Stuff like this keeps bringing me back. A hyperspacing station? Got sabotaged by players right before jump? And wound up in the middle of nowhere, completely lost? And was randomly found by a deep space explorer a month later, out of 100 billion possible locations? No other game could do this.
I'm just awestruck that actual players are able to effect the game this much. Then it begs the questions: who did it? Why did they do it? Was it planned? We're they contracted by fdev to do so? Or was it just some random act that people wanted to do for the hell of it? Was it fdev themselves?
Call me a cynic, but I don't believe for a second that this was actually done by players. compared to the kind of amazing inter-player politics, galaxy shaping, and events that something like eve can kick up or the giant, open wars I've been able to start in the X series, this game feels kind of lifeless and static in a way.
Dude there was no way for players to effect this in anyway. Frontier would have to have programmed it into the game that thargoid tech would fuck with the hyperspace jump even though this was the first time a space station would have ever jumped. This was a scripted event, granted its really cool but it's scripted. Most things in this game can barely be influenced and most things happen when Frontiers puts in a new script like when they finally added Thargoids.
I haven't been to Colonia for some months, but each time I get there I just think 'what now?' and end up leaving to continue my exploration trip. I think a lot of us go there the first time expecting to see something, and basically finding not much. It's just a glorified service station convenient for the trip to Beagle.
Kelfaur I hope that the Q4 update may change that situation. That is one of the issues we face in Elite, Frontier would love for us to explore this huge galaxy but currently there's no reason. For exploration to really matter in a game there have to be things to find and at the minute in Elites galaxy there's none. From the hints we got at Lavecon, it sounded like (hopefully) they're going to fill the galaxy out more. The furthest I've been is 5000lyr for the Engineer unlock so I'm waiting for Q4 for more to do, more to see.
One of the things it has is that it's small and cozy. The Colonia bubble is only 100ly across... everything is very close, and if you spend some time there you get to know all the corners and sights (like the plateau the Bone Yard is on or the ice mountains around Concordia Hub). The Sol bubble is huge, I've spent time in a couple corners getting to know the neighbourhood (mostly during things like community goals), but then I move on... and a lot of the time, I just forget to make room for the next neighbourhood. So I only have a mental sketch of that bubble... a handful of key systems and how they relate to each other. With Colonia, that really hasn't happened... I know it wall to wall and floor to ceiling.
It would take me about 2 weeks of "effort" on the PC to do the jumps to Colonia. There would need to be some different content or different missions with different gameplay to make it worth my while. Otherwise, as you say, "so what now?"
I think they could do a lot more with the "development" of Colonia. Flying out there is neat and cool, but I'd really love to be able to actually make a difference in the development of a distant human colony.
The thing that makes Colonia really nice for explorers, in addition to the star density, is that you don't have to go very far at all to hit a lot of Unexplored systems. It's a long haul to get there, but once you do you can break your exploration down into a lot of short jaunts.
@@rulingmoss5599 I've been going for about 3 weeks sucks its fun and im gonna get alot of money from map data lol I only have a like twenty light year jump distance
@@giantnerd14 agreed hit me up on jere of you ever wanr to get togther on a weekend night and do some spacing. Also me amd a buddy i tested real life aircraft on are going to get into Dcs flight world amd get the f16 modules and learn to cold start amd get into a squadron or stary our owm.
Oh come on Obsidian Ant - not even a single word about how beaten up the station was when it arrived to its current place and how the "initial pioneers" were supplying stuff from the bubble? I'd call that important part of the lore. BTW I still don't know why people can't hire CMDRs to transfer ships. It'd be a good way to try out different ships, make decent money for newer players due to the distance to Colonia, and would open up a whole new reputation based career.
ColemanV: what would stop them from just taking it? Sure, you could implement something where they had to "pay" for the ship upon pick up but you'd never get the time back you spent on engineering. Good idea, I just see no way to implement it without HUGE risk.
It could just automatically give it back to the owner after a particular amount of time This is a video game after all, such things are easy as hell to manipulate
I know this is controversial, but I wish there was a lore-plausible fast travel between Colonia and the Bubble _after_ you make your first visit the "old-fasioned" way. Jaques 'fast-traveled' there, after all. The theory could be that you need to bring a quantum-entangled "anchor" to Colonia, and once it's there, then you can use, with Jaques' help, to make a 'super' hyperjump between Colonia and some special location in the Bubble - perhaps the location from where Jaques made his original jump. I say this because I indeed visited Colonia and thought it was a very interesting place, but I got homesick and went back to the Bubble. I'd like to visit Colonia from time-to-time in a variety of ships, but I'm not ready to make that incredibly long (as in time-commitment) trip again.
That's why you want to check the box in your galaxy map to calculate routes using Neutron Boosts. Jumping using this capability cuts the time tremendously without taking the fun of the journey completely out.
How is NMS engaging exactly. You don't need to move at all. Teleporters are everywhere, money is easy and there's only 7 planets total. You seen all 7 of them you completed the game as there's absolutely nothing else. The planets don't have orbits or rotations, every space station is exactly the same, multiplayer is at a bare bare bare minimum (4 players max). You actually do not need a ship or space travel in NMS at all, just use teleporters everywhere. Sure you can follow atlas, but trust me it's underwhelming as all it does is you get to a new galaxy which has the exact same 7 planets as the other ones
I remember my first time going to Colonia. I was in an Imperial Courier made specifically for exploration and i wanted to head to Sag A. With colonia being close to it, i stopped off there first before heading out. When I got home from that trip, I bought my Anaconda! I had to sell my Python i’ve been working up for to make this trip and it came back in dividends.
