Oh to have the time to play every day!
Requirements for building a Coriolis starport
- Thread starter Jaffz
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There seems to be a difference between the tonnage for the initial port and for the same port if built after the primary port, so a coriolis will be ~70k as a primary port but ~55k if you build it after building an outpost.
I guess this is what is refered to in the livestream, when Piers Jackson says:
It’s an average, you don’t actually have to do it every day y’know!
The ~55k was for a new system.
Interesting! Were you getting the data from the colonisation ship numbers? Some people have reported a difference between the colonisation contact numbers you see when choosing a port and the colonisation ship numbers when you arrive to actually build it. See issue: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/72180
I have an outpost built and if I want to build an Orbis in my system:
6436 water
2576 copper
32820 titanium
40220 aluminium
15124 liquid oxygen
1288 ins membrane
56304 steel
plus other bits and bobs that total 11,256
Total 166,024
223 full cutters and all the tritium I'll need to move the carrier about. Utterly ridiculous for one player
[edit] No wait I forgot the 45,000 CMM composite I'll need, add that on too - 211,024 that's:
266 cutters
6436 water
2576 copper
32820 titanium
40220 aluminium
15124 liquid oxygen
1288 ins membrane
56304 steel
plus other bits and bobs that total 11,256
Total 166,024
223 full cutters and all the tritium I'll need to move the carrier about. Utterly ridiculous for one player
[edit] No wait I forgot the 45,000 CMM composite I'll need, add that on too - 211,024 that's:
266 cutters
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From the dialogue before configuring the primary port, so not the colonization ship itself.
I wonder if it makes a difference if you already have an Outpost built in another system? maybe it gets confused
This is what the Colonization Ship asked me to deliver for the starting Coriolis station, the simplest possible. Don't know how it was when choosing port, these are the actual numbers the builders need.
NON-LETHAL WEAPONS 25
POWER GENERATORS 67
MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT 25
WATER PURIFIERS 104
COMPUTER COMPONENTS 202
SEMICONDUCTORS 212
SUPERCONDUCTORS 331
FOOD CARTRIGES 232
FRUIT AND VEGS 139
INSULATING MEMBRANE 851
COPPER 774
CERAMIC COMPOSITES 1284
WATER 2182
POLYMERS 1197
LIQUID OXYGEN 4940
TITANIUM 12223
ALUMINIUM 12480
STEEL 18606
CMM COMPOSITE 14138
I made a slight error a couple of posts before, the total is not 69012 but 70012, but it all comes down the same - three full deliveries every day in a month, and one day go wild and deliver 5-6.
You sure that's not for an Orbis Apollo? Looks just like what is showing for a new system build in the system I'm currently in.
There are plenty of other things you can build which are way way cheaper. Why build a planetary port?
The guy above here, and it might be interesting:
This is trash system, one scoopable Sun and four small landable ice planets with no rings. I asked for the simplest possible Coriolis in position 0, the starting one (each planet has it's own afterwards). The numbers I gave here are the actual ones the builders ask for.
Maybe it's more if the system is a lush one, with many lucrative possibilities afterwards.
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As I understand it, the construction platform has large pads.
I’ve been able to spend as much time in game since Friday as I usually would in a week (5 1/2 hours).
Got my Outpost to 36%. I used a T8. I’ve not been stressed out by carrier times, I’ve not had a single trip back to the colonisation ship without a full hold.
It’s not a Coriolis, but it’s certainly not as challenging as I imagined by some people’s attitude.
Got my Outpost to 36%. I used a T8. I’ve not been stressed out by carrier times, I’ve not had a single trip back to the colonisation ship without a full hold.
It’s not a Coriolis, but it’s certainly not as challenging as I imagined by some people’s attitude.
the system lies. It says you need 18kT for an outpost, but once you've signed up the amounts increase enormously. My second outpost is currently asking for 60KT of materials, supposedly more than is needed for a coriolis starport.
Can confirm that they perform a Bait and Switch on you with the amount of materials needed.
posting in https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/72180
posting in https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/72180
Yea I gave up on my carrier, it's just a floating parking lot right now. The outpost I knocked out in a couple days as well. My "hope" is someone from FDev is haunting these threads to see where teh issues are lying. Does anyone know or have they talked about how long the beta is going to run for?