Elite Dangerous - Colonization - OWN and CONTROL A Star System - NEW Details

[@valorin5762]

Finally! The feature we all waited for! Bacon Colonisation!

[@ObsidianAnt]

MMMmmm Bacon!

[@benpassmore7135]

Piiiigggggggs Innnnnn Spacccccccceeeeee!

[@meadowlarkinmontana0406]

@@valorin5762 High levels of cholesterol have angered the thyroids (thargoids). Scouts have indicated that the thyroids are suffering from weight gain, fatigue, and increased heart attack numbers.

[@sergiosala640]

@@meadowlarkinmontana0406 Raxxla may be a thrombus after all.

[@meadowlarkinmontana0406]

@@sergiosala640 makes sense, they probably kill any pilot who discovers it. 😂

[@gravity00x]

🥓🥓🏴‍☠DEPLOY THE TACTICAL BACON!!!! 🏴‍☠🥓🥓

[@K-PopGamesWithSoulMirae]

@@mjk9388 2:15 XD this is the reference :D

[@ph0enix00]

“That's too much bacon.” - No One Ever.

[@urazz7739]

@@ph0enix00 Only when we eat too much and get sick from it and that rarely happens to most people to my knowledge unless you intentionally make that much bacon for yourself. And even then we'll get over it when we get over it and taste bacon again.

[@CMDR_Shokwave]

Pretty much exactly what I was wanting. Now, we just need our own Squadron insignia upload options for decals/banners/signage.

[@StMargorach]

@@CMDR_Shokwave 10 ly is way too small....

[@Karackal]

That would require heavy moderation. Or else you'll get a lot of swastikas and porn (because people are awful).

[@dimitriapostola3119]

Yeah - beyond wandering around our own starships! 😊 hehe - all of the exploring to try and find earth-like worlds should also factor into this process

[@CMDR_Shokwave]

@Karackal yeah. It's totally possible. Warframe does this. You pay like $10 and upload your image file. They approve or deny, and it goes in the next update. That's how it was 9 years ago, or so, when I did it with my 1 man clan. Same here. Upload image for small fee. Then you also have the 'Squadron' decal/banner/signage you can buy from the marketplace to put on your ship/suit/colony property. They could have a dual banner, too, for powerplay logo plus Squadron logo or name. Also, another way for the company to make a bit more money with stuff we actually want.

[@oakola]

Solo end game content for big farmers, no link with squadrons...

[@SingularPing]

All those star systems I have bookmarked in case this would happen!!! Now I have to choose which one.

[@StMargorach]

@@SingularPing are they within 10 ly of an inhabited system? .... 10 ly is nothing

[@Sgt_Glory]

I'm just happy we can place ground bases wherever we want. I'm all for choosing the most beautiful vista possible and dropping an installation right there. Like on the edge of a cliff overlooking some planetary rings...

[@Regulus_V]

My interpretation of the 10 light year thing is you have to daisy chain systems. Even with that idea, 10ly is kind of small

[@XenoZbornak]

​@StMargorach F-Dev REALLY needs to put another zero on that... very likely, they'll do so.

[@StMargorach]

@XenoZbornak exactly. It's why I'm trying to make a fuss about it everywhere :D

[@mofabet3631]

It's amazing. The only thing I would like to colonize remote systems. Pulling a chain 10 ly at a time, even for a modest 1000 ly, sounds like torture. If we leave the system with a radius, then the minimum acceptable value for me is 500 ly, in accordance with carrier's jump. I agree to the logistical difficulties, but why would I need a Fleet carrier if it won't help me deliver goods to remote corners of the galaxy? I mean, people on Earth have colonized places that take weeks and months to sail to. But in the 33rd century, why can't I start a colony at a distance that can be covered in a few minutes? Even the noodles ordered through Uber eats from Sol won't have time to cool down in that time, lol.

[@gwevans358]

I wonder how this will work for solo players? I would hope, that you could potentially put in "buy orders" for the building supplies and then NPC ships could then begin delivering supplies. If not, then I don't see how solo players could participate in a practical way.

