Galnet & Twitter: "an unknown vessel needs our help!"

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Ian Doncaster said:
I think certain people in the Federation and Alliance might have the opposite problem.

Their intelligence forces interrogated Marlinists (who have, from the point of view of the Alliance or Federation, a perfectly reasonable belief in democracy) and handed - without a trial - those they suspected of being NMLA over to the Empire. Where they've now been tortured and mostly killed, also without a trial. And sure, the Empire's records show that they all confessed to being NMLA (and the Theta group probably even were), but at least the more idealist members of the Congress and Assembly should still see a problem with that.

Kaine perhaps isn't ideally positioned to challenge Mahon on that, since she didn't want to take the refugees in the first place, but can probably do something with it ... and Winters might be able to make something of it against Hudson, at least for rousing her own side.


I guess it's still somewhat necessary in case someone goes out without a DSS fitted - paying attention to the FSS would give you the planet, but not the coordinates.


If they were designed that way (which the in-game components of the Adamastor puzzle were), it would have been released at 13:00, solved at 13:05, and everyone would be complaining that they hadn't even read the question before people were talking about the answer everywhere.

Now, sure, that wouldn't stop a solo CMDR not reading any forums, etc. until they'd solved it for themselves ... maybe some people did the Adamastor one that way, but we won't know since they don't read the forums.


Yep. If an Imperial-aligned commander is reading Galnet and seeing the Empire only portrayed as bad, and the other superpowers and powers only portrayed as good, that's probably a sign that they've actually picked the wrong alignment for themselves, because they aren't able to justify their own side's moustache and criticise the other sides'.

The Federation has been portrayed as just as prone to political assassinations as the Empire, the Alliance is out helping Sirius Corp antagonise the Thargoids with extinction-level technology, Utopia runs plenty of sites like Serene Harbour pretty openly, the Federation had a bunch of researchers arrested simply for suggesting that the Far God Cult might not be actually a Thargoid front, everyone's up to their eyeballs in Aegis/INRA, etc. etc.

I'm sure there's a positive story about someone in a major power somewhere, but it probably won't make the news.
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You've been watching The Expanse? :)
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
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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What about a quarterbacked effort? :)
 

Tarkus Venius

Tarkus Venius
Rubbernuke said:
The whole game is about walking the line on morality. Everything has good and bad sides, this time you saw the Empire at its worst, along with terrorists being held being just as nasty.

The 'heroes' in the story torture the guy out of spite, rather than escaping when they could. Those terrorists also blew up thousands of civillians - not exactly pristine is it for either side.
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i think they have the wrong idea of what the Empire is now entirely, and I’m not really seeing it. What they think the Empire should be is half wrong, it is evolving.

Half of the Empire has zero slavery, look at the powerplay effect of Aisling: “Abolished” It’s the game rules, I didn’t make them.

Half of the Empire’s most populous systems are run by loyal Imperial Aisling-supporting squadrons with cooperative governments. Go take a look at Aisling Angels and Celestial Light Brigade.

They have no slavery, no “black sites”, and no torture with exotic mind bending equipment. They believe in our Imperial Princess; Egalitarianism, Equality, and “Stop Slavery Now, Stupid”. Why aren’t the Marlinists living there? This whole plot is pointless.
 
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Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Tarkus Venius said:
i think they have the wrong idea of what the Empire is now entirely, and I’m not really seeing it. What they think the Empire should be is half wrong, it is evolving.

Half of the Empire has zero slavery, look at the powerplay effect of Aisling: “Abolished” It’s the game rules, I didn’t make them.

Half of the Empire’s most populous systems are run by loyal Imperial Aisling-supporting squadrons with cooperative governments. Aisling Angels. Celestial Light Brigade. No slavery. No “black sites”. No torture with exotic mind bending equipment. They believe in our Imperial Princess, Egalitarianism, Equality, and “Stop Slavery Now, Stupid” Why aren’t the Marlinists living there? This whole plot is pointless.
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But Aisling herself is a catspaw- she 'works' because she has backers who have unknown motives who control her and her image. Ailsing uses propaganda to make herself look angelic and convert new followers like some 3307 influencer.
 

Tarkus Venius

Tarkus Venius
Rubbernuke said:
But Aisling herself is a catspaw- she 'works' because she has backers who have unknown motives who control her and her image. Ailsing uses propaganda to make herself look angelic and convert new followers like some 3307 influencer.
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The question is, how does she rule her followers? What effect would that have on how the Empire is run?

She has direct and indirect power over nearly half of the Empire, with hundreds of billions of citizens directly governed by AA and CLB, and at least a thousand star systems under her influence.

My point is, Aisling wields tremendous power. That may not be part of FDEVs plan, but they don’t get to decide that. The players already did that for them.
 

Tarkus Venius

Tarkus Venius
Ralph Vargr said:
Another NPC out of control, for the GM? :)
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You have to admit, in the past Frontier has not been exactly kind in their portrayal of Aisling Duval. 😂

I’m not on the Aisling side of the Empire, but many of my good friends are over there whom I fly with frequently. I think they deserve a little credit in the narrative.
 

Henoch

Henoch
Just downloaded an upgrade - any info about it? Will it bring something new re: NMLA? There is a new galnet info about Halsey but nothing really hot.
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Tarkus Venius said:
The question is, how does she rule her followers? What effect would that have on how the Empire is run?

She has direct and indirect power over nearly half of the Empire, with hundreds of billions of citizens directly governed by AA and CLB, and at least a thousand star systems under her influence.

My point is, Aisling wields tremendous power. That may not be part of FDEVs plan, but they don’t get to decide that. The players already did that for them.
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But thats the issue- who runs Aisling? If she was Empress, would she resort to spin doctoring and support from un-named sponsors?

Powerplay != lore, whereas Tier 1 NPCs do (because FD directly control them).
 

hems303

hems303
The code for hand-placed (rather than pro-gen) items such as this Prison Colony I've seen from other posts/comments; remains very 'flaky' to say the least!!!

I got all the way out to R CRA AF-A D42 and did the FSS then went to planet 3 b... did the Surface Scan.... but it didn't work...it made all the right noises during the scan...but NO BLUE GRID...

Checked the Surface Scanner on other planets in the system and it works just fine...blue grid each time...

Back to the mysterious target planet 3 b.... BLOODY NOTHING!... no blue grid...no POI, no nothing... no way of partaking of this 'happening'..

every time.... I've played since Alpha and ED still manages to surprise me on just how many different ways it can 'fall over'. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 

CMDR MRMAURICE

CMDR MRMAURICE
hems303 said:
The code for hand-placed (rather than pro-gen) items such as this Prison Colony I've seen from other posts/comments; remains very 'flaky' to say the least!!!

I got all the way out to R CRA AF-A D42 and did the FSS then went to planet 3 b... did the Surface Scan.... but it didn't work...it made all the right noises during the scan...but NO BLUE GRID...

Checked the Surface Scanner on other planets in the system and it works just fine...blue grid each time...

Back to the mysterious target planet 3 b.... BLOODY NOTHING!... no blue grid...no POI, no nothing... no way of partaking of this 'happening'..

every time.... I've played since Alpha and ED still manages to surprise me on just how many different ways it can 'fall over'. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Worked for me and the other 1000 odd CMDRs in the system lastnight. Try relogging. Plus, the POI (named unkown) pops up as you get close to the planet
 
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