This cant be possibly true. This must be some kind of mistake?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteLavig...ration_hades_striking_back_at_the_federation/
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteLavig...ration_hades_striking_back_at_the_federation/
I don't understand how you get war with Hudson out of this.
Hudson already thinks we're at war, due mostly to the AF Leporis conflict. Mbutsi is 16 Ly from Rhea, not Nanoman.
Hudson already thinks we're at war, due mostly to the AF Leporis conflict. Mbutsi is 16 Ly from Rhea, not Nanoman.
We aren't at war with anyone, we never have been. It is the Imperials that start wars, we are just taking care of business.
This is a bold move from ALD though, but we will make sure it blows up in their faces much like Janus did
This cant be possibly true. This must be some kind of mistake?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteLavig...ration_hades_striking_back_at_the_federation/
Not really a surprise because sooner or later Humans always enter conflict.
They can't help themselves. It's that overwhelming desire to destroy things...
Who knew?
We aren't at war with anyone, we never have been. It is the Imperials that start wars, we are just taking care of business.
This is a bold move from ALD though, but we will make sure it blows up in their faces much like Janus did
Indeed, no-one is at war with anyone... yet every cycle Mahon manages to be top, of thereabouts of the 'undermined table'. There seems to be a whole lot of Feds and Imps that are not at war with us accidentally attacking all our southern systems on a weekly basis.
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With regards to the actual topic, this is the first real signs of the next, and dare I say it, the real, part of Power Play.
For 23 weeks we have been in the expansion phase. This is where powers move out to claim the most populous and advantageous systems. For a few cycles now we have seen less and less productive systems being the focus of expansion and even prep wars. We are now at the point where there are few unclaimed systems left which actually deliver a profit once overheads are taking into consideration.
This next (main) phase is beginning, where the source of good systems are... other power's systems. I think we will start to see three or four cycle attacks being launched. The first two cycles will be concentrated attempts to turmoil a power. After one or two cycles of turmoil, systems will be shed by powers. Then a prep and expansion war will start over the now available system.
At this point two things come to the fore: economy and 'Commander (player) base'.
A power with a positive economy and a CC surplus and withstand attempts to turmoil it. Any power with a negative economy will be in trouble if it suffers a concentrated attack. The second factor 'Commanders' then comes into play:
For example, let's say every other power decided Mahon has punched above his weight for two long and we are undermined by all other 9 powers. In short order every Mahon system would be undermined. However, 'IF' Mahon Commanders fortify enough systems we would still not be in turmoil. But there is the catch. Mahon might struggle to get the requisit number of forts done to break even by the end of the cycle. On paper we would be un-turmoilable, in practice it might be a different story. For example if the majority of the undermining was done in sniping, we would go down like a plutonium anchor.
Now let's take Aisling Duval. If the same scenario was applied here and all powers (Impossible I know, in fact... FUN FACT: Mahon is the only power that can be readily attacked by all other powers!), attacked her, and undermined all her systems, she could not avoid turmoil. Even if every one of her systems was to be fortified.
The other major way Commander number comes into play is that once we reach this point, whoever can apply the most brute force, wins. No amount of clever spread-sheeting and organisation will withstand shear weight of numbers. As we move into this new phase we will see ALD and Hudson move to the top and stay there as Power Play will simply become a basic Commander numbers game.
For 23 weeks we have been in the expansion phase. This is where powers move out to claim the most populous and advantageous systems. For a few cycles now we have seen less and less productive systems being the focus of expansion and even prep wars. We are now at the point where there are few unclaimed systems left which actually deliver a profit once overheads are taking into consideration.
This next (main) phase is beginning, where the source of good systems are... other power's systems. I think we will start to see three or four cycle attacks being launched. The first two cycles will be concentrated attempts to turmoil a power. After one or two cycles of turmoil, systems will be shed by powers. Then a prep and expansion war will start over the now available system.
At this point two things come to the fore: economy and 'Commander (player) base'.
A power with a positive economy and a CC surplus and withstand attempts to turmoil it. Any power with a negative economy will be in trouble if it suffers a concentrated attack. The second factor 'Commanders' then comes into play:
For example, let's say every other power decided Mahon has punched above his weight for two long and we are undermined by all other 9 powers. In short order every Mahon system would be undermined. However, 'IF' Mahon Commanders fortify enough systems we would still not be in turmoil. But there is the catch. Mahon might struggle to get the requisit number of forts done to break even by the end of the cycle. On paper we would be un-turmoilable, in practice it might be a different story. For example if the majority of the undermining was done in sniping, we would go down like a plutonium anchor.
Now let's take Aisling Duval. If the same scenario was applied here and all powers (Impossible I know, in fact... FUN FACT: Mahon is the only power that can be readily attacked by all other powers!), attacked her, and undermined all her systems, she could not avoid turmoil. Even if every one of her systems was to be fortified.
The other major way Commander number comes into play is that once we reach this point, whoever can apply the most brute force, wins. No amount of clever spread-sheeting and organisation will withstand shear weight of numbers. As we move into this new phase we will see ALD and Hudson move to the top and stay there as Power Play will simply become a basic Commander numbers game.
There seems to be a whole lot of Feds and Imps that are not at war with us accidentally attacking all our southern systems on a weekly basis.
Grinders are going to grind. It should be obvious that Mahon has never been focused for undermining by Hudson, my preference is that it stays that way.
ALD is trying to put Winter into a structural deficit by taking Mbutsi, which overlaps many of our systems, and simultaneously using 5c to Prep Hudson systems that overlap Winter. This is their only avenue, as they continually get beat at the Fort/UM game.
Its no war though, and not a big deal, really. Pretty much just Imps being Imps.
Its no war though, and not a big deal, really. Pretty much just Imps being Imps.
I really wish people would stop accusing whole Powers of 5C tactics. For one, there is absolutely no means of knowing who is running bad preparations. Even when it appears to be an obvious 5C operation, there is absolutely no means of knowing who is running it. I have only ever seen two CMDRs admit to running bad preparations as a 5C operation, but at least two dozen CMDRs accuse another power directly for doing it.
And even though those CMDRs have bragged about their 5C activities, that is a far cry from the Power running 5C operations.