[@agonyaunt6325]

"I don't see how solo players could participate in a practical way." - grind your ass off. :D

[@Sanuske4]

Yeah basically what he said. I imagine it will be similar to the monetary grind for a fleet carrier. I hope they actually allow some form of cooperative investment with this though. I still think the option to have a fleet carrier squad managed and maintained instead of one guy would be great.

[@Kanitoxx]

@@Sanuske4 what are you talking about? I bought my fleet carrier with exploration and exobio data only and deposited 15bn in the carrier to keep it fully equiped for at least 9 years (gotta say, I was in the black for 6 months exploring, but I love exploring), and I can make the 31 millions that cost to maintain weekly in 3-4 high ground combat zones... it's a grind if you make it a grind

[@KnowzsPenge]

@@Kanitoxx What the F are you talking about

[@santiziano2118]

OMG :D Im only used to seeing your videos from like 7 years ago. So I was beyond confused right now because I never heard of base building in elite XD

[@drink15]

Its new. So new its not even in the game yet so many people never heard of it.

[@jekylthorn8969]

I bet it costs 10 billion per buulding, with 100 million daily upkeep. Oh, and you need to grind 10 hours of a certain mineral per day as well.

[@samwong2816]

Definitely

[@PraetorianAU]

Not to mention the $100 you will have to spend on a paid DLC to add this feature...

[@emkayusa]

I like it, purchase a claim, then deliver materials. I’ve been grinding the last couple weeks as we don’t know how much this is going to cost. Saved up 20 billion so far

[@JNJNRobin1337]

alright i think thats more than enough

[@ysfsim]

Would be interesting to know the cost of different systems

[@havoc-ado]

Did you happen to create a truck that was cyber?

[@LeMaleExceptionnel]

How did you make 20 billions ? ^^

[@planelander]

How did you get 20 billion lol

[@RajKuMaR64-y3q]

Let's not get our manage our expectations and take this in with a neutral mindset. This way we won't get disappoint if it doesn't not meet our expectations like what happened with the Odyssey expansion :)

[@ThegnLyriam]

I thought people were just mad about the Odyssey expansion just because they didn't implement VR for it.

[@RajKuMaR64-y3q]

@@ThegnLyriam That's wasn't the only reason. It was also overhyped and under-delivered (tons of bugs on delivery)

[@Darkdiver28]

yep. Odyssey burned all my trust. This colonization update will likely be a a grind fest and ultimately fall short. Lets see if Frontier is still under the "minimum viable product" category.

[@BlackCenturx]

@@RajKuMaR64-y3q But is it fine now?

[@AtlasRandGaming]

Oh my God, they’re going to let us do building interiors for every single building that we build and every space station will be able to put in our own rooms and completely design them. This is going to be great! 😅 you mean that kind of excitement like people assumed spaceship interiors before Odyssey?

[@MkFilipe2]

They need to add more advanced anti-aliasing techniques, the jaggies are painful in 2024.

[@jarekstorm6331]

Resolution is the only solution currently. 4k or higher makes a huge difference.

[@p0k314COM]

15 years old engine. This is Bethesda level.

[@DARK_DEEP]

This is because game always run with some sort of FSR

[@Demmrir]

It is doable though. FFXIV is also an identically old engine also using deferred rendering and TSCMAA works wonders to fix the aliased crawl the game consistently had before the Dawntrail patch added it. It's a post process antialiasing technique (basically fancy temporally-aware FXAA) and it's open sourced by Intel in their presentations on it so Frontier could definitely add it. If they were willing.

[@meadowlarkinmontana0406]

Looks like Frontier is finally cooking with Elite Dangerous!

[@meadowlarkinmontana0406]

@RobizGaming2024 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Reklawization]

😂😂

[@cf9590]

Crazy thing is is that elite dangerous was in a 10 year development plan and now we gettin bigger updates after the 10 years has passed

[@meadowlarkinmontana0406]

@cf9590 I wonder if Braben stepping down from his CEO role back in August 2022 is a contributing factor. 🤔

[@theonefrancis696]

Too late. Dead game.

