Thank you from the Hutton Truckers - a 5 month battle against the BGS

Well done on beating the BGS


The various federal forces I have friends in attempted last year to take over a system, bounced the system influence to 70%, got an election.......... which they totally failed to take over any station in the system even though they held influence at 60%+ for a week.*
Bugged BGS

Pity Fdev dont actually say in the player's handbook exactly how the BGS works, with what % triggers this and that event.........

Bill

*And i got shot down by both sides during that :mad:


We have a lot of intelligence on how it works now..... despite our assertions that there were bugs, in every single case there was a reason why. Blocking wars, all sorts! Now that we have detail on things, we can manipulate it how we want. When it came to the wars, instead of trying to control our 5 systems plus 6-8 others to make sure we were clear, we just controlled the one we wanted and rolled the dice each time regarding whether we were in the clear or not. We lost every time. Only got a handle on it when we properly studied what the factions were doing elsewhere and started working in those sectors too.

If there is any advice you need, we'd be more than happy to help - the only exception is - we will not assist any player group vs player group take-overs or hostility. The NPC's and their factions are fair game - players are not. (On that note, during this take over we deliberately ended up in a retreat state from Altair as it is "owned" by another player group and nuking them would NOT be cool.

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By the way - everyone is welcome to join in our events. If you love:

Trading
Mining
War
Bounty Hunting
Smuggling
Exploring
Parody radio shenanigans

In solo, groups, open play but most importantly WITH other people (even in solo - if you join in, we can explain how that all works, too) then come and join us. www.huttonorbital.com and sign up on the facebook page if you're that kind of individual. 1000 nutters all doing crazy things.

Many of our members are also from other groups - they dip in and out whenever they want, whether it be a CG, a race, a convoy, a weekend mining trip with 30 other ships, a little bit of a war or a chaff party!
 
Congratulations.
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Somewhat highlights the need to be able to direct minor faction action through the BGS with more precision (e.g. If players kill lots of authority ships on one faction and meet influence criteria for civil war/election with that faction, that action is preferred over expanding outside the system. If players do lots of missions and/or trading to a neighboring system, it is preferred to expand there rather than go to civil war in their own system.) Just the ability to make gentle, or not so gentle nudges to what the faction will do.
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edit: I feel like this is what make Elite the great, the system isn't perfect, but we can interact with and change the landscape and we gain more tools and insight in how to do it all the time.
 
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Exhausted now, both my ship and I need a holiday after all this.

Will we have time to head back towards the Rift before Alvin issues his next proclamation?
 
Exhausted now, both my ship and I need a holiday after all this.

Will we have time to head back towards the Rift before Alvin issues his next proclamation?

We need exploration data - lots of it - so.... go for it! You can spearhead the data collection and screenshot issuing team.
 
Hard to read. Made it to half of your text.
My experience is that they fixed the BGS with 2.1. I think you wasted moths in fighting something FD simple made impossible through Bugs and never cared enough to realy fix ... untill 2.1
2.1 is the very first time I see the BGS really working.
But anyway congrats.
 
It only remains for me to say - we're LIVE on Hutton Orbital Radio on Thursday night 20:30 BST for a celebration - www.huttonorbital.com and click "radio" - join in on the Lave Radio teamspeak channel teamspeak.laveradio.com (there is a Hutton channel in there) and, from Hugh Mann's studio - a great rendition of #forthemug - listen at: http://elitemeet.info/chm/

I think, Congratulations are in order. Well done!

But, broadcasting on the traditional Lave Radio timeslot?

Edit: Apparently, my day was too long today. I have read "today" instead of "Thursday".
All is well, listen to LR today and HOR on Thursday.
 
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Um - lave radio broadcasts on a TUESDAY, old fruit - Hutton has been on a THURSDAY for 9 months now ;-) Every week. how do we know that???? Psykokow works on both ;-)

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Hard to read. Made it to half of your text.
My experience is that they fixed the BGS with 2.1. I think you wasted moths in fighting something FD simple made impossible through Bugs and never cared enough to realy fix ... untill 2.1
2.1 is the very first time I see the BGS really working.
But anyway congrats.

I disagree - it became HARDER in 2.1, not easier. Was only through circumstance that it was blocked, not through bugs. Each time there was a reason and it was reasonable, but frustrating.
 
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I have my own experience. Couldn't move a single minor fraction even an Inch despide trying over and over in the past. It was static simple as that. Partly because it was designed to be that way but mostly because it was simple really bugged.
In 2.1 I read somewhere they laveraged the effect. So you can move a lot even as a single Pilot. And I can confirm that this works.
 
It's great to finally be able to call Zamka "home" after five months of living in temporary accomodation there . . . seriously, and I thought Hutton Orbital's trap 3 smelt bad ;-)
 
Um - lave radio broadcasts on a TUESDAY, old fruit - Hutton has been on a THURSDAY for 9 months now ;-) Every week. how do we know that???? Psykokow works on both ;-)

Apology, my reading comprehension is impacted today. Read today instead of Thursday in your OP.
 
HOT made a great game even better. The camaraderie, PwP was fantastic. I even added 7% to my pathetic combat rating. Congraulations to every CMDR whether mission running, Adta collecting or shooting. What a team!
 
#ForTheMug .... This is an awesome achievement. Now The Truckers have a place to land out T9's ...... Trucking time people.
 
I found a little inspiration from the European Championship for the following poem.

Hutton's on fire
Crimson Stain is terrified
Hutton's on fire
Crimson Stain is terrified
Hutton's on fire
Crimson Stain is terrified
Hutton's on fire
Crimson Stain is terrified

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
 
I found a little inspiration from the European Championship for the following poem.

Hutton's on fire
Crimson Stain is terrified
Hutton's on fire
Crimson Stain is terrified
Hutton's on fire
Crimson Stain is terrified
Hutton's on fire
Crimson Stain is terrified

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

You should make it into a drabble Ziggy and enter into Abraka Drabble. It's where all the cool Truckers hang out :)

<disclaimer: when I say "cool" I may be slightly exaggerating hugely a bit>
 
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