So, The Bubble Is Burning, And...

lokvette

lokvette
Flimley said:
Insane patient ‘1’ weaves the baskets... Insane patient ‘2’ unweaves the baskets. The next day the orderly gives insane ‘1’ The unwoven willow strands, and.....

Flimley
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My dad told my a story that during one of his many holidays at the Queens lesuire it was sewing and unstiching mail bags. :D
 

Wobblin-Gobblin

Wobblin-Gobblin
I've been to Colonia one time at CCC3. I didn't like it there, especially because of the broken starbox over there.

At the beginning, the attacked starports were great and I've took part to rescuse people, but after a while it get boring.

The whole situation was strange, because they've asked for help to rescue the starports stuff, but on the other side, all stored ships had been brought to a megaship 5kms outside.

Come on FD, let us loose some stuff. Let some starports be destoyed, with all ships inside. This would make it much more intensive and challenging.

But at the current state, no one cares, because no one is in real danger.

So I've left the bubble to take part at DW2 o7
 

amadeus1171

amadeus1171
Ninj said:
Lots of work has been carried out by many groups to stop the destruction of stations and to reverse that damage. Unfortunately, FDEV don't seem to be able to differentiate between the amount of players available before DW2 and who is left around right now. It's looking bad, but it's never been a lost cause.

If nobody cared, trust me - there would be lot more stations in peril.

You might say you don't care, but you care enough to comment. Odd that. But it's not new. Since we all started over a year ago, the same comments were thrown out there. But clearly, people still cared. Quite a lot actually.

The Pleiades is almost repaired. This is the area dear to the hearts of Operation Ida. We were born there and it's the most challenging considering we have to bring a lot of commodities from the bubble. We haven't ever quit, despite the odds against us. We even have to deal with deliveries going missing... yet still we plod on. Often we don't make much money. Sometimes we even lose it. But we still do the right thing. And we enjoy it.

The bubble will be next. Station repair will speed up. 1 or 2 jumps to grab commodities is a big improvement for us dedicated to the cause. We will continue to rely on our many allies to slow down the destruction. That's all we can do.

We've made a lot of friends, had a great time - and we'll continue to do what we do best. You're welcome to join us anytime.

o7

Cmdr Ninj - Operation Ida
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I care only enough to comment that I don't care.

And yes, I know caring enough to don't care is caring. But I can do both. I can carc enough to don't care and don't care at the same time.

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And look, I can care enough to comment that I made s spelling error and I can not care to fix it. Get it?
 
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Flimley

Flimley
Iskariot said:
You don't need to be a hero to repair something. :)
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Unless your bicycle repair man.
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Flimley
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Wobblin-Gobblin said:
The whole situation was strange, because they've asked for help to rescue the starports stuff, but on the other side, all stored ships had been brought to a megaship 5kms outside.

Come on FD, let us loose some stuff. Let some starports be destoyed, with all ships inside. This would make it much more intensive and challenging.
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And you know the main response I saw when attacks started happening?

"System X is where I store all my ships, they better be ok or I'm rage-quitting this game, how dare they!"

Still see people posting this every so often.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Wobblin-Gobblin said:
Come on FD, let us loose some stuff. Let some starports be destoyed, with all ships inside. This would make it much more intensive and challenging.
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No, it would make it annoying. Not everyone plays every day or tracks everything obsessively.

Imagine you have all your ships at a single station, then through no fault of your own, just because of the hand of FD or RNG, you login one day to discover all your ships are gone.

That would be absoloutely terrible gameplay.
 

Cmdr. Numa

Cmdr. Numa
Factabulous said:
And you know the main response I saw when attacks started happening?

"System X is where I store all my ships, they better be ok or I'm rage-quitting this game, how dare they!"

Still see people posting this every so often.
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You bet I would. That fleet is literally years of time spent building it. Getting that all wiped out would be more than enough reason to quit. I could probably accept everything being destroyed, but being able to rebuy it all. It would hurt, 400 million is a lot, but it would not be a reset to ground zero.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Cmdr. Numa said:
You bet I would. That fleet is literally years of time spent building it. Getting that all wiped out would be more than enough reason to quit. I could probably accept everything being destroyed, but being able to rebuy it all. It would hurt, 400 million is a lot, but it would not be a reset to ground zero.
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Yeah, I realise on review I didn't make it clear that I agree with the posters. Losing all the engineering time would not be fun. Much like when people suggest burning the bubble - that's something that's fun - unless it happens to you.
 

Riverside

Riverside
Factabulous said:
And you know the main response I saw when attacks started happening?

"System X is where I store all my ships, they better be ok or I'm rage-quitting this game, how dare they!"

Still see people posting this every so often.
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People aren't losing their stuff, so it seems FDev agrees with them.

I had a few ships stored in a station that was recently damaged, none of them were moved automatically, nor the modules. I wasn't able to access outfitting but I could swap ships to use them.

I moved them to a neighbouring station in case the damaged station was destroyed but that was more roleplaying than genuine concern.
 

Dagwit

Dagwit
Factabulous said:
Yeah, I realise on review I didn't make it clear that I agree with the posters. Losing all the engineering time would not be fun. Much like when people suggest burning the bubble - that's something that's fun - unless it happens to you.
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Apart from a homeported fleet there are two game mechanisms which encourage players to invest significantly in one small area of space.

The mission system rewards a player for developing a network of stations within twenty lightyears of each other where the player is allied with all or most of the factions. When I was homeported in Sol I considered developing such a network but had too much else to do. However, if a player did put the time into doing this and then saw multiple stations in their network burn I imagine they'd be pretty peeved.

And the in-game trading tools also encourage you to develop a local network of visited stations. Not quite as much of an investment as a mission network but not something a player would enjoy seeing trashed.

Can't burn the Bubble without also burning players.
 
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Brrokk

Brrokk
Agony_Aunt said:
No, it would make it annoying. Not everyone plays every day or tracks everything obsessively.

Imagine you have all your ships at a single station, then through no fault of your own, just because of the hand of FD or RNG, you login one day to discover all your ships are gone.

That would be absoloutely terrible gameplay.
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I agree. If anyone wants intensive and challenging, all they have to do is drop in on a Thargoid.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
At this point, wiping the entire campaign, and making everyone roll up new characters would cause many players to leave the game for good.

We'll see about late 2020. :)
 

Zenith

Zenith
Ninj said:
You might say you don't care, but you care enough to comment. Odd that. But it's not new. Since we all started over a year ago, the same comments were thrown out there. But clearly, people still cared. Quite a lot actually.
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Commenting with a negative remark demonstrates that you've had enough.
I've always thought Operation Ida was on a road to nowhere, and it looks like that is very much the case. Stations are burning up faster than you folks can repair them. And when you repair a station, there is NOTHING to say they won't come back and do it again. I'd consider that a punch in the crotch. And one of the things about getting punched in the crotch is that you avoid what causes getting punched in the crotch. :)
 

Dillon Fallon

Dillon Fallon
Zenith said:
Commenting with a negative remark demonstrates that you've had enough.
I've always thought Operation Ida was on a road to nowhere, and it looks like that is very much the case. Stations are burning up faster than you folks can repair them. And when you repair a station, there is NOTHING to say they won't come back and do it again. I'd consider that a punch in the crotch. And one of the things about getting punched in the crotch is that you avoid what causes getting punched in the crotch. :)
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Isn't Operation Ida's focus repairing stations in the Pleiades? I'd suggest that given that there's only one station currently needing supplies out there that they're actually on top of things, based on what they set out to do.
 
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