[@Gamingsincethe70s]

I got so many questions ! Can we name the facilities in our systems ? Do we collect tax on trade and facility usage in our system ? Can you attack facilities ? Could a group that control a few system eventually become it's own power in powerplay ? As the system architect, how much control do I have over local NPC ? Is there like a local faction which I control, do I control who my station view as friendly / who's blocked entry ? This has so much potential, I do hope they really let all the possibility open to the players.

[@The-Cat]

Please do keep your expectations low as we've been dissapointed by this game studio many times before

[@Kuldirongaze1]

I hope you can't name facilities, start systems, stations silly things like "Sonichu" or "Station-McStation-face". I'd prefer to keep it close to lore.

[@Gamingsincethe70s]

@Kuldirongaze1 I would love to dock at 'Porkie's house of ribs' or some stuff like that :)... Human will do human stuff.

[@Kuldirongaze1]

@Gamingsincethe70s lol. Yeah that's fine. But they had better sell ribs by the ton so I can ship it to the Thargoid front :)

[@austinh1242]

Yeah this could either be the best update ever or very underwhelming. Holding out hope that we can rename our systems/stations/bases and collect passive income from the economy

[@EveningOfficer]

This is the right direction for ED to take imo. Sure ship interiors and better FPS mechanics would be cool, but then it would just be riding SC’s coattails. ED’s massive economy simulation, player-driven story developments, and limitless exploration are what set ED apart and make it shine.

[@havoc-ado]

That's true, it would give me more reason to play both games for different things.

[@alexandsimba]

riding Star Citizen's coattails? Bro what you smoking? Star Citizen wasn't the first to do any of the gameplay mechanics they have now. This system building crap has nothing to do Elite Dangerous. We are literally going form exploring planets on our own to now having NPCS do it for us. I feel like we went from hoping FDEV would finally start listening to us with adding more planet types we can land on or ship interiors to this lazy planet coaster wannabe system colonization.

[@mhh16]

I am surprised it took them this long to implement base building and system colonization, considering there 400 billion star systems to explore in the game

[@shingshongshamalama]

I could just as easily argue this is just "copying No Man's Sky."

[@evaone4286]

I love Elite but limitless exploration is boring without variety and things to see and do.

[@in-craig-ible6160]

Wow, this is way more in-depth than I had expected. Well done, Frontier.

[@lioraja9951]

and let's be ready for the grind in a defined time frame .... this will never change

[@reiji7345]

I kinda hope we do get an option to drop some concrete foundations at some point. those cargo yards shown in the footage just look silly to me dumped down on raw dirt. Otherwise, I might actually be carefully optimistic for once about ED.

[@fistsofsnake5475]

They say during livestream that bases gonna go throu development proces. So i guess this is first phase, and finally they gonna look like bases we have in game now

[@EmptyBrewsky]

Finally feels like Elite Dangerous is starting to get back on track. Might have to reinstall and get back into the grind.

[@battlehaggis4421]

Ah man, glad to have found u again Ant.. so i got right into elite on xbox a few years back.. stopped playing when i found out frontier werent going to continue updates for consoles.. but this year i finally got my first gaming pc and came across elite on steam.. bought it without a second thought lol.. absolutely astounded by how different it is now.. hoping i can get back into it as much as i did back on xbox before odyssey came along.. ur vids back then were an absolute god send to me, so yeah gonna be back tracking on urr channel and soaking up all the info i can lol.. really glad to have found u again and really happy ur still out here dude.. hoping my elite journey restarts and continues for many moons to come 😁

[@arnauc.6986]

Sad to say this does not look like will bring me back :( As a solo player, I'm not interested, nor can't purchase, never mind maintain a Carrier. This looks like will be even be more prohibitive. COMPLETE MISSION OVERHAWL is what I'd be really interested in, personally.

[@ThegnLyriam]

Yeah playing this game solo is tough, It's more like job than a game. My hats off to you. Im solo too most of the time, Well i have not played in almost a year now though.

[@XenoZbornak]

Im quite happy as a mostly solo commander. I can make a billion in exo bio in a night if I'm lucky. Sadly, I don't have more than a night or two per week. I'm looking forward to building something that'll hopefully last until the game shuts down.

