Powerplay Faction: Archon Delaine CYCLE 489: The Powerplay Is Dead, Long Live The Powerplay

Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell
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Ahoy Crew!

It's over! and this time for real, in five days we will say goodbye to the old Powerplay 1.0 and we will try our hand, together with all the other Powers, in the new 2.0... giving a warm welcome the new power belonging to the Alliance which is going to be led by Nakato Kaine. Moreover, on same day, the new Zorgon’s exploration ship, the Mandalay, will be ARXailable on the FDEV Shop (ship has been presented in a Galactic event too). So keep your fingers crossed (we’re hyper-hyped!) with the hope that everything will be accessible and playable from day one.

This last Cycle was also very intense... just as the previous one was for PP 1.0 overall. There were many expansions at stake (without knowing if these new territories remain under the various powers even after the update), including ours decoy at 63 G. Capricorni (HQ of the notorious anarchists Diamond Frogs) which unfortunately was not successful (argh!).

On the other hand, we knew it would have been a try-hard one: the triggers were against us (and in a combat expansion at Nav Beacon the ratio between valid targets for the expansion and those for the opposition is on awful average 1:7) and there were at least a couple of other powers ready to block it and so it was. Indeed it's a shame that mysteriously very few enemies were seen. Our GGs go to the few ones who came (as all engagements have been fun!)... besides they were too few considering that our punitive metrics would still have made it an easy game also for who prefers a mindless grinding vs. players' interaction [shame again and see ya in PP 2.0].

Anyway, who cares lol! This terrible gameplay mechanic is gone! YARRRR

But let's see the positive side: the coordination of the Delaine’s group, thanks to the unstoppable support of the CMDR Steele3rd’s Adult Daycare (ADDC), was outstanding. By our calculations there were very few "casual" merits dropped, and this is a great takeaway for us given the incoming Powerplay update! We therefore thank all the CMDRs who, with their valuable contributions, have confirmed their commitment to the King of Pirates: hands up and free rum for CMDR Shadow Draikana (NTRK), CMDR Geno Garon (REBY) and the Arch-Corsair CMDR Kay Volantyne (KUMO).

We also thank the rest of the Crew who rushed for the fortifications and also contained the risk of losing more CC for a useless [5C] expansion in Nankobi. Ultimately, Cycle 489 ended with 9 fortified systems and around 800 CCs (enough to avoid more mess lol!). The other powers had more [lucky] success than us, the bald hippie Antal took control of the distant Maia, Ms. Duval, Mr. Mahon, the bear Grom and the granny Torval, all got one more.

Last but not least... given that there's a lot of action going on in the game, it has to be noted that the anti-Xeno armies have brought another Titan (the seventh, Raijin) close to destruction... soon only one will remain!

FOR THE ARCHON!!!

AVAILABLE CC: 863 (-216)
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Rebel Yell said:
It seems that we're going to be cool, at the end... well... Delaine, I mean.
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NPCs are feeble though, and going by a stream I watched for Stronghold carriers they seem weak and very CZ cap ship like. Hopefully they get angry when you get to rank 1 (the guy I watched was doing his probation missions).
 

Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell
Rubbernuke said:
NPCs are feeble though, and going by a stream I watched for Stronghold carriers they seem weak and very CZ cap ship like. Hopefully they get angry when you get to rank 1 (the guy I watched was doing his probation missions).
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They should scale them up for ranks... i.e. high-ranked enemy players coming in system face ATR-like local power ships.
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Rebel Yell said:
They should scale them up for ranks... i.e. high-ranked enemy players coming in system face ATR-like local power ships.
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We will see- the FCs are very passive unless you start shooting, and the default on dropping in is them blasting NPCs elsewhere.

But then there is a balance between being impenetrable and vulnerable.
 
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