Whelp, the decay mechanism changes brought us the big burn out. FDev implemented their best guess to ensure that people stopped doing reinforcements, which makes us make sad noises. This is almost certainly their intent, but to eliminate so many folks from participating in PowerPlay cannot be their intent. We hope that they rebalance their rebalance and that Cmdrs return to it. That said, we added +2 fortified and +3 stronghold despite FDev's best efforts to destroy Cmdr's efforts since last November. We're not be able to do that too much longer, as the amount of decay in fortified and in particular, stronghold systems means that millions of CP are wiped out each week, dwarfing the efforts of all our Cmdrs combined. The worst part is that it won't change the state of the game; it just wastes contributions and devalues player autonomy. The only way to significantly impact the game is to work together on moonshot promotions. We have a few in mind this cycle, but far fewer than if this intervention hadn't happened.
We did well with acquisitions this cycle, with +7 exploited. We ask all Utopians to reinforce these new systems to ensure that the effort made to acquire them is not wasted. We had a decent contest with LYR on 89 Tauri, but in the end LYR prevailed with their superior numbers right at the end of the cycle. gg Corporatist Wage Slaves.
Many of us sided with the Blue Haired Imperial Lady in the CG, and had a fair amount of fun doing that. It will be our turn soon, with most likely Torval. We don't really have a beef or share much of a border with Granny Torval, so it will be interesting to see what sort of scenario the FDev story ideation dart board comes up with. Our only hope is that the CG doesn't involve exploration or exobiology for us, or mining for Torval, unless we both get a CG location that suits our bonuses, otherwise the CG will be quite unbalanced. We shall see.
The new Panther Clipper Mk II is coming out next week sometime. For those of us colonizing the galaxy, this will be a game changer. If you're interested in sharing builds, please use starship-builder when EDSY or Coriolis updates their tooling to cope with the new ship. I am personally going to be buying one to finish off my Tier 3 station, as it reduces the number of loads from 267 to about 170.
We look forward to data downloads coming back.
If you'd like to join Pranav Antal, please come by our Discord and say hi! We have the best, most chill community, and if you want to rank up fast to get all those modules, we have ways and means.
We did well with acquisitions this cycle, with +7 exploited. We ask all Utopians to reinforce these new systems to ensure that the effort made to acquire them is not wasted. We had a decent contest with LYR on 89 Tauri, but in the end LYR prevailed with their superior numbers right at the end of the cycle. gg Corporatist Wage Slaves.
Many of us sided with the Blue Haired Imperial Lady in the CG, and had a fair amount of fun doing that. It will be our turn soon, with most likely Torval. We don't really have a beef or share much of a border with Granny Torval, so it will be interesting to see what sort of scenario the FDev story ideation dart board comes up with. Our only hope is that the CG doesn't involve exploration or exobiology for us, or mining for Torval, unless we both get a CG location that suits our bonuses, otherwise the CG will be quite unbalanced. We shall see.
The new Panther Clipper Mk II is coming out next week sometime. For those of us colonizing the galaxy, this will be a game changer. If you're interested in sharing builds, please use starship-builder when EDSY or Coriolis updates their tooling to cope with the new ship. I am personally going to be buying one to finish off my Tier 3 station, as it reduces the number of loads from 267 to about 170.
We look forward to data downloads coming back.
If you'd like to join Pranav Antal, please come by our Discord and say hi! We have the best, most chill community, and if you want to rank up fast to get all those modules, we have ways and means.
