This post makes sense. +1
Powerplay Arissa Lavigny-Duval Power Play Cycle 22
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This post makes sense. +1
Here is an update for clarity's sake, as people are replying that they do not have clear instructions. First off, the purpose of the Dispatch has always been to educate CMDRs of the situation, rather than to give instructions. But as many players prefer instructions, let's go with that:
Fortifiers:
Fortifiers:
- Fortify systems on the Cycle Priorities list, and please do not fortify below the blue line without a very good reason.
- Continue to focus on Winters this week. She was pushed into deficit last week, but it won't matter if we let up the pressure now. She likely won't let up on us.
- Opposing the Winters Expansion in Hez Pef should help the Empire, as it is very close to Shatrites.
- Target Hudson vessels in Af Leporis. They're ignoring the agreement that was never made public by the diplomats on their side, and preparing Af Leporis. Your purpose here is to make them work harder to prepare it, we have no realistic outlook that will allow us to stop mass nominations or preparations here.
- Keep up the good work in the Pegasi Priate War. The primary opposition targets are Dhak and Bipera. We should not allow any more Imperial Citizens to be shipped off to Harma as Marked Slaves. Only successfully opposing Delaine in these systems will prevent that.
- We have multiple SCRAP targets this week. If you're heading to Sirius space for discounts in shipping, you may want to visit Chuanabosso and oppose their expansion there. Our friends in Utopia also provided a list of ten systems they would like to be undermined. Minerva appears to be the primary target.
- Keep patrolling our space for underminers. Underminers can be spotted by their Wanted Status in Control Systems. Any bounty over 6000cr is likely for murder, so treat them as hostile. Any bounty under, and a scan will be needed to verify they are not carrying stolen Garrison Supplies. If they are, they are hostile.
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I also didn't come to the forums until my second week of PP and didn't find the ALD weekly update until my thrid week. I truly believe the over-fortification of the close (and luckily profit-making) systems is being done by newbies and I-just-want-my-merits groupies. So I doubt they read forums or weekly update/priorities list. I always haul to the furthest systems (in need of supplies) first.
Also metntioned by someone, Guathiti and another close system were over-fortified seemingly instantly post-reset this week. If supplies are removed from cargo hold upon reset, that's a lot of players instantly hauling that stuff as the time it should've taken to collect the supplies hadn't passed. I'd like to know more about how this was accomplished.
Aye, my comment was more directed at Reddit people, but I figure posting here shouldn't hurt.
And the galactic powers display is very delayed. I wouldn't be that surprised if the cargo didn't disappear and there were players sitting in Guathiti with full loads, and dropping them the minute servers come back on.
I'd hope for a UI change, but the best solution is making over fortified places new distribution nodes. It would be amazing. And an imbalance because not everyone fortifies outwardly. You couldn't do the same thing for those who fortify inwardly, so it won't happen.
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Agree, as I too was one of those newbies once. Powerplay is so complex that I was just happy to have found the right sort of 'stuff'' and where to take it to get merits. And then there is a perfectly natural feeling that if you deliver to systems high on a list, and you get rewarded for it, then you must be doing the right thing. The real culprits are FD (though I was pleased to read aspiringexpatriate's hope that improvements are quite likely in the next major update).
It seems strange but:
(a) You can sit with an almost full cargo at the end of cycle and then deliver a full load first thing in the new cycle (materials don't get reset at cycle start - well Corruption Reports don't and I think Garrison Supplies are the same). Then perhaps return to fast-track another and deliver it. I do this with Corruption Reports every time we have CC to spend on Preparations, trying to get some good candidates up the list early (and a few other CMDRs do the same).
(b) Some CMDRs no doubt like to get their weekly merit grinding off to a good start and may well fast-track to do it (spending credits to quickly fill their cargo holds). And for American or Asian players the new cycle may start at a suitable time to do that.
(c) It isn't just Gauthiti that gets early deliveries (as you noted). This week Carverda reached 100% about 3 hours into the cycle, just before Gauthiti, although admittedly its trigger is about half the tonnage of Gauthiti.
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If I said that, I didn't mean to. Power Play is going to get more attention than it can right now after Horizons releases, not with the release. That means sometime next year they will probably have a GalNet story that ties into the major changes they are making. FDev likes to keep gameplay mechanics lore friendly.
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After reading, I was just wondering. After dumping almost all your resources into Af Leporis, which is a black hole because even if you get it, its not worth the cost. So rather than dispersing resources where they should have gone, you all poured into that, instead of ignoring what was obviously a red herring trap. If you keep doing that your going to wind up in a black hole...
