Powerplay Arissa Lavigny-Duval Power Play Cycle 17

aspiringexpatriate

aspiringexpatriate
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This is a cross post from the Reddit. Sorry I took so long bringing it over.

There are roughly 36 hours left before the cycle flips.

Profitable fortification is done. Great job, Commanders!

Caria and Cerni are 3 and 4. Great work, Commanders. Maausk is still close, so keep an eye on it, but if everyone who hasn't spent their nominations can nominate Caria and Cerni, we should be able to solidify their lead. Maausk will be another deficit-causer, and we cannot allow that to reach expansion.

Elsewise, Hudson looks to be securing victory in Af Leporis. We cannot allow this to happen. If Opposition is no longer feasible, then we need to get all of our pilots together, wing up and start undermining Hudson into deficit.

If Hudson has Af Leporis as a control system, we will never not be undermined. Calling all combat pilots. If you want PvP, go to Af Leporis and fight PvE until a player shows up. If you want to help the Power, start undermining.

Remember pilots, if you undermine a Hudson Control System over 100%, you are not helping anyone. In fact, as undermining doesn't report until the pilot returns with his or her merits, a system at 70% undermined might already be done. There is no way to know, without undermining pilots communicating with each other.

I have added a 5 system list to our Cycle Priorities. There is a spreadsheet that organizes Hudson systems as undermining targets due to some formula. I put the top 5 of those that are undermined under 50%. Hopefully, that helps. If someone can tell me when they knock those over 100%, I can cycle in new targets.

  • Brani
  • BD+43 2989
  • LTT 7548
  • Adeo
  • V2578 Ophiuchii

Additionally, if you are taking one of the five systems on the hitlist, please let me know here so I can pull them off the hitlist and cycle in a new target.

Additionally, I omitted 4 high target systems, due to high undermining in progress:

  • Matlehi 57%
  • Bhoto 73%
  • Hanggardi 59%
  • Korovii 97%.

If you or your group was responsible for these high numbers, but are not going to return to undermining, let me know now so I can add them to the hitlist.

Thank you for your time.

Godspeed, Commanders.
 

Bendurion

Bendurion
aspiringexpatriate said:
This is a cross post from the Reddit. Sorry I took so long bringing it over.

There are roughly 36 hours left before the cycle flips.

Profitable fortification is done. Great job, Commanders!

Caria and Cerni are 3 and 4. Great work, Commanders. Maausk is still close, so keep an eye on it, but if everyone who hasn't spent their nominations can nominate Caria and Cerni, we should be able to solidify their lead. Maausk will be another deficit-causer, and we cannot allow that to reach expansion.

Elsewise, Hudson looks to be securing victory in Af Leporis. We cannot allow this to happen. If Opposition is no longer feasible, then we need to get all of our pilots together, wing up and start undermining Hudson into deficit.

If Hudson has Af Leporis as a control system, we will never not be undermined. Calling all combat pilots. If you want PvP, go to Af Leporis and fight PvE until a player shows up. If you want to help the Power, start undermining.

Remember pilots, if you undermine a Hudson Control System over 100%, you are not helping anyone. In fact, as undermining doesn't report until the pilot returns with his or her merits, a system at 70% undermined might already be done. There is no way to know, without undermining pilots communicating with each other.

I have added a 5 system list to our Cycle Priorities. There is a spreadsheet that organizes Hudson systems as undermining targets due to some formula. I put the top 5 of those that are undermined under 50%. Hopefully, that helps. If someone can tell me when they knock those over 100%, I can cycle in new targets.

  • Brani
  • BD+43 2989
  • LTT 7548
  • Adeo
  • V2578 Ophiuchii

Additionally, if you are taking one of the five systems on the hitlist, please let me know here so I can pull them off the hitlist and cycle in a new target.

Additionally, I omitted 4 high target systems, due to high undermining in progress:

  • Matlehi 57%
  • Bhoto 73%
  • Hanggardi 59%
  • Korovii 97%.

If you or your group was responsible for these high numbers, but are not going to return to undermining, let me know now so I can add them to the hitlist.

Thank you for your time.

Godspeed, Commanders.
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Roger, on my way!
I need another 2000 merits and I will grab them directly from Hudson.
If someone wants to wing-up, pm me (Ingame -> CMDR Bendurion).
 

Backelaer

Backelaer
Just took a trip to Brani in my Vulture to do some undermining. We've got a chance there if some more people get in on it.

But be careful when you're travelling from our bubble, there's sort of a belt of non-scoopable stars, so careful planning of your route is warranted if you're in a ship with a mediocre jump range like my Vulture.
 

glojo

G
aspiringexpatriate said:
For clarity's sake, the in-game list is ordered by the amount of merits poured into the system, be they fortification or undermining. As Iori says, for our purposes it is best to ignore it completely.



