Important Information From Operation IDA

[Ralph Vargr]

From the Discord:

Hi all,

Due to the information released today, making it clear all system progress will be reset every 7 days, we have made the tough decision to discontinue tracking and no longer focus on support and relief efforts for HIP 23716, or any other thargoid war systems.

While we encourage everyone to take part in the new Thargoid war content as they see fit. We do not feel we can advise our members to spend their time and effort on this dangerous hauling. After being given a timer showing 7 weeks, a vast portion of the community put their all into a single system, managing to move the bar to around 40% complete, yet all that work is now set to be erased.

Until more is known, and the expectations and requirements changed or at least made clear we will only be focusing on CG work when available.

To everyone who worked with us to move cargo and complete missions in HIP 23716, to all the AX and rescue commanders, we thank you for your exceptional efforts this last week.

~Op-Ida Management

 

[Ian Skippy]

Understandable.

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Bravo, Frontier! You did it again!

 

[Vedmo]

Perhaps by the nature of their endeavors the most patient players in the game.

 

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

It makes sense given frontier usually balance community goals the other way.

Also if humans win that's effectively cancelled the next 2 major updates hasn't it. We're probably not supposed to know that though. That we're probably not going to be allowed to win until update 16.

So just let the thargoids win.. there's no point in resisting...

 

[DrinkyBird]

Lol.

 

[Screemonster]

I can think of nothing more demoralising in a game than just having your progress wiped completely. Especially after finding out the task is numerically impossible to complete in the alloted time.

 

[Vedmo]

I can think of nothing more demoralising in a game than just having your progress wiped completely. Especially after finding out the task is numerically impossible to complete in the alloted time.

Only thing worse would be to learn Archon actually owns the rescue ships and you just delivered him a lifetime supply of Kumo burger meat.

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

This is so weird given they should have enough data from prior occasions like the big station repairs back in 2018/2019. Who on earth cooked up the mechanic that would wipe the progress of thousands of players every 7 days?

 

[Screemonster]

Only thing worse would be to learn Archon actually owns the rescue ships and you just delivered him a lifetime supply of Kumo burger meat.

AT LEAST THEN I'D GET TO HAVE A BURG WHEN WE'RE DONE

 

[Ralph Vargr]

Perhaps by the nature of their endeavors the most patient players in the game.

And The Fuel Rats.

 

[Ralph Vargr]

Alert: AXI and PDES are following Operation IDA's lead, and cancelling operations.

 

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

Alert: AXI and PDES are following Operation IDA's lead, and cancelling operations.

Thargoids won by propaganda / social engineering. Victory.

bwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaangh

 

[Tividar]

Sometimes I think ED likes to troll my sig...

 

[Sublime]

Pretty crappy DM job..

 

[tolm]

Totally understandable position.

Thanks for your efforts thus far.

o7

 

[Ralph Vargr]

Pretty crappy DM job..

I'm available...

 

[DrinkyBird]

Alert: AXI and PDES are following Operation IDA's lead, and cancelling operations.

Double lol.

 

[Felix DiCestria]

This is so weird given they should have enough data from prior occasions like the big station repairs back in 2018/2019. Who on earth cooked up the mechanic that would wipe the progress of thousands of players every 7 days?

That mechanic has been in operation with station repairs for some time, however the quantities are achievable.
Setting unachievable quantities and resetting progress renders the attempt counterproductive.

 

[Screemonster]

That mechanic has been in operation with station repairs for some time, however the quantities are achievable.
Setting unachievable quantities and resetting progress renders the attempt counterproductive.

Yeah, even when more stations were being burned per week than we could feasibly repair, we could still see the progress bars moving and bring specific stations back if we focused our efforts, and even if some individual player went off-script and decided to work on one that was local to their home base it still contributed rather than just vanishing into the void.

As it is now, even if the numbers were achievable, there's no point in bothering to do stuff as an individual (the way the vast majority of players play, for the record, even in open!) as any effort that isn't spent focused on wherever the big groups have chosen to focus gets tossed into the trash every week.

Absolutely awful game design for a game that's supposedly about blazing your own trail.