I have the same issue with two Ody settlements in my colonies. I sent FDev support screenshots of those, lets see what they have to say about it.
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To build a small outpost we need 30 full cargo loads ( using a Cutter) in a Fleet Carrier. To unload them, we have to keep the proper key pressed down for more than 30 seconds each and every time. That's 900 seconds, so more than 15 minutes lost for every outpost build.
15 minutes in which we can't do anything but to keep a certain key pressed down. Why?? It's such an easy fix.
15 minutes in which we can't do anything but to keep a certain key pressed down. Why?? It's such an easy fix.
I know that's annoying. I just sell that stuff to myself via the fleet carrier's market now.
So now I've got a few facilities being built how can I see what it is I'm building, because alcohol. I've got 2 orbital somethings left to build and from the materials list they seem to be the same thing and I'm fairly sure I wouldn't be building 2 of the same thing.
Sorted, you need to fly to the installation to find out what you're building and apparently I am building 2 the same.
Sorted, you need to fly to the installation to find out what you're building and apparently I am building 2 the same.
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The other one I built in other system that also a medium sized space outpost is producing small amounts of stuff. The one I'm mentioning does not. Something is telling me there are a lot variables responsible for that and we do not know them. Instead we blindly build to see something is not working at all. I'd like to know optimal requiremens, if there are any, like; preferred planet type, temperature range, gravity, atmo. Or maybe these variables do not count at all and all production is based on bgs bars. If Fdev know's that it would be nice for them to explain us basic things. Now I'm pretty much reluctant to building anything at all. Leaving this colonisation game until things are explained.
I have one well fleshed-out system (more than ten installations already finished), and it contains a T2 agri settlement that neither buys nor sells anything. Other T2 installations in that system (I have two more) do not have the same problem. Just the agri one.
Then I have a smaller colony containing a T2 high tech settlement that also buys and sells nothing.
Is it just me, or do the amounts of commodities required for construction keep changing?
I made a spreadsheet, load the exact amount based on that and when I drop it off, I'm short 5 of this, 2 of that, 4 of those... or I have leftovers.
I made a spreadsheet, load the exact amount based on that and when I drop it off, I'm short 5 of this, 2 of that, 4 of those... or I have leftovers.
yep, the commodities required have a RNG around 5% on it
Yeah, it's gotten to the point where I place my stapler on the arrow key so I can sip some coffee and get a quick stretch in. Swingline to the rescue!
why are you doing that this way? Filling my FC I set the buy orders in market, emptying it I change that to sell (Friends & squad only
) this way you also easily can keep track of how much and what you still need. and setting up the market takes way less time as your triggering with the arrows. in market you use mouse on incrementalbutton
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Good point, I suppose I could use the market facility instead, but I had some glitchy moments with it in the recent past. Perhaps those glitches have been addressed.why are you doing that this way? Filling my FC I sewt the buy orders in market, emptying it I change that to sell (Freins & squad only
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with my 3 FC it works just fine all the time (since TB started). Important as with two of them I support other Cdr which don´t have one
I'll add my voice to others calling for a way to change facility types after they have been built. With so little documentation on what effects what I have been hesitant to build out my systems. I think we need a way to change what types of structures you build. I would say if you want to change what type of facility you have built you should get a 50% reduction in the materials required to build the new type.
Same here. I even updated the sheet for every commodity after each delivery and still found discrepancies, always less than previously noted never more. My assumption is some one is helping.
I have seen kinda the same bug as well; an extra development location popped up after I clicked building an installation. It is therre currently, but I cant build anything on it.
There's random variation for each build. You can't use someone else's spreadsheet and expect exact amounts to match. If the amounts change between deliveries then I guess someone else is delivering. I have not experienced any change from the initial amounts in 20 builds.
I experienced this too. Kept close tabs of each delivery I made to the construction sight and in a few cases at the end I was short of a few units, never more than that.
To be clear, I am not using someone else's spread sheet. This is a sheet created by me from the list of required materials shown at the construction platform and logging on just now I have seen my first increase. Water was 0 last night and now it's 177.
As others have said, we badly need more complete information, specifically about what factors affect economical development and at precisely what proximities. I get home, sit down to play Elite, and I don't want to. My colonization construction has stalled. I don't feel like hauling anymore, especially just to fire blindly into the dark to see if the system will turn out as I intended, or if it will fail from lack of clear direction after several tedious hours of sacrificial game "play." I go to my computer with the intent to grab a different ship and go do something else, but the idea of playing a different game entirely wins out as more appealing. If trailblazers is going to be the theme for the year, it needs to carry itself better.
The store is offering a T9 pre-build, with engineered FSD, power plant, thrusters, and shields. Awfully tempting.