Does at least one of the HMC and even rocky worlds in a system need to be terraform-able for it to be good for colonization?

[Aaron T]

I have several prospective systems, some with many HMC worlds and rocky worlds with no terraform bodies, and some with quite a few of HMC and rocky world, ppristine metallic rings with one terraform HMC world.

Thank you.

I also found a system with a lot of HMC and rocky bodies close by the star but with a water world and an earth like world very far away hundreds of ls away from the main star.

Does the long distance to two awesome worlds make them useless?

 

[Kira Goto]

Terraforming candidate isn’t a necessity for a system to be a viable colonization target. It matters if you want to put a roleplay spin on it for a (more) viable/“free range” (for lack of better words) surface habitation location, be that already existing or future, but depending on your plans for the economy a system with a brown/red dwarf and a bunch of ice rocks can be just as well. Or somewhere which only has gas giants.

… and “hundreds of ls from the star” really isn’t ‘too far’ by any stretch of the imagination. You could say that for a terraforming candidate at a C star that is 141k ls from the system’s entry point. Besides that, a water or ELW aren’t landable as of now (and may never be) so the amount of economy customization you can do with a port around them is limited.

 

[Aaron T]

Terraforming candidate isn’t a necessity for a system to be a viable colonization target. It matters if you want to put a roleplay spin on it for a (more) viable/“free range” (for lack of better words) surface habitation location, be that already existing or future, but depending on your plans for the economy a system with a brown/red dwarf and a bunch of ice rocks can be just as well. Or somewhere which only has gas giants.

… and “hundreds of ls from the star” really isn’t ‘too far’ by any stretch of the imagination. You could say that for a terraforming candidate at a C star that is 141k ls from the system’s entry point. Besides that, a water or ELW aren’t landable as of now (and may never be) so the amount of economy customization you can do with a port around them is limited.

Thank you.

 

[Tess R Act]

....Besides that, a water or ELW aren’t landable as of now (and may never be) so the amount of economy customization you can do with a port around them is limited.

the key thing here, and I think that was the core of Aaron´s question , is the population boost an ELW, WW (or terraformable?) provides which is quite a lot and influencing the amount/tonnage your markets evolve on supply/demand....

 

[Tess R Act]

I also found a system with a lot of HMC and rocky bodies close by the star but with a water world and an earth like world ....

sounds to me as a golden opportunity - literally.
Coriolis around the rocky (if no volcanism/bios there), T1 civ Port on surface (no RefHub as it generates weak links systemwide), HT Outpost around the WW (for the Pop-Boost of that one), Cori around the ELW and add. Relay to push the ELW-Cori eco to Tourism.
Should give a nice demand for gold etc. on the ELW Cori, so you can ship from one to the other

 

[Kira Goto]

is the population boost an ELW, WW (or terraformable?) provides which is quite a lot and influencing the amount/tonnage your markets evolve on supply/demand....

It is local to the station receiving it/above the planet though, so not actually that important unless you need/want a lot of supply or demand for your intended economy.

And, I think that population boost is only for ELWs and WWs, least I have seen some people say terraformable HMC didn’t give a big population boost. Some also suggested agriculture might have one of its own…

 

[Tess R Act]

It is local to the station receiving it/above the planet though, so not actually that important unless you need/want a lot of supply or demand for your intended economy.
And, I think that population boost is only for ELWs and WWs, least I have seen some people say terraformable HMC didn’t give a big population boost. Some also suggested agriculture might have one of its own…