Exode has just entered the testing phase for Colonisation, which is the main chunk of the game, after the faster paced but shorter evacuation phase.
Colonisation involves scanning your planet, landing successfully and then deploying your officers, crew and passengers along with your resources to build a colony.
It's still early days, but here's what the test run looking like so far - NB I already have my planet NFT for having tested out scanning a few weeks back, here's my planet from that:
Scans reveal the features on one's planet such as its suitability for habitation - Ice or desert or better, Ice in my case, but I guess if you've got a space ship and bunkers the surface temperatures don't matter too much.
Scans also reveal the resources you have on yer planet, such as plants, wildlife and minerals - I think I've done quite well with my raw materials, so this could be quite a valuable mining set up for me:
When it comes to landing there are two layers of Zoom you go through - first of all the broad region, i selected the obvious one....
And then you have to select the specific area within that region. For now it's just selection with no real info about the risks of each, but I guess that will come in a future release!
Landing...
Then it's just down to your dice rolls to determine how successful your landing is.
Although as with Evacuation where I seem to be able to just about escape by the skin of my teeth, despite having an OPd deck with a Killbot, Elite Aymumi and Hacker, the same is true with Tyron piloting the Black Lotus....
Either I'm very unlucky, this planet really is difficult to land on, or the Dice need adjusting to make it easier, not sure which!
Colonisation Teaser....
After landing we currently just have this teaser - the 'Build' page - and here you can flit between your planetary map, on site and storage, so this is clearly the colony management page, in it's very early phase:
Final Thoughts...
It's been a long time coming but Exode colonisation is finally getting there.... with any luck we'll be playing by early 2022!
If you haven't yet tried out Exode, why not give it a go, and if you want to do me a favour, you can use my referral link: - Exode - if you do so I'll send you a card as a thank you!
@exodegame is the main game account.
Reading this post, I think I am not made for the outer space😅
I noticed you in Dcrops. You playing all the games or just trying out a few?
I usually play games that feels interesting to me. A lot of people said that rising star is quite interesting and profitable game.
But that much music is not my thing.
I find dCrops interesting. Farming.😅
Hey I've noticed you around too, I don't play all the games - gave Rising Star a miss because it takes quite a lot of active management.
Exode is a throwback for me to Elite, I loved that game when I was younger, and I love buildy games and @elindos is a super nice guy, the main developer - the ethos is to make sure anyone can have a decent game experience even with just the minimum initial buy in of $15.
Dcrops - GUTTED I missed the presale i would have bought in then, but I like the look of it - a nice slow burner with some basic maths to figure out!
It's a cute one, nice and slow paced and low stress!
Happy farming, to the both of us!
Cool. Happy farming❄️