Hi,

Reading Lumeris affinty, I had this idea:

If you find a system with two colonizable planets, you can buy one outpost, wait 4-5 turns and buy another one. Then you wait until the first outpost is only one turn to convert into colony, while second outpost is about 4-5 turns, and sell the socond outpost to a faction. Next turn you first outpost will go into colony, gaining all planets in system, and effectively recovering your second outpost (that you gained some dust for selling).

Not sure if this is feasible and how Amplitude dealed with it. What I'll do to avoid this is make Lumeris sell all outposts in a system as one, regardless the time to turn into colony (of course more than one outpost in a system makes price higher).

If you did it this way or solved any other way, please tell.

I think this exploit is not possible. Even if you have multiple colonizable worlds in a system, the first outpost creation locks the other colonizable world. For example, if there are 3 planets named A B and C, and you can colonize A and B, you will buy your first planet, let say A. Then B will be locked, you will not be able to buy it. So in this order it will not work.

but I don't know if you can do the opposite. You buy A to turn it in an outpost, then you sell A (for a profit) and in the same turn you immediately buy B to be in competition with the player who now possess A. But it will not be an exploit, you will be in direct competition, as if the other player had tried to colonize it in the same turn as you.

Not sure about that. Not enough info from what we have seen till now.

Anyway I hope this is avoided someway.

I think what might be possible is to sell an outpost to a faction and then immediately establish a competing outpost in the same system. I don't really consider that an exploit since you still have to compete to grow it into a colony. I think that fits very well with the Lumeris playstyle honestly.