Can't get settlement on the planet i want it to be on.

[Blazing Dragon]

I found a planet that i like, i got a settlement chart

and now i tried for over 1 hour to get a settlement to spawn on my planet of choice.

try, fail, reload
10x, 20x, 50x, 100x....

it either fails completely and does nothing or it spawns on another planet.
never on the planet i want it to spawn on.

[jlrmarin]

Originally posted by Rohn Jambo:

I found a planet that i like, i got a settlement chart

and now i tried for over 1 hour to get a settlement to spawn on my planet of choice.

try, fail, reload
10x, 20x, 50x, 100x....

it either fails completely and does nothing or it spawns on another planet.
never on the planet i want it to spawn on.

I got this to work via trial and error.

So, one thing first: I don't know how to create settlements in uninhabited systems. I'm going to assume you're in an inhabited system, otherwise my advice won't help. And yes, I tried - my main base is on an astonishingly beautiful Paradise planet in an uninhabited system.

Now that we've discarded that, you should know that depending on the planet you're standing on (or the space station), it's going to make another roll at a planet. These are set, as far as I can tell. So depending on the size of the system, you have as many chances as there are planets. The same planet can roll 2-3 times, FYI, from different spots. It's just random as far as I can tell.

If you don't get the planet you want, then what do you do? What I did is that I went to another system, got a settlement, made contact. Then I went back to the system I wanted, and I got new "rolls" for the planet by searching for the settlement there again.

They've been patching expeditions like mad and I think this was basically on the 2nd day of the release (may have been 3rd?). So if it's changed, or I got it wrong or it doesn't work, let me know. I'd like to know exactly how it works, too!

[Blazing Dragon]

My experience so far:

i stood in the same place for like 50 tries.
hard to tell from distance but the settlements that were found/spawned always went to the same 2 or 3 positions.

then i moved around the planet a little, tried from a different place.
another 40 or 50 tries.
now i fails completely (does nothing at all) most of the time and the few times it finds a settlement it always goes to the same planet (not the one i want it to be on).

moved around again. pretty much to the other side of the planet.
another 50 tries.
now it goes on another planet. from what i can tell from the distance always the exact same spot.

drives me crazy.

guess i give up for today and try again tomorrow.

[Blazing Dragon]

Well then... new day, new try.
I think today, i will just get a bunch of settlement charts and whenever one spawns, i just fly there and decline it.... maybe if all other planets in the system are covered with declined settlements.... yeah, just maybe.. the game will then finally spawn one on the planet i want.

[japp_02]

The system AND the planet has to be habitable, and still the map will only lead you to the nearest settlement, otherwise the map will yield nothing - or at best it will point you to another planet. You can repeat it 1k time if you want, that won't change anything, change hemisphere or move to another suitable planet. In past versions the map was bugged and consumed if you didn't find anything, you had to reload the game, but this is fixed by now, however you are not guaranteed to get a settlement on any suitable planet.
I think the routine for the maps is the same like for signal boosters.

As a side note:
For what I saw, it doesn't really matter where you take over a settlement, the buildings won't change as for the planet type, they change with the races. Also the sentinel alert on a planet doesn't matter for the settlement, only the 'sentinel alert counter' in the overview reaching 100 will trigger a sentinel attack, you should be safe inside the settlement, even aggressive sentinels stay at large unless you messed with them before going in.

[Blazing Dragon]

" In past versions the map was bugged and consumed if you didn't find anything, you had to reload the game, but this is fixed by now"

NOPE. Definitely not fixed. about 50% of the time the map gets cosumed and nothing happens.

I have 5 planets and 1 moon in my system of choice.
There is 2 planets where i would be okay with my settlement to be on. (Yes, both habitable)

There got to be something that i can do to get my settlement on one of the 2 planets.
One is a "Paradise Planet" and the other one is a "temperate planet".

[japp_02]

Well, I said 'it is fixed' , I meant it 'should' be fixed by now, obviously it isn't . Sorry for that.

[der_jenso]

Originally posted by Rohn Jambo:

I found a planet that i like, i got a settlement chart

and now i tried for over 1 hour to get a settlement to spawn on my planet of choice.

try, fail, reload
10x, 20x, 50x, 100x....

it either fails completely and does nothing or it spawns on another planet.
never on the planet i want it to spawn on.

I got that problem solved by getting a second map (better said I got 2 in inventory) ...split the stack 1:1 in the inventory (:1:1:1... if you have more) ...save ...check out which map gives you primarily settlement locations on the planet you are located ...reload ...search your settlement on your planet :)

...as said, I did it with 2 maps ...one of them showed in 80% a location on my planet ...the other map mainly on other planets in the system ...hope it works for you as well ...gl

[Blazing Dragon]

i have plenty of navigation data... it is worth a try.

[Blazing Dragon]

Paradise? Temperate? Green? Water?
Who wants such nonsense?

Look, we have this planet here.
Nice and cuddly 75°C on a cold day, 380°C during storms...
No freaking plants that threaten to overgrow the colony.
Agressive sentinels that scare off unwanted guests.
Let's put the settlement on this hellhole.. erm.. i mean holiday resort!