Mercenaries of Mikunn - The Background Simulation and Colonization Test
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Its no different to Imperial space, we have half expansion triggers with Feudal and Patronage governments, but worse fortification triggers with feudal
Jane Turner
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It was 118407 in the last 24 hours, 116376 in the last 12 hours and 54743 in the last two hours, not that I was counting or anything. Hard for a player group, or ever two or three (TWH) to stand up to that.
Solo/private, what's that
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Ok then. Shame that most TWH members were thousands Ly away from the bubble taking part in our exploration event this time, but they should be back soon eventually.
When ZH has no expansion targets for me I often snipe systems alone as there is no problem for me to do 6k-12k PP per cycle.
If Rootsrat ask us to help again surely we will.
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Thanks! I don't want to commit you guys to anything without clearing it with your group as a whole. This week lets discuss. Your group helped a lot. Don't feel bad. Many of our heavy hitters are on DWE as well.... at Beagle Point. It was the perfect storm, lol. You can't get further away than that... though I hear one almost made it back early with excessive lithobraking.
I'm not sure it does (I don't actually know though) but during the Pegasi Pirate war The White Templars all of a sudden seem to have the [WT] tag so I'm thinking that Frontier maybe updated their cmdr names without a restart.
Might be worth asking them?
Thanks for the fight this week (and the IPC as well). Great fun (and quite expensive...).
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Jane Turner
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This was the progress of both sides of over the week normalised by trigger
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How do you collate that information? Is is manual or do you automate it somehow? That's good info.
(We had a couple of chaps wondering around with a significant amount of merits and you didn't kill them. Simple as that, no need to bring the solo/PG thing into it - it can't be proved. The people that do powerplay have had that discussion many times before and it just creates bad feelings.)
The Mercs and CI are two of the oldest and most experienced BGS groups. We have the best data collection because it's necessary. CI's website is built around it.
We also don't force our guys to do open. We have open and private group players. I do both because I play with members who like both. I did kill both an anaconda and a fer-de-lance in my vulture with quite a few merits on me. You can ask Chardenz.
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Jane Turner
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Obsessive monitoring of the state of play and an unhealthy love of spreadsheets.... I still prefer this one from Chireni
and I wasn't casting aspersions, merely stating that I will only play open, despite not actively engaging in PvP unless it involves a lot of running away
Anyway I'm off for a kip, I've got a [can't even quote Withnail] behind the eyes
Obsessive monitoring of the state of play and an unhealthy love of spreadsheets.... I still prefer this one from Chireni
and I wasn't casting aspersions, merely stating that I will only play open, despite not actively engaging in PvP unless it involves a lot of running away
Anyway I'm off for a kip, I've got a [can't even quote Withnail] behind the eyes
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Jane Turner
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We don't want any old riff raff in! Our engine of open source though
https://github.com/ZNS/EliteTracker
Its not set up for PP yet, though the guy who wrote it add features if you so much of suggest casually it would be nice if.
https://github.com/ZNS/EliteTracker
Its not set up for PP yet, though the guy who wrote it add features if you so much of suggest casually it would be nice if.
I only play in open, and I have to run when necessary- though not a few minutes after announcing that my enemies should quit the system or be destroyed. While I had a large bounty I wasn't stacking merits, but on the occasions when there was a Delaine superiority in the system I couldn't gain merits.
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Open vs solo and private is a topical question when an open bonus for Powerplay is being considered. I don't support solo and private Powerplay at all. Only the developers have the figures for open contributions, though if players are expected to make meaningful comments on a proposed open bonus scheme they would have to be released. I suspect that Delaine has a fairly strong Pacific/Sydney element and it might be that they were able to operate with some impunity. It might be expected that a Powerplay faction was more strongly represented across time zones than a couple of player factions and their allies?
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I'm not fond of merit sniping either, it just seems a bad mechanic. What I'd like for the Powerplay level of the game would be a design which could produce a few epic conflicts which decided wars. Even with more of a commitment by both sides to Open, Wadir still seemed more like a series of skirmishes.
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Open vs solo and private is a topical question when an open bonus for Powerplay is being considered. I don't support solo and private Powerplay at all. Only the developers have the figures for open contributions, though if players are expected to make meaningful comments on a proposed open bonus scheme they would have to be released. I suspect that Delaine has a fairly strong Pacific/Sydney element and it might be that they were able to operate with some impunity. It might be expected that a Powerplay faction was more strongly represented across time zones than a couple of player factions and their allies?
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I'm not fond of merit sniping either, it just seems a bad mechanic. What I'd like for the Powerplay level of the game would be a design which could produce a few epic conflicts which decided wars. Even with more of a commitment by both sides to Open, Wadir still seemed more like a series of skirmishes.
It has often been the case that we have been working in the same system as the Empire and not been able to see them. It comes down to instancing, friends lists, wings (a solo player is more likely to see an enemy wing) and location.
It's frustrating but something that we have learned to live with.
For example, the other night we were fighting with your players and then low waked out to follow them and no one was there. We are sure they were still in system but instancing prevented us meeting.
So the two sides were effectively in a private group.
It's frustrating but something that we have learned to live with.
For example, the other night we were fighting with your players and then low waked out to follow them and no one was there. We are sure they were still in system but instancing prevented us meeting.
So the two sides were effectively in a private group.
Like yourself I only play in open (with the odd exception for non PP activities when beer takes over). I was in Wadir all week and at times had problems seeing other cmdrs. Last night the IPC (starkiller, Chef, etc?) were there and I knew they were there but still had to keep logging in and out of the game to instance with them.
I'm not sure how many players you think we have (we don't even know) but there's very recent poll on the Kumo reddit which might be an eyebrow raiser for you. The crew have always worked hard for what we take and keep.
Oh you mean the poll I had to answer earlier last week to see the results?
I imagine thats full of a lot of inquisitive minds like myself!
Oh you mean the poll I had to answer earlier last week to see the results?
I imagine thats full of a lot of inquisitive minds like myself!
HA! that's the one, now take 1 off the total....
It was a fun little scrap alright. Dont think we ever had a chance of actually winning it multiplier wise though