[@CameronMiller]

If you can’t maintain a single Fleet Carrier then yeah this probably isn’t for you. I’m a solo player and own 4 FCs so of course your mileage may vary.

[@arnauc.6986]

@@CameronMiller Exactly, it isn't for me :( Not willing to be grinding exploits non-stop to pay for the things the game currently offers anymore.

[@flying_boomerang]

Great news! I'm especially happy to hear the player controlled factions should get getting an overhaul. Now I want bacon.

[@tomcat3070]

let the grind begin

[@10Sambo01]

Awesome! Now we just need the Panther Clipper to haul all the cargo we'll need to build the new system facilities!!

[@_Jay_Maker_]

How much cash does it take to start this, and how much can we make from it? I imagine being the Governor of an entire system is going to lead to some pretty strapping income gains, depending on your location. My major question is: what if I don't want my systems to be involved with Powerplay? I like the idea of being a singular, High Security system under my own authority rather than one of the talking heads, as well as pulling out of Power support if I'd like to. If these systems lead to a certain level of grind automation, that would definitely be interesting.

[@kempo79]

You are NOT going to be a governor of the system - the system will be ruled by BGS minor faction. Your role will be to a) place pre-made assets onto certain positions and b) pay for them in credits, materials and labour. So it's YOU who's gonna be paing, not the other way around.

[@danilooliveira6580]

we can't even assume we will be in control of the colonized system, from what we are hearing it could be possible it's just player guided expansion, and we don't really get anything out of it.

[@Commander_Ray]

The bubble is about to get a lot bigger

[@Momo5775]

If there are enough players left to make it grow...

[@LAWLESSKING]

Have you seen how many freaking fleet carriers there are? There's plenty of people ​@@Momo5775

[@HCforLife1]

​@@Momo5775a lot of us are waiting for this to drop

[@Kev-Mulv]

@@HCforLife1 There are dozens of us! Dozens!

[@JohnMichaelson]

Tendrils extending towards all sorts of interesting sites I hope, like famous stars outside the main bubble.

[@CMDRdreamstate]

I'M COMING BACK TO THIS GAME! Totally stoked about base building!!!

[@juhamikkonen]

Thank you for another video! Great to hear and see news from Elite!

[@Tenken77]

THIS is the Elite Dangerous I've been waiting for!

[@cmdrlt.evildead5328]

Oh my I’m just so unbelievably excited about this. After all this time finally in a way we’re getting what we asked for. Keep it going Frontier 🎉

[@rurallawwildwest9679]

Anyone remember Distant Worlds 2 - Building a station at SagA? Astroid surface mining for hours?

[@crimsondragoncj5467]

This might be what brings me back to the game

[@SquidwradThomas]

I would love if they would allow us to use fleet carriers to assist other player with starting colonies. Think making the shovels for the gold diggers. We pay them and they get more use out of their fleet carrier. It would allow for giant endeavors between people getting fleet carriers and people getting colonies. Imagine the fleet carriers becoming the new space stations because all the resources start to flow to the carriers!

[@JohnMichaelson]

I hope they will be willing to let us name our bases and installations with the same kind of approval process they did for factions and what not. Starport Bacon construction underway!

[@NomenLuni1975]

This sounds very interesting. I have one concern though. Will a solo player have any chance of completing the material delivery phase in time? It's likely that any new colonies created in solo will appear in group and open play as well, and will show up on the relevant starport menu page for other players to deliver to, but in case it's not, I hope the grind won't be too excessive.

[@HCforLife1]

My concern as well. It should be doable. I mean - I hope that initial resource gathering should be doable for most players who play solo. Plenty of us there

[@NomenLuni1975]

@@HCforLife1 Here's hoping.

[@wither5673]

man if only this stuff came out like...6 years ago? Maybe it would have saved itself, but the absolute mismanagement of this game has been tragic, but I guess it's nice to see SOMEONE in that company TRYING to make cool stuff for the game. Also they keep shirking ship interiors....we have been waiting since day one, give it to us, even if they start out slow with smaller ships and work their way up....just....do it.

