Elite Dangerous | Colonisation My Star System - Biggest Mistakes | What I built and why

Here is my first system complete. The most important lesson learnt, is to invest the time to get the best system, then select your built sites carefully, as it's a lot of work and this is a complicated process. third (hopefully final) part to my colonisation guide, here I present my thought process in where and what to build. Use the information for the April2025 update wisely, it told us significant info on how colonisation works: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-trailblazers-update-3-wednesday-april-30.636973/ Make sure you know what your end goal is before committing too many resources to construction. The economy of your colony can be over-ridden by the type of planet/feature as follows. Black holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarves = HighTech, Tourism Brown Dwarves and all other star types = Military Earth like worlds = Agriculture, Hightech, Military, Tourism Water world = Agriculture, Tourism, Ammonia world = HighTech, Tourism Gas giant = HighTech, Industrial High metal content and metal rich world = Extraction Rocky ice = Industrial, Refinery Rocky = Refinery Icy = Industrial Has rings (includes stars with asteroid belts) = Extraction Has organics = Agriculture, Terraforming Has geologicals = Extraction, Industrial Plan your builds, two at a time will work, maybe more, but I plan based on my carrier capacity, so will go for one large settlement with one Orbital Installation, which will use and replenish one tier2 construction points. You can build a large structure like a Tier 2 Coriolis or a Tier 3 Orbis, but be sure you are ready for it, its vastly more work than the other structures, so going from the Outposts 30 cutter runs (17 cutter loads with my two build strategy), to Coriolis 69 cutters right up to 267 cutter loads of the Orbis. Construction Points Schematic by CMDR Charybdis https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/1j15dsm/colonization_construction_dependencies/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Buildings Spreadsheet by DaftMav https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/1j17478/ive_made_a_spreadsheet_with_details_on_the/?share_id=kcHjC5UtLchCvU27GjK81&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1 Star System finder https://edcolonise.net/ Colonisation Part1: https://youtu.be/oJH62yMM-7g After making 10 builds to get the discount then your tier3 stations double in tier3 points: Orbis going from 6 to 12. And Coriolis goes from 3 to 5 tier2, there is a further doubling later on too. The most valuable planets are those with multiple settlements, be sure to put your orbital star port in orbit around one of these planets, as the orbital starport will build a strong link to sell resources made by the planet in which it orbits. 0:00 Intro 0:20 Summary 1:07 An Example 3:07 Settlements 6:30 And Finaly Elite Dangerous #elite #elitedangerous #space