CG predictions...
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Methinks this is lead-up to Far God Cultists being the de-facto thargoid on foot NPC, until update 17-21 when we finally get some form of on foot bug boss battle that will probably play horribly with more than one CMDR in the instance, yet be designed for wing groups.
I can't really remember. What is the usual downtime for updates? Eight hours sound alot, which must mean a heck of a lot database updates, plus checking if everything went alright before going live with it.
We know p16 has the new 'collector' Thargoid variant, so I'm betting on the Dedicant showing up wrecked and with the occupants being 'rescued' by the Far God just as they always wanted. Alana Morissette would be proud. I wonder if they'll roll that out to the wider megaship population.
GALNET
DEDICANT QUEST YIELDS RESULTS
27 JUL 3309Pilots’ Federation ALERT
The missing megaship Dedicant is close to being located after fragments of its distress call were tracked down.
The scrambled messages were discovered on comms beacons in the LP 714-58, Wuniez, Olurung and Kwakimo systems. Combined decryption efforts eventually led to another beacon in the HIP 19912 system, where the Dedicant’s original transmission was revealed:
FEDERAL ESCORT TEAM ALPHA
ASSIGNED TO ORDER OF THE FAR GOD MEGASHIP ‘DEDICANT’
PRISONER TRANSFER MISSION HAS FAILED
SIGNIFICANT NON-LETHAL DEFENSIVE MEASURES ENCOUNTERED
MAJORITY OF ORDER OF THE FAR GOD PRISONERS ESCAPED
PRISONERS INITIATED DEDICANT HYPERDRIVE
ESCORT TEAMS ALPHA, BRAVO, CHARLIE AND CULTISTS REMAIN ON BOARD
‘DEDICANT’ CURRENT LOCATION UNKNOWN
ADVISE TRACING METADATA COORDINATES TO THIS MESSAGE
REQUEST IMMEDIATE FEDERAL NAVY ASSISTANCE
Vice Admiral Amir Rafiq of the Imperial Navy provided an update:
“Imperial Intelligence specialists are currently analysing the comms beacon in HIP 19912 to trace the message to its point of origin. We have orders not to commence any joint operations with the Federation, but I am authorised to make our findings public.”
Executive Agent Jalen Locke of the Federal Intelligence Agency told the media:
“We appreciate the assistance from the Empire , and from all the independent pilots who helped find this distress call. It has confirmed our theory that the prisoners managed to regain control of their former vessel, using various modifications made to its internal systems.”
“FIA security teams are standing by to launch a rescue mission as and when the Dedicant’s location is pinpointed. They will retake the megaship by force if necessary and detain all Far God cultists onboard.”
To answer myself: 15 and 14 had both eight hours of downtime scheduled. 13 was four. U8 had one hour scheduled.
The pacifist religious guys that went out of the way to deal with the Feds on their ship in a non lethal way?
Tempted to predict no CG this week.
Tempted to agree.
I think it is above average if we look at all Elite updates since 2013, but it's pretty normal now.
U15's downtime was planned for 7:00 - 15:00.
edit: I'm way too slow.
yeah I found that out too. My google-fu wasn't good enough to find the downtime schedules of the other updates, just the ones I posted above. Well not really, I was too lazy to make an effort.
I made a bit of an effort and found some more downtime predictions on reddit. My findings:
These are the scheduled times. I didn't bother to check how long the downtime really was.
- update 16 - 8 hours
- update 15 - 8 hours
- update 14 - 8 hours
- update 13 - 4 hours
- update 12 - 4 hours
- update 11 - 2 hours
- update 10 - 3 hours
- update 9 - 3 hours
- update 8 - 2 hours
These are the scheduled times. I didn't bother to check how long the downtime really was.
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but... U14 also introduced the "no update for you" doctrin for legacy... 14 had one, 15 didn't anymore, and 16 will not, right?
Not to mention even more enormous volumes of salt on the forums.
And let's not forget my personal favourite: the introduction of a new, unexpected, unpredictable, surreal bug!
You're going to have to be more specific.
Galnet has been completely dead even the day after patch day... so the clues for CGs are dead with it...
Cultists Blamed for Dedicant Tragedy
President Zachary Hudson has accused the Order of the Far God of being directly responsible for the fate of the Dedicant megaship.
“Our assessment of these Thargoid-worshipping extremists has been proved correct,” he told The Federal Times. “Hijacking the Dedicant to deliver it to their alien gods is an act of treason and mass murder.”
“I have ordered the Proactive Detection Bureau to root out every deluded individual with sympathies for this twisted cult. Automatic life sentences will ensure that these traitors never again put innocent people at risk.”
The declaration brought political pressure on all three presidential candidates to state their intentions for the Far God cult should they be elected.
Vice President Jerome Archer: “I will be pleased to continue President Hudson’s policy on dealing with these religious fanatics: stricter controls, increased surveillance and tougher sentences.”
Shadow President Felicia Winters: “Regardless of their misguided beliefs, thousands of former citizens also lost their lives during this Thargoid attack. I am lobbying for an independent security review into these tragic events.”
Zachary Rackham: “Hear me out. There’s a simple solution to all this. When I’m president, only criminals will pay tax. That’ll be a far more effective deterrent than imprisonment!”
Dr Alfred Ulyanov, an expert on the Order of the Far God, observed that the cultists had no way of communicating with the Thargoids: “The deeply distressing logs found on the Dedicant prove that the arrival of the Thargoids was unexpected, and certainly not the rapturous experience they believed it would be.”
The Federal Intelligence Agency is continuing to investigate the Dedicant in the HIP 19600 system. The Alliance’s amnesty programme with the Federation has been officially halted, but the Far God religion remains legal in most Allied territories.
hoping they have moved the galnet news release time to a new hour or the CGs are going to just drop with no warning preseeded news story....
Been nothing posted... o well...
Been nothing posted... o well...
Thargoid Scythes Undertake ‘Human Harvest’
Pilots’ Federation ALERT
A new type of Thargoid vessel is hyperdicting human ships and capturing living passengers.
Aegis has designated the hunter-class alien ship as a ‘Scythe’. Aden Tanner released an assessment of its capabilities:
“This Thargoid vessel has been designed not just for combat, but to hyperdict ships and extract human beings from them. Our observations of its tactics suggesting that abduction is its primary purpose.”
“A Scythe’s initial attack mirrors that of its Glaive cousin, by attempting to disable frame shift drives and deplete shields. It then launches a unique strike to makes passenger cabins and cargo holds uninhabitable. The resulting escape pods are rapidly drawn onboard onto the Scythe intact.”
Further observations were made by Vice Admiral Skylar Anderson, the Empire’s military liaison to Aegis:
"Due to their modus operandi, it now seems likely that the Dedicant’s population was forced to abandon the megaship and subsequently abducted en masse by these vessels.”
“The Thargoids have been capturing escape pods for years, but now it seems to have become a strategic priority. Perhaps they view ‘harvesting’ us in the same way as obtaining meta-alloys from barnacle sites. We can only imagine what unpleasant intentions they have for living human specimens.”