Newcomer / Intro Liberal Federal Aid (Felicia Winters)

SleeperServiceGSV

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o7 CMDR's

So I've been trying deliver 40 units of Liberal Federal Aid from the Rhea system to the Aurora System, which the time of writing is an unoccupied system. I've docked at Collins Gateway. When I go to the Power Contact to deliver the Aid, the field "Liberal Federal Aid from System Rhea" Is greyed out. Am I missing something here? or is this a bug?

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Hope folks can help

Stay frosty
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Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
Just in case you don't know all that already: What I've learned so far is

a) The system you deliver to needs to be in range of the source system of the - commodity - 20 ly for fortified systems, 30 for strongholds I think, and

b) you need the right type of commodity for the right type of system - undermining, fortifying, acquisition. What I've missed and cost me a lot of trial and error: On the screen where you collect the commodity and set the amount the game gives you a description what purpose the commodity is for.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
That distance limit needs to be made more obvious then.

Cue roots turning up with a screenshot of on obscure part of the UI ;)
 

Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
I am guessing that is what the "strategic view" in the system's powerplay tab is for. I cannot confirm that though because, in VR, selecting this leads to instant CTD.
 

SleeperServiceGSV

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Hey guys thanks for your help. I found the setting to show lines connecting directly from system to system that PredictedCy was talking about. I'll send a screen shot when I'm back on later. But the mystery is solved until the next Frontier oddity. I love Frontier but they sure make you work to understand certain mechanics.
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PredictedCy

PredictedCy
SleeperServiceGSV said:
Hey guys thanks for your help. I found the setting to show lines connecting directly from system to system that PredictedCy was talking about. I'll send a screen shot when I'm back on later. But the mystery is solved until the next Frontier oddity. I love Frontier but they sure make you work to understand certain mechanics.
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Oh certainly. But at times, that's part of the fun.

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Factabulous

Factabulous
That 'show system connectors' setting is just the general 'show me where I can jump to' I think. Which with a decent jump range makes them useless.

The important thing was the 'within 20ly' - which does the trick. All it needs is adding the distances into the in-game description ...
 

misterDNA

misterDNA
Yeah I just gotta throw in my thanks as well to Helmut for mentioning the 20ly/30ly limit. I wasted so much time travelling system to system trying to offload these Liberal Federal Aid packages, when really all I had needed to do was jump one system over. Shame on you, Frontier UX designers for not conveying this critical info to the players.
 

SleeperServiceGSV

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Yeah, like my gripe is that, this game can make you waste your time completely. Things are overly complicated or simply not considered and it just becomes a waste of time and not enjoyable. Like there is has to be difficulty arc or time to gain knowledge about an a new element, there needs a pay off to keep you playing. But when you dump hours into something that led up up the proverbial garden path due to poorly chosen wording or design choice it make me just stop playing all together. I've actually considered it several times. Which kinda sucks.
 

Markov Chaney

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Factabulous said:
That 'show system connectors' setting is just the general 'show me where I can jump to' I think. Which with a decent jump range makes them useless.
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Nope, "show system connectors" was in the game before Ascendancy I think? You're talking about these I think...
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However in Ascendency if you go over to PowerPlay Information on the right and click on Strategic View you get this sort of thing:

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The dashed lines, I think, indicate systems where you can do something from where you are now, and that are in 20ly.

(There's also a dashed circle at 20ly but the screenshot looked a bit messy if I included that)
 
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