SOKN - no Combat Zones nor Violent Protests?

psyantologist · Jun 11, 2015

The federation is currently plunging Sokn into a civil war while Antal is expanding here as well. Both events happen independently from each other. (which is sort of amusing)

Yet there are neither Combat Zones nor Violent Protests. What the flip is going on?

(Whose idea was it to expand to Sokn anyway? The CC gain is relatively meh and the starport is ridiculously far out)

Recon022 · Jun 11, 2015

Where are the Violent Protests??

Anybody know how to find the Violent Protests for Pranav Antal Expansion? Are they at USS's? After 2 hours I have yet to find one in the System that is currently in Expansion phase...

Recon022 · Jun 11, 2015

Well after some further research it looks like it could be a bug, and somebody has already reported...sucks because there is only one planet in expansion phase for Antal, and we can't even effect it in any way...

psyantologist · Jun 11, 2015

Speaking of things that make no sense - how is Antal supposed to fortify the homeworld if Fortification is done by bringing cargo to the homeworld?

psyantologist · Jun 11, 2015

Recon022 said:
Anybody know how to find the Violent Protests for Pranav Antal Expansion?

When things work, the protests get displayed like Combat Zones.

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Recon022 said:
Well after some further research it looks like it could be a bug, and somebody has already reported...sucks because there is only one planet in expansion phase for Antal, and we can't even effect it in any way...

This is such . Sigh.

"Let's make it as unfair as possible and see who wins."

Recon022 · Jun 11, 2015

(Whose idea was it to expand to Sokn anyway? The CC gain is relatively meh and the starport is ridiculously far out)[/QUOTE]

I was kind of wondering the same thing...

psyantologist · Jun 11, 2015

Yar.

I also find it absurd that other Powers NPC ships are not targets for me. I thought this was how other powers commanders get their 15merits/kill...

Oh well, one futile trip into pirate space.

Rubbernuke · Jun 11, 2015

Recon022 said:
(Whose idea was it to expand to Sokn anyway? The CC gain is relatively meh and the starport is ridiculously far out)

I was kind of wondering the same thing...[/QUOTE]

Sokn was the highest CC system available, and we need CC badly since we are so small. Its gov was better for us to take over too.

psyantologist · Jun 11, 2015

Rubbernuke said:
Sokn was the highest CC system available, and we need CC badly since we are so small. Its gov was better for us to take over too.

So, we spent the CC there that we could have used to PREPARE a good system (there's plenty with 50% more CC in their exploitation radius than Sokn)

Oh well. Water under the bridge, I guess. We're all new to this.

The PP mechanics are awful. It's a bloody mess. I'm not saying it should be fair - but it should freakin' work. I'm sad. For months, I took the devs' side when people hated and complained. Now I'm there myself.

monkeymagoo · Jun 11, 2015

Just looking for the same thing myself. With a bit of luck it will be sorted soon.

psyantologist · Jun 11, 2015

So, the devs gave us a single opportunity to expand in cycle one - and they gave us a choice, one that no sane hive-mind of players would have picked - but we're stuck with it. And cannot make any use of it because the game mechanics are broken there. Awesome. Yet another week wasted. I just turned bitter. What a progresss from sad.

Stocker · Jun 12, 2015

What is annoying me, is that because its in the preparation top 10 people just go and prepare it. you can be a drone and do that. But power play allows you to prepare any system as long as its within the expansion cost. Also, you see that some systems are hollow and expensive to expand too. this is because of the 16ly circle around them being not supportive of your power. to get a good CC system to go from hollow to solid and bring the price of expansion down, you have to semi prepare the other systems around it. its like getting votes to support. Also when I am talking semi prepare I mean only preparing to about 500 to 750 per system. then the cost of the expansion to a high CC system will lower, then everyone can hammer away at preparing the highest CC system and make it the next expansion area.

There are systems that do have good CC and we have to turn them from being contested. We have to be Billy not Silly or we will end up falling off the top 10.

Rubbernuke · Jun 12, 2015

psyantologist said:
So, we spent the CC there that we could have used to PREPARE a good system (there's plenty with 50% more CC in their exploitation radius than Sokn)

Oh well. Water under the bridge, I guess. We're all new to this.

The PP mechanics are awful. It's a bloody mess. I'm not saying it should be fair - but it should freakin' work. I'm sad. For months, I took the devs' side when people hated and complained. Now I'm there myself.

Are there better systems? We have to be careful not to annoy too many people around us until we have more systems under our control. And 60 odd CC is better than most others, even if it requires a longer flight. Check out the Antal Reddit page for the reasoning.

Gerry10 · Jun 12, 2015

Can anybody tell me if the the missing violent protestors issue is going to be fixed soon i.e. the next 12 hours or shall I move on to other things?
I am currently in the system docked (I am at work for another 4 hours, but my wife will not be home for another eight, so plenty of gameplay before she moans...)

Dr. Curiosity · Jun 12, 2015

This is certainly a disappointing start to my first weekend since Powerplay started. I hope that this gets sorted quickly - but hey, at least the Antal faction can't drop in the rankings, I guess...

Rubbernuke · Jun 12, 2015

Gerry10 said:
Can anybody tell me if the the missing violent protestors issue is going to be fixed soon i.e. the next 12 hours or shall I move on to other things?
I am currently in the system docked (I am at work for another 4 hours, but my wife will not be home for another eight, so plenty of gameplay before she moans...)

I would do a chain of fortification and community goal. I did that last night waiting for a zone to appear.

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Dr. Curiosity said:
This is certainly a disappointing start to my first weekend since Powerplay started. I hope that this gets sorted quickly - but hey, at least the Antal faction can't drop in the rankings, I guess...

The danger is no expansion, Antal eliminated.

Naranek · Jun 12, 2015

couldn't find a 'violent protests' thingy either. if this doesn't get fixed soon, frontier should give us extra cc / an extra expansion opportunity next cycle. having only one and then on top of it not being able to have a go at it because of a bug just isn't fair.

paranormal · Jun 13, 2015

Recon022 said:
(Whose idea was it to expand to Sokn anyway? The CC gain is relatively meh and the starport is ridiculously far out)

I was kind of wondering the same thing...[/QUOTE]

It was a great idea and had plenty of support. Please visit http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteAntal/ where you can see the reasoning behind it. The reddit page actually, it appears, has become more like official page for the faction.

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Gerry10 said:
Can anybody tell me if the the missing violent protestors issue is going to be fixed soon i.e. the next 12 hours or shall I move on to other things?
I am currently in the system docked (I am at work for another 4 hours, but my wife will not be home for another eight, so plenty of gameplay before she moans...)

Yup, we have fortification issues, preparations issues. Plenty of tasks to do, please visit http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteAntal/ to see them in detail.