[@Doomed_Raven]

Just being able to build a station or planetary port to dock and refuel sounds cool. I can't play this as console development stopped, but hope they'll one day at atmospheres and ship interiors.

[@derethreborn910]

I've been asking for this since opening day. They are finally realizing player structures and crafting are the way to hold players long term.

[@DagobahResident]

If the new gameplay isn't too excessively grindy or makes the mistake of incorporating weekly upkeep again, I am totally gonna try to colonize a Neutron Star system. Basically a nice rest stop on the exploration neutron star highway 😏

[@Andromedon777]

All has to be within 10ly of bubble

[@octi118]

​@@Andromedon777 No, it has to be withing 10ly of an inhabited system, so any system already populated will do

[@Andromedon777]

@@octi118 Ah so you can chain it. News to me!

[@MrDoggo23]

This is Elite. Of course it's going to be a grindfest.

[@DontScareTheFish]

10ly sounds like a grind. Just imagine trying to build a bridge from the bubble to Colonia.

[@sonkefh]

Absolutely, we have been waiting for this freaking update for so many years. it is still the most beautiful VR space game there is.

[@nickmudd]

So, I can try playing Elite again in 2026 when they fix all the bugs for this mechanic 😂

[@rpproductions9189]

Honestly I really want them to take notes from the X games especially X4 Foundations. Base creation, freewalking through ships, stations and space, and at least a Squadron of NPC Fighters My gripe with X4 is it's level of polish, Elite doesn't have to change its identity but as a Space Sandbox this can be a step in the right direction

[@dsignyt]

Even though this is a great feature, I can't help but think about all the other great features that have been abandonned. That's the great Elite Dangerous tragedy, tons of features that have been released and instantly left to rot, not implemented into new ones.

[@HCforLife1]

Why don't you focus on the positives?

[@suburbia2050]

I am pretty sure these *free* updates (PowerPlay 2.0 & System Colonisation) are aligning the playerbase for demand for a new DLC based on access to new planet types in 2025. They have struggled to sell DLCs before so I feel this is a new strategy to boost future DLC sales.

[@Lashmer]

@@HCforLife1 Nonsense. Game's been out 10 years, and those 10 years need to be taken into consideration with future content. Being wary is the right move here.

[@MrDoggo23]

@@HCforLife1 Tell that to console players, and those who purchased Odyssey day one.

[@HCforLife1]

​@@MrDoggo23I get it. But recent elite dangerous lead team changes seem to work. We shouldn't make them accountable for something out of their control. I agree with the past mistakes. Especially abandoning the game for about a couple of years recently

[@A_Nerds_Paradise]

I have always wished for this. This is going to be amazing

[@OseanBigshot444]

10:03 - The Devs "aim to misbehave?" Genuinely sounds like an interesting addition to the game, but like everything in the past - 'it sounds good but what's the catch?' lol I hope this doesn't end up being something for the 1% of the 0.1% to spend their gorillions of credits on, while 99.9999% of the player base will never ever ever be able to grind for years on end to gain enough to even buy a Carrier lol. And let's hope there's no 'weekly colony upkeep' that if you stop playing for a couple weeks and miss a payment, hours and hours of grinding all goes POOF and disappears lol.

[@tvman2563]

System colonization is exponentially more complicated than owning a fleet carrier for instance, and we know how the grind for that went and how the community felt (feels?) about it. All I'm saying is there's most likely gonna be an insane grind. It's just the nature of Frontier, I would be pleasantly surprised if I am wrong. Still, expect it for what it is and it will be less disappointing.

[@wordedword8977]

Really hyped for this update. As a out-of-bubble explorer I would love to make my favourite sector my home. (Hope it wouldn't be claimed in some guild powerplay)

[@TheFalconerNZ]

Is this for "End Game" players that have reached maximum levels & not really for early & mid level players? I would still also like some type of Achievement Grind Storyline where you have to perform actions (modified to current player level, noobs a few missions, elite a large number) to put targets for players to follow. The original Amiga version had something like this with periodic Mega ship battles when achieving milestone but is wasn't a fleshed out story, just a "Mission" that would appear.