Perfect timing for me. I have spent last few months trying to get to Sag A and recently found out about Colonia. I love exploring and the sights are beautiful but just jumping from system to system gets old fast and the thought of how long it would take to get back to the bubble made me open a separate account. I had no idea Colonia was a sort of 'mini-bubble' and have decided to stay here. It offers both the enjoyment of doing missions and exploring near the core. With the new shipyards available the only thing missing is ability to get faction ships. I'll still have to keep my separate account if I want to get an Imperial Courier but other than than it's Colonia life for me!
Thank you for the update on colonia, myself and a friend have been planning a trip for a while now but never got round to it until three days ago, we are now at davs hope, shopping for resources of course, and are about to set course for colonia then on to the centre, I might even go to beagle if my friend is up for it, none of this has any real merit other than we can say we done that, we went there, we saw it, we have the t-shirts, man I love elite👍😁
@@h347h Impressive. Not one time you lingered too close to the sun too heat up too much, or was dragged through the second sun by the route plotter in a double sun system? I am so paranoid about this that I installed 4 heatsink launchers on my Krait Phantom :-)
@@timchristensen2522 I can't remember but it was well into the three digits. I was lucky that it was 4th of July weekend here in the States so I had an extra long weekend to sit back in VR and have some fun.
Starting to figure that with all the bad that’s going on in the core that an extended holiday might be on the cards. Time to grab a few engineered items and build recipes dust off the explorer and leave me thinks. Great video OA.
Leon Ettey: it's not the time...it's the cost. It around 1.5 billion per fully outfitted large ship. Around a billion for mediums. One thing you could try is wait for fd to fix the fsd boosters. I plan on gutting my combat cutter, intalling the booster and heading to Colonia. Cutter with nothing in it (amfu weighs nothing) and a fully engineered fsd has a decent range. It's significantly cheaper to ship modules.
@@exarkun4084 I do this in the Bubble too, mostly when moving a handful of combat options around for CGs or if I'm moving home. For the big 'uns with ludicrously expensive power plants especially, you save an absolute packet on transfer costs. Strip it before you ship it 💁♂️
im currently on-route to colonia myself to meet up with a good friend of mine, then together where going to see Sag *A, and from there go to Beagle point together, im really excited because ive never been that far away from the bubble
I'm planning to head to Colonia once the exploration update hits and start some exploration trips from there. I'll also grab myself and exploration anaconda by then. Sag A and Beagle point are the first locations on the list :)
I've been to colonia twice now. Can't say I really felt at home, it's just missing engineers and some variety of sorts. But it is a very nice place to be for a while!
I'm on my way to Colonia in my anaconda that has 71.3 light-year jump range. I'm parked in a station along the 2/3 mark along the colonia Highway with about 7000 light years ahead of me. I also found a really cool trinary neutron star system that had three neutron stars orbiting each other less than 15 light seconds apart from each one
Started playing a few months ago leveled up and packed my bags towards that way. Always watched videos on youtube to see amazing things on ED. Then all of a sudden I started to see "Colonia" all over the place. And what do you know, it's the place I was heading. Still on my way. Was about 14k ly away on a fleet carrier I found in a nebula, then logged off for about a month. Came back and was 8k ly away but all the way at the top of the galaxy. I completely forgot fleet carrier can move. But I'm thankful I'm that much closer. Edit: this all took place in 9 months
It was quite the journey out there with osmosium, mining in the rings beside jaques was one of the best experiences i've had in Elite, im proud to have my name on many of the surrounding stars.
I've been chilling in Colonia for a while now after my first trip to Sag A. It's a really lovely place, the new shipyards are a welcome addition though.
I'm at mammon right now. Making my way to Colonia via the colonia highway. Plus I'm using the road to riches tool along the way. After reaching Colonia I plan on visiting sag a then on to Beagle Point.
Colonia Dream has been my permanent home for well over a year. I had only been flying for a couple of months, having acquired enough credits to get a DBX and reasonably outfit it for exploring (I didn't like the way engineering worked at the time, so I didn't bother) and set course for Colonia. 3 months later I finally arrived with a healthy cache of cartographic data to sell. After about 2 more months of exploring the Colonia bubble I settled at Colonia Dream since it had one of the largest shipyards and module selection. My fleet of 6 ships is parked there. I just love the space there much better than in the Core Systems. I recently made a trip back to the Core to do some engineering on my Anaconda and pick up a Chieftain and engineered that. I just got back to Colonia Dream and had the Chieftain shipped to me (sheesh, that was expensive). I don't see myself going back to the Core for quite some time.
There needs to be a system for mass transference of ships there, like a mega ship which jumps back and forth on server ticks, either immediately or in several jumps over a few weeks. There could definitely be some good exploration gameplay based around a system which does 2 jumps to get there.
Well, I don't think we need to have mass transfers, and I'm okay with the wait time being as long as it is. I DO wish, however, the cost of transferring a given ship was more in line with the re-buy cost. Right now the cost to transfer is a lot more expensive than the ships are actually worth.
I remember the first time I went in a 22ly Conda. It was shortly after they opened the stations on the way and I was halfway there when I found out about the neutron star boosting. Needless to say the second part of the trip went much faster. Not much when I got there so I did some exploring. Lost my ship twice to falling drones while landing at planetary bases on high gravity worlds. Sure am glad they fixed THAT bug.
I found the trip a bit weary until I got to the inner scutum sector. The whole scenery changed, And unexpectantly there were many undiscovered planets and systems even in 2021 right on the way there. And I found Gandharvi as a bit of in between place where I could drop exploration data and call it a day. Turned out to be a real nice trip sofar!
