With the most excellent assistance from CDR K Olley, I finished The Big Twinkie today, a Coriolis over a terraformable metal world. It took a twelve hour shift to do it.
Once completed, my natural instinct was to search for another system to add to my network. I switched to my Cobra 5 (heaven after driving a T9 for so long), and started searching around all my current systems:
Scorpii Sector SE-Q b5-2 Tool Shed
Col 285 Sector UG-H b25-6 Aquarium
HIP 84497 Punk
Col 285 Sector YK-O d6-92 Brill
Col 285 Sector ZH-F b26-4 Marley
HIP 85548 The Big Twinkie
To give context to the area, The Big Twinkie is about twenty light-years from Pand. It's a loose string of systems with alternating economies, so that one system has what the other wants. With a fifteen light-year bubble around each, it's a pretty big "caterpillar" of potential colony system spheres to search.
After an afternoon of searching, and my doggie eyes drooping, I found individual stars, stars with ice cubes, stars with rocks, stars with ice cubes and rocks, and one with a water world. That what was left unclaimed. No systems with gas giants. None had enough orbital or surface slots to permit adjusting economies, adding orbital installations, etc. They were all basically systems that might just justify a single outpost.
I also found that Commanders around me had built out systems that complimented mine. Extraction, refinery, and agricultural products were all there to trade with, and within jumping distance for a fully loaded T8/T9.
I leaned back, drank a chocolate Ensure for dinner, and then took a nap. Everyone should take more naps. I'm a dog.
After my nap, I felt a lot better. then the idea came:
Maybe I have enough systems.
My Coriolis gives me the parking garage I want. I can trade internally and externally. I have pristine GG rings for mining. There are tons of missions and lots of passengers to be carried. I'm close to CG's and events, instead of being out in a nebula Wild West, without indoor plumbing. And Wal-Marts. I have an alt account in Colonia for that sort of thing.
As a solo commander, I truly need a fleet carrier, and assistance from others to take on any more projects. I would rather just explore on my own, than join one of the big player groups.
Enough of the twelve hour shifts.
The clock to finish new construction is not running anymore. I'm free.
Note: If anyone colonizes a system that I'm first discoverer of, please send me a postcard. "Wish You Were Here".
Once completed, my natural instinct was to search for another system to add to my network. I switched to my Cobra 5 (heaven after driving a T9 for so long), and started searching around all my current systems:
Scorpii Sector SE-Q b5-2 Tool Shed
Col 285 Sector UG-H b25-6 Aquarium
HIP 84497 Punk
Col 285 Sector YK-O d6-92 Brill
Col 285 Sector ZH-F b26-4 Marley
HIP 85548 The Big Twinkie
To give context to the area, The Big Twinkie is about twenty light-years from Pand. It's a loose string of systems with alternating economies, so that one system has what the other wants. With a fifteen light-year bubble around each, it's a pretty big "caterpillar" of potential colony system spheres to search.
After an afternoon of searching, and my doggie eyes drooping, I found individual stars, stars with ice cubes, stars with rocks, stars with ice cubes and rocks, and one with a water world. That what was left unclaimed. No systems with gas giants. None had enough orbital or surface slots to permit adjusting economies, adding orbital installations, etc. They were all basically systems that might just justify a single outpost.
I also found that Commanders around me had built out systems that complimented mine. Extraction, refinery, and agricultural products were all there to trade with, and within jumping distance for a fully loaded T8/T9.
I leaned back, drank a chocolate Ensure for dinner, and then took a nap. Everyone should take more naps. I'm a dog.
After my nap, I felt a lot better. then the idea came:
Maybe I have enough systems.
My Coriolis gives me the parking garage I want. I can trade internally and externally. I have pristine GG rings for mining. There are tons of missions and lots of passengers to be carried. I'm close to CG's and events, instead of being out in a nebula Wild West, without indoor plumbing. And Wal-Marts. I have an alt account in Colonia for that sort of thing.
As a solo commander, I truly need a fleet carrier, and assistance from others to take on any more projects. I would rather just explore on my own, than join one of the big player groups.
Enough of the twelve hour shifts.
The clock to finish new construction is not running anymore. I'm free.
Note: If anyone colonizes a system that I'm first discoverer of, please send me a postcard. "Wish You Were Here".
