Elite Dangerous | System Colonisation Claims Unpaused
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As soon as you finished your first starport, you can build as much as slots are there in the system.
It has no connection to how many systems you claim and build afterwards.
I don't know if there is somerwhere hidden an upper limit in the number of owned systems, but as far as I know it is not known yet.
You can only claim one at a time (that is work on the first starport).
Once the system is claimed (first starport is built) you can claim another, and so on with no end, and do further building on any of them when you like, as far as we know.
@ds2007
yep, but to answer more clearly ->
by my experience: whilst you are in the process of building a primary-port in a system your ARE NOT able to assign new constructions in other systems you are architect of.
After finishing such primary-construction, you are again able to assign up to 5 constructions each system in parallel.
So if you are thinking about claiming a new system, first consider which tasks for the systems you develope already should be assigned, do so, and only after that claim the next one.....
Was scouting systems yesterday can found a nice system got off for the night and got back on and now its invalid what
how to deal with snipers? Yesterday I spent the whole day assembling the station to take the excellent system, but as soon as I did, after a few seconds I saw that it was stolen.. sadly
these scoundrels just take the systems and don't build them. I don't understand why they do this..
these scoundrels just take the systems and don't build them. I don't understand why they do this..
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I don’t understand.
If you are saying that they finished off the the primary port in the system you claimed before you did then they stole nothing that sysytem is as much yours as it ever was/would have been as you are the only architect.
If you mean they claimed a system before you could but are not building anything then that system will be up for grabs again when their claim times out.
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There are a lot of good systems on the edge of the bubble, and to get to them you need to follow the chain. As soon as I finished building the main port to go further, the sniper had already taken her using my station. he just sits in the SCS ship and waits.
I can't work out why unless you are chaining systems to get to a particular system, why you would want more than one.
I have probably a years building ahead of me to fully populate the system I chose and make it useful to players .
Lot of systems with one outpost is not good for the game, just a waste.
I have probably a years building ahead of me to fully populate the system I chose and make it useful to players .
Lot of systems with one outpost is not good for the game, just a waste.
well, if you plan (like me) to establish an autonomous "2nd Bubble" some 850 Ly away you very much are forced to daisy-chain there. So with the short claiming distance given, such behaviour may force you to build another 3-5 systems around a 20 Ly gap if your only bridging system is blocked that way. I can understand the frustration.
But unfortunatly such asocial behaviour has become more and more common in online games.....
edit: btw - that chain also is needed for economic connection to the bubble markets, one reason for current distance limitations i guess
There are a lot of new players who have just joined the game, and I don't think they will be able to get used to it right away, but they are interested in it in the long term. but while they are developing and earning credits, I think there will be no more good systems, thanks to other games that expand the bubble, this is a good motivation for them to continue playing and not think about the fact that they will be left without a good system. - I'm sorry for my English and I'm using a translator.
Agreed but this will be a consequence of the 15LY limit, lots and lots of single stations where folks have chained to the one they want.
Understandable limitations on the way the bgs works but not good for the game in the long run.
O7
I might be missing something here
If someone else takes a daisy-chain system and starts a colonisation build it might be more efficient to help them than build 3-5 systems of your own
If they don't kick off a build doesn't their colonisation permit expire after 4 weeks so you get another chance to colonise it yourself. Is there much of this going on?
Nope, it is unimportant if it is 15ly or 50ly. It is always the player. Change the player and you get a better game...
Well, maybe that person thinks they will struggle to complete the initial build so is loading onto a carrier before starting the clock. Or they wanted the system as badly as you and missed out on the link system so made sure they got the request in
Other peoples plans may interfere with your plans, that doesn't mean it is deliberate obstruction (doesn't rule it out either I guess)
Call me a thick old git but i have no idea what you mean, i had no interest in base building or colonisation from the start, I'm mainly an explorer, however i have a system i discovered years ago around 600LYs out from the bubble that i use for mining and a base, being able to colonise that system does appeal to me and so the daisy chain begins.
The chain is a result of the mechanics, not the player.
O7
On the Inara website, you can see if there is anyone else besides you in this system at the moment. I didn't think much of it at the time, which turned out to be stupid. I had to bypass the system to get to the end point, and I can already see that there is someone else there besides me.
Not true, many folks are not linked to third party sites, Inara shows the data only for registered and linked commanders.
O7
If you have identified a good system, then so may have others. You may not and they may not know who else is interested in the same system. They saw someone building a station that would allow a claim to be made on a system that they were interested in, and staked their claim as quickly as they could so that they did not lose it to someone else. There may have been more than one CMDR interested in the system that you were interested in. Some may have been online and others not online when the desired system became available. The latter also "lost out". No point in getting too obsessed with having lost out. Unfortunate, unlucky, frustrating yes. It is a SHARED galaxy. Information is freely available to all if they have the skills to interpret the data. Almost anyone can find a chain under construction and a desirable system and work out how to get what they want.
I helped out in constructing a couple of stations but missed out initially on claiming a system, and then the pause hit. I used the time to scout out systems that would be available once colonisation was unpaused. I got one that I liked, but because the roll out of syscol rep activation being staggered, other CMDRs were unable to make claims. I may have taken a system others were interested in. I am not a sniper or taking advantage of others work, just seeing an opportunity and taking it.
I helped out in constructing a couple of stations but missed out initially on claiming a system, and then the pause hit. I used the time to scout out systems that would be available once colonisation was unpaused. I got one that I liked, but because the roll out of syscol rep activation being staggered, other CMDRs were unable to make claims. I may have taken a system others were interested in. I am not a sniper or taking advantage of others work, just seeing an opportunity and taking it.