At any rate; The demand from when attacked stations were introduced, about players not getting to get there and try to do something until *after* the deed had been done, has been met, to some degree. Maybe player defensive action statistics will inform how things unfold...
Haven't had an opportunity to play yet: Did the news also suggest a non-violent interaction alternative; Luring inter-magpie-ceptors away by dangling meta alloy foil in front of them, or was that just flavour text/no more than a three minute respite?
Either way, I guess the news have been conveyed, that the Thargoids really don't want us to go to the Cone sector...
You know how we can target other ships as soon as they spawn in the hangar, before the landing-pad is raised to the deck?
Presumably, NPCs have the same ability.
As soon as you hit the "Launch" button, your ship would be bombarded and it's systems would be out before you could get off the pad.
If you were lucky you could reboot and get into the air before being destroyed.
My Annie had 1,500mj shields and 2,200 integrity and I made it off the pad wit 17% hull remaining.
So, no.
There wasn't any opportunity for anything other than pew-pew.
I suppose that
after the initial attack it might be possible to go fetch MAs to "lure" the 'goids away.
Not
really sure why that'd be required, though, unless the goids are designed to go away once they've been fed enough MAs.
Don't really care. Not there any more. Not interested.