Yeah this beta is a soft-launch, because everyone can participate and it's on the live servers.
Elite Dangerous | Trailblazers coming 26th February
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Yeah this beta is a soft-launch, because everyone can participate and it's on the live servers.
I imagine its values testing, considering you have two camps with diametric ideas on how fast / how much colonies should cost.
I'm looking forward to explorers eating each other alive for those coveted systems though...
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Sounds good. This will let Frontier test out various settings and parameters, see how these affect the colonization effort/satisfaction of the playerbase, and adjust for the hopefully best result.
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Okay, thanks for clarifying.
....Does this mean a new breed of 'Explorers' will be seen more in 'Open Mode' now?....'PVP Trailblazer Architects' 
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Okay, thanks for clarifying.
....Does this mean a new breed of 'Explorers' will be seen more in 'Open Mode' now?....'PVP Trailblazer Architects' ...Jack
There are a lot of obvious bugs that should be addressed
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Technically the answer is "both". Trailblazers will introduce System Colonisation as a beta but in the live game. Keep an eye on our forums, website and social channels as we'll be providing more details on what that all means a little closer to release.
I thought I'd somehow stumbled into the Star Citizen forum for a sec.Hmm "it works but only if you do it in a certain way" doesn't sound like its really working right to me.
That's probably what we'll have to wait a bit for.
Frontier trolls CIG by releasing a T-Pose emote for onfoot CMDRs..
I'll be honest, the 10ly distance limit is really killing a lot of my hype for this update :/
I'm aware the exact number is a placeholder, but it means the plan is to have a hard limit of colonizing only close to existing colonies.. I don't want that, I want to establish my own spaceport out there in the deep black! It'd be much more interesting in my opinion
Personally, I think it'd be a better approach to limit it softly using clever game design: allow players to colonize anywhere, but have them have to make the trip there to deploy the beacon in very limited time, and the time to transport the resources there should be very limited as well - so that establishing a colony far away is very very hard, but isn't impossible! This would encourage optimizing exploration/hauling builds, planning things out, player collaboration, etc - would be super fun and feel very freeing I think!
Also, I feel like the range limit will cause long strings of colonized systems to develop which will be kinda weird and ugly
I'm aware the exact number is a placeholder, but it means the plan is to have a hard limit of colonizing only close to existing colonies.. I don't want that, I want to establish my own spaceport out there in the deep black! It'd be much more interesting in my opinion
Personally, I think it'd be a better approach to limit it softly using clever game design: allow players to colonize anywhere, but have them have to make the trip there to deploy the beacon in very limited time, and the time to transport the resources there should be very limited as well - so that establishing a colony far away is very very hard, but isn't impossible! This would encourage optimizing exploration/hauling builds, planning things out, player collaboration, etc - would be super fun and feel very freeing I think!
Also, I feel like the range limit will cause long strings of colonized systems to develop which will be kinda weird and ugly