After having spent a few hours digging through this weeks numbers, we have come to the following conclusions:
This means that instead of being hit by grinders this week, we're being hit by much more coordinated undermining than last week. To put it into perspective, at the end of last cycle only 24 systems had hit their undermining triggers. This week we're already looking at 21 systems having hit the triggers.
This doesn't seem bad, but the thing is that this week the underminers have started with the systems that are closer to Gateway. That way they're working a downhill battle, because the undermining triggers they have to hit get lower as the week progresses.
So far 7 of the 21 systems that have hit their undermining triggers, have undermining triggers of 10,000 and above, and currently systems like Pongo (with a low undermining trigger) hasn't been undermined.
What this means, ladies and gentlemen, is that we need to step up our game once again. We've had a few relaxing weeks, where we could get away with ~140,000 effective merits in fortifications, but that's not going to cut it this week. We hit galactic rank 1 by being highly organized, and while we'll be overtaken by Hudson at the end of this cycle, we're still on track for being galactic rank 2, and all we need to do is do what we do best - fortifying.
If you wish to help us out, please use our spreadsheet to find your fortification targets and priorities, and by all means feel free to drop by our TeamSpeak server, even if you do not have a microphone. The server is at thargoid.space:9987 (the port number is important) and the password is mahonnaise.
- The raw undermining we're seeing this week is about on par with last week's numbers - we're currently projecting something like 820,000 merits.
- The effective undermining (the troublesome kind) we're seeing this week, is currently 40,000 merits above what we saw for the entire last cycle.
This means that instead of being hit by grinders this week, we're being hit by much more coordinated undermining than last week. To put it into perspective, at the end of last cycle only 24 systems had hit their undermining triggers. This week we're already looking at 21 systems having hit the triggers.
This doesn't seem bad, but the thing is that this week the underminers have started with the systems that are closer to Gateway. That way they're working a downhill battle, because the undermining triggers they have to hit get lower as the week progresses.
So far 7 of the 21 systems that have hit their undermining triggers, have undermining triggers of 10,000 and above, and currently systems like Pongo (with a low undermining trigger) hasn't been undermined.
What this means, ladies and gentlemen, is that we need to step up our game once again. We've had a few relaxing weeks, where we could get away with ~140,000 effective merits in fortifications, but that's not going to cut it this week. We hit galactic rank 1 by being highly organized, and while we'll be overtaken by Hudson at the end of this cycle, we're still on track for being galactic rank 2, and all we need to do is do what we do best - fortifying.
If you wish to help us out, please use our spreadsheet to find your fortification targets and priorities, and by all means feel free to drop by our TeamSpeak server, even if you do not have a microphone. The server is at thargoid.space:9987 (the port number is important) and the password is mahonnaise.