I just got to Colonia, originally I was just going to stop by on the way to Sagittarius A to sell my data then go on to the center and then back to Sol. But exploring has been such a grind (and kind of lonesome) that I think I'm going to go ahead and visit Sag A then stop back by Colonia and hang out awhile before getting back undertaking the long journey home. Looks like there's plenty to see and stuff to do.
I'm actually on my way to Colonia now and plan to transfer my whole fleet of 16 A rated and engineered ships there. I'm currently in Omega Sector with the fleet to replenish credits at Omega Mining Operation. Haven't been there since our mining CG to build Explorer's Anchorage during DW2.
3rd Trip down there after hitting the center myself for the 2nd time. Planning to then head to Beagle Point (Eventually). Being full time disability I can make the trip in about 2 days give or take without neutron boosts, and just over a day with neutron route plotter. Also doesn't hurt to have a ship with almost 70 light year jump range, i,e my Anaconda rigged and engineered for jump range and exploration.
I've only been to colonia once for the enigma expedition which took almost two weeks. I did enjoy the view there but there was not much to do IN colonia but there is an amazing star system a few ly below it that has a landable planet going directly in the funnel of a white dwarf. I would recommend taking a trip JUST to see that.
I am now in Colonia for my second trip. I've been out here now for a couple months and would like to play with more people if interested. Master Xriken on Xbox Live
There is regular Carriers going to Colonia and back now and with the new highway of Stations in between it has never been easier, yet i dread doing 100 neutron star jumps in a row again.
Last time i was there was on my way to sag a* and there wasn't much out there besides jacques station. Basically a glorified rest stop for me. I may have to head back over once the q4 exploration update drops
After I finish grinding out empire rank I'll head that way. It's a good days travel (without neutron star boost) and is a good 400+450 jumps for most ships.
Recently reached colonia about a week ago, didn't see much of the fuss, more like "glad I got this out of the way" so I didn't stick around. About 5k from the centre, once I do that. I don't know, don't think I have the endurance or jump range for a trip to Beagle. I have tons of data to sell, but don't want to see it at colonia. May be time to head home after that, possibly a little break.
I thought I'd have to go to Colonia to engineer my beam lasers with Brandon, then unlocked the creepy engineer thinking great won't have to go there. Got 25 occupied escape pods and plotted him on the map, his system, Los? Was also in Colonia lol. Thought screw that, ended up then unlocking that Broo guy and getting his stupid tea. You can get escape pods near Colonia though apparently if you're gonna use the Etienne engineer up there, Luchainde I believe is the system with cargo vessels for rescue.
Please consider doing a video to bring newer people up to date... I have watched a ton of your stuff of late and then I look at the date and it's like 2015 or 2016 - I have no idea what current anything is important or going on in the game, perhaps there is not much - It's one of my biggest complaints, if it was not for your video's I would not even know there is any story other than meaningless local faction stuff which I don't really even read anymore - scan this on a planet for faction x, get the same dozen messages that even when read don't get rid of you inbox showing unread messages... so I ignore them now - the game sorely lacks putting any story in players faces, wish they would at least create side type missions that had some video characters that you can care about and and clear goals even if they did not pay much just to engage with something, the universe they built is begging for it.
If you have watched a ton of his stuff you'd know he does a series specifically to update on current Elite Events :P It's named after the current Elite year so right now the series name is 3304, last year it was called 3303, next year it'll be called 3305. It' on his channel jsut search for '3304' in his channel or look at his uploaded video and every couple of video is an elite update video
I'm on my way out there now! Of course, its probably going to take a few weeks, considering I want to tag things in undiscovered systems. See you out there in probably a few months time!
I went ages ago and was really underwhelmed. I recently visited Sag A and had the option of nipping back to Colonia to cash in exploration data. I chose the long haul back to the bubble instead. Why bother with Colonia? The only reason to go is to say ‘I went there’. I can think of no good reason to return. Maybe if there were regular trips on one of those ships that you can dock on.....maybe
In a game without portals, a taxi service would make such areas accessible to casual players. Just make it expensive as a controlling factor and limited to previously visited locations, except for special sites like Colonia. Charge a few hundred million for a ride there on a megaship, which, by their nature, should move around. it's a natural development.
Maybe Colonia can have a dedicated mega ship for ferrying players from the bubble to Colonia? It can make two trips per month, once from the bubble to Colonia and once from Colonia to the bubble. The trip is pretty long and tedious, while it was kind of exciting to get to Colonia for the first time, the journey home, is not very interesting.
I'm there right now after over a year of on and off travelling. I like the area and will probably stay awhile :) Didn't know about the neutron star field though....
Yep... it's about 1000ly down, so it sits right on top of the lower western neutron field. Which means that you can get out to things quite fast from there... those two nebula off to the side (Peng and Clover), IIRC they were about 8 jumps from Magellan in AspX. I'm going back now... the journey to Kashyapa was really quick by staying low. The next leg was to the House of Hades, a huge nebula about 1200ly down, so again, really fast travel. And most of the leg to Sacaqawea (I always like to stop there... it needs a shipyard and outfitting) is also going to be really fast because I'm staying low and only moving up at the end.
