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Last post for today, I'd like online colonies to be always active, if possible in the future. Possibly only for premium users, allowing a colony to work in the background while a user isn't around, then updates on his end when he logs in or whatever.

That way he must set up stuff to keep his colony from collapsing while he's gone, and such.

Well, this is good and bad. It would be nice to be able to just set the game down and generate resources for a while and come back to a monstrous amount of it. However, later in the game you cannot gain all resources on a single map (unless you are LIS) but you still have buildings that use those resources you cannot use. If you leave the game running offline you run the risk of running out of those resources you can only import. Atmosphere is also a problem, this is because after you max out the categories of atmosphere (15 million) it is your job to maintain a healthy atmosphere level. When you are generating and consuming tens of thousands of atmosphere at any given time its almost impossible to find a balance where your atmosphere doesn't really move. So either you would leave your game off, generating unhealthy amounts of atmosphere causing your colonists to get sick and die, or you consume all of your atmosphere leaving you with no atmosphere to convert to water causing your colonists to die. No thank you I'm fine with the colony stopping everything when I go offline. Also my base seems to create problems where there are none and just randomly start rioting and killing each other even though I have all the necessary parts to a successful base. 750k population just bugs the game out I guess o.o

At best, make offline production optional and to use at their own risk. But that's a lot of unnecessary work for not a widely used feature.