I know it's been out a while now and this may have been posted before but most current discussion is about Colonisation.
Most of PP2.0 seems an improvement. I like the majority of it. But this part has had me baffled and it really feels such a waste of time to even try to untangle what the game wants you to do. I was in Procyon, currently controlled by Mahon, who is an enemy power to mine (ALD). I'm here coincidentally on a small murder spree to get Sirius Corp unfriendly to unlock Uma, before I then go to get them allied so I can unlock Marco Qwent (this order of operations seeming to be the most efficient to me, as I'm playing a new commander save).
Whilst there, I downloaded Power Association Data and Power Industrial Data and, heading back to continue what I was going to do after leaving the settlement (now unfriendly, all good there), I decided to try to play the obfuscated "on foot PP" game. So I went into the Pilots Handbook (because this is 100% necessary to even try to understand this) and it says this, beneath Undermining:
I assume Undermining is my only option, having gotten these two items of data from a system controlled by an enemy faction, right? It's not expansion and it's not reinforcing.
I was quite close to Kamadhenu so went there. It's the Primary Stronghold, after all. Surely, based on that information above, I can't go wrong here?
Well...
Nothing in the handbook mentions a thing about distance. Where am I to hand these in? Why does it matter where I hand them in, given I'm undermining?
The game does so little to actually explain how this works, but even the handbook seems to fail to do this. My only other guess is that I need to go to an ALD controlled system that's nearby to Procyon (or just not a stronghold, which to me feels utterly ridiculous), but if that's true then why doesn't it say that? And why is this fun? I fail to see how that's a game loop that makes any sense at all, given how little value it actually holds.
I concede that I may be missing something obvious and so will willingly admit that if anyone can help. But even if I'm not, how has this game mechanic passed the quality checks for fun? At no point have I been able to organically utilise this part of the game just by playing. I have to do research, mental gymnastics and guesswork to actually turn this into a success, and my attempts at that so far have been almost entirely frustrated.
Edit:
So I went ahead to test my nearest guess and I was right... It can't be a stronghold, only a controlled system...
Well, at least the merits I got for this were well worth all that effort
Most of PP2.0 seems an improvement. I like the majority of it. But this part has had me baffled and it really feels such a waste of time to even try to untangle what the game wants you to do. I was in Procyon, currently controlled by Mahon, who is an enemy power to mine (ALD). I'm here coincidentally on a small murder spree to get Sirius Corp unfriendly to unlock Uma, before I then go to get them allied so I can unlock Marco Qwent (this order of operations seeming to be the most efficient to me, as I'm playing a new commander save).
Whilst there, I downloaded Power Association Data and Power Industrial Data and, heading back to continue what I was going to do after leaving the settlement (now unfriendly, all good there), I decided to try to play the obfuscated "on foot PP" game. So I went into the Pilots Handbook (because this is 100% necessary to even try to understand this) and it says this, beneath Undermining:
I assume Undermining is my only option, having gotten these two items of data from a system controlled by an enemy faction, right? It's not expansion and it's not reinforcing.
I was quite close to Kamadhenu so went there. It's the Primary Stronghold, after all. Surely, based on that information above, I can't go wrong here?
Well...
Nothing in the handbook mentions a thing about distance. Where am I to hand these in? Why does it matter where I hand them in, given I'm undermining?
The game does so little to actually explain how this works, but even the handbook seems to fail to do this. My only other guess is that I need to go to an ALD controlled system that's nearby to Procyon (or just not a stronghold, which to me feels utterly ridiculous), but if that's true then why doesn't it say that? And why is this fun? I fail to see how that's a game loop that makes any sense at all, given how little value it actually holds.
I concede that I may be missing something obvious and so will willingly admit that if anyone can help. But even if I'm not, how has this game mechanic passed the quality checks for fun? At no point have I been able to organically utilise this part of the game just by playing. I have to do research, mental gymnastics and guesswork to actually turn this into a success, and my attempts at that so far have been almost entirely frustrated.
Edit:
So I went ahead to test my nearest guess and I was right... It can't be a stronghold, only a controlled system...
Well, at least the merits I got for this were well worth all that effort
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