get ravaged, one by one, like there's a giant swarm of locusts buzzing across the galaxy, during a CG, I wouldn't expect much.
Still, I guess it's one of those things that'll calm down a bit after the first couple of months, once not everybody is trying to build a station at the same time.
That's what I'm doing and I fear I've made a big mistake: once the outpost is done and I'm not on the clock, I expect the colony ship leaves and further construction is limited to the small and medium pads of the outpost, requiring double the (already colossal) number of trips...
Does anyone with a completed outpost know whether further construction brings/uses another colony ship?
I don't think so. FDev showed off the surface construction sites, which wouldn't need to exist if we could just donate stuff to stations in the system after the 1st one was completed.
The disadvantage would be that one of your limited slots is now filled with an Outpost you maybe would rather not be there, and I don't think there's been any suggestion that we could upgrade that slot later.
The weekend commeth.I've been seeing them in the 600-700 range more now. Still not quite a Cutter. And this is when most aren't playing - interesting to see how it holds up when more players are online
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Craith
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Start with what you are comfortable to be able to finish - an outpost will get you a foothold in the system, and you can expand it at a later point, prepared, with no time pressure.
If you have friends helping you may start with a bigger station, solo it is a bit much, but my Coriolis is getting along nicely, already 14% done after only 6% of the time passed - not even a weekend in yet. 107 trips in total, 89to go. Still wish I started with an outpost, because the Coriolis is not ending up in the location I've intended it to be. Live and learn.
It does mean I am focused on the station construction atm ... but I am trying to build a huge space-station, all on my own. I also got friends to back me up should I struggle, same as I will be there if help is needed.
As already stated by others, don't use Inara for sourcing your CMM Composites, at least not directly. As comfortable it is getting told where to go, if you follow the herd, you will only find their leftovers.
I got a reliable source 1 jump away (2 filled), and as soon as I am back it has restocked. It was at 2000+ stock yesterday evening, over night some others have found it, told inara and it got flooded, so it dropped to low 20s. Found a new spot, bit worse but I still get half a T9 load everytime I get there. I don't sit in the station waiting for it to refill, I grab as much as I can get and fill up with other commodities that I need.
I did afk refill with CMMs at the start while cooking, but that didn't get me very far:
If you have friends helping you may start with a bigger station, solo it is a bit much, but my Coriolis is getting along nicely, already 14% done after only 6% of the time passed - not even a weekend in yet. 107 trips in total, 89to go. Still wish I started with an outpost, because the Coriolis is not ending up in the location I've intended it to be. Live and learn.
It does mean I am focused on the station construction atm ... but I am trying to build a huge space-station, all on my own. I also got friends to back me up should I struggle, same as I will be there if help is needed.
As already stated by others, don't use Inara for sourcing your CMM Composites, at least not directly. As comfortable it is getting told where to go, if you follow the herd, you will only find their leftovers.
I got a reliable source 1 jump away (2 filled), and as soon as I am back it has restocked. It was at 2000+ stock yesterday evening, over night some others have found it, told inara and it got flooded, so it dropped to low 20s. Found a new spot, bit worse but I still get half a T9 load everytime I get there. I don't sit in the station waiting for it to refill, I grab as much as I can get and fill up with other commodities that I need.
I did afk refill with CMMs at the start while cooking, but that didn't get me very far:
don't fly afk with super cruise assistance, loitering will get you in trouble! System Colonisation Ship blew me up while I was distracted by food preparation
Let's say that there is proof around that it is possible to complete an outpost - only to encounter follow-up issues. People,
This is a Beta!
I honestly assume they don't, but I try to get as many as possible regardless. Maybe we get lucky.
Even if they do have good stocks... you know everyone is gonna converge in these places and stocks will be forever tanked.
Sure, but at the current rate, every bit helps I guess. It all depends on their refresh rate. If they refresh a Cutter load per 10 minutes it's already cool, because I hate planetary landings
Spoiler alert: Megaships are in space, so maybe they won't stock CMMs XDSure, but at the current rate, every bit helps I guess. It all depends on their refresh rate. If they refresh a Cutter load per 10 minutes it's already cool, because I hate planetary landings
But yeh, I'm reliably getting 200-1000 per visit now... don't know what I'm doing wrong other than "going to good stations"
That's what I fear, or rather, I don't assume FD has the foresight to change their usual approach
Craith
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You forgot to tell the whole galaxy and inara where those good stations are. Which you definitely should, so they can also be stripped within minutes. So tell them in a week
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I only seem to be able to find "bad stations". One that spawned 200 per tick yesterday suddenly started to give 5 only.
BGS state change? The Election state absolutely kills CMM production (~0.03x!) and is quite common.
It looks from my data that Frontier has applied 5x to supply caps and changed the approximate resupply rate from roughly "takes a week" to "takes an hour". That should be enough to make it fairly plentiful if you avoid the dodgy states.