[SOLVED]A little help with a faraway colony

[frumple]

Thank you to everyone who offered a helping hand. The colony has been established.


I could use a little help because this colony is some 370Ly from Sol, i haven't got a carrier, and the nearest mine is 170Ly away in the Pleiades, and nearest large mine is 213Ly away in the bubble (HIP 22524).

One 784t round trip takes me 30 minutes. I've done about half of the initial colony (Military Outpost), and plan to build mining settlements, refinery hubs and a planetray port.
Any help with the initial colony or subsequent mine construction would be welcome.

You're under no obligation to help because it's a PITA to deliver to here but if you're interested in pushing colonization in this direction, it would help to get this mine going.
Dropping one load would be enough!

Destination: Synuefe DT-O d7-54

Required:
steel ~6000t
titanium 5505t

[TheARate]

Wow, you weren't kidding! I looked on Inara and sure enough, the nearest refinery stations are a while away. I'd simply leave you to it, but I do have a proposition for you...

If you work a bit for me, you'll be able to buy your own carrier in short order. It's the carrier in Lu Bese, conveniently orbiting a body with a refinery port. I pay something like 70,000 per ton, forgot how high I set it.

[frumple]

Originally posted by TheARate:

Wow, you weren't kidding! I looked on Inara and sure enough, the nearest refinery stations are a while away. I'd simply leave you to it, but I do have a proposition for you...

If you work a bit for me, you'll be able to buy your own carrier in short order. It's the carrier in Lu Bese, conveniently orbiting a body with a refinery port. I pay something like 70,000 per ton, forgot how high I set it.

I apreciate the idea but i should have stated i don't want a carrier.

I'd be willing to help but this is taking up all of my game time right now.

[TheARate]

A'ight. Best of luck!

[funkynutz]

Soon as I've finished unloading my carrier (I've got roughly 6000T left to deliver, about 8 trips in my cutter... ), I need to go get some more steel and titanium anyway; I'm short a few bits:
2261 steel
720 titanium
778 water
Plus 65 units of other random bits which I'll probably just do in a Cobra/Asp/T8 tomorrow...

My factions home system, has plenty of metal commodities (supply of copper/steel/titanium is measured in 100s of 1000s).

I'll load up a few extra thousand tons for you

[Devilish Dave]

I've jumped to you as I said I would, but halfway there I actually fell asleep with my 20ly ship. 😕

I don't know how much time I'll have today, but tomorrow perhaps I'll see if I can get there.

Should have just jumped with my exploration ship and summoned my hauler near you...... 🙄


We learn from mistakes.

[Merkenjian]

I have a carrier jumping to your system in a bit. Has most of what you need. Just be aware when you buy stuff it doesn't always appear in your cargo bay, sometimes you need to leave the market, and click back in for it to work. If you hear "cargo bay at maximum capacity" it worked. I'll be leaving as soon as it's offloaded, and as I have no way of knowing if you're on board or not unless you're looking for a trip to a random spot in the bubble, don't log out while docked on the carrier.

[Best]

I can help when the servers are actually working

[Merkenjian]

That was terrifyingly comical. I was short a half load of titanium (too much junk on my carrier) and figured I may as well pick it up local. Used Inara, set course, but had that odd feeling you get when you forget something important. The system I was flying to was in the Pleiades, and I felt sure I knew the name from somewhere. Thankfully some helpful thargoids reminded me. So, they're not all bad.
Anyway the initial platform is finished.

[Buggy Boy]

I would help but I'm out exploring on the other side of the bubble right now, maybe another time.

[frumple]

Thank you all so much.

Fever has been kicking me down most of the day. I really appreciate the rally.

Originally posted by Merkenjian:

That was terrifyingly comical. I was short a half load of titanium (too much junk on my carrier) and figured I may as well pick it up local. Used Inara, set course, but had that odd feeling you get when you forget something important. The system I was flying to was in the Pleiades, and I felt sure I knew the name from somewhere. Thankfully some helpful thargoids reminded me. So, they're not all bad.
Anyway the initial platform is finished.

I got hyperdicted on two subsequent jumps. I would bet money that's impossible but it happened.

Originally posted by Devilish Dave:

I've jumped to you as I said I would, but halfway there I actually fell asleep with my 20ly ship. 😕

I don't know how much time I'll have today, but tomorrow perhaps I'll see if I can get there.

Should have just jumped with my exploration ship and summoned my hauler near you...... 🙄


We learn from mistakes.

It's hard to actually find a shipyard that far out. There is only one Coriolis i know of and it's not exactly close by.

When i started the colony i wondered if it would even be possible to build it. Esp. using a Type 9.
I had to abuse a construction site landing pad halfway through in order to refuel.
In the end, T9 is faster than a T8 because of it's much larger capacity, and because both have similar jumpranges when fully loaded.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Merkenjian:

Anyway the initial platform is finished.

Nice going

I was just about to start loading my carrier back up lol. Almost finished mine now.

[frumple]

Thanks again for all the help. It really made a massive difference.

The first mine is nearly finished, only 295t of Steel to go, and the refinery Hub is close to completion too. More mines will be added once the construction points pour in.

I'm also adding sats and comms stations, and later a Government installation to help control the security and standard of living issues.

A compromised Nav beacon is like a broken window on the house, and a rusty car on the lawn.
Very inviting.

[Buggy Boy]

Originally posted by frumple:

Thanks again for all the help. It really made a massive difference.

The first mine is nearly finished, only 295t of Steel to go, and the refinery Hub is close to completion too. More mines will be added once the construction points pour in.

Put a shout out if you need another helping hand, otherwise I'll be 30 jumps away on the Western side of the bubble exploring.

[frumple]

A month and a half later, the planetary port has been completed.

Since the link-based changes were introduced, even the orbital Military Outpost offered a broad mix of minerals, metals, refined products and some military goods. Now with a planetary port, there's a large landing pad available.
I'd have done it sooner but i was sick at first, then distracted by fighting in Dhan and a Coriolis colony i claimed somewhere else. And yes, those Coriolises suck hard.

Big thanks again to Merkenjian who finished the initial colony.
I'm dissapointed however that the p. port currently isn't offering any CMM. That was the most important comodity i wanted because the nearest one is still 213ly way in civilized space, or 160ly away in the Pleiades where hyperdictions are a regular and annoying occurance.
Maybe adding another Refinery HUB will help. Right now the port is linked to two extraction settlements and one hub, so the extraction economy dominates.
No Alu either, which is kinda bizzare for a fairly large market on a rich planet.

Planet is a high-G world so watch your step if you pay a visit.


Just by the way, i've done the last few deliveries in a Type 8, landing from the orbital and taking off again.
It's really nice when the orbital is almost on top of your construction site so all you have to do is enter SC and descend to a glide.

Also the only time a T8 beat the T9 in tonnes per hour! The T9 needed 15 minutes to make a 5 jump trip delivering 768t. The T8 could finally beat that and deliver 2x 400t in less than 15 minutes.

Again, thanks for the help. Maybe some day there will be CMM in Synuefe/Hyades ^^

[Sighman]

A refinery hub should fix it - my planetary port in HIP 19972 has CMMs and the three major metals too.