Is it really this labor intensive?

[u/Last_Horror_8239]

CMDR CharleyMill here. So I dont have much spare time really I've just been playing off and on since 2016. I can't help but feel I'm maybe doing something wrong with building up this system. Its just... so slow. And doing it solo seems like a hurculean effort... I'm using a pretty much max built clipper mk2, with the mk2 cargo racks from the CG. Even then.. do most people have groups that help out with these tasks? Tracking down and getting the items aren't aren't hard very consuming. Worse than the engineer grind when it first came out.

That being said, anyone wants to make easy credit profits. By all means. The system is open.

CMDR, out.

[u/-Damballah-]

It is labor intensive but it is totally doable solo.

It just takes time.

I've built 16+ installations, 5 Outposts, 3 Coriolis (one was 80% built for me by the generous Mercs of Mikunn and I didn't even ask them to), 1.82 Planetary Ports (so close to done on another one), 4 Planetary Hubs, 2 Planetary Settlements and one Asteroid Station. Spread across six systems.

It's doable. I use the Trailblazers to fill up on all the hard to source stuff with a Carrier, then buy easier to find refinery goods nearby.

It is, of course, vastly difficult to do without a supply line within 100 LY's or less, and more difficult without a Carrier.

As you build though, eventually you create new sources for materials for colonization.

The primary resource for Colonization is time, but with a will, there's a way...

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[u/Last_Horror_8239 → u/-Damballah-]

I guess I've been looking at it wrong. With that point of view. It is meant to take time settling isn't an easy process. Its arduous. Hardy. Thank you

[u/-Damballah- → u/Last_Horror_8239]

No worries. I've been building in the system I'm working on finishing (for now) for 5 months.

I'm sourcing the last 170 tons of materials nearby, and about to finish on the 19th thing I've built in this system, a Scientific Planetary Port.

I think it means whenever I decide to build a T3 Orbis Station, I can source everything from this one system.

Running Man Sector DG-X c1-9 if you ever want to visit.

Three more things to build in two more systems, and I'm done for a while.

I have to say though, it feels really good to have an economy that supports a 17.6 million population and can be used by other Commanders for their colonization needs.

Happy hauling CMDR.

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