COMPLETED CG Colonia Bridge Project Phase Four, Week 2 - Colonia (Trade)
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Tier 0 results in failure, so no prizes are issued at all. people get ZIP as the automated scripts never trigger to make the list of commanders names ...
The bigger issue is No lights should be offered as its a failed, tier 1 was not reached so no commander list was made by the non active script...
This isn't how it has worked in the previous competitive CGs (e.g. the NMLA ones) where the losing side failed to get to T1 - module rewards were still handed out then.
Whether it does this time or not, of course, I guess we'll find out soon.
Bah! So no reward for my Viagra Express?
I guess so.
Want to comment here that despite CG failure I had fun playing ED again, tried different approach after my first unpleasant find about stocks and it worked well ... however despite it I think that there really should be used at least little more thoroughfull planning from Frontier side @Paul_Crowther @Bruce G how to set tiers for community goals in Colonia region considering amount of resources which is locally available. There is not needed use boring gameplay when one just stay docked on port for 10 min while doing things outside of the game for local restock, but flying through 2-4 ports for load medium size vessel needs MUCH more time. Either consider change of limits or give more time. Personally I support latter and it was already suggested here on forums.
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Yes - Colonia Bridge Phase 3 the amount retrievable through normal market operation would have been about 1 million tonnes, the target was 3 million tonnes, the actual amount handed in was 5.7 million tonnes.
There's no upper limit on how much the zero-supply glitch can generate. If a station has a 10-minute regeneration of 10t, and 1000 people show up to take it, then that's 10,000t towards the CG, and they can all come back ten minutes later and do the same again - because supply (unlike demand) can't go negative, once it hits zero you're no longer competing with other players for that tonnage.
But it does require massive participation, which see next comment.
Probably not - I wasn't at all confident about getting beyond 500k! I think it's the just the psychology of it. In Phase 3, the 10-minute regeneration was a couple of hundred tonnes a cycle at the best locations, so it didn't take long at all to fill a medium ship, and even a large pad ship could be loaded up in 30 minutes with optimal play.
Combine that with 1400 players wanting to do their bit to get superpowered FSDs and that's a huge amount of extra tonnage.
This one combined 10-minute regeneration levels of maybe a few tens of tonnes, with the best supplies being on medium pads only, with a fairly minor global and personal reward. ~400 people is comparable participation with phase 4A; the amount delivered is also comparable given the relative stock/regeneration levels.
I don't think it was deliberately intended, I think it's just that these are the first Colonia trade CGs in several years and they need to get their calibration in.
In the bubble they can pick almost any combination of three commodities, and the supply cap will not be the limiting factor. The bubble has over three thousand times the supplies of Colonia - but only ~20 times the CG haulers. So it'll run out the nearby stations, but in the bubble there's always more.
So phases 1-3 used the same commodities (Ceramic Composites as the bulk option).
- phases 1 and 2 finished extremely early, as while their targets weren't unreasonable for Colonia 2017, the number of players in the region, their access to bulk haulers, and the region's economy have grown considerably
- phase 3 they set a more reasonable modern-day target and we beat it through a combination of approaches, including heavy use of the zero-supply rule to massively boost effective regeneration
Phase 4A then switched commodities around, but had Coffee as a decent bulk option and the other two were okay as well. The tier targets were set to trivial, but we hauled about 2 million tonnes anyway.
Phase 4B they seem to have taken the 4A totals as a reasonable calibration of the tier targets - 1M and 1.75M would have been fine in 4A - but not realised that unlike the bubble if you pick three low-supply commodities it's not just based on the number of haulers.
We'll see what happens in phase 4C - regardless of the target setting, it is nice that Colonia trade CGs aren't all like each other.
Lights are out for Alcor users who completed the CG...
Dude... a little tact please
It is tactful... you dont actualy get the items added to the Livery any more via automatic release you now have to actualy land at station and click the complete CG button. the dam things would not unlock with out sitting at the station and pressing complete CG button...Dude... a little tact please
This is crap normally you get them unlocked no matter were you are, flying to the CG station sucks...
second time had to do this. 
Decals refused to unlock with out landing at the station
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As Brewer Corporation are saying they did actually manage to kit out the station at the Colonia end with our supplies, I think that means they're legally required to cough up. (Else we'll just have to start a combat CG to force them to pay up!)
Only recently started doing the CG in Colonia and enjoyed them apart from the last one that just failed. That one was never going to be successful. I think the Colonia ones are set too high given the number of participants in the bubble vs those in Colonia looking at Inara. Might give this next one a miss too as even tho supplies are initially not too bad players will be scratching around again towards the end.
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Apparently the Galnet article is incorrect and will be corrected.
Someone had too much faith in our trucking ability!Apparently the Galnet article is incorrect and will be corrected.
Your allowed to say they never wrote a losing Galnet topic lol. Go on...Apparently the Galnet article is incorrect and will be corrected.
Flossy
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Someone had too much faith in our trucking ability!
LOL, OK - they never wrote a losing Galnet topic!
They obviously didn't realise how dire things were in Colonia - though I did keep saying so - and fully expected the CG to be successful. I was in Top 25% too, so a complete waste of time - especially with no cockpit lights either! I just hope this week's CG is more doable.Bruce G
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Thanks for the feedback - setting the tier thresholds is a constant balancing act for the design team!
Absolutely, that would be very welcome! If you can post in the thread so we know where the FC is at I'll definitely help you to unload it. I can pretty much promise to shift at least half of your 16000 units, probably more. To be honest I wouldn't mind if you sold your stock at some profit - I'm not in it for profit, so just as long as I don't lose too much money on it I'm game!
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