Stepping out of Character: No Opportunity For Play.
07 Oct 2016NickTheGrey
There's a lot going on in Real Life Land these days. Sadly, it's enough to keep me from my voyage back to Jaques Station and will continue to be for at least another three weeks or so. It's a plus in some ways since it should mean that Patch 2.2 has dropped by the time I am able to play again. The planned refuel stations between Colonia and the Bubble may even be in place by then.I'm curious to see just how much of a role these outposts will have. If indeed they are Outposts and not Stations, anything larger than a Python will not be able to make use of them. Presumably their location will be made freely available knowledge - they wouldn't be much use as refueling stations if you had to waste fuel looking for them...
Of course, being able to dock at them will provide "save points" for the 22KLY trip. At last check there are five of these outposts to be built. Assuming they are placed equidistantly between Colonia and the Bubble, that's one station every 4400LY. It'll be interesting to see if these Outposts will have Universal Cartographics functionality, though I suspect that might not be the case. We'll have to wait and see.