I've wondered for a while, based on nothing at all, if the longer term story plan is that the main hub of human civilisation will move to Colonia, and then we have to fight to get the bubble back. And then something something Raxxla.
So, The Bubble Is Burning, And...
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I've wondered for a while, based on nothing at all, if the longer term story plan is that the main hub of human civilisation will move to Colonia, and then we have to fight to get the bubble back. And then something something Raxxla.
It seems time to dig out this classic
[video=youtube;MZxIMztmQTg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZxIMztmQTg[/video]
[video=youtube;MZxIMztmQTg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZxIMztmQTg[/video]
I tried to do some scout shooting yesterday, but it seems you need to be fully equipped now as NHSS Threat 3-4 are rare nowadays, and the USS's no longer "refresh" on relog but you have to wait them out. So I got just 12 scouts in two runs, with attending to wars elsewhere in between because mostly I couldn't find the 3-4 NHSSs...
So, you can only be effective now if you've done all your Guardian weapon grinding.
Bye bye bubble.
So, you can only be effective now if you've done all your Guardian weapon grinding.
Bye bye bubble.
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I was looking at helping out a local station that was under repair. Then I did the calculations. In my cargo Cutter with 720t capacity and doing 10 trips a day I could provide all the beryllium the station needed in a little over 3 months. Ok, other people will join in at some point, but that's a huge amount of game time doing the same thing. Then that station will just get hit again at this rate. So nope, let them burn, if my station is hit I'll just move (out to the California nebula, or Colonia if need be).
Quite true - and the repair estimates we got currently per station are *after* they were significantly reduced back in early 2018 due to us IDA members complaining to FDev. Initially the damaged stations were each worthy of a full trade/hauling CG with thousands of players hauling supplies, a daunting task for even dedicated player groups.
Well, if the Bubble burns, and Colonia is all that's left, it will be quite interesting times ahead. I don't consider this to be a bad thing, but rather a refreshing development. Just have to make sure to move my stored ships and modules to safe spots first.
I'm pretty sure FDev doesn't care too much if we repair the stations or not. They will advance the story they want to tell with or without our participation.
Regarding moving to Colonia: what makes you think the Thargoids won't eventually attack there?
Regarding moving to Colonia: what makes you think the Thargoids won't eventually attack there?
Delaying the inevitable I suppose. Maybe getting the last view of stations that don't have the repair mode interior for as long as possible.
A fair point though. Perhaps repairing all the stations is being made deliberately impossible as that's where the story is going to go.
They will advanced the story depending on our participation
I am not proactively attacking anyone or any thing, although I have & will defend myself & systems that I consider important (ie ones local to places I hang out). I am helping to evacuate and bring in supplies though, because it seems like the right thing to do. Each of us is making a choice, even if that choice is to ignore it (as I did until it affected systems I frequent).
* The constant material farm, which got more boring with 3.3 not less (because the success of finding what you wanted has no been taken away, you can NEVER find what you want unless it's one of the boom or war state materials, or a raw)
* The constant need for money (I know not many of you have this, what can I tell you, I spend my money), in order to build more ships for dedicated purposes.
* Two nights of the week taken up by squadron pvp practice
* Killing a few Thargoids when they're in a core fed system
* Playing the BGS and responding to wars, as well as pushing our own agenda
* Unlocking slowly a PP item every now and then, which takes a MONTH (not in effort but in real time)
When the hell am I supposed to haul stuff? I don't even haul stuff!
Have to say I am curious what will happen if we continue to defend the 100 or so core systems and let the rest just burn.
* The constant need for money (I know not many of you have this, what can I tell you, I spend my money), in order to build more ships for dedicated purposes.
* Two nights of the week taken up by squadron pvp practice
* Killing a few Thargoids when they're in a core fed system
* Playing the BGS and responding to wars, as well as pushing our own agenda
* Unlocking slowly a PP item every now and then, which takes a MONTH (not in effort but in real time)
When the hell am I supposed to haul stuff? I don't even haul stuff!
Have to say I am curious what will happen if we continue to defend the 100 or so core systems and let the rest just burn.
