ATR is https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Advanced_Tactical_Response
They are super NPCs that spawn when players reach a certain level of murders per system / area (in space) using reverb lasers that destroy shields.
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They are super NPCs that spawn when players reach a certain level of murders per system / area (in space) using reverb lasers that destroy shields.
I just count to "Cool radio chatter announcing a lockdown"
Advanced Tactical Response. The cops that arrive once you've killed the cops. They have unique weapons that directly damage your shield generator instantly, and other weapons that players can't obtain. They can be destroyed, but it's very difficult. Basically the GTA 5-Star response (or 6-Star, depending on which GTA
)EDIT: Here's a clip of them dropping in... you can tell the pilot needs to get out of dodge fast.
After this point any shot on target will spawn them instantly as wellI just count to "Cool radio chatter announcing a lockdown"
That seems unlikely - both in the general sense, that it's really quite tricky to have a lot of wars on any individual faction in a short time because the wars themselves last quite a while, and in the specific sense that there's only been one recently in this system for the affected faction, and the IF itself didn't start for several days after that. (Other than Outbreak, none of these states have any pending time - they start immediately their conditions, whatever those are, get met)
In terms of what I've observed in general:
"Generally positive actions" => Pirate Attack or Public Holiday (higher levels of bounty hunting seem to give PH, higher trade gives PA, but it's not a definite rule)
"Biowaste transport missions / losing a war / occasionally even winning a war" => "Outbreak"
"Generally negative actions" => Terrorism, Drought, Blight, Infrastructure Failure (exactly which you get seems very difficult to predict in advance and two factions in this system have ended up in different ones; it may be to do with the type of NPC vessels destroyed but good luck testing or controlling that)
"?????!" => Natural Disaster (it appears in the same sort of circumstances as the others - i.e. it requires a fair level of player traffic to set off - but much more rarely. It may be that its causes overlap with those of many of the other states, and those tend to trigger first)
"Contagion from Infrastructure Failure" => more Infrastructure Failure
"Contagion from Natural Disaster" => Drought or Infrastructure Failure
The causes of Outbreak and Pirate Attack, and the contagion effects, have been partly released in official Frontier documentation/videos. Everything else is guesswork.
I'm not so sure about that, but even if it were to happen, would it really be a catastrophe? It would be different if the top 25% were to get something that the lower tiers don't get, but rather obviously that's not the case here. (And I doubt anybody needs those credits that badly. That amount of credits can be quite quickly gained from almost anything.)
I always thought they were more RNG based, and a response to how settled the BGS can get by introducing 'bad' things.
If no one can tell how things happen, it might as well be random. (Or easy to write off as such.) It probably suits Frontier over giving further windows into the BGS magic box. I’ve questioned in the past when I saw terrorist attack states pop up in systems that I wasn’t seeing any (obvious) negative action in, certainly.
… given how far into the red the lockdown bar is I don’t expect it to clear up by tomorrow. And if there is another CG extension - though perhaps six(?) days was enough - I’d suspect it to be for Thursday. Since, seemingly, the intention here was for it to end before the update dropped.
It's possible, but it's still based on player activity as a requisite (afaik). That is, a system left idle won't have any of the so-called "random" states occur. It's entirely plausible that a state may literally just be triggered by "every time a player enters the system, X% chance of that state occurring" for sure, but that's still a player-dependent action.
Yeah this one.
The fact that systems with no activity don't experience these states is the only thing with certainty I've seen put out there (citation required)
But beyond that, there's little to no evidence of what actually causes them. You'd think something like "Natural Disaster" would be entirely random, but maybe it's a natural disaster, triggered by rampant industrial development (industrial cargo deliveries).... or it's still just random when a player does anything in that system.
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Yes - and that can also be an "unsettling" mechanism for the BGS. A system with nothing happening doesn't get the Investment+Civil Liberty pinning that at least the early 3.3 balancing tended to generate, so it doesn't need event states to tip that up by putting in massive downward economy or security pressures (and later rebalances of the sliders themselves have been rather more effective at breaking up that pinning - though not at generating negative positions - than the event states were anyway).
The distinction between "actually random" and "essentially random because you can't control for the actions of ten thousand other players" is pretty small, but it would be odd for Pirate Attack and Outbreak to have published (and seemingly accurate!) causes, but the others to be entirely random.
The distinction between "actually random" and "essentially random because you can't control for the actions of ten thousand other players" is pretty small, but it would be odd for Pirate Attack and Outbreak to have published (and seemingly accurate!) causes, but the others to be entirely random.
Not a catastrophe at all ... but you know how it is, once you get an idea in your head you can fight for it way beyond all reasonable debate over the actual practical value of it!
They stopped counting people who only signed up to CGs but didn’t contribute anything about as many years ago as they added the ability to sign up at any station with a mission board.
True, myself I was extremely worried that I had left things too late when it took me a week to arrive and hand stuff in.
Never doubted it was players causing it, it is a BGS change and only players cause them just doubtful if those players saw or interacted with any others in any significant way.Quote from Frontier themselves:
A rogue group of Commanders have driven Brewer Logistics in HIP 90578 into lockdown, in an attempt to sabotage the latest initiative!
Commanders are called on to bounty hunt within the system to break the lockdown and allow the initiative to coninue!
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