Problems of Living on the Edge

[Adhock]

So awhile back I founded my own player faction on the edge of The Bubble with the gleeful intent of conducting a one man crusade of building my tiny empire.

A year later and I'm still working toward that. It's hard.

But no, the point of this topic was that I'm trying to build up my FGS in preparation for the next war.

Despite the fact that the system I'm based in has a pure industrial station and a population of 3 billion. I can't find many if any modules size 4 or higher. Even more bizarre, the nearby high tech system with a population of 11 million has even less outfitting options.

The surrounding systems aren't much better.

To wit, my FGS got stuck in a small bubble of two systems.

Thank god for ship transfer.

As annoying as this is, I chose this spot for it's proximity to the edge of the bubble. I'm about 6-10 jumps depending on the weight from the very edge.

I just find it odd and chalk it up to the absurdity that living on the frontier means I don't have access to the modules people take for granted closer to the center. Ah well, the cost of doing business means I have to import things from the core.


....I wonder if I could work that into my narrative somehow....

 

[bnrgator]

Colonia was even worse because it had the same type of problems with the exception that bubble was several orders of magnitude further away. Not sure if it has improved much since I was out there last year.

 

[Clifra Jones]

how far away are they? have you checked here? https://eddb.io/station

 

[Adhock]

How far away from what?

It's 137ly from Sol.

 

[Clifra Jones]

How far away from what?

It's 137ly from Sol.

How far away are the nearest stations that have what you are looking for. You can go to eddb and put in what you want and where you are and it will tell you who has them and how far away they are and how old the data is. You don't want to go somewhere that the data is 30 day sold. 1-3 days is best.

FGS has horrible jump range and without an additional fuel tank you not going anywhere!

 

[Adhock]

Ah. It's about 5 jumps inward before I find stations with what I need.

Not too bad. I just needed to get the FGS out of the system. I have a better FSD to get it out now.

Realistically though I don't really plan on taking it anywhere. It's my warship so I don't need it to go out of the system where I'm not conducting war operations.

Really I just wanted to play with something that had fighters while I'm trying to rank up to unlock the corvette. Odds are I'll probably sell it and buy back the FAS I had.

I'm currently using an FDS as my mission/exploration ship with plans to upgrade it back to the Python.

 

[Clifra Jones]

Ah. It's about 5 jumps inward before I find stations with what I need.

Not too bad. I just needed to get the FGS out of the system. I have a better FSD to get it out now.

Realistically though I don't really plan on taking it anywhere. It's my warship so I don't need it to go out of the system where I'm not conducting war operations.

Really I just wanted to play with something that had fighters while I'm trying to rank up to unlock the corvette. Odds are I'll probably sell it and buy back the FAS I had.

I'm currently using an FDS as my mission/exploration ship with plans to upgrade it back to the Python.

Understandable, I bought an FGS basically for free after the resent CG which let you buy it without rank. At first I truly hated it but got some advice that I will try out when and if they get the sound bug fixed in that thing. Thet really bugs me. I'm spending my rank efforts in the Empire as I think their designs are cooler!

Those EDDB tools are very useful!