Heh. One gets wrecked by a Mothership while the other, trying to jump in for help, gets hyperdicted and only a smatter of survivors surface somewhere to report of the ship's demise in the great big empty between.
Aegis crys havoc and unleashes Anti-Thargoid Megaships of War!
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But its so much more fun getting your weapons back at the bubble..
Couldn't they disconnect the megaships from the BGS, so they can use them to seed anti-thargoid missions in locations of Thargoid focus without the need to put them into the normal BGS lists? Would definitely give them a purpose from a gameplay perspective. That and allowing people who focus on anti-Thargoid play to jump around with the ship to places where they will see the most action.
Last time they only sold size 2 i think. Needed to go back to the bubbble to get what i wanted.Alternatively, you could use a local planetary base. Such as Alcazar's Hope.
I must admit when I seen the title of this thread, in the context of having seen the title but not the video of Osbdian Ant's "Thargoid War" I thought we had a new class of capital ship. Discovering its just existing assets assigned to AEGIS research, without xeno weaponry in the outfitting, is a massive disappointment. I had sort of hyped this up to being a lakon take on a farragut with dockable landing pads and AX turreted weapons on the surfaces, maybe one day....
Wait until they release these as ships for 'squadrons'! 'Cargo bay open, release Salt collecting limpets'!
For the record, the title for the article on Galnet is Anti-Thargoid Megaships Deployed by Aegis.
I can see why people would assume that meant all-new classes of Megaships, at first, so did I until I read the article.
No need to worry, I'm sure if and when the Thargoid threat is dealt with, Aegis will be happy to hand over their considerable resources to their superpower masters - Megaships, Spaceports and all....
Did Frontier FORGET that the whole Thargoid story up to this point has revolved around the uselessness of shutdown field neutralizers to protect large things like stations and capitol ships? Why is there no mention of this in the galnet story? If Aegis has come up with a solution to protecting large structures against the shutdown fields (and multiple shutdown field attacks at once), then THAT is the big news story. And if they haven't come up with a solution, then Aegis should have *something* in their statement explaining why they think these ships are useful in spite of their huge vulnerability. To simply NOT address the topic at all is so jarring that it takes me right out of the lore/story part of things and I find myself going straight to questioning the thought process behind the crafting of these stories. This is the kind of huge thing that needs to at least be handwaved/lampshaded so that we as an audience can suspend our disbelief.
Those two mega ships are simply there to help players fight against Thargoids by providing missions and a location. They are essentially just FDevs version of "Go There" signs (or if you want the in-game equivalent of X marks the place).
In game version:
Aegis provides help to coordinate the different independent militia in their fight against the Thargoids. These mega-ships aren't combat ships and Aegis states that they are support ships (and or command ships).
They show up where Aegis thinks more support from independent pilots are needed or where they can support independent pilots.
In game version:
Aegis provides help to coordinate the different independent militia in their fight against the Thargoids. These mega-ships aren't combat ships and Aegis states that they are support ships (and or command ships).
They show up where Aegis thinks more support from independent pilots are needed or where they can support independent pilots.
