Hey Sentenza, how common are Mega ships please?
BGS changes: Learnings/Issues/comments
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Quite common.
Definitely quite common, though I don't understand yet if there is something in the system that triggers the presence or it is just random. And there is often more than one.
A lot of them move on a weekly (Sol) or fortnightly (Colonia) cycle - usually of length 6. You can read their routes off the log uplink which might help to establish patterns of where and why they appear.
I found many that do not give any info, not sure because they don't move or because it's a bug
I also wonder if the installations move. Last beta rollout changed everything, but it might or might not be related.
That's good. Now factions will actually notice that the 'Goids are there.
It will devastate the bubble is what it will do, if they don't dramatically reduce both the number of scouts/Thargies to kill to prevent the damage and the state, as well as the repair requirements, which currently run into the 10K-100K tons per commodity, and it's a pretty long list of commodities.
And every week the incursion hasn't cleared, the next asset in the system gets damaged. Endlessly.
On current requirements, this will just permanently shut systems and stations down. Add that to the extra work in managing with the new BGS mechanics, and I wonder, who is going to fix stations? And suppose you did haul enough, but the state doesn't clear, and next thursday it starts again?
They have to look very closely at the requirements, make them 1/100th at least of what it currently is, or large sections of the bubble will be in a permanent incursion state. I'd say make it so a team of 4-5 can kill enough scouts or haul enough commodities in about 4-5 days to repair a station. If not, there are just not enough players to repair things. Those not committed one way or other to the attacked system will just move elsewhere. And those who are will soon feel and understand they are powerless against the onslaught.
And every week the incursion hasn't cleared, the next asset in the system gets damaged. Endlessly.
On current requirements, this will just permanently shut systems and stations down. Add that to the extra work in managing with the new BGS mechanics, and I wonder, who is going to fix stations? And suppose you did haul enough, but the state doesn't clear, and next thursday it starts again?
They have to look very closely at the requirements, make them 1/100th at least of what it currently is, or large sections of the bubble will be in a permanent incursion state. I'd say make it so a team of 4-5 can kill enough scouts or haul enough commodities in about 4-5 days to repair a station. If not, there are just not enough players to repair things. Those not committed one way or other to the attacked system will just move elsewhere. And those who are will soon feel and understand they are powerless against the onslaught.
Well as a PMF that has aliens only 50lys from our systems and will in all likely hood have them burn us to the ground too.... I do not mind as I want the aliens to be a real threat, like Battlestar Galactica.
Let the galaxy burn I say.
Let the galaxy burn I say.
That will depend on how common the state is, surely?
The way it's described, they could just continue with the three groups moving around leaving Incursion states behind them. The Incursion state would allow them to keep hitting the system after the first week, but in that case it would still take decades to do any significant damage to the bubble.
They mention repairing stations while the incursion is still on-going. That implies, to me, that the repair totals must be way less than the current ones. Fingers crossed.
This new Thargoid state: does it replace or overlay the current situation in a system? For example, if someone I don't like is suffering an attack, if I whack any sec ships / civvies in that system does that count as normal, or is that malarkey rescinded while the Thargs spank the system?
It's not in the beta yet, so nobody knows.
For reference, in current live you can still affect influence like normal if thargs are in the system/ stations are damaged.
Edit: this is why I'm not too fussed. Besides my usual opinions about this sort of thing, in anticipating this to be a good thing, much like outbreak/famine given the effects on a damaged station. I even requested a cg put one of my factions into a damaged state (And the cg was to ship goods *into* the station rather than out, which is more fun than your usual A-B trade cg.) For completeness there was a parallel cg to pirate metals/minerals tied to the attack.
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