Alliance: Call to Arms
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I wouldn't think so, not yet anyway, but I'll be pootling about tonight so I can take a look at some of them.
Also, no CZs in Lenore now that I can see - the War state tends to last longer than the actual conflict. Heading home but should still be available for wing training or anything else tonight.
Also, no CZs in Lenore now that I can see - the War state tends to last longer than the actual conflict. Heading home but should still be available for wing training or anything else tonight.
So, two Pythons and a Vulture fly into a High Intensity Conflict Zone. There's a Farragut cruiser there and they decide to wing up and take it on for a local faction. It doesn't go well and a few minutes later they've all limped into the the nearby station to lick their wounds. A representative of the faction comes to visit each of them at their respective landing pad and says to each pilot, "We really appreciate what you tried to do for us today, and we know it was difficult, but we've got the funds to give you a bonus for your efforts, and we've got a bit of a tradition here. You can measure between two targetable subsystems on your ship and for every millimetre between them we'll give you a credit."
When he visits the first Python pilot, the pilot studies his battered ship and says promptly "From the forward large hardpoint to the cargo hatch". The representative nods, measures and says "Very good, that's about sixty-eight metres so we'll call that 68,000 Credits".
The second Python pilot studies his badly damaged ship and says "From the forward large hardpoint to the thrusters". The representative nodds, measures and says "Even better, that's about eighty metres so you get 80,000 Credits".
The Vulture pilot looks at his brutally wrecked ship then says confidently "From one shield booster to the other". The representative blinks uncertainly, considers pointing out that the subsystems are close together, measures anyway... and pauses before turning to the pilot. "Uh, son, you don't seem to have a second shield booster. Where is it?"
The Vulture pilot points out of the station entrance and says "About thirty light seconds that way sir."
When he visits the first Python pilot, the pilot studies his battered ship and says promptly "From the forward large hardpoint to the cargo hatch". The representative nods, measures and says "Very good, that's about sixty-eight metres so we'll call that 68,000 Credits".
The second Python pilot studies his badly damaged ship and says "From the forward large hardpoint to the thrusters". The representative nodds, measures and says "Even better, that's about eighty metres so you get 80,000 Credits".
The Vulture pilot looks at his brutally wrecked ship then says confidently "From one shield booster to the other". The representative blinks uncertainly, considers pointing out that the subsystems are close together, measures anyway... and pauses before turning to the pilot. "Uh, son, you don't seem to have a second shield booster. Where is it?"
The Vulture pilot points out of the station entrance and says "About thirty light seconds that way sir."
It's funny coz it's true
A Python pilot had a bit of a hard time of it fighting a Farragut cruiser at a high Intensity Conflict Zone. He'd been popping SCBs like they were candy. After the rest of his wing left he thought about recuperating a bit of cash by visiting the nearby High Intensity Extraction Site. He wasn't doing too badly, took down a couple of Anacondas. He'd been hitting the SCBs a little hard but he should get a big pay-off for all the stuff he was killing, and that would cover his costs. That's funny. No notification of bounties. May be that's because he was in an anarchy system.
A Python pilot had a bit of a hard time of it fighting a Farragut cruiser at a high Intensity Conflict Zone. He'd been popping SCBs like they were candy. After the rest of his wing left he thought about recuperating a bit of cash by visiting the nearby High Intensity Extraction Site. He wasn't doing too badly, took down a couple of Anacondas. He'd been hitting the SCBs a little hard but he should get a big pay-off for all the stuff he was killing, and that would cover his costs. That's funny. No notification of bounties. May be that's because he was in an anarchy system.
You wait until you actually expand. (when the faction enters expansion, not pending expansion) Then you do the witch hunt of where it ended up.
It looks like the expansion is over.. or it never happened and I imagined the whole thing. I'll go on the hunt for the expansion when I get home from work tonight. I take it that I'm looking for mentions of the Alliance Rapid Reaction Corps in mission boards? And I should do those missions when I see them.
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We definitely went into expansion as opposed to expansion pending but not sure how long for. I spent a while heading to local systems and looking for ARC in the faction list under the status tab (I'm assuming that's sufficient) but no joy yet - according to at least one source a minor faction can potentially expand to any system within 30 ly. We're in the Old World cluster... that's a lot of potential systems.
I will put up a list of systems I've tried over at ARC HQ and try and get in game to check more later, but no promises. The next few weeks are probably going to be very busy for me.
I will put up a list of systems I've tried over at ARC HQ and try and get in game to check more later, but no promises. The next few weeks are probably going to be very busy for me.
Still at work <checks of boss is watching me> I'll take it for granted you were going to do the same thing as me and go through the list of systems in the left hand Nav panel. If that's the case then if you start from the top and work your way down I'll start from the bottom and work my way up. Will we need to visit every station in every system?
Don't think so, it should be sufficient to just jump in, open the System Panel, go to Status and check the list of local factions I would think. That's all I've been doing so far anyway. If that isn't enough we'll have to start from scratch but at least we can then be rather more methodical and maybe rope in a couple of other people.
I love the smell of enthusiastic new people in the BGS game.
Do you guys want some help or do you want to go through the joy of discovery yourselves?
I can't speak for anybody else but I'd definitely welcome any assistance! There are a fair few systems in that area and my time's going to be very limited tonight.