Well sure, of course it's going to be hard. Thargoid battles were already that in their areas of space. They can still be difficult for most players, myself included. I simply don't have the funding to dump into good AX. I can still participate.
You miss the point about stacked cards. I wasn't complaining about any level of difficulty and sheer numbers of "us v them", I was complaining about the unnecessary meddling that's completely and utterly dumb, just as the other commanders have pointed out in this thread that 100% negates the work being done in game.
Which by the way - FDev have now clearly just made this work. Not something fun. It's like praising RNG in a game. It's not true RNG - it cannot be RNG when you have an outside influence affecting the outcome. Just like this war - it cannot be, because of the outside influence that has nothing to do with war - it has to do with playing God in the universe with no recourse.
I think there’s a vast difference between a battle being hard (which does imply winnable but challenging) and the cards being stacked against us in a major interstellar war against a much more powerful civilisation.
On the stacked cards front, I hope it didn’t come across as me saying that you personally were being ridiculous. It was really just a generic statement about the nature of the conflict that we’re supposed to be in at the moment.
I understand your point about unnecessary meddling generically, but I don’t see where FD have actually meddled here. They’ve set up a simulation of the war, part of that got interpreted to be in a different way to how it had actually been set up and all FD have done is clarified it. That’s not meddling. Arguably meddling is actually what people are asking FD to do.
I really don’t get the accusation about them playing god in this context. Again, it’s arguably exactly what people are asking them to do.
But that comes back to my point about whether it’s actually a good simulation of the cards being stacked against us or not. If the simulation of it is actually good, then people are asking FD to meddle and play god, whereas if the point is that the cards being stacked against us just isn’t being well simulated, then in that case people are just asking for the simulation of it to be improved, which is perfectly legitimate.
