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We are winning, the tide has turned HIP 23716
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mmmm Beersalted crisps and beer
theres no need to be Bitter
My whole point is that realism sacrifices are made to implement a concept into to a game, so realism comparisons become pointless, regardless of what argument they support. The game mechanics certainly dictated a week 1 loss for the system, and now a fraction of that effort could see a week 2 win.
That's sad, but they can't please everyone.
This is some of the best narrative I have seen in over 5 years of playing this game, 'win' or 'lose' it doesn't matter to me, it is different, it is dynamic, and it provides me with some play I'd not normally be bothered with, even if I go off and do something else for a while (not being one to do the same thing day after day) it will still be going on for a long time.
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What do the randomly capitalized letters mean? I’ve seen that before a few times and have never understood.
It's one of the big problems [1] of simulating a large-scale war in a computer game that I was very curious pre-U14 how Frontier could possibly handle it (I was really surprised that U14 did!), given how the smaller scale skirmishes had gone.
Players like winning. In a game like Elite Dangerous people can avoid any particular activity. So any individual player fight is going to be successful; players will win nearly every battle they're involved in, regardless of the tactical difficulty, because people who would lose the battles will self-select out of starting them.
If the war is about fighting back against an established invasion, where the game starts at the lowest point, that's fine - there's a huge amount of places to fight, they can't all be won at once. But the starting position is "the bubble is not overwhelmed by Thargoids". So how do you get to a point where that might be a reasonable possibility when at no point do the players visibly lose. Just translating the tactical results faithfully to the strategic layer always ends up in a week 1 total defeat for the Thargoids (or month 1, anyway) - and they might as well just have had Salvation's plan work in that case and then got on with the also interesting alternate history "humanity is in the debt of a very dubious scientist and corporation, and now he wants to collect" via normal CGs without having to implement all this new stuff.
Making things massively parallel and impossible to fight back against fast enough (even if on a local level a few systems are saved, and on an even more local level some refugees are evacuated or some critical supplies brought in) is absolutely essential in the early stages of the war to get to the point where the later stages of the war can happen at all.
"Onslaught", "unbalanced", etc. are almost certainly exactly what's being aimed for at this stage.
[1] Which are all essentially sub-problems of "War is not even slightly fun" + "Elite Dangerous is supposed to be fun".
Sarcastic voice.
Basically, it means the thargoids are the equivalent of the Dothraki in game of thrones. You see tens of thousands wiped out, and then in the next scene they have all respawned.I'm pretty sure that in real life wars if you manage to kill a significant number of troops of the invading force in the battle you lose, that might make the next battle at least somewhat easier.
While I'm asking (hopefully) logical questions. Galnet said basically, now the enemy has more maelstroms they have had to thin their forces out".. ummm. That maybe have been true if only 2 of them carried "their forces" If so, what the rest of them for? Carrying off commanders white goods such as washing machines or dishwashers stolen from ruined stations?
Cloth purifiers and biowaste accumulation appliances.
Dodgy shift key?
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Fair point, the maelstrom could be a mobile insurance depot offering cut rate rebuys for all we know.
Wakata is still operational, there is fuel, repairs and ammo. No internal heat although there is a lot of damage to the station itself. There is an active anti-gank force present and of course a whole lot of evacuation, combat and supply ships. All in all a very lively place. Expect a lot of Thargoid radio interference (aka Buggy as hell)
Edit: Not much traffic management and many (quite understandably) boost out the slot so watch out!
Edit: Not much traffic management and many (quite understandably) boost out the slot so watch out!
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Yep we have seen from past CGs that you cannot rely on Inara's figures as only a small % of the player base actually upload anything.
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