It sorta does this or at least for who will be the primary faction in the colony system when you are at the main screen for colonization before you hit begin claim.
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It sorta does this or at least for who will be the primary faction in the colony system when you are at the main screen for colonization before you hit begin claim.
Col 285 Sector QX-H B11-1
I guess that is what I did. I really thought the first settlement was a small settlement though, but you are probably right. The only way the construction points work out to what I have now is with a hub and a medium or small settlement so I guess that's it; however, the extraction settlement is either medium or small but it seems awful big when I land there. Of course I have no real idea what a large, medium or small settlement looks like as I have done almost no on foot play in Odyssey.
Also I noticed that the settlement size in the nav panel does not match what I built. I know for sure that the last 2 settlements I built were a large military and medium agriculture but the nav panel shows them as medium and small respectively. Do they possible grow to the correct size as population increases?
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Not true. I built a Coriolis station as my first station. At first I thought I was cooked, but it gives you like a month to complete. I was able to complete mine in 4 days with heavy hauling and move on to surface builds all on my own. And my Type-9 had a bit less cargo capacity than your ship. So cheer up, it can be done.
From what i can tell, Outposts are feasible for anyone, Coriolis/Asteroid bases are more for lategame solo players, and Orbis/Ocellus are on the scale of a station repair and are meant for groups to complete.
The payoff for making the bigger station first being getting a T2 or T3 station without it costing construction points!
But, you can always build up to an Orbis/Ocellus later on with infinite time, assuming your Outpost or Coriolis was built in four weeks.
The payoff for making the bigger station first being getting a T2 or T3 station without it costing construction points!
But, you can always build up to an Orbis/Ocellus later on with infinite time, assuming your Outpost or Coriolis was built in four weeks.
Yeh... given the effort for a Coriolis is about twice that of an Outpost, that feels pretty doable now.
But an Orbis... oof... maybe next time I'm on a work trip where I know I won't be out and about every evening for a month....
Thanks for that clear cut explanation. I really dislike things that I build shooting me or visitors on sight so settlements will be the minimum.
Check this post out regarding this one:
Tl;dr just a naming mismatch
Built a "large" IND settlement, it ended up being a "medium".
Is this intentional? Interesting result. There's a clear distinction between small-medium-large settlement types (This here provided 2 T3 credits, while iirc actual medium types offer only 1 T3 credit) by name, is this an error, or everything is as intended? It's the layout with the large...
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possibly the later, i built my Ocellus alone in 6 after the update dropped, soon i might reach the 10 constructed facilites so ill try to keep this thread updated if i find something.
Commander Zador reported it happen after T3 surface port construction, im curious my self if my T3s requirements will be risen aswell or its all caused by the surface port, well the T3 surface port got wooping high stats aswell by it self.
Also... I guess everyone's abandoned the idea of moving their carriers
I've seen so many angry posts of how "essential" carriers were to colonization, one even said you couldn't possibly build a Coriolis without one. Well, I really doubt the limitation is going away soon - there's just too many FCs.
i think the drop in carrier movement is due to less activity in general either from the initial fomo of the new feature wearing off or the inability of claiming new systems, etc just keeping people away.
but even if that wasn't the case, carriers add double the repetitions. it's the repetition that makes this mechanic tiring and grindy, not the time it takes to do a cycle. many owners probably are realising that.
double but necessary some times. my ocellus i'm building was placed on the 2nd star is 267k light seconds from the main star. without the carrier jumping to my build site, it would take a loooong time just hauling materials. the good news is i'm at 74% and still have over two weeks
No, it's not about 'no weapon' zone. For example, if faction A controls a system, and faction B controls a space station in this system, then for killing pirates in less then 1000 km away from that spase station - you'll be rewarded from fraction B, but if distance is greater then 1000 km - you'll be rewarded from faction A. The same for ground installations, but I don't know the 'faction controll' distance for planet ports. Maybe it is 100 km?
Interesting. Never noticed that, but since I have rather rudimentary experience when it comes to combat mechanics it's not really surprising.
Nothing found in my system is available to buy in the markets
The system I chose for colonisation is rich in many metals and minerals including tritium, alexandrite, bromellite and void opals which each have a hotspot in a pristine ice ring. The planets and moons also have ample supplies of iron, nickel, phosphorous and more.
I have two mining settlements, a mining facility above the icy rings, and both a refinery and an extraction hub.
Unless this is something to change with the next server tick though, NONE of these minerals and metals are available for sale in any of the markets in the system. Instead, what's for sale doesn't reflect the system at all.
The commodities for sale in a system should reflect what's found in that system as, for a mining colony, this is exactly why I chose this system in the first place. If the system doesn't sell the stuff found in it, then frankly we're all just wasting our time.
The system I chose for colonisation is rich in many metals and minerals including tritium, alexandrite, bromellite and void opals which each have a hotspot in a pristine ice ring. The planets and moons also have ample supplies of iron, nickel, phosphorous and more.
I have two mining settlements, a mining facility above the icy rings, and both a refinery and an extraction hub.
Unless this is something to change with the next server tick though, NONE of these minerals and metals are available for sale in any of the markets in the system. Instead, what's for sale doesn't reflect the system at all.
The commodities for sale in a system should reflect what's found in that system as, for a mining colony, this is exactly why I chose this system in the first place. If the system doesn't sell the stuff found in it, then frankly we're all just wasting our time.
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