[@BrunoMoozika]

Looks really good, but I wonder if we'll be able to profit from the systems we create and if we'll be able to create our own player factions to control those systems, instead of it being purely individual.

[@totallylegit4092]

This is my worry. Sounds like a massive time and credit sink with no talks of any gains for doing it.

[@Scimarad]

Sounds great in theory. I'm curious to hear about cost and upkeep.

[@wickfut-racing]

I thought it'd be pretty clear that the large portion of the player base would prefer more random variety of the actual space stuff rather than the planet walk-about stuff which alienates everyone in VR. But Frontier doubles down again. Can't wait to see 100 clones of the same base near every mining spot, like we have with fleet carriers.

[@devan9189]

Looking forward to seeing how earthlike worlds are involved in colonization

[@Djmack1992]

10ly is pretty small they're gonna want to extend that or have some alternative method of getting a system claim because 100% players are going to be bumping into each other trying to get to the Guardian bubble.

[@Eaglejoc]

Wow NOW they add something I'm looking forward too

[@babaghannoush1156]

This is interesting...might be time to revisit Elite Dangerous soon.

[@MrBishop077]

I have been asking and wishing for this for years.

[@ramonyt3902]

Already saving money for an FC. Close to 2 billion. Looks like I’ll keep on grinding for base building when it’s out.

[@eliasmedia]

Super excited! Now I wish I didn't sell my VR headset and my PC. Playing on mouse and keyboard is soo different. I wish ED will continue to grow, this game has so much potential I'm definitely going try this.

[@cmdr-reflipd]

Now this makes me wanna play again, and bring some friends.

[@VOR4DORS_RAVEN]

Love that I bought this on Xbox and bought all the dlc just for it all to end up being one package and then abandoned... Love that. They really shouldn't keep selling on console if there aren't gonna be anymore updates...

[@Fia360]

It might come back now they realize Elite is the $ maker.

[@VOR4DORS_RAVEN]

@Fia360 not likely. It's just not making them the money it was several years ago. I mean the game is a decade old now...

[@Albert_O_Balsam]

5000 hours I have on Xbox, I played it from Game Preview on Xbox, was so excited for the DLC/Update when it was just simply pulled, I understand they're a business and it's all about the bottom line, but console players really did get a raw deal.

[@Fia360]

@@VOR4DORS_RAVEN we are all a decade older, yet still useful. Allot has changed, kids/new releases isn’t it atm.

[@VOR4DORS_RAVEN]

@@Albert_O_Balsam yeah I feel that hard. Maybe we'll get lucky and SC will come to console when it releases lmao. Or once Starfield is finished and modded to high hell

[@Catholicdragonslayer]

This is pretty awesome. Any chance of a video about the X4 roadmap that was just dropped?

[@noname235]

So if I understood this well? We have money, we deploy this thing, we make the new home base, and then all people can use that. It becomes like all of the rest but besides this we also have control to add more things into it? Besides this factionns will be able to work here, so all in all this is like a base that is made by the player that is all right?

[@HCforLife1]

Yup. Seems like that. On the top of that - because we will be able to choose locations placement it might be awesome to make the gameplay by this more interesting

[@Justin-ny8df]

I guess I need to go find that Earth-like planet I found years ago and prepare to make a base in that system.

[@Kevin-xw1eo]

It's nice that frontier is finally done with Thargoids and seemingly doing some actual work to keep moving the game forward again. But in my opinion they REALLY need to commit to 2-4 new ships a year.

[@baronvonschnellenstein2811]

OK FDev, *now* you've got my attention. On the info at hand so far, this _looks_ promising ... with the usual caveats based on history of new E:D features.

[@rafacurtinhascmdrrafacurti480]

OK. This caught my attention. I'm going to wait for the end of this story and, if things work out, I'm even thinking about playing again.

[@bigbangerz5856]

Ok this is interesting and a positive step forwards

[@SnowyFoxFox]

A _potential_ positive step forwards. Let's hope it's good, but we should temper our expectations, lest we be disappointed yet again. I'm expecting a colossal grind.

