The One Easy, Simple Way to Fix Colonisation

[dcsignal]

Step 2: buy a Cutter (or skip step 1 and buy a T-9, though the jump range is worse that way)

But the view out the Cockpit is so much better.

 

[Ozric]

I really wish people would stop saying "everywhere". There are two images below, one showing the galaxy and a teeny-tiny dot of all the inhabited systems, and the other showing a heat map that shows there's huge parts of the galaxy that almost nobody has ever visited.

And I really wish you would stop using incomplete, player submitted data, to try to make your point too

As well as the previously mentioned issue with the left picture being inaccurate. That right picture actually shows that the people who have played on PC and submitted their data, have visited every section of the galaxy it's possible to visit.

 

[CMDR Saigon]

I personally have reservations about some of the hyperbole around colonisation. It kind of reminds me of the fan uproar of <spoiler> killing James Bond at the end of No Time to Die </spoiler>. People threw their arms in the air and loudly proclaimed "We can't have any more Bond movies because you've killed him". I viewed it differently, and asked why when Casino Royale in 2006 showed Bond gaining 00 status for the first time absolutely nobody threw their arms in the air and shouted "How can you show Bond's first ever mission now, does this mean the previous 20 films never happened!?"

Colonia didn't ruin the game, the Colonia bridge didn't ruin the game, fleet carriers didn't ruin exploration, and colonising the galaxy isn't going to ruin the game either, especially given how few colonies would end up being out there comparable to the sheer volume of available systems we could build in.

For anybody on the Sag A* / Beagle Point route then, fine, it's fair. But there are far more, and far far better parts of the galaxy to explore that wouldn't be touched at all, and we can say this with considerable certainty.

o7,

I never mentioned anything about ruining the game. I merely point out that the pristine vastness, desolate, isolated feeling of the Galaxy should be kept as far as practically possible.

Personally, I much prefer the old Colonia Highway where every waypoint was around 2500-5000LY.

While I did supported the construction of the new Highway (back in my foolish days), I do regret seeing a megaship every 500LY tbh.