Colonia Bridge Beacons

[Coehoorn]

Where are they?
iirc they were planned for Alcor and Colonia, but I can't find them anywhere?
The reason for me asking is pure egocentrism, but to be honest one would think that two beacons are easier to set up than a few dozens of megaships and stations...

Thanks in advance for an update on this matter.

 

[TrollhunterX]

I fully support the question, but I'd also like to ask, what are they?

It still doesn't look as if there's any way of easily locating any of the 'bridges'. I recall someone telling me that systems with carriers were visible in the galaxy map, but I've never found that to be case. A screenshot proving otherwise would be genuinely welcome.

 

[Erei]

Someone asked recently. They don't seem to be running yet ? I assume we'll get notified, especially the people on them, when it happens.

 

[Erei]

I fully support the question, but I'd also like to ask, what are they?

It still doesn't look as if there's any way of easily locating any of the 'bridges'. I recall someone telling me that systems with carriers were visible in the galaxy map, but I've never found that to be case. A screenshot proving otherwise would be genuinely welcome.

Wiki has the list of system with starports on the way to colonia, which include the megaships :
https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Colonia_Connection_Highway

I don't know of a good way to easily find them ingame, but one way is to filter by "civilization", since they all have population and a governement. You can do the same with the population filter.

 

[Coehoorn]

I fully support the question, but I'd also like to ask, what are they?

It still doesn't look as if there's any way of easily locating any of the 'bridges'. I recall someone telling me that systems with carriers were visible in the galaxy map, but I've never found that to be case. A screenshot proving otherwise would be genuinely welcome.

INARA

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inara.cz

That's the best list I know.
If I recall correctly, when you're at one of the CB stations, you can check the stations Herald for the next stop (The local news of a station, where you can find bounty, trade and traffic reports, too).

 

[Bottom Hat]

As Erei said, I thought someone asked this recently too.

But I think the general answer (as with FD normally!) is that nobody knows yet; they haven't said when they'll happen; and who knows how long it'll take them to do it!

I'd imagine though (without too much sarcasm dripping out at FD) that they'll announce it on social media first, then on the email newsletter. Eventually it'll percolate into the forums!

(I sound far more bitter than I am, but there is also suspicion on how they determine the names listed....for example, I gave three choices based on my commando name where I just moved the dots around....!)

 

[TrollhunterX]

INARA

The community site for Elite: Dangerous, Starfield, Kingdom Come: Deliverance with the game databases, information, gaming news and other handy content...

inara.cz

That's the best list I know.
If I recall correctly, when you're at one of the CB stations, you can check the stations Herald for the next stop (The local news of a station, where you can find bounty, trade and traffic reports, too).

That link's been put up several times, but it's the first I've heard of the Herald, which sounds cool.

The worst part of the site list is that most of the systems along the way have names that are easy to type incorrectly, and as I recall, searching for 'CB 19', for example, doesn't work. One might think that would be an easy fix to enable, certainly easier than physical beacons.

But in the meantime, the carrier service remains the easiest option, so the wait is tolerable. Marching On Together leaving LHS 2687 at 20:00 tomorrow, for example.

 

[Erei]

That link's been put up several times, but it's the first I've heard of the Herald, which sounds cool.

The worst part of the site list is that most of the systems along the way have names that are easy to type incorrectly, and as I recall, searching for 'CB 19', for example, doesn't work. One might think that would be an easy fix to enable, certainly easier than physical beacons.

But in the meantime, the carrier service remains the easiest option, so the wait is tolerable. Marching On Together leaving LHS 2687 at 20:00 tomorrow, for example.

See the double window icon, right of the system name ? That's a "copy" system name. Click it, go ingame, paste it in the search menu.

 

[Ned Flandalorian]

It still doesn't look as if there's any way of easily locating any of the 'bridges'. I recall someone telling me that systems with carriers were visible in the galaxy map, but I've never found that to be case. A screenshot proving otherwise would be genuinely welcome.

In Horizons there is a galaxy map filter to show systems with carriers present. That filter is missing from Odyssey.

The Colonia Bridge megaships aren't carriers so I don't think that's relevant anyway. In theory they should show up if you filter by population and/or civilization, but the galaxy filters aren't always kept up-to-date (cough guardian civ filter is based on static community-discovered data from several years ago cough).

 

[TrollhunterX]

See the double window icon, right of the system name ? That's a "copy" system name. Click it, go ingame, paste it in the search menu.

I don't, and I've looked a lot. I do see 'Target system name' on the bottom right of the map, but clicking it does nothing I'm aware of.

If it's a question of copying something and then going 'in game', that's a problem, because I don't have any other browsers open while I'm playing the game. It's not an ecumenical matter, just I have enough problems with running the game alone. When I look at the bridge list, it's on my mobile, and I can't really transfer from that, it's not like that Glass thig of DTEA's.

I hear a lot about how the copy function is the one big improvement to the Odyssey layout, but I can't see any use for it. Even after I do click on Target System, nothing pastes into the search box.

'Right of system name'. I'll have another look.

 

[Erei]

I was speaking in Inara. If you use your mobile to go there it won't be helpful.

The copy system in game, in Odyssey, is the double windows and an arrow, bottom right of the screen when you select a system on the map.

But it will not help in your case, since it's used to export a system name from the game into whatever else you need said system name. If you don't use a browser on your computer, it sure won't do much. But it's helpful for people like myself who have a browser to alt tab to.


If you don't use a browser, you might be kinda stuck. You can only type the system name I guess.

 

[K Olley]

I hear a lot about how the copy function is the one big improvement to the Odyssey layout, but I can't see any use for it. Even after I do click on Target System, nothing pastes into the search box.

Youngsters.

Ctrl - v

 

[TrollhunterX]

I was speaking in Inara. If you use your mobile to go there it won't be helpful.

The copy system in game, in Odyssey, is the double windows and an arrow, bottom right of the screen when you select a system on the map.

But it will not help in your case, since it's used to export a system name from the game into whatever else you need said system name. If you don't use a browser on your computer, it sure won't do much. But it's helpful for people like myself who have a browser to alt tab to.


If you don't use a browser, you might be kinda stuck. You can only type the system name I guess.

Ah, 'Copy to clipboard'.

This all points to the problem, not solution, of third party sites being required because the in game navigational assist is so lacking, to say nothing of commodity trading or outfitting options.

We all tend to suck it up in regards to the latter, but for a long distance stellar highway? I haven't been to Northampton, say, for years, but if I chose to head up the M5 now, I'm confident that I'd see enough signs to get me to the place, however much the roads had changed. Of course, I have a sat nav that doesn't tell me Northampton is too far away to plot a course, so that I need to find a closer location in the first place.

Imagine if, instead of third party sites being created to rectify the shortcomings of the game, there were in game efforts, player-organised, to deal with the problems. And imagine if those solutions were so direly needed that they could make a profit for the providers, in the form of tolls by way of bigger tithes on fuel and repairs. I've heard, but never seen much of a network of carriers - the DSSA - that make navigation into the black easier. It's a moot point if they're not visible on the Odyssey galaxy map, but if they're still going, they'd make the Colonia Bridge initiative, as it currently 'operates', redundant. Is that why carriers aren't visible on the Odyssey map?