How do i extend my borders?

[sleepy]

I can't build this mining station in the middle of no where cause apparently i am not within my borders. How can i increase them?

[Sohei]

Build colonies or outposts and research tech to expand a bit more from them.

[sleepy]

How do i colonize planets? It says i don't have desert colonization... And i don't see any research options for it?

[Felicity]

Originally posted by Lucid Dreamer ◥◤:

How do i colonize planets? It says i don't have desert colonization... And i don't see any research options for it?

The research for desert colonization will pop up randomly, so you'll have to grab it when it appears, which may not be for a while.

[Gandroid]

Originally posted by Lucid Dreamer ◥◤:

How do i colonize planets? It says i don't have desert colonization... And i don't see any research options for it?

You need to do additional research to colonize planets that aren't the same biome as your homeworld. You build frontier outposts around the star, but they cost a lot of influence and require 1 influence in maintnance. I usually use them to grab up territory until I can colonize the area.

[Sohei]

You can only colonize planets of the same type as your home world at the start of the game. eventually you will get tech options for other types but your people of your native race won't be as happy living there.

[Lyle]

Build an Outpost around the Star.

[deadsanta]

You will also get tech choices that can extend your borders by 5,10, 20% They appear randomly.

[Xcorps]

Your borders grow volumetricaly with pop.

[Dray Prescot]

I think that I have noticed one problem with the border extending techs: as far as I can tell, it looks like they extend only the borders you have when you get the tech, they do not extend the reach of any future borders from Frontier Outpsts that you build in the future, their starting range appears to be unimproved from what you got at the start of the game.

[JaxTheReaper]

I'm not 100% sure about this but I believe the size of your borders is based on the population of your Empire. So growing Pops on your planets will increase your border size.

There are other ways you can increase your border size too. Research is one way. Some techs increase your borders by 5, 10, and 20 percent. Colonizing new systems is another. And building Frontier Outposts is yet another way.

In order to colonize a planet that is a different type from your starting homeworld, you will need to complete the neccessary research. It is random when the research will appear. In my experience, Desert Colonization doesn't pop up for a while. You'd be better off building a Frontier Outpost in the system.

A Frontier Outpost costs a lot of influence initially, but after that it costs 1 influence per month to maintain. Here's a tip about something I learned while playing yesterday. If you take a system with a Frontier Outpost in it that is costing you Influence every month that you need, you can add that system to a Sector and it will no longer cost you Influence to maintain.

I hope this advice helps you out. :)

[Xcorps]

Originally posted by Dray Prescot:

I think that I have noticed one problem with the border extending techs: as far as I can tell, it looks like they extend only the borders you have when you get the tech, they do not extend the reach of any future borders from Frontier Outpsts that you build in the future, their starting range appears to be unimproved from what you got at the start of the game.

Yep. It increases the max range of the borders. Since it's a volumetric growth and your home planet already has a larger sphere of influence at game start when you get the research done it increases the home planets border which spill out to worlds that are still growing.

[Alpha]

My empire has gaps in it from one part to another. I must be doing something wrong because all of the alien races have a big block all connected and mine is all patchy. I'm growing the populations and using outposts and colonising every possible planet but still patchy.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=684711113

[JaxTheReaper]

Originally posted by Paradox:

My empire has gaps in it from one part to another. I must be doing something wrong because all of the alien races have a big block all connected and mine is all patchy. I'm growing the populations and using outposts and colonising every possible planet but still patchy.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=684711113

Your borders aren't going to extend between your systems just because you have a colony or frontier base there. The border only extends out from systems for a certain distance. Grow your colonies pops and your borders will grow. If you want all those systems to have connecting borders, you'll have to build frontier bases in between them to connect them.

[artosking]

OK, so i had the same problem since the begining. I've made a colony - there was a gap / i've made an outpost, there was a gap. I've even researched 3 technologys to expand borders, there was a gap.... I was looking at the AI colonies, where a small star had a boarder extended waaay far from it, and then i discovered one thing, that has changed everything! SECTORS! You HAVE to build Sectors! This is the only way to expand

[Commander AFK]

I know this thread is old... I am a noob and so is my friend and we started a multi game.

I had a custom race and I could expand mining based pretty much anywhere I wanted. He was some IX' something slug and he could not drop mining bases outside of his initial system - including frontier base.

Was that a bug or was that because he did not build another farm? I noticed that my extra farm was no good because my pop was not large enough or something. So, I did not think that was it.

On another note, if he is trying to learn are the "human type" civilization the easiest to start with?

Also, is it possible to tell the ships to auto-survey all systems? It was pretty macro heavy to click on a system, tell it to survey, hear it was done, and then point it to the next to survey.

Thanks guys!