I was informed by support "the closest slot nearest to the body", unless facility and port placements differ, and
if they do, it would be helpful for this to be made apparent.
Can the nodes of gas giants (and similar objects with rings) be delineated in parenthesis to
clearly distinguish (e.g.
Slot 0 Ring A,
Slot 0 Ring B,
Slot 0 Gas Giant, etc) which ring the starting structure will be placed in or around?
and/or
Can we get the option to choose on the system map which ring for objects to reside in or orbit around?
and/or
Can we get the option to alter or reorient the locations of orbit based facilities, construction sites, or ports, in regards to their localized body?
and/or
Can there be a limit for influence generated from weak links towards port economies that have an innate or inherited (colony) market type(s), and prevent it from being replaced or diminished? (i.e. preventing the initial market from losing its full range of goods, while still allowing additional economies, if it can co-exist).
and/or
Can structures that generate system influence for an economy only effect economies that have the same respective market type?
Placements for gas giants have, to my knowledge, changed between March 17th 2025 (10:49:22 in-game time) and the last few patches, and in each of those notes I could not find any mention or documentation in specific of gas giant(s) or their rings.
Before: B Ring -> A Ring -> Gas Giant
(This was my first Asteroid Base)
But when I placed an
installation, it chose the A Ring, not the gas giant to orbit. I wanted to place the Asteroid Base in the Metallic Ring, with the 'Space Bar' installation in the Rocky ring and then a 'Pirate Base' installation around the gas giant itself. This did not go as expected based on previous experiences or the impression from what I was told.
Whereas now: A Ring -> B Ring -> Gas Giant
As opposed to what I interpreted as meaning from support: Gas Giant -> A Ring -> (if applicable and present) B Ring. Which seems to be the case for
primary ports selected by the game for colonization?
(The gas giant above has a metal rich ring)
To summarize:
- 0 (outer) -> 1 (inner) - > 2 (planet)
- 0 (inner) -> 1 (outer) -> 2 (planet)
- 2 (planet) -> 1 (inner) -> 0 (outer)
Three different arrangements. So like,
which of these are intended?
I hope this information helps prevent unnecessary irritation, but perhaps it was obvious to others, it just wasn't to me, as I had some difficulty finding out online the 'true' configuration structures would be given. It's quite convoluted to deliberately choose the variation of an Asteroid Base, because of lacking consistency that would allow the player to effectively know, under the current modus operandi of colonization.
Trial and error is not the ideal or respectful path; these issues could have been identified, simulated, relayed and resolved in isolated development, where no loss would have occurred, considering at the present time, there isn't any remediation in this beta, just finality. More information leads to less, otherwise avoidable, 'mistakes'.