Colonisation Answers

Knuttin Atoll

K
aRJay said:
The January live stream will be on February the 26th apparently.
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Yeah just found that out myself in the most roundabout-Frontier-style ways: a forum user link to another forum user link that links to a Frontier post in the Planet Coaster 2 sub-forum. You just couldn't make this up.

But anyways, so much for early 2025 then. Unless the Colonisation feature gets their own reveal/comms update, which I kinda doubt at this stage, given the lack of details over anything about the game, let alone Colonisation, lately (bar one post recognising ongoing issues while giving no clues by when they might be resolved).
 

Jinx Chrome

Jinx Chrome
SergMx said:
About what? I distinctly remember a few years ago they were talking about a key function. I think it was even written in the roadmap we were shown in 2023.
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they never mentioned that the 'key feature' would be colonization. That announcement was first made in November. Mentioning a 'key feature' 2 years ago could have meant anything, also plans which may have been scrapped because that was during the Covid crisis and FDev's financial situation was a different one, either. But even when they meant 'colonization' back then, there was no further commitment on a timeline.
 

Felix DiCestria

Felix DiCestria
SergMx said:
About what? I distinctly remember a few years ago they were talking about a key function. I think it was even written in the roadmap we were shown in 2023.
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Key feature overall related to Power Play.
New Key feature was first mentioned at the start of '24.
Reveal that it will be colonisation was November.
Have you been talking to Cmdr Thrust from Bradford?
 

SergMx

SergMx
Jinx Chrome said:
they never mentioned that the 'key feature' would be colonization. That announcement was first made in November. Mentioning a 'key feature' 2 years ago could have meant anything, also plans which may have been scrapped because that was during the Covid crisis and FDev's financial situation was a different one, either. But even when they meant 'colonization' back then, there was no further commitment on a timeline.
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That's right, that's why we still don't have deadlines on Colonization and it's not a given that we can get those deadlines even this year.
 

Nowski

Nowski
Nowski said:
If the Colonisation Contact only appears the following Thursday, each link takes one week at minimum allowing the chain to grow at ~43 LY/month, assuming the stars are (literally) aligned.

But if the Colonisation Contact is available during the "under construction" phase, the chain's progress appears to be limited only by hauling speed, and it's a very different scenario.

I'd be surprised if it turned out to be the latter, but "some of the facilities will be turned off" leaves plenty of room for doubt.
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Well, I'm (pleasantly) surprised. Watching a stream showing a station completed today (after the maintenance) and in the "under construction" phase, the colonisation contact does indeed appear already in the station's contacts menu, and appears to allow selecting the next system to colonise straight away.

So an organised group that can put outposts together in a day could daisy chain a bit faster than one system a week, it looks like. This also gives the coloniser a decent protection against having their chain "stolen" (if they're aiming at a particular system) since they will be in control of when the contact appears.

This is pretty good news, I think.
 

Frankymole

Frankymole
Oh great.

Fleet carriers completely jammed?

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