This is awesome! As an alliance Pilot, where do I sign up for these kind of cooperative effort missions?
This is awesome! As an alliance Pilot, where do I sign up for these kind of cooperative effort missions?
You can find more about that here or here if you're a reddit user and you want to read our take on it.
This is a project that took over a year to reach fruition and thus I'd like more people to know about it. The system in question is Ross 128, the permit for which is acquired at the Ensign rank (Rank 7) of the Federal navy.
No hard feelings to the Federation, but at the absence of Alliance lore and the extreme tunnel visioning on Mahon, there will always be as much pressure to FD to deal with the achievements of our side.
Thanks for helping Hudson! Feudal and Patronage in our exploited systems are actually VERY beneficial!
The Fed faction is still in system, the penal colony will still operate, the Federal Navy will most likely still keep the system under permit lock, unless the alliance navy can change that... oh... yeah... there is no alliance navy! :O
No hurt ego here! The running joke about alliance navy and faction ships is something even you're own guys make!
As for rankings please, Hudson is doing quite well in PP. You should ask Martin, Steven, and others that participate and understand it. We've shed a LOT of negative CC systems. sadly, given how odd FDev's calculations are, that's the only reason we dropped in the rankings was shedding those. PP is stagnant, VERY stangnant at the moment. Until post 2.4 changes occur, you won't see much change to that. I mean, not any power can withstand and actually GAIN from a prolonged attack by FIVE powers at once (the Grumpire as they've lovingly come to be known). What's your CC been compared to prior to the big attack on the Alliance that the subsequent weaponized expansions you took against us? Oh yeah, it brought you down CC wise. Look at how you regained a few hundred of that... it was with our loss-makers that we shared that returned the alliance plenty of CC. Anyone that participates in PP knows the Rankings are meaningless the way they are implemented and calculated now. Having the largest system count means nothing in the end to strength. We've learned and adjusted to a leaner, more controlled power since.
While Ross 128 is contested many other systems are not, getting Feudals and Patronages into just increases the numbers there and with probably changes coming in post 2.4, who knows what changes that holds anyway in terms of strong against factions for those powers like Hudson and Aisling that are at a HUGE disadvantage.
As for lacking people, not sure you've seen the Fed Hordes, we outnumber all other powers for the most part (except ALD possibly). Unfortunately, given the lack of any communication in game, there is no way for them to even know stuff like this occurs.
Interesting, this must be the only instance of a permit system being flipped, is it not? I wonder if that's an oversight, or if they deliberately allowed it in this instance?
No hurt ego here! The running joke about alliance navy and faction ships is something even you're own guys make!
As for rankings please, Hudson is doing quite well in PP. You should ask Martin, Steven, and others that participate and understand it. We've shed a LOT of negative CC systems. sadly, given how odd FDev's calculations are, that's the only reason we dropped in the rankings was shedding those. PP is stagnant, VERY stangnant at the moment. Until post 2.4 changes occur, you won't see much change to that. I mean, not any power can withstand and actually GAIN from a prolonged attack by FIVE powers at once (the Grumpire as they've lovingly come to be known). What's your CC been compared to prior to the big attack on the Alliance that the subsequent weaponized expansions you took against us? Oh yeah, it brought you down CC wise. Look at how you regained a few hundred of that... it was with our loss-makers that we shared that returned the alliance plenty of CC. Anyone that participates in PP knows the Rankings are meaningless the way they are implemented and calculated now. Having the largest system count means nothing in the end to strength. We've learned and adjusted to a leaner, more controlled power since.
While Ross 128 is contested many other systems are not, getting Feudals and Patronages into just increases the numbers there and with probably changes coming in post 2.4, who knows what changes that holds anyway in terms of strong against factions for those powers like Hudson and Aisling that are at a HUGE disadvantage.
As for lacking people, not sure you've seen the Fed Hordes, we outnumber all other powers for the most part (except ALD possibly). Unfortunately, given the lack of any communication in game, there is no way for them to even know stuff like this occurs.
Second of permit systems in total, first instance of a permit system related to the Navy ranks. The first permit system flipped was Phekda, which has now had its permit requirement revoked.
From our understanding, all permit systems are fair game, except the 3 Capitals which seems to be immune to being expanded into.
Which is sad, because Ross 128 is only 11 LY away from Sol.
No changes will come 2.4, POST 2.4 with core gameplay however.
As for improved CC, you may want to check with your PP leaders on what systems we lost in 3303, a LOT that returned considerable CC to Mahon. Not sure on the animosity with the Feds still, we've tried to improve relations, but guess some of you are still harboring a deep hatred. I mean, we both share leaders that people claim are corporate shills! [heart]
Also, I can name off quite a few weaponized expansions you did against us, that added a handful of negative CC to you guys, and that, were lost in our strategically planned 'diet', but as said this is a BGS thread (although BGS is getting more and more involved in PP as most powers not use BGS to improve triggers, some where more than HALF of their controls are now half-triggers).
In all honesty, we had a clue from Phekda and decided to test to see if the Federation would notice the change at all before we took the system.
We were also interested in seeing if FDev indeed even tracked these things, or cared in any way about the major component of E D that is the background simulation...
So far, both failed to surprise me by not happening.
Well, the Federation is a bit like the EU isn't it, they're far too busy fighting each other over money, and are completely blind to the enemy waiting just outside the city walls.