Arissa Lavigny-Duval Power Play Cycle 4

fergal

fergal
Fortification and undermining have been increased by 5 times

We need to fail expanding our 9 expansion systems. The cost of their combined exploited systems will be over 1000cc
I know this seems backwards, but the systems we prepped last cycle will hurt us more than help us if they expand into control systems.
If you can, avoid the crime sweeps, just undermine and fortify.

Overhead costs will cripple us if we target High Income areas
Potential Preparation Target Spreadsheet



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Preparation targets for cycle 3:
  • Cockaigne -37cc, -13cc
  • Anum -52cc, -30cc
  • HIP 35246 -57cc, -33cc
  • Ida Dhor -77cc, -44cc
  • Peraesii -26cc, 5cc
  • HIP 22006 -19cc, 2cc
  • Ngurii -24cc, 1cc
  • Gende -21cc, 0cc
  • Chuen -25cc, -2cc
  • SIETAE -84cc, -47cc

This list shows the real actual profit and the potential profit if the system is fortified and not undermined
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These 3 systems have been removed form the proposed list because our CC is reduced to 1068 this cycle:
SHATRITES 82cc L
DR CRUCIS 81cc S
BIRITE 95cc S

SIETAE (60cc) Deal with Sirius to swap systems for 15% outfitting discount
IDA DHOR (99cc) Hi Tech with Diamondback Scout and Explorer
CARIA (87cc) Patronage
DR CRUCIS (81cc) Feudal, Medium landing pad only
VACCAE (101cc)
BIRITE (95cc) Medium landing pad only
HIP 32812 (84cc)
SHATRITES (82cc)
KAVALLIYALA (97cc) Prep target for OCI
HIP 35246 (75cc)
 
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Mysteron

Mysteron
The Dark Armada will support all elected systems with preparation and combat. We shall also launch regular attacks on our enemies, in particular the federation infestation...

Death and glory in the void!
 

fergal

fergal
we can afford 1068CC this cycle.
Our list adds up to over 1500CC.

One possible combination is:
IDA DHOR
CARIA
VACCAE
BIRITE
HIP 32812
KAVALLIYALA
Which leaves 120CC for a new system.

At this stage (and I stress at this stage) Ida Dhor, Birite and Vaccae will stay on the list. Some of the other 7 may go, so if you do want to prep early, and there is no rush, those 3 are better targets.
 

Iori

Iori
Poseidal said:
Cockaigne is such a funny name I don't believe it was procedurally generated.
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Pretty bad system, but the name alone almost makes me want to take it.

Who knows, maybe getting the cockaigne is the secret victory condition of powerplay.
 
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Darshendros the Eternal

Darshendros the Eternal
Matec is a better system and also exploits Cockaigne (also costs less to expand into). BUT we're not looking at that this week. Next week, we should have more than enough CC ... maybe? Still not sure how overhead is calculated.
 

PsychoFish

PsychoFish
Overhead annoys me a lot. We have NO idea how it works, we can only speculate. Frontier gives us NO information what this is and how it works. And in the end we suffer greatly from it.

I fear this will only get worse. We have to make sure to carefully pick the systems we can afford to expand to, because I don't think we will be able to expand anymore in a few cycles.
 

Darshendros the Eternal

Darshendros the Eternal
Actually, in light of discovering we have way less CC to spend this week than usual, should we just grab some <100 systems off that list we have now?

Edit: Er... Nevermind. There's only like... 2 systems that cost under 100CC on that list. Wow...
 
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fergal

fergal
we expanded to 10 systems and after their income, we lost about 400cc.
Thats how bad the overhead costs are.
We will expand another 9 this cycle, that will reduce out CC by 300-600 more I would estimate.
So we will have 400-700C after this cycle.

We are better off getting fewer systems, that earn more income, than more cheaper systems.

Because of this the closer systems to us, except Biliri may go (caria and the two HIPs) to allow the fewer bigger income systems to remain.

We shall see, but thats what I wlll be pushing for.

You can get over 1000 per ton bringing metals back from Biliri to HIP 21778 (control system) and its very close. Small pad only in Biliri though.
 

PsychoFish

PsychoFish
Guys, from the patch notes:


- The number of votes assigned to players has been increased
- Requirements for fortify and undermine have been increased by 5 times – this is to encourage more tactical play and we believe this will need increasing further but will review on the next cycle.


 
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Darshendros the Eternal

Darshendros the Eternal
Well. Spotted 3 people in Cockaigne, so far. Dunno if they were running reports, but they docked anyway and apparently logged after informing them to stop prepping that system. Maybe I should hire someone... >.>

I'm off to 1852.
 

fergal

fergal
Darshendros the Eternal said:
Well. Spotted 3 people in Cockaigne, so far. Dunno if they were running reports, but they docked anyway and apparently logged after informing them to stop prepping that system. Maybe I should hire someone... >.>

I'm off to 1852.
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my patch says 6501 days left, I will see whats happening before then hopefully.
 
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