COMPLETED CG Join Aisling Duval's Call To Arms (Combat)

[Flossy]

I'm confused.

I've been at the Onyx Bastion megaship in Santy fighting for Aisling against Archer. Previous couple of days, I went through 2 'wars' earning 11 million towards the goal.

Today I did another. But this time, I earned nothing towards the goal. Why?

There seems to be a problem as all three CGs have been affected - showing flat line on Inara. Will flag up.

Should now be fixed and no contributions lost

 

[Surprize960]

lol...

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

now that's just factually wrong. Aisling isn't a muppet, that's just Federal propaganda. Any well educated Alliance citizen knows smurfs hail from Belgium, not some back alley street.

Cleans glasses oh... puppet, not muppet. Well, my point still stands. Smurfs don't have strangers' hands up their derriere.

 

[DjVortex]

Relevant: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/i-have-just-witnessed-a-heinous-crime.631734/

 

[Gwynfor]

Moin,
did they just lowered the goals? ;-)

Ciao,
Andreas

 

[Landyluvver]

Moin,
did they just lowered the goals? ;-)

Ciao,
Andreas

Moin,
Yes, it seems so according to Inara...

 

[forbiddenlake]

Yes, by a lot. Unusual!

 

[Flossy]

Stats for weapon rewards now in first post.

Not much progress was being made so probably the reason for lowering the goals.

 

[CMDR Magitek Angel]

Seems Gondul flipping to contested has made merit farming a lot more profitable for anybody doing their CZs here; I'm getting something like 10K of them for a complete engagement.

 

[forbiddenlake]

Sure. if you're pledged to ALD, AD, or ZT.

 

[GJ51]

There seems to be a problem as all three CGs have been affected - showing flat line on Inara. Will flag up.

Should now be fixed and no contributions lost

Not for me - just got back to Stronghold Carrier Maityan

Turned in combat bonds - no contributions registered

Re-logged

Still nothing

EDIT: I think I see the problem. All my kills were against Yuri Grom

Really - followed instructions and went to conflict combat zone and killed everyone not involved

Great instruction FD

 

[Gwynfor]

went to conflict combat zone

There is a power missing:

Pilots may contribute to this initiative by first signing up and then destroying Aisling Duval aligned vessels at Power Conflict Zones.

Power conflict zones may be found at the front lines of Li Yong-Rui's attack:

 

[forbiddenlake]

In a LYR vs AD vs JA fight.. why did you find and shoot YG?

 

[GJ51]

I didn't realize that not all Power conflict zones in Santy weren't applicable to the CG

I just went to the first one and wasn't paying attention to which power I was killing

My mistake

 

[Sublime]

I’m trying to better understand the mechanics behind power play. I’m pledged to the Emperor and so I’m fighting on Aisling’s side in the CG because she’s part of the empire and there are external forces attacking imperial territory.

Last week I was not getting any PP merits for destroying Li Yong-Rui ships in Gondul but this week I am. I’m aware that Gondul has changed states so what is it about the state change that is making me earn PP merits for destroying Li Yong-Rui ships?

It seems that Gondul is a contested system and Arissa is in second place. Is the system now contested and being taken over by Arissa and is that what’s causing me to earn merits for destroying ships from other powers?

 

[CMDR Magitek Angel]

As best as I understand, yes, because ALD now has a foothold in Gondul, you're getting the merits for popping ships of other factions.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Last week I was not getting any PP merits for destroying Li Yong-Rui ships in Gondul but this week I am. I’m aware that Gondul has changed states so what is it about the state change that is making me earn PP merits for destroying Li Yong-Rui ships?

It seems that Gondul is a contested system and Arissa is in second place. Is the system now contested and being taken over by Arissa and is that what’s causing me to earn merits for destroying ships from other powers?

That's correct.

Last week, the system was a Control system for Duval, so as an ALD supporter you were Undermining it. When Undermining, only kills of the controlling Power count (so you would have got merits if you'd picked the LYR side and attacked Duval) - you don't get merits for attacking other forces also trying to Undermine the system.

	Duval pledges	LYR pledges	All others
Fighting for Duval	Reinforcement Merits	No merits	No merits
Fighting for LYR	No merits	Undermining Merits	Undermining Merits

(and a similar table for the systems on the Archer side)
This still applies to the four systems which Duval didn't lose control of last week (and indeed was able to reinforce)

The action in this system was intense enough for it to be successfully undermined, so now it's a neutral system which nearby powers can Acquire. In Acquisition, you get merits for killing any opposed power. But ... you only get those merits if your Power is in range to Acquire the system.

	Duval Pledges	LYR pledges	ALD and Torval pledges	All others
Fighting for Duval	Acquisition Merits	No merits!	Acquisition Merits	No merits
Fighting for LYR	No merits	No merits	Acquisition Merits	No merits

Most powers are out of range of Gondul - including, strangely, LYR themselves. It's not clear why they picked that target. Is it that they couldn't read a map, or was their attack secretly funded by Torval or the Emperor?

Santy is in range of Archer, so Archer commanders will get merits for continuing to attack that one (and Grom is also in range to get merits there fighting on either side)

 

[Sublime]

That's correct.

That’s great info, thank you for all of the details!

 

[V'larr]

Anyone care to explain why Gondul now has a "power conflict zone" at the nav beacon for Torval vs ALD ships?

 

[forbiddenlake]

Because it's an acquisition system for ZT and ALD, and both have passed the conflict threshold, so the PCZ popped up naturally.