Rigging the Community Goal was a bad idea.
- Thread starter alterNERDtive
- Start date
No, one additional difference was that the Empire was trying to annex an independent system.
Yes, this was the reward the imperial supporters failed to figure, so they went for the questionable module.
Ummmm... what?
No. That was perfectly clear from the CG text. Either no-one besides lore people saw a that as any kind of actual reward or they just preferred an exclusive module.
Perhaps, but - as stated if - participation level was similar to last time then Tier 3 would have been easily attained and you'd have Imperials in here moaning that the NMLA tiers 4 & 5 were so easily attainable.
I do think how it end will play a part. As Ian Doncaster said in another thread (which I'd need to look up) the options are (if I recall):
Marlinists get to 5 and win.
Imperials get to 5 and win, but NMLA score some points for tier achieved (story of escaped NMLA elements continues)
[These are currently unlikely]
No one completes, but "stuff" happens based on tiers/bonds achieved.
Sorry it's not to your liking. Best of 3?
Well, it was obvious which is the bigger and more capable group. Why rigging the CG to handycap the less popular one?
If you want a community goal that isn't rigged, you need to make sure that both sides have the same amount of supporters, that both stations are identical and that the rewards for both CGs are identical. Sounds boring.
It confuses me when people agree with me by saying the opposite of what I've said.
My point is that a large number of people are willing to work very hard to stop the Empire from moving its navy into a system and taking over by force, and even more so when they're trying to kidnap an engineer. That has nothing to do with getting a missile launcher that's no more than a curiosity.
The current CG looks more like an internal crackdown by the Empire, and that's less likely to get the same level of support. (Though the participation numbers, and the bonds turned in, are still quite good, and the Marlinist side would be winning if the bar hadn't been set so high.)
I don't know which group is bigger and more capable. Please clarify.
Plot.
If the rebels won the battle of hoth, the SW series would have been very boring.
Just take a look at the combat bonds collected so far.
Umm, from memory the Marlinists has over 7k supporters last week - imps were around 2k...
Even this week you can look on the CGs and see there are more contributing to the Marlinist cause then the Imperial - the only reason the Marlinists aren't running away with it is that they've lost far more support this week than the Imps.
If the plot is already decided what is the point of the current CG..
There are plenty of wars which are going on where I can blow imps, feds or alliance ships.
i was for long waiting for an imperial commander coming forth this straight, and say he can't fight in this CG, as it is even more unfair as was the last one .
... wait, you are no imperial? fighting for people having to flee oppression and state-terror has always been fighting a rigged game!
did you read the CG descrption? tier 2 was key, to get megaships for the refugees!
Don't bother then.
Simples.
And tier 3 is where those ships actually leave the system. That tier is so hardly offset that this won't happen by the look of it as requirements are roughly 23bil in combat bonds.
Plot lines with multiple branches would be difficult to have to create for the writer of the story. They would have to plan out many different scenarios for the different outcomes, and it would be frustrating if work done suddenly becomes useless as it has to be rejected. So it's understandable that player driven outcomes are more often than not going to be rigged so as to be predictable. That said we might still find some flexibility in future CGs to give the players a little leeway to effect the planned plotline, but it's never going to allow us to deviate massively from the writers plan.
Last edited: