I think everyone wants to be able to switch from building a starport to an outpost

Armaant27

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Because of the rush to claim a system everyone I know and have spoken too chose to build a tier 2 or 3 starport including myself. After taking a break and looking at the material requirement everyone who hasn't deployed their beacon wants to downgrade to an outpost without the cooldown period and spending another $25m.

Thats been followed up with the question - can you start with an outpost then build it up to a starport.
 

varonica

varonica
Armaant27 said:
Because of the rush to claim a system everyone I know and have spoken too chose to build a tier 2 or 3 starport including myself. After taking a break and looking at the material requirement everyone who hasn't deployed their beacon wants to downgrade to an outpost without the cooldown period and spending another $25m.

Thats been followed up with the question - can you start with an outpost then build it up to a starport.
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I believe you can it's part of the notes:

Beginning the claim process will also permit you to select the primary port for the system! This is an important decision, do you add a simple outpost for refueling before moving on or begin the system with a large Coriolis that will be the center of a grand economy?
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So it does imply you can start with a small outpost, but not having taken part yet I can't confirm for sure this is actually possible.
 

DaftMav

DaftMav
You can start with an outpost which has significantly less material requirements (aside from the still insane ~4700 CMM Composites which are only sourced from surface base with very low amounts (100~200 at most) and they don't replenish fast enough to do this at one surface base so that's going to be about 50 surface visits minimum praying they have any in stock).

But I don't think you can then upgrade the outpost afterwards, you just get to choose where and what to build next in the system without any time limit.
 

varonica

varonica
DaftMav said:
You can start with an outpost which has significantly less material requirements (aside from the still insane ~4700 CMM Composites which are only sourced from surface base with very low amounts (100~200 at most) and they don't replenish fast enough to do this at one surface base so that's going to be about 50 surface visits minimum praying they have any in stock).

But I don't think you can then upgrade the outpost afterwards, you just get to choose where and what to build next in the system without any time limit.
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Hopefully the new supply megaships once they come online will fix that, and they did say in the video they were looking at increasing the supply rate of CMM's so maybe after this maintenance there will be more around,
 

madmongoose

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varonica said:
Hopefully the new supply megaships once they come online will fix that, and they did say in the video they were looking at increasing the supply rate of CMM's so maybe after this maintenance there will be more around,
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The supply rate was increased markedly but the maximum supply was not, having 200 refill every 10 min helps but is way more of a slog than being able to fill up 400 or 700 at a time.
 
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