Jameson crash site system has barely any FC in it, its only ~110 lys from the CG systems so you don't need them...
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2 jumps from Lembava in a DBX. Quite handy, really.
Like I said, nor much use for my carrier this CG.
Jameson crash site system has barely any FC in it, its only ~110 lys from the CG systems so you don't need them...
I found still better to farm an undockable space medical installation with three satellites where are no others (there are plenty of those). No need to relog, just a quick jump out to supercruise and back to the installation.
Progress is pretty meh, though they are close enough that neither side has given up. No sign of the uncommitted piling onto a winner. And the target will probably be updated today I guess, really should be around 8-10% for completion. Will be interesting to see if there is much of an uptick on the weekend, maybe casual players will just stay away.
This is a CG for the small ships. No need for a carrier.
And a Dolphin is really lovely here with it's lovely supercruise/normal space maneuverability and decent jump range.
Also, there is the concept of engineering materials being more precious that they actually are plus the fact that not everyone is being entertained by the reset-the-instance game play (be it by going in and out of supercruise or by relog).
Delivering/Trading is tedious are hell too - due to the required numbers, it's actually worse than loading a cutter with PP materials, 10t at a time.
And a Dolphin is really lovely here with it's lovely supercruise/normal space maneuverability and decent jump range.
Also, there is the concept of engineering materials being more precious that they actually are plus the fact that not everyone is being entertained by the reset-the-instance game play (be it by going in and out of supercruise or by relog).
Delivering/Trading is tedious are hell too - due to the required numbers, it's actually worse than loading a cutter with PP materials, 10t at a time.
ah... and it's a bit silly to count encoded data deliveries in tones... what are we using here? Magnetic tapes? And do we deliver them along with the reading machines too?
Scratch that... guess we might be using cartons of punched data cards...
this how a storage would look like
Scratch that... guess we might be using cartons of punched data cards...
this how a storage would look like
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yeah, people say that every time we have these types of CG.
Though if they can change it for exploration CGs I don't see why they couldn't for data
Part of me wishes FD to be a bit more assymetric with CGs- previous CGs have been far more engaging because they are not binary outcomes. Here for example, why not have the event go ahead, but there is a security breach and you have to scan to find the perpetrators before they get away? Or, for each tier unlocked a bomb is defused, or with each unlock a new mini galnet update?
Just pitting unused Tier 1 against mildly used Tier 1 NPCs is.......predictable.
Just pitting unused Tier 1 against mildly used Tier 1 NPCs is.......predictable.
Yes one for each qualifying CG though oddly not adjacent to each other in the default list of stored items, twice the range and projectile speed of standard same jitter though.
I wasn't sure from the contributions chart whether both sides were competing, and Sirius just had the edge, but was slowly pulling away (aided obviously by having twice the number of contributors):
the hourly numbers seem to show Sirius maintaining a lead in the last 24 hours, for the first day Antal was winning some hours, but not enough:
... but when you aggregate into daily chunks it seems clearer that Antal has dropped off quite badly, and even Sirius is dropping off (normal CGs Friday > Thursday). Ok, Friday still has a few hours, but they'll have to be large to even pull even with Thursday.
Will be interesting to see what happens at the weekend - there are only really RP reasons (and CR, if you're bad a math) to do these CG - I could see them not getting the usual weekend uplift.
the hourly numbers seem to show Sirius maintaining a lead in the last 24 hours, for the first day Antal was winning some hours, but not enough:
... but when you aggregate into daily chunks it seems clearer that Antal has dropped off quite badly, and even Sirius is dropping off (normal CGs Friday > Thursday). Ok, Friday still has a few hours, but they'll have to be large to even pull even with Thursday.
Will be interesting to see what happens at the weekend - there are only really RP reasons (and CR, if you're bad a math) to do these CG - I could see them not getting the usual weekend uplift.
Mission accomplished
Sorry Pranav, but your quiches are definitely not the best in the galaxy.
Just thinking (possibly alcohol-fuelled). The aim of these CGs is for Sirius & Utopia to gather data scans necessary to provide security for the Inter-power summit. So, logically, this would need to be a) recent; and b) gathered from the general intended region of the summit.
There's this thing called the Cobra Effect, which the tl;dr summary of is: if you offer an incentive to improve safety / security, people will find a way to game the incentive to their benefit, and in doing so probably make your safety / security problem worse. In this case, instead of gathering scans than might actually be useful, we're all buggering off to Jameson's Cobra, gathering data scans that are a) all from one location and b) too old to be useful; and then laundering them through material traders for data from who knows where / when.
Wouldn't it be fun if the summit, wherever it ends up being held, ends up being attacked / disrupted because several thousand CMDRs (at current count) got lazy, gamed the relog system, and provided data that, logically, was of no use whatsoever...
There's this thing called the Cobra Effect, which the tl;dr summary of is: if you offer an incentive to improve safety / security, people will find a way to game the incentive to their benefit, and in doing so probably make your safety / security problem worse. In this case, instead of gathering scans than might actually be useful, we're all buggering off to Jameson's Cobra, gathering data scans that are a) all from one location and b) too old to be useful; and then laundering them through material traders for data from who knows where / when.
Wouldn't it be fun if the summit, wherever it ends up being held, ends up being attacked / disrupted because several thousand CMDRs (at current count) got lazy, gamed the relog system, and provided data that, logically, was of no use whatsoever...
Equally, without primarily using the material traders and relogs, it'd have got the 50k-ish that pre-3.0 research CGs tended to get.Wouldn't it be fun if the summit, wherever it ends up being held, ends up being attacked / disrupted because several thousand CMDRs (at current count) got lazy, gamed the relog system, and provided data that, logically, was of no use whatsoever...
So they only need to get more than 50k semi-useful bits of data from the material traders - who may have a mix of old and new data, but since the engineers will take it probably at least have proper provenance tagging on it - to be ahead on that.
As speculated, the daily deliveries declined over the weekend (very unusual, Saturday & Sunday are usually biggies). Sunday has a few hours to go yet, but I can't see that changing much.
Utopia is now at the delivery level Sirius reached 2 days ago, with the delivery levels dropping (and we would expect them to keep dropping on weekdays) it is pretty much impossible for Utopia to stage a comeback
Always counter-intuitive to me that people would continue delivering for Utopia in this situation - but they're still doing it. (I guess you could say the same about Sirius supporters, though they at least have the chance of T3 I think)
Utopia is now at the delivery level Sirius reached 2 days ago, with the delivery levels dropping (and we would expect them to keep dropping on weekdays) it is pretty much impossible for Utopia to stage a comeback
Always counter-intuitive to me that people would continue delivering for Utopia in this situation - but they're still doing it. (I guess you could say the same about Sirius supporters, though they at least have the chance of T3 I think)
I suppose it's the same dynamic as an old-style exploration CG - the biggest hand-ins are going to come from things you collected before the CG rather than during it - but with the material caps and local nature meaning that there's no point in waiting until the end to hand-in.
Well, it's good to have something to spend bulk G1s on now that the Colonia engineers are all finished? (Not that any of these data G1s have really been needed in bulk since we finished off Interdictors back in 3305)
Tier X in both pays equal or better than Tier X+1 in one, and requires fewer materials, so there might be some mercenaries working on that basis.
That probably changes if Sirius does reach T3, but that's doubtful if the rate keeps dropping.
Well, I traded in data for the CG.
It will probably be the last CG I spend materials on.
It will probably be the last CG I spend materials on.