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Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Astaran said:
I don't think Sirius is the main culprint here.
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Unlike the Empire, they generally are pretty good at PR :)

While hosting the conference gives Sirius more opportunity to pass out "your friendly local arms dealer" cards to delegates, making the offer was probably sufficient for their "pro-peace" public image. Sticking that many Senators, Congress and Assembly representatives in the same place is going to get a fight anyway.


As far as the CG goes, it was about as numerically and quantitatively fair as it's possible to make one, which like all such CG pairs meant the final result was clear in the first few hours. Why Sirius got a 2:1 victory anyway is a matter where there have been several possible theories advanced, that sort of qualitative bias is harder to assess and even harder to determine whether it was intentional from Frontier or not.
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Jmanis said:
But he's, frankly, just a nobody compared to LYR
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Along with his turmoil this week, Pranavs going to be on the Haagen Dazs....
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Jmanis said:
Another bit....
I know this get's explained as remote override from top level imperial codes...

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... but it could also be a Thargoid EMP? Ol' corrosive scars on Theta Seven could be an abducted escape pod returned to the human population?

EDIT: Sorry, throwing up spoiler tags now...
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For me that seals it- its an Imperial inside job. That and

the attackers escorting Theta like senators

just looks like a...er... powerplay going on inside the Empire.
 

Deleted member 182079

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Susanna said:
Seconded... It doesn't get me engaged either...

Looked at the screen grab OA linked in his video...
Thought 'yeah, so?'
Moved on...

It's at least a half backed attempt from fdev to provide some content to offset the Odyssey launch delays... But Sheesh! This is thin on content!

Btw, I do it the other way around lol... I keep my main account FC in the bubble and use my alt account FC for exploration and mining in the black. Do you use your Colonia account much?
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I used to do it the other way around, but I find that with my FC incl. 30 ship fleet, Colonia is a lot more fun as a compact (and pretty!) playground than for my poor single-ship non-FC CMDR (which was reset twice since).

The only thing I kind of miss is the AX stuff - combat but also gathering AX related cargo (hearts, tissue samples, meta alloys, probes, etc.) which I could then sell at outrageous prices on my FC. But I ended up in a bit of a rut jumping between Sol/ShinDez region and the Pleiades, and it got a bit samey, hence the move to Colonia. There (here), I can engage more with the BGS (still very light touch though) and because there are fewer systems and factions, I get to 'know' them better, while all asteroid rings are pristine so mining doesn't require any treks into the middle of nowhere (as you're already there lol).

I thought about moving the FC back to the bubble but been there for a month now and still like it - might wait with the trip back until just prior to Odyssey, or even afterwards (to check Colonia based assets first).

To actually answer your question - I use my main account a lot more again now, though I always have - the only period of time that's interesting on the alt is the initial phase of A-rating and achieving the one ship I want to fly exclusively (previously Crusader, Conda, FAS, and now, simply the Cobra 3), once that's done I get bored. Will still use it for bubble CGs but the last few have been quite unsuitable for small ship CMDRs unfortunately. The main account offers a lot more options due to the FC and the varied fleet of mostly G4/5'd ships at my disposal.
 
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Thatchinho

Thatchinho
ObiW said:
but as someone else posted last night, it does feel like pre-3.3 content being reheated.
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Just to clarify, the point I was making was actually just about the mechanics for finding the site, and how that effected the level of challenge involved and the time taken.

Pre-3.3 it would have taken a fair amount of time and community effort to find even with large numbers of people involved.

Post-3.3 it was always going to be fairly quick with large numbers of people involved.

Essentially it’s ‘fly to specified co-ordinates on every landable in system and check whether anything is there’ vs ‘FSS system and see if anything of interest shows up’, and what those mean comparatively in terms of how long it’s likely to take given numbers of people involved and numbers of systems involved.
 

Deleted member 182079

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Thatchinho said:
Just to clarify, the point I was making was actually just about the mechanics for finding the site, and how that effected the level of challenge involved and the time taken.

Pre-3.3 it would have taken a fair amount of time and community effort to find even with large numbers of people involved.

Post-3.3 it was always going to be fairly quick with large numbers of people involved.

Essentially it’s ‘fly to specified co-ordinates on every landable in system and check whether anything is there’ vs ‘FSS system and see if anything of interest shows up’, and what those mean comparatively in terms of how long it’s likely to take given numbers of people involved and numbers of systems involved.
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Got it - thanks for the clarification (I keep forgetting about the fact people had to eye ball planets pre FSS... shows how we gotten used to it now).
 

Ozric

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Ozric
I'd just like to say that the first reports of the base having been discovered weren't from anyone within Canonn. It seems that they came from someone who had claimed to have found it, making a hint to a streamer (who isn't even in Canonn) and guided them to the correct system. This was being watched by members of Canonn who helped to spread the information.

Amazing how people always jump to an conclusions, and spread blame around without any cause.

Also I'd like to apologise as it seems that I somehow only found 3 out of the 4 logs yesterday when I posted them. Which considering I drove around twice, I'm not quite sure how I managed 😂

Judge Rhadamanthus said:
It's well known that individuals inside cannon data mine.
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Is it? That's interesting to know. Sure that's not just a baseless accusation? Especially given that this wasn't even found by someone in Canonn, that was just another assumption.
 

Nadreck

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Frontier could introduce a daisychain of mini-quests that have to be completed in order by each CMDR. They already have this mechanism in place for the Engineers: you can read about an Engineer elsewhere, but in-game your CMDR must still get the info (usually from another Engineer) and do whatever is required to get the invitation and unlock the Engineer.

That way, even if your CMDR doesn't get to contribute to the search (either because it's over too quickly, or because the puzzle is too difficult for him), and he ends up reading about it after the event, he still gets to follow the trail from beginning to end. Hopefully with some sort of reward for doing so (maybe just a data package that is worth serious money if sold in the right place).

Admittedly it would be a bit immersion-breaking if a building just magically appears at the right point in a quest (and definitely wasn't there when you read about it and went there too early), but perhaps you could check it out and find it there but not have the "access code" until you've earned it.
 
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