Does the distance of a new colony from an existing colony have any impact, short or long term?
As a follow up, do any established gameplay strategies benefit from clustered / distant colonies?
Are there any advantages to colonizing planets that are close to each other
stellaris
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Best Answer
There are no direct effects from colony placement. A colony on the other end of the galaxy will produce the same as one next to your capital.
The main problems from distant colonies are logistical and military:
You have to pay more influence to claim a system far away from your territory than a close one. Accordingly expanding to the far system, requires a lot of influence spent on the system along the way.
You either have a far away exclave or a long winded territory, when you go for far colonies, which makes your empire harder to defend.
Your far colony may be cut off by a non friendly race, thus making military support impossible.
I'm not aware of any strategies which benefit from clustered/distant colonies. Unless you play an adaptable race or set your game with an abundant amount of habitable worlds, the early game mostly consists of colonize whatever you can, due to habitable worlds being quite rare.