Personally, glojo, I'd follow this advice. If you like combat, and you have any ship you could want, do this. Find a control system on Hudson's list that is not undermined to 100%, and fly there and begin destroying his Federal Logistics vessels. You will earn a bounty, but also gain 30 merits per ship-destruction. You will need to return to one of our Control Systems to cash them in. There is no need to undermine those systems over 100%, so if the system you're in updates to 100% undermined before you return, head to another system and continue the good work of disrupting Hudson's supply lines.
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Thanks very much and so far I have a 2.5million credit bounty on my head :)

I confess to enjoying this interdiction part of the game and will continue going down the list :)
 

Lord of the Isles

Lord of the Isles
glojo said:
Hi folks, when going for expansion, is it the side that has the highest percentage will win that task please.
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Yes.

Expansion: the 'trigger' value is tiny, so effectively at the end of the cycle (Thu 07:00 GMT) the Expansion % is compared to the Opposition % to work out if it succeeds.
Fortification: only the figure of 100% matters - once fortiying or undermining reaches it going past it is a waste of time (though the 'other side' can still push their figure to 100% and get an effect).
 
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Gandalf06

G
Hi All
Quick question, is there any reason to undermine a system that's 100% fortified or is it more advantageous to undermine non fortified systems?
Thanks
Regards
G
 

aspiringexpatriate

aspiringexpatriate
Gandalf06 said:
Hi All
Quick question, is there any reason to undermine a system that's 100% fortified or is it more advantageous to undermine non fortified systems?
Thanks
Regards
G
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Getting both values to 100% negates any action, so they pay default upkeep costs. Fortified pays 0cc, and undermined forces them to pay the income and the upkeep as the undermined upkeep.

So, yes, undermining a system that isn't fortified is the most painful for them, but if they can fortify multiple systems, they can still tolerate a few systems fully undermined.

One hurts more. Both hurt the bottom line. If a system is close to 100% undermining, there is no good reason to stop if they get to 100% fortified first.
 

aspiringexpatriate

aspiringexpatriate
It still makes sense to cancel the systems if possible. These numbers are from about 45 minutes ago.

I'm showing a few unfortified systems in easy reach:

  • BD+43 2989 - 5,157 remaining
  • LTT 7548 - 3,361 remaining - 2200 remaining?
  • Episilon Scorpii - 930 remaining
  • Lalande 39866 - 180 remaining
  • LTT 15574 - 4,434 remaining
  • Mulachi - 1,816 remaining
  • Gilgamesh - 6,463 remaining
  • Katuri - 6,628 remaining
  • LP 580-33 - 4,211 remaining
  • LHS 3885 - 4,030 remaining
  • LHS 1541 - 148 remaining

Hudson is being predicted at -84cc. He might not hit deficit if that's the number. If we cancel the systems he's fortified, we can take his prediction down at least another 84cc. These systems are fortified, but well within range of cancellation:

  • Matlehi - 2,374 remaining
  • Brani - 3,242 remaining
  • Hanggardi - 3,262 remaining
  • Sol - 5,626 remaining
 
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Trafalgar Law

Trafalgar Law
LHS 1541 needs 148
Epsilon Scorpii is done as is Lalande 39866.

Edit: Looks like we managed to do it. Hudson is in Turmoil and no expansion to Af Leporis :)
 
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Trafalgar Law

Trafalgar Law
Unfortunately thanks to people fortifying deficit causing systems we've now got a good system Ida Dhor in trouble (Sietae's usefulness is probably over anyway). I don't know if that was done by 5th columnists or well meaning ALD'ers but this is the reason behind the decision not to fortify those defecit causing systems, so please don't fortify those systems below the blue line on the spreadsheet.
 

Iori

Iori
Trafalgar Law said:
Unfortunately thanks to people fortifying deficit causing systems we've now got a good system Ida Dhor in trouble (Sietae's usefulness is probably over anyway). I don't know if that was done by 5th columnists or well meaning ALD'ers but this is the reason behind the decision not to fortify those defecit causing systems, so please don't fortify those systems below the blue line on the spreadsheet.
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The problem is that if this was done by 5th columnists, it will continue to happen
If it was done by well meaning ALD'ers it will also continue to happen, because those people are probably solo players who don't engage with the community anyway, or they wouldn't have fortified.

Such are the powerplay mechanics
 

glojo

G
I am looking for the latest thread but cannot find it so apologies for posting here. Do you want maximum effort with fortification, if so then in what priority, and if you do not want maximum effort here... Where would you recommend please?

Should I consider going for Mahon expansion locations as it looks like we are the only power in turmoil??
 
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Iori

Iori
glojo said:
I am looking for the latest thread but cannot find it so apologies for posting here. Do you want maximum effort with fortification, if so then in what priority, and if you do not want maximum effort here... Where would you recommend please?

Should I consider going for Mahon expansion locations as it looks like we are the only power in turmoil??
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Hudson is also in Turmoil.

I wouldn't say anything until the number people figure out what is best, but the safe assumption is that for now we must fortify the good systems, and undermine Hudson.
 

Trafalgar Law

Trafalgar Law
@Glojo: Concentrate on fortifying the good systems until we see what kind of opposition we face this week. We also need to keep the pressure on Hudson.
 

aspiringexpatriate

aspiringexpatriate
New thread.

Fortification in the first hours is always the preferable action.

A quick reply to the new thread will bump it past this one.

Thank you all for your dedication last week and in all the weeks that past.
 
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