Is it possible to ruin someone else's colony?

[BluePilot]

I am not going to spend my time to try if I can thwart someone else's effort, if that's what you mean. Someone will do it, if there is a chance. But knowing if the ones I'm building are potentially at risk would influence my approach to the whole thing.

I don't believe the ports/installations are ever at risk of destruction by player actions. However, they are influences by the background simulation. So players could manipulate them into bust or outbreak to reduce the commodity market output (& potentially the architect payout?). Additionally if the Thargoids return again it's possible player made stations will need to be defended, and those that aren't may be destroyed.

 

[Ned Flandalorian]

Things are better now that the populations have been boosted, but earlier it was fairly trivial to put an anarchy-based colony into lockdown - something which shouldn't happen because anarchies aren't meant to respond that way to negative actions, hence it's extremely difficult to get them out of it.