Is there a way to find the stations and megaships on path? 
How to follow Colonia Bridge?
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Is this sufficient?
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Colonia Bridge
The Colonia Bridge is a four-part infrastructure project that was organised and funded by Brewer Corporation in cooperation with the Colonia Council. Divided into a series of seven Community Goals that took place between October 7, 3307 and March 10, 3308, the massive undertaking significantly...
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They have a local news article at each station on the bridge which shows where the previous and next ones are.
Unfortunately unless it's been fixed in U18 the local news articles in the endpoints at Colonia and Alcor have a bug where they point to a station in the middle of the bridge instead, so finding the first one can be a bit of a challenge.
(And when in the bubble, realising that you need to go to Alcor to get directions is a little obscure nowadays, too)
Unfortunately unless it's been fixed in U18 the local news articles in the endpoints at Colonia and Alcor have a bug where they point to a station in the middle of the bridge instead, so finding the first one can be a bit of a challenge.
(And when in the bubble, realising that you need to go to Alcor to get directions is a little obscure nowadays, too)
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Change the start location to Colonia if coming back
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IMO, it wouldn't be a bad idea to add an icon to the galmap that shows their locations.
Reading the wiki article... I guess looking for stations CB-XX can work.
To Colonia without a Fuel Scoop Challenge
Got talking on another thread about this. I believe it's possible with the outposts along the way. Does anyone wanna take a challenge sometime in 2017? Anaconda with lots of fuel tanks makes about 1700ly on fastest. When engineered this would be significantly higher, just gotta put a map...
Although, with the brifge in place, you probably could do the trip with a less dedicsted build just by going for economic route plotting.
Ambience. They allow you to make the journey in short hops, always docking for the night. And some people just feel more comfortable with the possibility to repair their ships or refuel their SRVs en route.
And, if you do it right, using the bridge stations (some of them) can shave quite a bit off the total distance travelled:
Guide / Tutorial - Colonia Prison Taxi : 12.5k LY to Colonia
The Colonia Prison Taxi Guide What is it? Colonia is around 22000 Ly from Sol - using the Colonia Prison Taxi allows you to complete the journey by only travelling
Unfortunately, that doesn't translate to equal savings in travel time - all those shenanigans with the prison authorities make that trip not faster than using a (handpicked) neutron highway trip.
Colonia_Highway_v1.1.pdf
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Well... my plan is just pick the economic route and scan planets to pump Exobiology while going to a new place (to me) and sell data while doing that. No rush intended.
So it's more for the "it's not the destination, but the journey" type of commanders?
The interim stations and megaships also allow FSD repairs, if doing neutron jet jumps, and if using an AFMU you can replenish it without digging into your own materials.
That said I always use the naughty-step highway of detention centres.
That said I always use the naughty-step highway of detention centres.
Just bear in mind that when the density of stars get to a certain amount, the route plotting won't work on economic mode.
That depends on your ship's jump range - if you've got a stripped-down travel-only ship that's going to complete the trip in under 2 hours anyway, no. If you're running a 30 LY jump range or similar it can take hours off the total journey.
The first time I went to Colonia, I did it by going along the Colonia Bridge in an un-engineered Keelback. This was also before I realised that honking and the FSS were a thing one could do, so I was spending hours literally just jumping from one system to the next. Having stations to aim for and stop at along the journey broke up the trip, and prevented me from becoming a gibbering wreck. Even so, I could still feel the space madness tickling my amygdala.
It does for me in 79ly jump range Krait Phantom or a DBX. Losing several thousand LYs of even neutron jumps saves time. Why wouldn't it? It takes seconds to pad-loiter and get blasted onto the next prison ship thousands of ly away.
Well ... I recently went to Colonia and back. Two days to get there on a carrier, and four days to jump back in a 25LY range Imperial Clipper.
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From a purely personal viewpoint it would free up the 25+ bookmarks I have on the Galactic map at the moment.
Jack
I second that,
From a purely personal viewpoint it would free up the 25+ bookmarks I have on the Galactic map at the moment.
Jack
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Only 25?Hi
I second that,
From a purely personal viewpoint it would free up the 25+ bookmarks I have on the gal map at the moment.
Jack
I have lost count of how many bookmarks I have just for my 1st discovereds alone.
I was bookmarking the DSSA carriers and the Colonia Connection Highway, but then decided there's no point when I can look that up on a website.
EDIT: Also, I group my bookmarks. For example, all my 1st discovereds are 9 - First - [system name] ... Unobtainable permits are 8 - Permit - Unobtainable - [system name] ... and so on. What we really need in-game is the ability to colour the bookmarks, even if it's one of 16 set colours, at least then I could see at a glance which bookmarks are for what.
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I heard EDCopilot has the route as option.