Huh, when was it changed? Last I remember abandoning missions did not count, because it was too easy.
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Huh, when was it changed? Last I remember abandoning missions did not count, because it was too easy.
Shame. So short sighted of Brett if you ask me. Potentially, I suppose a subgroup in the Exploration, Guides section could make sense but to say not enough activity is just .
And bearing in mind this is not something the community have made up (like Exploration groups or player 'Clans') I don't understand why they don't push it more.
I was talking about this with a friend just yesterday - I have a spare server, a vps unsuitable for production business but good to put up a dedicated site with articles and possibly its own forum. The downside is that such a forum would be separated from the community and that could be bad.
Have to say I'm disappointed about this. I rarely post here but I read it every day.
Well that deliver mission was just on the board, it was the famine and the election state missions that I meant to focus on (further down the page linked on inmugr). The missions appear to me to have been introduced with patch 2.2. I doubt that they actually help the states that are listed, the targets are in systems outside of those factions influence and will add to wreaking the influence of the faction whose ships are listed.
So does anyone reckonise these missions? I lean towards them being an old mission type that is now being generated by the wrong strings associating them with a bgs state that should not be generating them.
The most likely explanation is they are similar to the existing "wartime delivery" missions - just fancy text.
Only they have 6-7 mill payouts and involve the killing of civilian ships well outside the factions influence. There seems to be a previlance towards combat missiosn going on right now. Not a good time to be defending a Player minor faction.
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Did V2.2 change the Priorities of Pending State Expansion vs. Active Boom back to "old times" ?
I'm sitting at a long overdue Pending Expansion now and I suspect it's due to an active Boom State.
I vividly remember the old times and the "curse of the Boom State" vs. a desired Expansion that just keeps getting dragged out forever
I'm sitting at a long overdue Pending Expansion now and I suspect it's due to an active Boom State.
I vividly remember the old times and the "curse of the Boom State" vs. a desired Expansion that just keeps getting dragged out forever
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In short: No. You might have miscalculated. Warm up time is 5 full days afterall. We had a retreat replace an economic state immediately as intended (1 day warm-up) and be replaced by war as well (retreat after 2 days finished). Everything works fine. Expansions as well.
Post 2.2 Expansion question.
We entered expansion 6 days ago, tonight was the end of the 6th day and we are still showing expansion. Do you know how long the Expansion state lasts now after 2.2, as your info in the OP states 5days max. We entered expansion on Tuesday 25th Oct btw (the day of the patch!) could it have gotten stuck?
Many thanks for your knowledge
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We entered expansion 6 days ago, tonight was the end of the 6th day and we are still showing expansion. Do you know how long the Expansion state lasts now after 2.2, as your info in the OP states 5days max. We entered expansion on Tuesday 25th Oct btw (the day of the patch!) could it have gotten stuck?
Many thanks for your knowledge
FD
I'm wondering if they do.
I did a few a couple of nights ago, but the source system influence went down rather than up. There has been a bit of extra player activity in the system due to players travelling to the alien base, so it's hard to tell.
You need an untouched system to be sure no one else is interfering. That means going outside the bubble.
yep. as can be seen in mission description (and after handing it in).
It was exactly that a week ago. Now it's popular. Not a complaint, as all this fits very well with our faction's lore.
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popular systems seem to become diluted / interesting effects. Until we get more states i think the bgs is fairly stable
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Odd, we're several days overdue for all I know... Might have to recheck that.
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Well dangit, I'm getting old. It's indeed a miscalculation, could have sworn we're overdue
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That's unfortunate...
Perhaps they want the background sim to remain "background"...