I left to the bubble in January 2018. Made it to the center on June 2018. Colonia to the Center was one Scarry trip because I didn't knew at the time that using the Nutron Star Route damage your FSD. Made it to the black hole with 70% FSD damage. Now I'm taking the regular Route. 240 jumps to Colonia with 70% FSD damage. 😒 TIP: Take repair limpits if your traveling *FAR!*
I stopped there to unload my Exploration data on my way to Sag. A and I'm glad it's there because right after I reached the center of the galaxy my hull got down to 2% flying around the black hole , I was scared to death cause I didn't want to lose my exploration data but I did make it to Jacques station and docked safely and turned in my data, boy that was a close call. But I will return to the center again now that I know what Not to do when I'm in the center of the galaxy and I'm sure after I make it back to the bubble I should finally be Elite in Exploration 😀 if only there was another station on the other side of the galaxy, that would be awesome.
So for possibly unique missions, exploration and it looks pretty? All things you can get without going to Colonia. I was hoping this video would tell me a reason to go to Colonia specifically instead of somewhere else but I don't think I got one.
Good video mate,i wonder how much jump range has your asp,mine has around 50 something ly i need to check number to make sure..is it a good jump range for long trip?hope you are well!
Hey there, thanks for stopping by and glad you like the video! :) The Asp in this video has a jump range of 30ly. Last time it was nearly Sol was over three years ago, it's never been closer than 22k Ly to an Engineer. :D My other Asp has around 50ly jump range I think...
Ditto on waiting for the exploration update. I've been there & back once and to return prior to the update feels like a bit of a waste to me. To each their own of course, but I'll also have at least 6 other ships to move out there and as you say, that's very expensive. edit: Not to mention all of the stored modules.
well only reason im heading there now is after watching the trip of spatula007 there is a good chunk of weird stuff to see, like the orcrux of neutron stars, hell planet and that green gas giant so yeah if you plan on going overthere only thing worth your wile is that i guess.
I seriously doubt players actually UA bombed Jaques Station. It was intended to get lost by Fdev. They may have just said that players did and trolls latched on and claimed they did.
Hey Ant, had a quick question about your Hotas. You’ve got a past vid that says you use a thrustmaster warthog, I was curious if this is still your setup and if it’s stood the test of time and play hours. Thanks!
Stuff like this keeps bringing me back. A hyperspacing station? Got sabotaged by players right before jump? And wound up in the middle of nowhere, completely lost? And was randomly found by a deep space explorer a month later, out of 100 billion possible locations?
No other game could do this.
I'm just awestruck that actual players are able to effect the game this much. Then it begs the questions: who did it? Why did they do it? Was it planned? We're they contracted by fdev to do so? Or was it just some random act that people wanted to do for the hell of it? Was it fdev themselves?
Call me a cynic, but I don't believe for a second that this was actually done by players. compared to the kind of amazing inter-player politics, galaxy shaping, and events that something like eve can kick up or the giant, open wars I've been able to start in the X series, this game feels kind of lifeless and static in a way.
Dude there was no way for players to effect this in anyway. Frontier would have to have programmed it into the game that thargoid tech would fuck with the hyperspace jump even though this was the first time a space station would have ever jumped. This was a scripted event, granted its really cool but it's scripted. Most things in this game can barely be influenced and most things happen when Frontiers puts in a new script like when they finally added Thargoids.
David Andrus loL omg
400 billion*
Import Note: There are now quite a few engineers in Colonia now.
I haven't been to Colonia for some months, but each time I get there I just think 'what now?' and end up leaving to continue my exploration trip. I think a lot of us go there the first time expecting to see something, and basically finding not much. It's just a glorified service station convenient for the trip to Beagle.
I guess the follow on question is 'Is there anything at beagle point?' :)
Kelfaur I hope that the Q4 update may change that situation. That is one of the issues we face in Elite, Frontier would love for us to explore this huge galaxy but currently there's no reason. For exploration to really matter in a game there have to be things to find and at the minute in Elites galaxy there's none. From the hints we got at Lavecon, it sounded like (hopefully) they're going to fill the galaxy out more. The furthest I've been is 5000lyr for the Engineer unlock so I'm waiting for Q4 for more to do, more to see.
One of the things it has is that it's small and cozy. The Colonia bubble is only 100ly across... everything is very close, and if you spend some time there you get to know all the corners and sights (like the plateau the Bone Yard is on or the ice mountains around Concordia Hub). The Sol bubble is huge, I've spent time in a couple corners getting to know the neighbourhood (mostly during things like community goals), but then I move on... and a lot of the time, I just forget to make room for the next neighbourhood. So I only have a mental sketch of that bubble... a handful of key systems and how they relate to each other. With Colonia, that really hasn't happened... I know it wall to wall and floor to ceiling.
It would take me about 2 weeks of "effort" on the PC to do the jumps to Colonia. There would need to be some different content or different missions with different gameplay to make it worth my while. Otherwise, as you say, "so what now?"
I think they could do a lot more with the "development" of Colonia. Flying out there is neat and cool, but I'd really love to be able to actually make a difference in the development of a distant human colony.
The thing that makes Colonia really nice for explorers, in addition to the star density, is that you don't have to go very far at all to hit a lot of Unexplored systems. It's a long haul to get there, but once you do you can break your exploration down into a lot of short jaunts.
It took me one day to get to colonial, made my eyes bleed with tiredness
Sheesh, one day? I've been travelling for a week and still haven't arrived, albeit I decided to take a sightseeing route.
@@rulingmoss5599 I've been going for about 3 weeks sucks its fun and im gonna get alot of money from map data lol I only have a like twenty light year jump distance
I just jump from nebula to nebula until I get there
Wouldnt it be nice if you could dock to a megaship and piggyback your way through the galaxy to colonia
Maybe for a large price thats a thought! 100mil to enter
@@MolecularMindz Worth it if you could park a few ships on it instead of just the one you are in.
