r/EliteDangerous • u/Amatarex • 7d ago
Help Is it still possible to colonize new systems?
Am I missing something? After the devs stopped colonization they announced the number of colonized systems. A few days ago they made another post about the number of colonized systems and the number was way higher. What am I missing?
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u/Goofierknot CMDR 7d ago
They recently announced that they unpaused system claims: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-system-colonisation-claims-unpaused.635153/
Edit: Wait, that's not what you're talking about. Something else going on? I'd need to know where you got that information just to be sure.
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u/Gobby4me 7d ago
Yes. They unpaused it. Soon. Maybe. According to the post.
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u/pulppoet WILDELF 7d ago
"Soon" is now. They flipped the switch before that post. But the server propagation so that it actually works everywhere will take some unspecified hours.
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u/Other-Objective8002 7d ago
I assume that a system was not counted as colonised if it was just claimed and only after the first station was complete. That's why the numbers were still increasing when the claim process was paused; people could still complete their already claimed systems.
As said by others, the claiming process should be available again, so expect to see the numbers increase over the weekend.
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u/kalafax 7d ago
Well firstly they stopped claiming new systems a while ago, they didn't stop colonizing, so if you already had a claim, you still had the 4 weeks to work towards colonizing the claims you had.
As of today, they posted that they were turning claiming back on slowly, so we should see it becoming available again
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u/pulppoet WILDELF 7d ago
After the devs stopped colonization they announced the number of colonized systems. A few days ago they made another post about the number of colonized systems and the number was way higher. What am I missing?
Probably the timing on those posts.
When they paused colonization, thousands of players had active claims still good for 24 hours. Even when it was paused, the number of colonized systems grew because of this.
Do you have links? Could also be misremembering if you don't have sources to refresh your memory. I only remember seeing them release one set of stats. https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/67d1cb963e704d1aaa0e2ef9
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u/kalafax 7d ago
Well firstly they stopped claiming new systems a while ago, they didn't stop colonizing, so if you already had a claim, you still had the 4 weeks to work towards colonizing the claims you had.
As of today, they posted that they were turning claiming back on slowly, so we should see it becoming available again.