[@vaulthecreator]

Damn, that colonization ship looks sweeet!! Sorry, huge fan of industrial ships. Loved the Rorqual and Bowhead in Eve 😁

[@CannyValley-bi8nq]

Finally! No man's sky in our Elite! :) I'd prefer more of the 'planet crafter' tho. Looking forwards. This is the first thing since carriers (i've bought one and left it to rust) that would make me return to the game!

[@dakotah4866]

Nice my PC can barely hold this game at 15 frames but I still played every now and again I wonder what this will do to me now but I can't wait

[@mjk9388]

Haven't played Elite Dangerous in years, but I'd play it again if we could do true colonization and our story actually had an impact on the galaxy. Looking forward to the update next year.

[@krallopian]

I hope the likes John Carmack sees this system architect stuff and it's aesthetic and enjoys it! (looking at you Anachronox)

[@Ceowulf20]

I would like some more exploration stuff... Some more wonders to see.

[@TENGILL]

I am sceptical. How will defence work? Will there be NPC? How will NPC economy work, will it even work? Will you get a cut of the income? How will we control the space without the possibility to make our own factions that other players can join? Right now there is no working system for us to manage people playing together. If two players have pledged for two different factions, can one of them do anything to stop the other player from creating and taking the system for there faction? What systems are in place to keep other players from camping and destroying deliveries of resources to the construction? Will community missions to deliver good spawn in all stations in the universe or just in systems close by, what is the range for the supply missions? Will you get reputation with the faction building the base? If it is a player faction, will you be able to pledge to it, like for the other factions? That is just the first questions i got right now.

[@Highlyskeptical]

Good questions. Without player or AI cooperative/ competitive interactions, seems like another grind.

[@starfireix8207]

im starting to suspect this is only a mission type you can grab when the BGS state of the system is in Expansion (hence the name lol). I personally don't think this will be something players can establish like how typical base building is, but rather for expansion purposes. So my expectation on this content is at a 0 knowing Frontier.

[@danilooliveira6580]

yeah, what I'm hearing is that it's just going to be player guided expansion, and you won't really own anything. it's not going to be like X4 where you need to manage the economy of the stations and bases you build and use the materials they produce, you just decide where things go.

[@Solomon-ci8dk]

i hope its not just grind to get a name in the system. And u get no money from it at all. So many npc uses our carrier why dont they also bring in money.

[@maxkade9133]

This an early look into at a new feature being in development, no need to post wall of text, chill

[@MakeMyDay4815]

Frontier handling housing speculation better than the real world

[@ClintThrust-e8r]

Even if colonisation doesn’t actually do much, other than populating the system with star ports etc. it might just be enough to keep me interested.

[@oculicious]

fuck yes, this looks exactly like what i described my dream mechanics as a few years ago

[@mariotomazzoni6523]

That containers and the cranes for moving these remind me of one thing: there is no ship in the game to move those things.

[@gmahdewiesn]

This would have been nice in 2018 and till now we should have Ship interiors and atmo planets with intelligent life... just place some assets on a lifless planet....

[@jdevlin1910]

I don't want to but I agree, it looks pretty meh. Players will be excited to 'own' systems of course but the actual assets look pretty generic. May as well just let you 'buy' an already built up system.

[@Lashmer]

I've seen people responding to that with "Focus on the positives" or "You're too hard to please." The game's been out for 10 years. They could've 100% done ship interiors by now. I want to like this, but I don't trust it.

[@maxkade9133]

It's a good thing anyway.

[@Tamburello_1994]

But. You're. Still. Here.

[@gmahdewiesn]

@@Tamburello_1994 yeah, watching many videos from ant :)

[@Sludgebuster]

Interesting: I'm glad they had some "Deliver your own materials" to the build- I was afraid that it would be simply "Pay X amount and everything will get done".

[@reilynn7891]

Cool so we can place assets on lifeless rocks for an exorbitant realtime upkeep cost. I think at this point it must just be spite keeping them from adding more variety to the types of planets we can land on. The fact that they show the station being constructed orbiting a lush blue planet you can't land on was absolutely intentional, to rub it in.