@@giantnerd14 agreed hit me up on jere of you ever wanr to get togther on a weekend night and do some spacing. Also me amd a buddy i tested real life aircraft on are going to get into Dcs flight world amd get the f16 modules and learn to cold start amd get into a squadron or stary our owm.
inb4 when fleet carriers are out of beta, we'd have spaceliner corps for that too.
Wouldn't it be cool if the new Fleet Carriers could let you do this on command?
Oh come on Obsidian Ant - not even a single word about how beaten up the station was when it arrived to its current place and how the "initial pioneers" were supplying stuff from the bubble? I'd call that important part of the lore.
BTW I still don't know why people can't hire CMDRs to transfer ships. It'd be a good way to try out different ships, make decent money for newer players due to the distance to Colonia, and would open up a whole new reputation based career.
ColemanV: what would stop them from just taking it? Sure, you could implement something where they had to "pay" for the ship upon pick up but you'd never get the time back you spent on engineering. Good idea, I just see no way to implement it without HUGE risk.
It could just automatically give it back to the owner after a particular amount of time
This is a video game after all, such things are easy as hell to manipulate
how does the guy who delivered it get home?
@@chemicalBR0 In a Sidewinder /s
ColemanV lore LOLOLOLOL
I know this is controversial, but I wish there was a lore-plausible fast travel between Colonia and the Bubble _after_ you make your first visit the "old-fasioned" way. Jaques 'fast-traveled' there, after all. The theory could be that you need to bring a quantum-entangled "anchor" to Colonia, and once it's there, then you can use, with Jaques' help, to make a 'super' hyperjump between Colonia and some special location in the Bubble - perhaps the location from where Jaques made his original jump.
I say this because I indeed visited Colonia and thought it was a very interesting place, but I got homesick and went back to the Bubble. I'd like to visit Colonia from time-to-time in a variety of ships, but I'm not ready to make that incredibly long (as in time-commitment) trip again.
That's why you want to check the box in your galaxy map to calculate routes using Neutron Boosts. Jumping using this capability cuts the time tremendously without taking the fun of the journey completely out.
I just play NMS. It's engaging and I don't need a movie to watch as I'm playing.
How is NMS engaging exactly. You don't need to move at all. Teleporters are everywhere, money is easy and there's only 7 planets total. You seen all 7 of them you completed the game as there's absolutely nothing else. The planets don't have orbits or rotations, every space station is exactly the same, multiplayer is at a bare bare bare minimum (4 players max). You actually do not need a ship or space travel in NMS at all, just use teleporters everywhere. Sure you can follow atlas, but trust me it's underwhelming as all it does is you get to a new galaxy which has the exact same 7 planets as the other ones
I wish there was a megaship that jumped to and from Colonia every week.
@@Zeleharian this^ that'd be very interesting to see players flock to, and would boost colonia a lot!
I'm on my second trip to Colonia, haven't been playing regularly, so I might get there by August.
Tacticalwookiee did you make it?
I remember my first time going to Colonia. I was in an Imperial Courier made specifically for exploration and i wanted to head to Sag A. With colonia being close to it, i stopped off there first before heading out. When I got home from that trip, I bought my Anaconda! I had to sell my Python i’ve been working up for to make this trip and it came back in dividends.
Perfect timing for me. I have spent last few months trying to get to Sag A and recently found out about Colonia. I love exploring and the sights are beautiful but just jumping from system to system gets old fast and the thought of how long it would take to get back to the bubble made me open a separate account.
I had no idea Colonia was a sort of 'mini-bubble' and have decided to stay here. It offers both the enjoyment of doing missions and exploring near the core. With the new shipyards available the only thing missing is ability to get faction ships. I'll still have to keep my separate account if I want to get an Imperial Courier but other than than it's Colonia life for me!
Maybe I'll see you around Colonia! My home base is Colonia Dream, in the Ratraii system. Just look for Cmdr Scuba Dog! I'm also registered at Inara.cz
Thank you for the update on colonia, myself and a friend have been planning a trip for a while now but never got round to it until three days ago, we are now at davs hope, shopping for resources of course, and are about to set course for colonia then on to the centre, I might even go to beagle if my friend is up for it, none of this has any real merit other than we can say we done that, we went there, we saw it, we have the t-shirts, man I love elite👍😁
I was the first person to Jaques in a fully combat loaded Corvette. Still proud of that.
That I would call slightly masochistic. How many heatsinks did you have to pop on the trip?
@@henryvaneyk3769 None, I turned all my weapons off until I got there.
@@h347h Impressive. Not one time you lingered too close to the sun too heat up too much, or was dragged through the second sun by the route plotter in a double sun system? I am so paranoid about this that I installed 4 heatsink launchers on my Krait Phantom :-)
I have to ask - how many jumps was that
@@timchristensen2522 I can't remember but it was well into the three digits. I was lucky that it was 4th of July weekend here in the States so I had an extra long weekend to sit back in VR and have some fun.
Starting to figure that with all the bad that’s going on in the core that an extended holiday might be on the cards. Time to grab a few engineered items and build recipes dust off the explorer and leave me thinks. Great video OA.
With the introduction of fleet carriers I think this place may get a lot more popular!
61 hours to wait for a ship delivery jesus, im glad i watched this. I was planning to move to colonia. Quality video btw
Leon Ettey: it's not the time...it's the cost. It around 1.5 billion per fully outfitted large ship. Around a billion for mediums. One thing you could try is wait for fd to fix the fsd boosters. I plan on gutting my combat cutter, intalling the booster and heading to Colonia. Cutter with nothing in it (amfu weighs nothing) and a fully engineered fsd has a decent range. It's significantly cheaper to ship modules.
