When can I disband a frontier outpost?

[Bill Garthright]

I'm playing my first game. I built a frontier outpost, because there weren't any good planets to settle, to extend my range, and because there were some resource-rich systems in that direction.

That worked, but I'll want to get rid of it someday, whenever I can. But how do I tell what my empire influence radius would be WITHOUT the outpost?

I finally settled a colony past the frontier outpost on a fairly crappy planet (fbut the best I could find). As my colony has grown, my empire territory merged with that coming from the outpost. No problem, so far.

But I can no longer tell how much of my territory is from the outpost and how much from my settled planets. My territory is facing a lot of pressure from an enemy empire nearby, so it's not a neat circle. Is there any way to tell the results of disbanding the outpost before I do it?

If not, I'll just save the game and try it. But it's going to be a pain to keep doing that, if there's some other method I'm missing here. Is there?

[Jimmy McGill]

Disbanding Frontier Outposts always reduces your borders even if they have outgrown them, there is no way to tell where exatly your borders will shrink but it sounds like you will want to keep the outpost up for now.

[Haildodger]

If you have a colonized planet in the same system as your outpost, then get rid of your outpost. Once colonized, your planet exhibits it's own sphere of infulence. As for bridging a gap, I wouldn't sweat it. Planets offer up a good source of resources, and you can always research to expand your influence.

The only reason I ever hang on to outposts, is because losing it would divide a sector, or to make sure no one else colonizes planets in a system before I do.

[LAG]

switch out frontier outposts with colonies when you can. Remember that you can use other species or genetic manipulation to get a broader array of habitable planets.

dumbed down: capture planets with artic species to make artic colony ships to colonize artic planets.

Frontier outpost sphere of influence is fixed while colonial grow with time.

i'd adive you to just save and try. The borders tend to just cover the planets needed from my experience.

[Bill Garthright]

OK, thanks. This frontier outpost bridges a BIG gap between my settled planets, and there are no colonizable planets anywhere even close to it. So I'd better keep it, for now.

PS. I'm finding almost no planets to settle, despite exploring all over the place. My neighbor, though - fanatic religious nuts who hate everything I stand for - have colonized five planets in one tiny area. They seem to be able to colonize every solar system they come across. Quite a difference!

Anyway, thanks again for the info.

[Darkaiser]

Originally posted by Bill Garthright:

OK, thanks. This frontier outpost bridges a BIG gap between my settled planets, and there are no colonizable planets anywhere even close to it. So I'd better keep it, for now.

PS. I'm finding almost no planets to settle, despite exploring all over the place. My neighbor, though - fanatic religious nuts who hate everything I stand for - have colonized five planets in one tiny area. They seem to be able to colonize every solar system they come across. Quite a difference!

Anyway, thanks again for the info.

The RNG hates you. It always hates you. Never let anyone tell you different. AIs cheat, even when they don't...

[LAG]

Originally posted by Bill Garthright:

OK, thanks. This frontier outpost bridges a BIG gap between my settled planets, and there are no colonizable planets anywhere even close to it. So I'd better keep it, for now.

PS. I'm finding almost no planets to settle, despite exploring all over the place. My neighbor, though - fanatic religious nuts who hate everything I stand for - have colonized five planets in one tiny area. They seem to be able to colonize every solar system they come across. Quite a difference!

Anyway, thanks again for the info.

are you not finding any habitable planets or are you just not finding any habitable planets suited to you?

Because you can "steal" a pop from another faction with another specialization either through conquest or warfare.

having a bunch of different races with different natural biomes means tons of colony possibilities.