A third Soontill Relics boom fuelled another cycle of prodigious growth for Aisling (+55, 1648). This time 400t persisted through most of the week and into C527, besting Kaine’s (+27,826) +53 in her ‘Great Leap Forward’ of C519. Amongst the gains: Duulngari, Gullion, Hemait, Henet, Macap, Nata, Piar, Vasuki, Wulgu and Xionean.
We prevailed in contests facing Li Yong Rui (+32, 1005) in Urabey, Volu and Wolf 289, and against Auntie Arissa (+22, 1466) in Ahmeti. Big Ed Mahon (+41, 1576) was another beneficiary of Ngurii’s hardworking archaeologists, along with Simguru Pranav Antal (+39, 841), who drew level with Federal Shadow Prez Jofra Archer (+23, 841). Granny Torval (+19, 587) at last had Lu Yupik restored to her as she gained ground on President Winters (+13, 614).
A special thanks from the Princess for the leaderboard-topping Cmdr Sonicology of Aisling’s Angels, who racked up almost 3 million merits. On the podium, new community member [MEVE] Yami Tohka and the veteran [AD] Maheo made more than 2 million apiece. Perhaps the real heroes were the small BGS team who have made the recent Relics booms possible by innovative work to manipulate the sliders.
To slow us down, FDev again rebalanced merit gains. This is unlikely to be of consequence to end game players who measure success in control points and painting the map. To incentivise undermining, more reliable means of doing so would be welcomed. The return of merit decay (in systems this time) will necessitate more reinforcement and a more focused and explosive approach to fortification.
Aisling faces a challenging CG against two powers in no less than six systems. What with undermining mechanics and 11v1 contests being what they are, we may not hold them all in the short term. We fight Archer in LHS 6031, LTT 7509, and the already very hot Santy; LYR in Daikulcandi, Gondul and Rho Tucanae. A week after the ARX price of the new OP medium multipurpose Gutamaya Corsair was reduced, it has been released on general sale for credits. Get to it, and have fun out there.
Objectives for Cycle 527/2.36 (until July 10th)
We prevailed in contests facing Li Yong Rui (+32, 1005) in Urabey, Volu and Wolf 289, and against Auntie Arissa (+22, 1466) in Ahmeti. Big Ed Mahon (+41, 1576) was another beneficiary of Ngurii’s hardworking archaeologists, along with Simguru Pranav Antal (+39, 841), who drew level with Federal Shadow Prez Jofra Archer (+23, 841). Granny Torval (+19, 587) at last had Lu Yupik restored to her as she gained ground on President Winters (+13, 614).
A special thanks from the Princess for the leaderboard-topping Cmdr Sonicology of Aisling’s Angels, who racked up almost 3 million merits. On the podium, new community member [MEVE] Yami Tohka and the veteran [AD] Maheo made more than 2 million apiece. Perhaps the real heroes were the small BGS team who have made the recent Relics booms possible by innovative work to manipulate the sliders.
To slow us down, FDev again rebalanced merit gains. This is unlikely to be of consequence to end game players who measure success in control points and painting the map. To incentivise undermining, more reliable means of doing so would be welcomed. The return of merit decay (in systems this time) will necessitate more reinforcement and a more focused and explosive approach to fortification.
Aisling faces a challenging CG against two powers in no less than six systems. What with undermining mechanics and 11v1 contests being what they are, we may not hold them all in the short term. We fight Archer in LHS 6031, LTT 7509, and the already very hot Santy; LYR in Daikulcandi, Gondul and Rho Tucanae. A week after the ARX price of the new OP medium multipurpose Gutamaya Corsair was reduced, it has been released on general sale for credits. Get to it, and have fun out there.
Objectives for Cycle 527/2.36 (until July 10th)
- Join the Discord for insight, mentoring, BGS, and PVP. Powerplay is a community game, so connect with us. It is not practicable to keep all public objectives up to date nor is it necessarily in our interest to reveal them all. Targets may change frequently.
- Community Goal: Sign up first in Maityan - Maughmer Ring. [1] Fight Archer in Santy - Noakes City, Szilard Terminal, the Onyx Bastion; LTT 7509 - Sharman Installation; LHS 6031 - Dobrovolskiy Station. [2] Fight LYR in Gondul - Bessel Landing, Fiorilla Dock, the Obsidian Directive; Daikulcandi - Krenkel Station; Rho Tucanae - Lewis Survey.
- Reinforcement [1]: Push HIP 1536 to be a stronghold. Fortify Arevat, Hernkopa and Core Sys Sector CB-O a6-0. Counter undermining in Tacahuti. NB. non-combat reinforcement also works for all the CG systems.
- Reinforcement [2] of recent acquisitions: start with the one you acquired with those Relics! Timocani, HIP 1742, Col 285 Sector DR-J b23-4, Almudji, Col 285 Sector YZ-G c10-14, Col 285 Sector LU-X a44-5, Col 285 Sector RJ-I a39-1, Banki, Kats, Synuefe YC-P b52-1, Col 285 Sector XU-G a40-2, Col 285 Sector NU-X a44-2, HIP 1299, Col 285 Sector EG-L b22-5, Ceut, HIP 42539.
- Acquisition & Undermining: let’s win the CG and consolidate what we have instead.
- Aisling Duval Powerplay is committed to the ZYADA alliance: Zemina Torval, Yuri Grom, Arissa Lavigny-Duval, Denton Patreus, Aisling Duval. We ask all Aisling Duval Agents to respect this alliance by not attempting to undermine our allies’ systems.
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