@@exarkun4084 I do this in the Bubble too, mostly when moving a handful of combat options around for CGs or if I'm moving home. For the big 'uns with ludicrously expensive power plants especially, you save an absolute packet on transfer costs. Strip it before you ship it 💁♂️
im currently on-route to colonia myself to meet up with a good friend of mine, then together where going to see Sag *A, and from there go to Beagle point together, im really excited because ive never been that far away from the bubble
How did it go?
@@goldenponcho9513 pretty good actually, returned back in the bubble like 1 week ago
I'm planning to head to Colonia once the exploration update hits and start some exploration trips from there. I'll also grab myself and exploration anaconda by then. Sag A and Beagle point are the first locations on the list :)
Thank you UA-cam, for recommending this halfway through my journey to colonia.
Have you reached colonia cmdr?
i've been playing for 5 years. Just set off for my first visit earlier today to Colonia. :)
I've been to colonia twice now. Can't say I really felt at home, it's just missing engineers and some variety of sorts. But it is a very nice place to be for a while!
I'm on my way to Colonia in my anaconda that has 71.3 light-year jump range. I'm parked in a station along the 2/3 mark along the colonia Highway with about 7000 light years ahead of me. I also found a really cool trinary neutron star system that had three neutron stars orbiting each other less than 15 light seconds apart from each one
Started my first ever expedition to Colonia yesterday and look whos just posted a video on the very topic. Thanks Obsidian!
Started playing a few months ago leveled up and packed my bags towards that way. Always watched videos on youtube to see amazing things on ED. Then all of a sudden I started to see "Colonia" all over the place. And what do you know, it's the place I was heading. Still on my way. Was about 14k ly away on a fleet carrier I found in a nebula, then logged off for about a month. Came back and was 8k ly away but all the way at the top of the galaxy. I completely forgot fleet carrier can move. But I'm thankful I'm that much closer.
Edit: this all took place in 9 months
"the corvus corax" Fellow 40k imperial
I call my cutter "Emperor's scythe", my courier "Terra's stand" and my clipper "Cadia's fall".
CADIA STANDS! THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!
I called my imperial eagle "Aquila". Both just a well-fitting name and a reference.
My corvette is Dorn's fury
@@Chapter_Master_Arthuril "CMDR, what are you doing?!"
"I am fortifying this position"
Wonderful editing and use of music to build drama when the Jacques "disappeared"! Love these types of videos.
It was quite the journey out there with osmosium, mining in the rings beside jaques was one of the best experiences i've had in Elite, im proud to have my name on many of the surrounding stars.
I've been chilling in Colonia for a while now after my first trip to Sag A. It's a really lovely place, the new shipyards are a welcome addition though.
I'm at mammon right now. Making my way to Colonia via the colonia highway. Plus I'm using the road to riches tool along the way. After reaching Colonia I plan on visiting sag a then on to Beagle Point.
OA, thank you for this vid. Your vids are one of the reasons I got into Elite two years ago. Love your content and delivery. Great job!
Colonia Dream has been my permanent home for well over a year. I had only been flying for a couple of months, having acquired enough credits to get a DBX and reasonably outfit it for exploring (I didn't like the way engineering worked at the time, so I didn't bother) and set course for Colonia. 3 months later I finally arrived with a healthy cache of cartographic data to sell. After about 2 more months of exploring the Colonia bubble I settled at Colonia Dream since it had one of the largest shipyards and module selection. My fleet of 6 ships is parked there. I just love the space there much better than in the Core Systems. I recently made a trip back to the Core to do some engineering on my Anaconda and pick up a Chieftain and engineered that. I just got back to Colonia Dream and had the Chieftain shipped to me (sheesh, that was expensive). I don't see myself going back to the Core for quite some time.
I’m about to embark on a massive expedition with my friend from sol to Colonia. Then Colonia to sagataerus a*, then to beagle point.
There needs to be a system for mass transference of ships there, like a mega ship which jumps back and forth on server ticks, either immediately or in several jumps over a few weeks. There could definitely be some good exploration gameplay based around a system which does 2 jumps to get there.
Well, I don't think we need to have mass transfers, and I'm okay with the wait time being as long as it is. I DO wish, however, the cost of transferring a given ship was more in line with the re-buy cost. Right now the cost to transfer is a lot more expensive than the ships are actually worth.
I remember the first time I went in a 22ly Conda. It was shortly after they opened the stations on the way and I was halfway there when I found out about the neutron star boosting. Needless to say the second part of the trip went much faster. Not much when I got there so I did some exploring. Lost my ship twice to falling drones while landing at planetary bases on high gravity worlds. Sure am glad they fixed THAT bug.
I found the trip a bit weary until I got to the inner scutum sector. The whole scenery changed, And unexpectantly there were many undiscovered planets and systems even in 2021 right on the way there. And I found Gandharvi as a bit of in between place where I could drop exploration data and call it a day. Turned out to be a real nice trip sofar!
I just got to Colonia, originally I was just going to stop by on the way to Sagittarius A to sell my data then go on to the center and then back to Sol. But exploring has been such a grind (and kind of lonesome) that I think I'm going to go ahead and visit Sag A then stop back by Colonia and hang out awhile before getting back undertaking the long journey home. Looks like there's plenty to see and stuff to do.
bro youre voice is so entertaining to listen too thanks for all you do
I'm actually on my way to Colonia now and plan to transfer my whole fleet of 16 A rated and engineered ships there. I'm currently in Omega Sector with the fleet to replenish credits at Omega Mining Operation. Haven't been there since our mining CG to build Explorer's Anchorage during DW2.
