Monday, Frontier will presumably be back at work...
Let it burn and give us base building, like that they have an excellent opportunity to crash the economy, make us all poor as door mice, and rebalance the economy when we start to rebuild in small bubble clusters out in the black. We'd probably need new jump technology though, so that we can jump large distances for BGS war activities.. 
They could rebalance the economy like they did with Exobiology (just even more extreme).Let it burn and give us base building, like that they have an excellent opportunity to crash the economy, make us all poor as door mice, and rebalance the economy when we start to rebuild in small bubble clusters out in the black. We'd probably need new jump technology though, so that we can jump large distances for BGS war activities..
Everything now earns you about 1000x as much credits, everything now costs about 2000x as much credits. All those billions players have accumulated over the past have become rather meaningless.
I wouldn't mind my billions becoming worthless, but maybe with a bit more finesse than what happened to the exo-biology rankings.
It's definitely something which would have a major timing component to it: if someone currently has 10 billion credits, and after the rebalance they're only worth 10 million credits, that's cut their assets considerably. If they spend those 10 billion credits on buying ~50 8A Prismatics, then after the rebalance, they can sell those and still have huge amounts of money.I wouldn't mind my billions becoming worthless, but maybe with a bit more finesse than what happened to the exo-biology rankings.
From my point of view as someone who already has their main ship how they like it and a good range of "once a year" backup ships for special occasions, credits are going to be pretty irrelevant no matter how they're balanced.
I suppose, I was planning to stock up on ships and modules in case it looks like we have to do a battlestar galactica (unless we need to pay the big bucks for colonialization kits).
I suppose it would be OK if existing commanders keep their ships, modules, suits, weapons, etc, but I'd welcome a more balanced game play for trading, especially for my new alt. Knowing some tricks it only took me a day or two to get into a T-9 and little more to have access to Kraits, Mambas, etc... IMO back when I started it was harder to earn credits which made it feel like you achieved more once you could afford to buy middle sized ships with A rated modules.
I suppose it would be OK if existing commanders keep their ships, modules, suits, weapons, etc, but I'd welcome a more balanced game play for trading, especially for my new alt. Knowing some tricks it only took me a day or two to get into a T-9 and little more to have access to Kraits, Mambas, etc... IMO back when I started it was harder to earn credits which made it feel like you achieved more once you could afford to buy middle sized ships with A rated modules.
Ozric
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Mostly with no population
If what they said on the stream about it being an AI that they've just put the rules into and let loose, then I don't think they can change it's behaviour.
I'm assuming there's a backdoor into it, to shut it down though...
I don't know how we can stop them taking over systems with no population, unless it's looking for NHSS and killing Thargoids in ones and twos? (which would also be a combat only option)
Sure, but there are plenty of static rules it could follow which would mean that the current inhabited/uninhabited balance is not constant over time.
With great difficulty, yes - though it appears that a mid-sized squadron could probably retake some of them fairly easily, instead. Of course, at the cost of them not supporting somewhere "more important".
Ozric
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OK cheers.
There's actually currently 33 systems in Alert and Invasion. As three of the Alert systems have no population, there's a very high chance that the community will save all 14 that finish next week.
DCoH Overwatch - Thargoid Overwatch - Defense Council of Humanity
DCoH Overwatch tracks the progress of humanity's war against the Thargoids in Elite Dangerous.
Something bad needs to happen
If there's genuinely only 10 Alerts - as opposed to Overwatch just not having a full list of them (especially in uninhabited systems) this early in the cycle - that's very bizarre in its own right, since there were over 50 last week and over 80 the week before!
Ozric
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Yeah I've not been in game to check yet, will have to wait till after work. There could well be more, I was expecting more tbh.
About 75 Alerts, and 16 of those in inhabited systems, so it's certainly not going to be possible to hold all those back.
Let the Goids destroy the entire bubble and shut down the BGS completely.
ohh great
has this this now a doom thread ?A global clean save might work...
Those uninhabited systems might be resources for the Thargoids. We just don't know.
It's an interesting question, isn't it.
If they were busy establishing a bubble of Thargoid Controlled uninhabited systems elsewhere - say, 3000LY away in Slegi where one of the Stargoids originated - we'd probably not be too concerned about it.
When they're doing it interleaved with the inhabited systems in the bubble that they're attacking - and spending far more time on that than they do on the inhabited systems - it feels more likely that it has a purpose that we do need to worry about. (Not that, given the numbers involved, we can necessarily do much about it)