Elite Dangerous | Titan Indra Vulnerable & Thargoid War Changes
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Couple of weird things.
1) When I'm destroyed at the titan, I seem to be respawning over 200 ly away instead of the closest station (Where all my ships are!!). Wonder if that's a new mechanic? I've got a choice between 25 minutes jumping back (with a short range bomber ship), or an hours wait for my long range ship to be transferred, quick jump to the staging point, and then another half hour for the bomber to transfer.
2) Are the hearts regenerating? When I signed out last night we were down to five hearts, but when I signed in an hour ago, Indra seemed to be back up to six. It might be my game is catching up with the progress made last night, but I wondered if anyone was getting the same?
1) When I'm destroyed at the titan, I seem to be respawning over 200 ly away instead of the closest station (Where all my ships are!!). Wonder if that's a new mechanic? I've got a choice between 25 minutes jumping back (with a short range bomber ship), or an hours wait for my long range ship to be transferred, quick jump to the staging point, and then another half hour for the bomber to transfer.
2) Are the hearts regenerating? When I signed out last night we were down to five hearts, but when I signed in an hour ago, Indra seemed to be back up to six. It might be my game is catching up with the progress made last night, but I wondered if anyone was getting the same?
Given that Arx is rewarded for destroying them, almost certainly not! Yesterday evening for me, the third was just over halfway destroyed, and I have just now witnessed its destruction.
It's a known bug with the Titan progress interface bugging out and either disappearing or resetting the current heart ring to 0% (progress) even though it's inaccurate, and it is actually damaged. Sometimes it disappears outright. Doesn't appear to be significant enough to warrant a fix from Frontier either way.
Though this has made me curious what would happen if a vulnerable Titan were to survive an assault week... unlikely to happen, of course, and it probably wouldn't be anything either, just continue to sit there damaged, waiting to be finished.
Exactly that; we saw it with T. Taranis! It became vulnerable on a Monday with the release of update 18, gained a little resistance when it passed over the Thursday cycle, but was destroyed at around 1855 that following Friday.
T. Indra also would have been able to attack NN 3281 this week due to its early clearance with Operation park-and-ride, but after the Thargoid strategy change I think its only options now are all still recovering, so presumably it continues as it is.
Use this its more accurate than the ingame system
Try a quick dock near the titan system, game is probably sending you back to last departure point
Maybe CMDR Mechan and the other hard-core axi CMDRS are taking a back seat this time?
They do seem to take some flak for being greedy and killing the titans too quickly
Who knows just a thought.
Summer holiday?
18.06 Patch improved the resistances after Hadad destruction? I like this explanation, its a game after all, and not everybody could join in Thursday-Friday-Morning Saturday for some fast titan kills.
If killed before thursday, and enough time to clear the alerts and invasion, its alright. I also have time to join all the hearts, in previous assault, I missed the night kills, or the ones at work time.
18.06 Patch improved the resistances after Hadad destruction? I like this explanation, its a game after all, and not everybody could join in Thursday-Friday-Morning Saturday for some fast titan kills.
If killed before thursday, and enough time to clear the alerts and invasion, its alright. I also have time to join all the hearts, in previous assault, I missed the night kills, or the ones at work time.
I like the pace of this Titans downfall. I am able to tag each heart so far. And it might last through Sunday pm, time will tell.
Well, if we're being completely fair, it was not "vulnerable" in the technical sense of having been stripped of enough controls for the game UI to indicate compromised resistance, only the ability to attack any Titan (alongside with, maybe, for that first one... lessened effects of the lower end of the resistance scale, or just a lot of players all smashing it at once). But I did forget about it.
... and I guess the only thing that would prevent Indra's destruction past Thursday (though it will probably not live to see that), would be if some of the other Titans gave up some of their control sphere for it, instead (if we go by the assumption Indra does not have sufficient Thargoids left to just send a few fleets into nearby uninhabited systems), but even then it would merely be a temporary measure. And the other three also appear to be more interested in their own survival (yet have made no motions of grouping together to increase the likelihood of not turning into piles of biomechanical scrap).
In any case, whatever happens moving forward will probably be without Indra. Someone should also tell them there's no shame in retreating, but I suppose a Titan is worth a lot less than we as humans would think? shrugs
What are the minimum credit bonds or stuff to get the decal and the ship kit?
I made around 20-30 million in bonds
I have no idea what are the minimun requirement to get the ship kit and decal
I made around 20-30 million in bonds
I have no idea what are the minimun requirement to get the ship kit and decal
2 million in the week prior to meltdown. I'd say you'll qualify...
So... I got the ship kit and the decal?
(if the answer is yes. Thank you so much)
Well, you are going to get them some time after the Titan's destruction. Just keep an eye out in the days following it going boom.
If I remember correctly, we get the rewards after the following weekly server update on Thursday.
4th heart at 50% after 9.5 hours (3rd was at 95% at 4:00am ET today, so I'm rounding up).
So we're taking down one heart/day. Still four more hearts to go. At this rate there's no way Indra will be gone before Thursday.
Let's wait for the weekend turnout to finish first - Thursday was around one and a half hearts gone(I think), then Friday slowed way down. But I don't think it will continue as slowly as that day.
If I end up being wrong, well, feel free to point me back to this post.
Awards Thursday, last heart Thursday. I now believe that award and war progress are different things