3rd Trip down there after hitting the center myself for the 2nd time. Planning to then head to Beagle Point (Eventually). Being full time disability I can make the trip in about 2 days give or take without neutron boosts, and just over a day with neutron route plotter. Also doesn't hurt to have a ship with almost 70 light year jump range, i,e my Anaconda rigged and engineered for jump range and exploration.
My ship is still parked out at Colonia, got Burt out doing the hauling CGs. May pop in again to check out the new stuff.
I've only been to colonia once for the enigma expedition which took almost two weeks. I did enjoy the view there but there was not much to do IN colonia but there is an amazing star system a few ly below it that has a landable planet going directly in the funnel of a white dwarf. I would recommend taking a trip JUST to see that.
yo as an oddessy player i need to see that shit where is it
Started playing this game 3 months ago. On my first trip to Colonia in an FSD engineered Asp X.
It's cool you made a video on Colonia because I'm taking a trip out there after the new update drops
I am now in Colonia for my second trip. I've been out here now for a couple months and would like to play with more people if interested. Master Xriken on Xbox Live
There is regular Carriers going to Colonia and back now and with the new highway of Stations in between it has never been easier, yet i dread doing 100 neutron star jumps in a row again.
Always planned to head out there. I’ve only ever gone a couple thousand ly out of the bubble but it may be time for me to get out there
The Corvus Corax in midnight black just like the Primarch. Nice!
Started the trip out there a week ago. Got another 14,000ly to go
souldry
lol, yea that reminds me of my trip to the core. With the amount of playtime I have, it took me 3 months.
Twig
Ouch
Good luck on your voyage, cmdr o7
Twig
Thanks. And good travels to you out there o7
well done, a great video of my home in the colonia nebular
A visit? I live here!
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong......
Last time i was there was on my way to sag a* and there wasn't much out there besides jacques station. Basically a glorified rest stop for me. I may have to head back over once the q4 exploration update drops
After I finish grinding out empire rank I'll head that way. It's a good days travel (without neutron star boost) and is a good 400+450 jumps for most ships.
Corvus Corax? A black ship named Corvus Corax? Well played man, well played.
I have traveled to Colonia when it was my secondary goal accomplished. My first goal was getting the Corvette. So 2 goals done.
Recently reached colonia about a week ago, didn't see much of the fuss, more like "glad I got this out of the way" so I didn't stick around. About 5k from the centre, once I do that. I don't know, don't think I have the endurance or jump range for a trip to Beagle. I have tons of data to sell, but don't want to see it at colonia. May be time to head home after that, possibly a little break.
I thought I'd have to go to Colonia to engineer my beam lasers with Brandon, then unlocked the creepy engineer thinking great won't have to go there. Got 25 occupied escape pods and plotted him on the map, his system, Los? Was also in Colonia lol. Thought screw that, ended up then unlocking that Broo guy and getting his stupid tea. You can get escape pods near Colonia though apparently if you're gonna use the Etienne engineer up there, Luchainde I believe is the system with cargo vessels for rescue.
Please consider doing a video to bring newer people up to date... I have watched a ton of your stuff of late and then I look at the date and it's like 2015 or 2016 - I have no idea what current anything is important or going on in the game, perhaps there is not much - It's one of my biggest complaints, if it was not for your video's I would not even know there is any story other than meaningless local faction stuff which I don't really even read anymore - scan this on a planet for faction x, get the same dozen messages that even when read don't get rid of you inbox showing unread messages... so I ignore them now - the game sorely lacks putting any story in players faces, wish they would at least create side type missions that had some video characters that you can care about and and clear goals even if they did not pay much just to engage with something, the universe they built is begging for it.
If you have watched a ton of his stuff you'd know he does a series specifically to update on current Elite Events :P It's named after the current Elite year so right now the series name is 3304, last year it was called 3303, next year it'll be called 3305. It' on his channel jsut search for '3304' in his channel or look at his uploaded video and every couple of video is an elite update video
I'm on my way out there now! Of course, its probably going to take a few weeks, considering I want to tag things in undiscovered systems. See you out there in probably a few months time!
I have been there a few weeks ago. If you go there, dont forget to visit "the world of death"!
Gvnnarivs totalGeil
I’m halfway to colonia now. What’s world of death?
I went ages ago and was really underwhelmed. I recently visited Sag A and had the option of nipping back to Colonia to cash in exploration data. I chose the long haul back to the bubble instead. Why bother with Colonia? The only reason to go is to say ‘I went there’. I can think of no good reason to return. Maybe if there were regular trips on one of those ships that you can dock on.....maybe
you know that asp being named for the 19th primarch is hilarious. I came across a carrier named for lorgar last night.
In a game without portals, a taxi service would make such areas accessible to casual players. Just make it expensive as a controlling factor and limited to previously visited locations, except for special sites like Colonia. Charge a few hundred million for a ride there on a megaship, which, by their nature, should move around. it's a natural development.
Ngl no matter how crazy something is I just take it in and say “oh, yeah cool” *next*
Maybe Colonia can have a dedicated mega ship for ferrying players from the bubble to Colonia? It can make two trips per month, once from the bubble to Colonia and once from Colonia to the bubble.
The trip is pretty long and tedious, while it was kind of exciting to get to Colonia for the first time, the journey home, is not very interesting.
Hey Obsidianant! May I ask what kind of sweetfx program you're using to make elite look this good?
