GALNET - 08 MAR 3307 - The Declaration of Archon Delaine

Delaine at the summit:
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But here I have to disagree. Fun, perhaps, for some certainly. But good? The outcome was fixed from the start. Most participants did so in the hope of gaining access to a specific permit locked region. From Frontier's point of view, this option never existed in the first place and they knew it, but unfortunately didn't communicate it. I'm sure I'm not the only one for whom the whole operation was nothing but a big scam.

I don't know what was really going on behind the scenes as most of us, but I don't think it was that fixed from the beginning and FDev were looking into how to make an event out of the oversight. The Galnet stories were hinting more and more that the jump would end in disaster. It wasn't a question of if, just how. I changed ships 3 times in the run-up and went with a science one:ROFLMAO:. Got blown up a few time, but I also got a hydra sample. Going out of the hangar the first time was one of the most intense moments in the game for me. It was a "great" atmosphere and then I exploded.
Would it have been better if the Gnosis would have jumped into an "empty" system? I think the outcry would have been even bigger. What do you do 4 weeks with nowhere to go?


Back to the King. I'm with Ratty on this and hope that whatever the "planned" outcome it's not put into the hands of the player base. I also hope that it's the beginning of a campaign to play the game as an antagonist, with more rewarding associated game play loops than now.
 
I also hope that it's the beginning of a campaign to play the game as an antagonist, with more rewarding associated game play loops than now.
I'm pretty much neutral of in-game politics, but did enjoy the weeks I was pledged to The King as I was eaning merits blowing up willing NPC opposing power ships rather than distributing leaflets...

But to have a truly 'evil' superpower and all of the trappings that should go with it, even wussy me could be very much on-board with that!
 
I wish Space Engineers had a version of Archon Delaine. This guy is starting to get quite interesting!

And is it my imagination, or has Galnet exceeded itself? I mean that in a good way (like exceeding all expectations). I wasn't around for the early Galnet, but this stuff is definitely more interesting than Galnet during the "waning years". It's keeping me "pinned" to the ED universe in a way the gameplay hasn't.
I know right, who ever is writing up these articles, keep it up.
 
Allow me a probably not too popular question: Are these Galnet stories in any way relevant to the game or to the players? Will this lead to any real consequences accompanied by game mechanics? Or just the usual fluff again? If you have no idea what consequences story lines to real ingame occurrences can have, I'd recommend a deeper look into Pathfinder: Kingmaker...
Lately what they do is start out as fluff and then a in game event, a CG ends up coming from it. Like the whole Jupiter Rochester thing and the trial, seemingly having nothing to do with players and then he breaks off and the players get to participate in the Jupiter Division vs Fed conflict, which I thought was pretty cool. So it usually leads to something.
 
I would love to see a combined Fedneck-Imperial fleet fighting together... Farraguts and Majestics flying side by side must be very impressive to look at. :cool:

OOC:
I wouldn't actually mind a "Kumo-Nation", but only as it would finally take that wrongly asigned stigma of "big bad evil guys" away from the Empire and imperial slavery (which treats people well) and give it to those filthy pirates and their actual slavery (with all its gruesome brutality like brutal beatings, shockcollars, etc.).
I wished we had had such cooperation against thargoids, against pirate scum? I could see that working. Here's one thing that wrankles me about powerplay, it is so far removed from the actual fabric of the galaxy as to be irelevant. I mean, really, it has so little to do with the fabric of the galaxy, powerplay allegiance could be alikened to 21st century football team affiliation. Do your kids have to wave goodbye to the UK for two years and go and do french national service just because they support Paris Gaint Germain? Do you have to pay Federal Taxes to the USofA for watching the superbowl, or get a Californian drivers license just because you like the LA Lakers? So if you rock up to a starport and get greeted by the uber-charming Imperial traffic controllers, or the Fedneck ones who do sound cool to be fair, should the system really "belong to" the pirate lord Achron, Or Li Yong Rui?
 
I wished we had had such cooperation against thargoids, against pirate scum? I could see that working. Here's one thing that wrankles me about powerplay, it is so far removed from the actual fabric of the galaxy as to be irelevant. I mean, really, it has so little to do with the fabric of the galaxy, powerplay allegiance could be alikened to 21st century football team affiliation. Do your kids have to wave goodbye to the UK for two years and go and do french national service just because they support Paris Gaint Germain? Do you have to pay Federal Taxes to the USofA for watching the superbowl, or get a Californian drivers license just because you like the LA Lakers? So if you rock up to a starport and get greeted by the uber-charming Imperial traffic controllers, or the Fedneck ones who do sound cool to be fair, should the system really "belong to" the pirate lord Achron, Or Li Yong Rui?
Yeah, it always confuses me that (as an example) Hudson is in control of an Imperial system like Burojinura with his thugs haressing everyone right in front of an Imperial station and you cannot help but wonder why the Imperial Navy/security forces would even tolerate it... it just makes no.f'n.sense. :cautious:
 
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