Folks, FD are looking at the numbers to see what's happened - as you can imagine those numbers don't represent what's going on in Lugh whether we are winning or not. Don't know details but hopefully they'll have things fixed up later. They're also working on the combat bonds influence bug that Roybe and the Mercs saw last night.
Fingers crossed that all will be good by this evening and we can get on with the fight for liberation!
Shaking my head folks. I would like to thank the Emperor's Grace and the Mercs of Mikunn for the catch on the influence, great catch.
For those wondering about the state of the alliance with these groups, we are still solid, personally. These are great folks to play with, extremely professional. I can only recommend them with the highest regard, anyone interested in the background sim, and plenty of good and fun gameplay to sign up with them. Regardless of the outcome, once committed these players give a massive effort. Unfortunately, due to the state of the game, they are currently letting their membership support us voluntarily until this issue is cleared up.
To those members of these groups, continuing on with us, through these problems we are truly grateful for the assistance. You have the patience of saints. We also understand the frustration of those who are waiting on answers and hope they are done so satisfactorily enough to warrant your return.
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To FDEV, please look at these forums. You have a community of people that want to live a life within your game. Much of the hew and cry comes from passion for the game. Those of us playing this event have expended effort tirelessly, for each other, and on your behalf, to make this event as fun and inclusive as we could and we know you are trying to do the same.
This post points to the main issue that has caused the consternation:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=71327&p=1933508&viewfull=1#post1933508
Ofreboy has correctly pointed out that the author used a little journalistic sleight of hand in the article.
However, in the end, we are players. We want, above all, fairness and equality, within any game. No one wants to play a game where an outcome is a given. That is not a game, nor a sandbox, it is a novel. We as players want to see your stories develop, whether Onionhead, Empiric succession, or the fight of the Alliance to maintain their freedom from the other galactic powers. We also want to see the community push their stories, not to logical conclusions, but to conclusions that our game play, prowess (or lack thereof), brings us to. Bugs aside, this is the heart of the concern. We understand your desire to maintain a 'black box' around the background sim. Those of us playing it appreciate that, it has always been my personal belief that it should be so. However, this idea does have some problems, this situation brings the issue to the fore. To make all this work, requires trust from the community, particularly when the game play feels unsupported by the outcome. This is my attempt to reach out on the players behalf to explain where we see a problem. When bugs arise in this type of event, within this type of galaxy, with these types of results...it raises questions that should never have to be asked.
We all understand, bugs happen. What I want to impress upon you, and the community, is that for this game to work as designed, we all have to trust each other that the illusion we share is malleable by the dreamers as well as the actors within the dream.