[@ChristophGr]

I am sceptical, but it might just be what I need to get back into the game. Finally exploring gets more meaningfull.

[@ZaneNewham]

Frontier finally cooking! Only wish they had planets with some sort of atmosphere. And basic weather system. Who knows, maybe I'm the future!

[@SKYST0RY]

Just feels like more grinding. Ship interiors. Atmospheric planets. Aliens and wildlife on planets. Frontier still missing the mark.

[@Play_In_Traffic]

1st, don't you have to do that with any and ALL MMO's? Sounds like you've picked the wrong game genre to play if that's a problem. 2nd, you seem to be a very hard to please. I'd hate to be a romantic interest of yours.

[@netshaman9918]

And VR.

[@Andromedon777]

@Play_In_Traffic jumping to ad hominem shows how weak minded you are and uninteresting.

[@mofabet3631]

@@SKYST0RY I can't agree completely. The game really needs mechanics that allow players to influence the world and create something of their own. This gives motivation to return to the game. No matter how much complex content is added, it can be completely completed and studied, and the content created by players is something dynamic and constantly evolving. I'm not saying that I would not like to see interiors and complex ecology on planets (and not identical corals that somehow colonized 90% of the galaxy) and so on. What the developers are doing now should significantly extend the life cycle of the game.

[@Tamburello_1994]

Elite is not for the lazy-minded.

[@SigmaRho2922]

The legacy version server should be made available in offline mode

[@dbateman]

This looks really good. Elite Dangerous has an excellent framework with the galaxy map and flight model. Now this is more to actually do within that framework. Just hope it isn't too grindy. :|

[@thtdiinc6739]

This is why Frontier need to port this exclusively for next gen consoles only. This would bring alot of the console players back, including myself.

[@TakaChan569]

Watch the claim cost be 10 billion and upkeep cost 1 billion a week lol, it's a bit of an exaggeration but the grind to even start is prob gonna suck. As a solo player i know i won't have a chance in hell to do any of this, but it will be interesting to see how it pans out.

[@RomanianReaver]

STAR CITIZEN IN RADAR RANGE!!! GREAT SCOTT! DEPLOY THE FRIENDSHIP BACON!

[@dogemaester]

OK. Now THIS is interesting. Something that Frontier can actually iterate on, instead of one-off features. BUT.. only if they actually iterate on it.

[@norezplaysgames]

Bacon! Someone was hungry. 😂 Knowing FDev, they'll make it extremely expensive like they did with fleet carriers.

[@Neil-v4v]

‘Deliver resources within a set time frame’ sounds like it’s going to be a massive grind for a solo player

[@Mr_Glenn]

The road to colonia will probably be paved.

[@tvman2563]

Also the colonization in colonia itself. Makes me a little sad thinking about it, love the rural vibes it gives off right now. Bound to happen eventually though, and it makes logical sense in the lore that it would continue growing.

[@Amula90]

I really hope they will manage to make certain new content in time as well. I mean looking at the cargo stuff as a planetary building - it seems like a pointless cosmetic on the planet's surface right now. If the planetary buildings could be modified and set to a purpose which benefits a player / community - not just the "okay whatever" security level and power play - that'd be most welcome

[@Adyx2005sk]

System Colonization, Now we’re talking 🙂

[@MODFARMER]

If done right, this could bring a lot of Commanders back

[@Vorm17]

This could change the game. Come on FDev! I still have hope this game comes to more fruit. If they keep innovating on the ability to truly get player large scale org stuff happening and player controlled direction the game could grow like never before. They just need to keep building on what they have in Odyssey and this coming system.

[@pktrsho6055]

Bravo Frontier. I am now reinstalling Elite after not playing since 2019. I'm going to have to relearn everything.

[@Borgenviking]

Every time I'm making bacon now, I'm going to yell DEPLOY THE BACON when opening the package.

[@CobaltOfTerra]

Holy cow, this is HUGE.

[@natheur3260]

Are these new updates, as well as the most recent ships, available on Elite Horizons? Or do I need to play Odyssey to see these changes ? Unfortunately my laptop barely runs Odyssey :(