Has that occurred to you man?
Has that occurred to you man?
Af Leporis is a fairly profitable system, but frankly, the reason we fought a Prep War against Hudson was to keep them out of it. The push to keep it was mostly due to the sheer amount of preparation reports poured into it. The sad thing is, if Hudson wins the current Prep War in Af Leporis, we will do exactly the same thing we did to them four or five weeks ago that started this mess. It would be fantastic if Sirius controls Af Leporis, like they used to. But right now it has become a stand off where Hudson and Lavigny will each drive the other into deficit during the week they're expanding Af Leporis. At this point there's no way around it. I hope we'll at least start alternating weeks we prepare it, so that we don't see a Prep War like we did last week.
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Conflict and competition are the main driving forces of Power Play. Its one thing for a smaller power to give up in a preparation or expansion war for a system, ALD is hardly small, and AF Preparis is one of the ever dwindling number of profitable systems in the galaxy.
It's probably a revenge attack as The Code are allied with Lavingy-Duval (they are giving people right grief). Carry on truckers - for the emperor. I'll try helping this week if I can.
Edit - Just undermined Hudson for 750 Merits (lol) - to busy eating their wieners obviously.
Edit - Just undermined Hudson for 750 Merits (lol) - to busy eating their wieners obviously.
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The Code allied with Lavigny? I've never heard that before.
Waiiiit...CODE defected from Archon and joined ALD? Anyone else getting a bad feeling about that? LOL
I'm sorta sad to see my home system in turmoil and below the line (HIP 16607), but if we do drop out I don't think I'll be too upset...maybe we can reopen our black market then
I'm sorta sad to see my home system in turmoil and below the line (HIP 16607), but if we do drop out I don't think I'll be too upset...maybe we can reopen our black market then
Waiiiit...CODE defected from Archon and joined ALD? Anyone else getting a bad feeling about that? LOL
I'm sorta sad to see my home system in turmoil and below the line (HIP 16607), but if we do drop out I don't think I'll be too upset...maybe we can reopen our black market then
I'm pretty sure the CODE guys just stayed with ALD for 4 weeks to get the Imperial Hammers, they should be long gone by now.
Are those guys n'sane???
What the hell is fortifying up to 4990% !!!!
Go fortify some other control systems.
Right now i have 220 to fortify!
Where shall leave them guys?
I dont know much of this.
Check out the opening post, there's a link to the fortification spreadsheet there. it tells you all you need to know, about what to fortify (and now even mroe important: what NOT to fortify) and what to undermine etc etc
I'm sorta sad to see my home system in turmoil and below the line (HIP 16607), but if we do drop out I don't think I'll be too upset...maybe we can reopen our black market then
By the way, there are a couple of thoughts on HIP 16607 that might be of use to you and whoever else wants to push it. Right now it is a deficit-causing system. It costs ALD 2cc every week to run when fortified, and 35cc when Canceled or at default upkeep. I believe there is a system less than 15Ly from HIP 16607 that would be a profit-making control system for ALD and still exploit HIP 16607. That could be huge, especially as the player group Red Dice Systems effectively doubled the fortification trigger in HIP 16607. The idea is that we want to lose HIP 16607 to revolt, and then expand into the nearby system, thus exploiting HIP 16607, without hurting ALD's budget.
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We at BRTD (the owners of Red Dice Systems ) wouldn't complain about that too much. What system is it that we need to push to to exploit Dave and help with the upkeep issues?
) wouldn't complain about that too much. What system is it that we need to push to to exploit Dave and help with the upkeep issues?We at BRTD (the owners of Red Dice Systems
I don't know which of the systems it is, but it may have been Ugraswarki. Now, you won't be able to do anything until we have a week with HIP 16607 in Turmoil where we finish in deficit. It is not looking like that will happen this week. Only by not fortifying below our 'blue line' on the fortification tracker, can we ever possibly hope to lose our deficit-causing systems. Last week was an exception, and I thank everyone for their efforts, but the more we fortify below the blue line, the more likely we are to keep expanding into deficit-causing systems and never losing the ones we already have.
Last week, we fortified all 69 systems, and still wound up short -171cc. Six systems fell into Turmoil. If our starting deficit continues to grow, the next time that happens, we'll have a dozen of our best and worst systems in Turmoil, and that will be more difficult to recover from.
Some of the silliest economics I've ever encountered. I need to change my signature.