Attention Alliance pilots: Please stop preparing Lugh! (PP)

Attention Alliance pilots: Please stop expanding into Lugh! (PP)

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Hello Commanders,

many of Mahon's supporters are currently attempting to expand into Lugh. The trigger will soon reach 100,000 merits.

Unfortunately the expansion will fail.

"Why?" - Oh, glad you ask. Let me go into detail:

As you probably already noticed, this cycle Mahon is in turmoil. To be exact, Contien, LTT 5964 and Marasing are in turmoil. And we will lose those systems by the end of the cycle if we can't accomplish to fortify almost all of our control systems. And you know what? We cannot expand while we're in turmoil.

This means, that all your efforts to expand into Lugh are going to waste. Unless you start fortifying the sh** out of our systems. The trigger has to reach 100 percent, any merit above 100 percent would be a waste, too.

Thanks.

By the way, have I already mentioned that Lugh is a bad system for us? You might also read the original text of this thread:

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The original post:

Greetings, dear supporters of Alliance Prime Minister Mahon.

I'd like to talk to you about Lugh, which currently receives a lot of attention by some preparers. Unfortunately Lugh is a bad choice for us, because it'd only obtain us 10 CC per week. It's not even close to Gateway, so it'd be a pain to fortify. And the third reason why we shouldn't expand to Lugh is, that the system is a favorite of Felicia Winters. There's an unofficial armistice between some player groups of Winters and Mahon, and even if you want to ignore that agreement (and that would be absolutely fine since everyone's free to act on his own behaviour), an expansion attempt to Lugh would raise a lot of anger among the Winters supporters. We don't want Winters to focus and target our systems in the future, just because of one bad expansion.

TL;DR - I'm asking you to please stop preparing Lugh. For the sake of Mahon and the Alliance.

If you like to hear an alternative and a better expansion target, you might consider to prepare Circios, Xiriwal or Robor.

Thank you commanders, and fly save.
 
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Unfortunately Lugh is a bad choice for us, because it'd only obtain us 10 CC per week.

It's actually worse than that. Much, much much worse than that. With overheads, Lugh will cost Mahon 71 CC per week by default.


If you like to hear an alternative and a better expansion target, you might consider to prepare Circios, Xiriwal or Robor.

No, no and yes.

When considering the added overheads the default cost of Xirwal is 14 CC/week, Circios is 37 CC/week whereas Robor will be a net gain of 2 CC/week.

Of the current prep targets there are only three that are net gains for Mahon: Robor with 2, Ross 692 with 3 and LHS 2771 with 4. Ross 692 and Robor overlap, so we can only expand into one of them. And Ross 692 and LHS 2771 cost 264 CC in total, which means we can afford both and come out ahead.
 
The Alliance is not interested in any kind of war.

And even if it was, why would it want a war over a system that is absolutely useless? Aiding Lugh in keeping its independence from the Federation would make a lot more sense, but that's not what's happening right now.
 
Pointless trying to organise a broken system.
Most are just taking the shortest distance to whatever merit grind they are doing.

All we need is merits, then we get the ranks, then we get the suckful rewards.....
If that system is the closest it will always get the action, seems to be that way from what I can see.
 
Alioth wants to abandoning Lugh again? Isn't Lugh a "fully functioning independent state yet"?

I was there on Wednesday night making sure that Winters couldn't take it. Millions of NPCs died in that war. Let their sacrifice count for something, please.
 
Alioth wants to abandoning Lugh again? Isn't Lugh a "fully functioning independent state yet"?

I was there on Wednesday night making sure that Winters couldn't take it. Millions of NPCs died in that war. Let their sacrifice count for something, please.

I don't think that Lugh is a fully functioning independent state today. As far as I know there's no peace agreement yet, and the people of Lugh have difficulties to establish a fully accepted government.
The losses on all sides of this war are to be regretted. Nevertheless is the Alliance not in a position to act as some kind of galactic police, especially in an ongoing conflict between a legitimate governance and a group of freedom fighters - how Prime Minister Mahon named the parties.

Edmund Mahon said:
It is not the place of the Alliance to intervene in matters of legitimate Federal governance. No laws have been broken, no rights have been abused and as such no military aid will be forthcoming for the freedom fighters of Lugh. Similarly, until such time as the residents of Lugh have fully seceded from the Federation, any applications to join the Alliance of Independent Systems will be automatically rejected on the grounds that Lugh is not a fully functioning independent state.
 
Alioth wants to abandoning Lugh again? Isn't Lugh a "fully functioning independent state yet"?

I was there on Wednesday night making sure that Winters couldn't take it. Millions of NPCs died in that war. Let their sacrifice count for something, please.

You're fighting the war in a silly way.

You're forcing the Alliance to spend command capital to fight the preparation. That command capital could have been better used elsewhere.

Successfully preparing the systems would force Winters to spend her capital on it, and then you can fight the expansion by killing Winters ships.

Instead, Mahon is now going to get saddled with a useless system with a massive upkeep and fortification trigger and a massive undermining cost. Basically you decided to set fire to Mahon just so you could throw a molotov cocktail at a poster of Winters.

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How many of the people who are so enamoured with merit farming Lugh to prepare it are going to spend their time constantly fortifying it in the weeks afterwards? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say almost none of them. And since Lugh is ALWAYS going to get undermined (at the very least out of spite), it will cost Mahon even MORE command capital.

It's like the people who want Lugh to stay independent haven't figured out how to think beyond a headline.

Sometimes you seriously need to lose a battle to win the war, and losing the Lugh preparation battle to Winters is the battle that should have been lost.
 
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