(Q:) What type of results are potentially expected, if placing Mining Installation and outpost at ARRIVAL Star build sites 1 and 2 only?

[Resolute3k]

I asked GEMINI Pro about this..a few moments ago...but got something not quite expected as an answer..so I came here...

(Q) What type of results are potentially expected, if placing Mining Installation and outpost at ARRIVAL Star build sites 1 and 2 only?

(A) [Give your best example]

 

[Ian Doncaster]

The obvious answer is that the installation will generate a strong extraction link to the outpost, giving extra extraction imports and exports to its economy. But that's just what you'd get out of the in-game documentation and build screens so presumably you're asking for something more specific than that?

 

[Resolute3k]

The reason I ask here is aslo obvious, I need someone to expertly explain what happened when they did it. I am now planning on this or a relay station (to get a shipyard). While simply waiting for the time to decide, based on this post being updated. The matter of fact portion to add is that, I asked GEMINI pro 2.5 the same in summary...and it stated over and over it is not possible to build in the orbit of a star in game (based on all online documentation of game mechanics from FDEV and user experience/as of JUNE 7th)...I have been up all night trying to show the chat function that it was indeed possible to build at a star, and on an arrival star orbital slot. I ended up providing a scenario, in astrophysics in which a rogue planet collides with a smaller gas giant in a system, then collapses together into a brown dwarf (star)...verifying that it was NOT potentially plausible/possible to build at a star's orbit because a 'star' is classified as more than 80 times the mass of Jupiter...remaining a brown dwarf, and there is the conclusion to the POWWWWWER of AI to actually overide human intelligence...want to see the chat results? (Way too much coffees last nights...hehe)

 

[Ian Doncaster]

So I hope you've learnt a valuable lesson about asking chatbots for information ("don't bother").

I don't know that you'll find someone who's specifically built an outpost (any sort) and a mining installation in the two slots around a star who'll be able to tell you exactly what happened, and even if you could there are sufficiently many other factors (what type of outpost? what type of star? what else is in the system?) which mean you might not get the same results anyway.

But the principles involved are pretty well understood by human players, appear to largely match the Frontier documentation, etc. It will do what the in-game / patch notes documentation says it will. Whether that's what you want to happen you've not provided enough information to say.

I am now planning on this or a relay station (to get a shipyard).

Relay stations have nothing to do with shipyards, and assuming you mean "instead of the mining installation", orbital outposts can't ever get shipyards anyway.

 

[Resolute3k]

I am not stupid, you SOB...lol

 

[PilotB]

The slot numbers do not matter. The star is a body and the links work exactly the same way as links do around a planet or moon. Your outpost gets it's market. Your mining installation provides a strong extraction link and the system is likely pristine so you get it boosted. Now you've got a station that has mixed economies missing whatever gets consumed by both and then you wonder why you bothered building a paperweight system and move on.

 

[Greasetrap42]

I am not stupid, you SOB...lol

The influence of strong and weak links and body influence on installations follows the same general rules regardless whether the body is a planet, moon, asteroid field, or star. The specific parameters depend on the facility and the body being built on/orbiting. Save everybody including yourself some time and simply read material that is provided and easily available.

Colonization: Info directly from Frontier

Edit:
A more graphical explanation is given here:
Colonization: Strong and Weak Links

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