Thanks O7
I use EDFX. :)
ObsidianAnt Thank you! Cheers :)
Omw out there right now to do some exploring. It will be my second time and plan to stay for awhile
I'm there right now after over a year of on and off travelling. I like the area and will probably stay awhile :) Didn't know about the neutron star field though....
Yep... it's about 1000ly down, so it sits right on top of the lower western neutron field. Which means that you can get out to things quite fast from there... those two nebula off to the side (Peng and Clover), IIRC they were about 8 jumps from Magellan in AspX.
I'm going back now... the journey to Kashyapa was really quick by staying low. The next leg was to the House of Hades, a huge nebula about 1200ly down, so again, really fast travel. And most of the leg to Sacaqawea (I always like to stop there... it needs a shipyard and outfitting) is also going to be really fast because I'm staying low and only moving up at the end.
That's good information to know! I now know where I'm headed next :)
I love colonia, nicest area of space you can visit
I left to the bubble in January 2018. Made it to the center on June 2018.
Colonia to the Center was one Scarry trip because I didn't knew at the time that using the Nutron Star Route damage your FSD. Made it to the black hole with 70% FSD damage. Now I'm taking the regular Route. 240 jumps to Colonia with 70% FSD damage. 😒
TIP: Take repair limpits if your traveling *FAR!*
All you need if AFM. It's a module that repairs other modules. Its fuel is easy to synthesize.
Really, if keeping your FSD healthy is your main concern, just pack an AFMU.
Obsidian Ant... I found your station in the Pliades. Did lol also.
I stopped there to unload my Exploration data on my way to Sag. A and I'm glad it's there because right after I reached the center of the galaxy my hull got down to 2% flying around the black hole , I was scared to death cause I didn't want to lose my exploration data but I did make it to Jacques station and docked safely and turned in my data, boy that was a close call. But I will return to the center again now that I know what Not to do when I'm in the center of the galaxy and I'm sure after I make it back to the bubble I should finally be Elite in Exploration 😀 if only there was another station on the other side of the galaxy, that would be awesome.
Nice work sir. Do you have a video on how best to get out there?
Here I am 2 years later, 2k hours in, finally on my way to Colonia
ooh oh don't forget the Planetary Nebula that houses an ELW about 7-800LY out from Colonia :P
(with another ringed ELW just a couple LY away)
I discovered another ELW about a 1000 ly away from Colonia. I was surprised no one had scanned it before.
Xombiticus yeah that still happens too, within 200ly even
So for possibly unique missions, exploration and it looks pretty? All things you can get without going to Colonia. I was hoping this video would tell me a reason to go to Colonia specifically instead of somewhere else but I don't think I got one.
Just got horizon for PS4 so I'll be taking my dimond back out to Colonia
Just left Colonia a week ago, it's worth to visit
One interesting thing is that you will still be directed to Colonia if you type its original name, EOL PROU RS-T D3-94
Robardin Rock also shown in the video also already had a shipyard.
Good video mate,i wonder how much jump range has your asp,mine has around 50 something ly i need to check number to make sure..is it a good jump range for long trip?hope you are well!
Hey there, thanks for stopping by and glad you like the video! :) The Asp in this video has a jump range of 30ly. Last time it was nearly Sol was over three years ago, it's never been closer than 22k Ly to an Engineer. :D
My other Asp has around 50ly jump range I think...
I will check today mate when i can and see how much i am at
How long will it take to get there with a ship with a 50 light year jump range
The Corvus Corax? Noice reference there
2:20 damn so players ALSO impacted its destination? That’s cool! Was this ACTUALLY random or did the devs make it land there?
Hey! Isn't Corvus Corax one of the primarcs from Warhammer 40K?
I like combat/light exploration with cmdrs and npc's. Is there anything for me there? Are all the missions mining or haul related?
Ditto on waiting for the exploration update. I've been there & back once and to return prior to the update feels like a bit of a waste to me. To each their own of course, but I'll also have at least 6 other ships to move out there and as you say, that's very expensive. edit: Not to mention all of the stored modules.
Im planning on taking my DBX (HOTV-Winter) to colonia.
Was a lot of fun to participate in that event. I'm still there. Not gonna make that trip back.
Colonia looks like a really cool place to visit or move to :D
well only reason im heading there now is after watching the trip of spatula007 there is a good chunk of weird stuff to see, like the orcrux of neutron stars, hell planet and that green gas giant so yeah if you plan on going overthere only thing worth your wile is that i guess.
Why did you blur out the ship types in the xfer screen near the end?? Would have been a good reference point.
I bought my Krait out in Colonia, cost 50 mil and 3 days to transport back to my home system.
Music in this video was amazing!!!!
Thanks for letting me know not to waste my time with this😁
5:26, can I ask why he covered up his ship types? I understand the location, but why the types?
I seriously doubt players actually UA bombed Jaques Station. It was intended to get lost by Fdev. They may have just said that players did and trolls latched on and claimed they did.
This inspired me to travel to colonia.
You make it yet?
Yeah, I went there a year ago. Journey takes about four hours on the neutron highway and it's worth it because the view is really nice from there.
Hey Ant, had a quick question about your Hotas. You’ve got a past vid that says you use a thrustmaster warthog, I was curious if this is still your setup and if it’s stood the test of time and play hours. Thanks!
Yes I still use the Thrustmaster Warthog. It's a great HOTAS and is still as good as new. :)
ObsidianAnt awesome and thanks for the reply. Do you use peddles with that?
Great video as always.
I'm still waiting for at least rank 1 engineers in Colonia, Special effects I miss thee so.
maddognl: if you're not already there just ship your modules when you arrive. You read like you're already there, though.