Blaze your own trail - Join the Thargoids?!

[Florenus]

Since we are encouraged to RP our own story or "blaze our own trail", why cannot we join the Thargoids?

Would be interesting to join them in an attack on a station or just wreak havoc because we have the freedom/are encouraged to blaze our own trail and personal narrative.
Who'd like to see this option?

And you'd have proper PvP in place too.

You can do whatever you want. You can fight for Thargoids, or wreak havoc.
Just don't expect them to thank you... because they're alien and don't communicate with humans

But you can't side with the goids, because the goids want to see humanity dead. (...)The goids don't care on which side you think you are, for them you are the enemy.

I'm not sure about that. I've never been attacked by a Thargoid, even if I encountered few of them.
They seem to attack only those they percieve as a threat.

 

[Random Providence]

FYI, there's plenty of inspiration to be drawn from real-life insect relationships. Trade something for protection (aphids, fungus). Have your friends trade for protection while you slip inside and eat their young (tricky aphids). Offer shelter for them (acacias). Zombify them (fungus). Masquerade as them (multiple examples). And of course fight them for resources (other ants, termites). Maybe you don't need to communicate w/them outright to have a relationship w/them.

 

[Hossi]

I'm not sure about that. I've never been attacked by a Thargoid, even if I encountered few of them.
They seem to attack only those they percieve as a threat.

The ones you can meet inside the bubble (incursion/infested systems) are always hostile. They are an attacking force.
The ones out there in the pleiades are more relaxed, they only attack if you get too close or they don't like your cargo.
Maybe some sort of worker/soldier relation.

 

[Florenus]

The ones you can meet inside the bubble (incursion/infested systems) are always hostile. They are an attacking force.
The ones out there in the pleiades are more relaxed, they only attack if you get too close or they don't like your cargo.
Maybe some sort of worker/soldier relation.

or, maybe, they've encountered hostile humans that started to steal their belongings (posibbly offspring) and shoot them?
It's not surprising that while angered and on warpath, during offensive in the bubble, they don't act peacefully.

Thargoids weren't attacking us before we've "discovered" them and since they fought Guardians way before humans climbed down from trees it's safe to assume they simply had no reason or intention to attack us before that, while they probably could.

 

[pnellesen]

The Thargoids are going to attack you even if you destroy 5 CMDRs in an AX CZ. Because they're a**holes.

 

[Tikanderoga]

Then the Thargoids gave humans grade 5 mats mission rewards and the bubble was lost in a weekend.

Nah, wouldn't happen until Thargoid Thursday.

The Thargoids are going to attack you even if you destroy 5 CMDRs in an AX CZ. Because they're a**holes.

What happened to the "Pick your side" message that pops up when entering a CZ?
Would be an interesting aspect though.

Thargoid missions for example:

• Destroy 10 "Top 1% of cruise liners"
• Turn the wedding barge into a funeral parlor
• Caustic Torpedo the Communications array at the end of a station's docking bay to disrupt further communications and prevent further ships from docking
• Destroy x Nav beacons in the systems surrounding system Y

 

[pnellesen]

Nah, wouldn't happen until Thargoid Thursday.


What happened to the "Pick your side" message that pops up when entering a CZ?
Would be an interesting aspect though.

Thargoid missions for example:

• Destroy 10 "Top 1% of cruise liners"
• Turn the wedding barge into a funeral parlor
• Caustic Torpedo the Communications array at the end of a station's docking bay to disrupt further communications and prevent further ships from docking
• Destroy x Nav beacons in the systems surrounding system Y

I would pay good money for that DLC...

 

[space voyager]

I'd love to be able to have a Thargoid alt or just the ability to play as one.

My guess is we'll never see this possibility as it would mean creating a whole Thargoid side of Elite, at least as big as the Human game.