I'd doubt the bubble will burn away before the 2020 project arrives, and when it does ( or earlier) they'll probably be some story turn where the new gameplay allows more to do stemming off the thargoids than just repairing stations with more CZ types and scenarios. The space in the bubble is pretty big where a majority of the human population are still probably not affected. It'd take hundreds to thousands of stations burning before there could be enough panic to flee to Colonia. Perhaps with atmospheric worlds in 2020+ , the real war goes to catastrophic levels where we see cities and continents burning, perhaps moons wrecked or knocked out of orbits, and millions of ships and people fleeing.
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I did all my Guardian grinding, I've got literally everything unlocked. It's just that I'm not into playing with fixed Weapons, and the turreted versions are only usable with Multiplayer (which is bugged to hell all by itself from what I've heard).
What was the lore explanation again that they don't have gimballed versions of the weapons just yet? I mean, they've been out there for a while now....Ram Tah, get your rear in gear!
Until he does, please pass the popcorn, thank you.
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Let it burn.
A rough count tells me =~ 50 stations are damaged or under repair from Thargoid Attack.
By contrast, =~ 300 systems have the incumbent faction at war. There would be other wars ongoing.
Greatest threat to humanity is still ourselves, imo.
To echo others though... if an incursion occurred in a system I cared about, I'd be there to defend. If a station I cared about was damaged or destroyed, I'd repair it. I care about =~ 20-odd systems and the stations within them... and they are under no threat at all at this point. Which then ties to Aashenfox's post.
The only incentive beyond goodwill (goodwill towards some bits on a database) are credits, and the credit rewards aren't much more than those you can find naturally occurring around the BGS. You'd need at least 10,000cr/t profit on cargo hauling for me to get slightly interested in the prospect of grinding cargo hauls for damaged stations.
Basically I have three conditions, of which two must be satisfied, for me to undertake an activity.
- I need to want to do it (that is; it's an interesting activity, or relevant to the persona I play to in the game)
- It needs to provide some sort satisfactory in-game reward, whether it's credits, access to equipment/permits/special items (e.g Thargoid Sensors) for the time/effort taken.
- It needs to provide some self-defined reward (generally tied back to that in-game persona)
Repairing rando stations doesn't really meet any of those conditions. Hauling vast quantities of cargo is eye-gougingly boring, I'm not motivated to repair rando stations in what's basically an automatic grind-generator, and the rewards are mediocre.
But if it was a station I cared about (i.e not some rando), and in my immediate vicinity (again; offers comparable credit rewards to standard BGS exploitation activity, so this is inline with that), I'd do it.
By contrast, =~ 300 systems have the incumbent faction at war. There would be other wars ongoing.
Greatest threat to humanity is still ourselves, imo.
To echo others though... if an incursion occurred in a system I cared about, I'd be there to defend. If a station I cared about was damaged or destroyed, I'd repair it. I care about =~ 20-odd systems and the stations within them... and they are under no threat at all at this point. Which then ties to Aashenfox's post.
The only incentive beyond goodwill (goodwill towards some bits on a database) are credits, and the credit rewards aren't much more than those you can find naturally occurring around the BGS. You'd need at least 10,000cr/t profit on cargo hauling for me to get slightly interested in the prospect of grinding cargo hauls for damaged stations.
Basically I have three conditions, of which two must be satisfied, for me to undertake an activity.
- I need to want to do it (that is; it's an interesting activity, or relevant to the persona I play to in the game)
- It needs to provide some sort satisfactory in-game reward, whether it's credits, access to equipment/permits/special items (e.g Thargoid Sensors) for the time/effort taken.
- It needs to provide some self-defined reward (generally tied back to that in-game persona)
Repairing rando stations doesn't really meet any of those conditions. Hauling vast quantities of cargo is eye-gougingly boring, I'm not motivated to repair rando stations in what's basically an automatic grind-generator, and the rewards are mediocre.
But if it was a station I cared about (i.e not some rando), and in my immediate vicinity (again; offers comparable credit rewards to standard BGS exploitation activity, so this is inline with that), I'd do it.
Who cares
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btw. good old Johnny Cash classic to dock in burning Stations and evac impatient Passengers while everything is 100% Routine due to being the 100th trip already
[video=youtube;5WyLhwYFgmk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyLhwYFgmk[/video]
[video=youtube;5WyLhwYFgmk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyLhwYFgmk[/video]
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