Greetings Commanders!
As some of you may have noticed - and the border seems to be really virulent with them - several empty and random unnamed systems now own purely planetary installations for a while.
These systems are NOT native to the game. Their inhabitants are typically from a mother system, granting all its factions as members of the colony. But if any of them is ousted from the system, they vanish as they ALL count as invaders. So maybe a pure colony can be realized in the BGS at the end.
The important question is:
Are these Horizon Colonies a slow but already visible indicator of the long promised expanding universe feature which should get the 'help build space stations' delivery missions in the future too, or just FD workers, placing some new systems by hand in their freetime?
Some of those systems only have 5-192 inhabitants. Some already crack many many thousands grasping for the million one day. I did not have the time to look if the numbers actually rise, implying an immigration system, but it could be.
Why do I think FD does not deliberately place these?
Close to the BC is a cluster of Colony Systems tied together. If those are deliberately placed, some FD member is really active in their own sandbox. Otherwise it could just be a coincidence.
Normally those systems are one or two in several light years. That one region has a dozen.
Either way, it would be nice of FD to tell us what exactly these are, how they work and if we can expect more influence in the future.
As some of you may have noticed - and the border seems to be really virulent with them - several empty and random unnamed systems now own purely planetary installations for a while.
These systems are NOT native to the game. Their inhabitants are typically from a mother system, granting all its factions as members of the colony. But if any of them is ousted from the system, they vanish as they ALL count as invaders. So maybe a pure colony can be realized in the BGS at the end.
The important question is:
Are these Horizon Colonies a slow but already visible indicator of the long promised expanding universe feature which should get the 'help build space stations' delivery missions in the future too, or just FD workers, placing some new systems by hand in their freetime?
Some of those systems only have 5-192 inhabitants. Some already crack many many thousands grasping for the million one day. I did not have the time to look if the numbers actually rise, implying an immigration system, but it could be.
Why do I think FD does not deliberately place these?
Close to the BC is a cluster of Colony Systems tied together. If those are deliberately placed, some FD member is really active in their own sandbox. Otherwise it could just be a coincidence.
Normally those systems are one or two in several light years. That one region has a dozen.
Either way, it would be nice of FD to tell us what exactly these are, how they work and if we can expect more influence in the future.
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