News Starports "Under Repair": change to visibility of progress.
- Thread starter Paige Harvey
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Great, now if FDev really wants us to fix the stations they'll make sure we have a source of all the materials required somewhere in the Pleiades. Profits are low enough and I'm doubting that people are going to want to trek to the bubble and back to haul in the Natural Fabrics required for some of the repairs. I've not checked availability of everything needed lately but also the supplies of needed mats are going to dry up quickly now as people get back to trying to deliver things.
Wait till they lay waste to dozens of stations and everyone ends up doing hauling missions, just to make it so they have some where to land.
Well maybe it's a hard thing to balance, like CG targets that are sometimes way too high or far too easy. They don't really know how much the community will respond.
Hopefully it'll settle down, patterns will emerge & the battlefront of burnt stations will ebb to & fro like other parts of the BGS. I don't really see mistakes here, just a learning process. Functionally the pace of new burnt stations can be slowed to compensate for any lack of player input, allowing the overarching plot to develop at the intended pace. If stations get repaired more quickly, the thargoids can attack more to compensate.
This is intended to be a long-term feature that will be in the game permanently, or at least until the slowly developing story reaches it's conclusion (as FFE did) with a kill or be killed dilemma.
Please, be honest here. Is this what i think it is? FD will not trigger any new AEGIS AX research untill we repair all of AEGIS labs/stations? Cause it really looks quite fishy..
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Goose4291
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Or let it burn. If players cant be bothered to fix stuff, then they will have broken stuff. Fine by me. That is what consequences is all about. This 'save the world and become a billionaire' stuff most games have is crap anyway.
Thank you for the info, but where is the information in Galnet that other starports have been attacked again? Not even a word....
Nah.
What will happen is a Galnet article will go out with Palin going "Wait, you lads needed some resources? Well blimey, why didn't you say so! I just so happen to have a load you can have!" (Or otherwise unstated benefactor). And poof! A load of resource will appear to shore up a larger proportion of the gap.
Though in the server side update notes Frontier post it'll read as:
I’ve thought that CG, PP and manipulating the BGS are hitting the bottom of most useless, senseless and meaningless kinds of gameplay ever created in game industry but apparently I was wrong. You guys and gals in ED have proved that digging deeper into the ground is possible. Nobody with common sense will put such an effort for something being not part of it. People are playing CGs for the credits not because they do care if the White Knights of HIP 9837428347 will have new outpost or not. How many players are involved in PP except PP weapons nomads? How many player groups are still active and playing the BGS? Take look on statistics and wake up. Please.
It's not for the money that's for sure...
It's not the locally sourced goods that I have an issue delivering to the repair efforts but I'm wondering what is going to be done with these:
I'm also assuming that local supplies of the other required materials aren't going to dry up quickly as we try to deliver those which is unlikely.
I think the current number of required 728 ton Cutter trips to fix The Oracle currently stands at just about 13500 by adding up the tons needed. However, unless you plan on delivering these long range ones shieldless you're going to need a fuel scoop to haul these 218+ ly routes so less cargo for you so there goes the 728 ton number. Did FDev honestly ever look at where these goods they're asking for had to come from? But hey, at least the profit on the Power Converters will be around 414cr a ton for a whopping profit after travelling 376 ly of about 274k credits if you haul in 664 tons.
But at least once The Oracle is repaired we will once again gain access to something we can't get anywhere else...no wait...there's NOTHING different about these damaged stations that makes them ANY different from the other stations we can visit. They have Aegis labs but Aegis hasn't told us anything about them. Would repairing one station resume research into a certain area? Who knows! Maybe if FDev could kindly toss us a bone and give us REALLY good reasons to fix these stations that'd be great.
It's not the locally sourced goods that I have an issue delivering to the repair efforts but I'm wondering what is going to be done with these:
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The annoying goods to fix The Oracle:
Natural Fabrics: 251,328 Closest Distance: 218.82ly
Emergency Power Cells: 555,108 Closest Distance: 303.36ly
Energy Grid Assembly: 278,115 Closest Distance: 292.27ly
Power Converter: 252,354 Closest Distance: 376.39lyI'm also assuming that local supplies of the other required materials aren't going to dry up quickly as we try to deliver those which is unlikely.
I think the current number of required 728 ton Cutter trips to fix The Oracle currently stands at just about 13500 by adding up the tons needed. However, unless you plan on delivering these long range ones shieldless you're going to need a fuel scoop to haul these 218+ ly routes so less cargo for you so there goes the 728 ton number. Did FDev honestly ever look at where these goods they're asking for had to come from? But hey, at least the profit on the Power Converters will be around 414cr a ton for a whopping profit after travelling 376 ly of about 274k credits if you haul in 664 tons.
But at least once The Oracle is repaired we will once again gain access to something we can't get anywhere else...no wait...there's NOTHING different about these damaged stations that makes them ANY different from the other stations we can visit. They have Aegis labs but Aegis hasn't told us anything about them. Would repairing one station resume research into a certain area? Who knows! Maybe if FDev could kindly toss us a bone and give us REALLY good reasons to fix these stations that'd be great.
Alas we live in a world where everything has a price
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I've been pulling hundreds of tonnes of water purifier in my t-10 to titan's daughter since it went to repair but I never saw any of the numbers go down from day to day. It does make me wonder that is we don't get these stations repaired, then the thargoids move closer and closer into the bubble?
I think we've now got 9 out of 20 AEGIS stations out of action. I'm only speculating here but if all of them are out of action, do we 'loose' and the thargoids attack home worlds?
As far as AEGIS is concerned, I don't think they are INRA 2.0 but the ambiguous nature of 'are the thargoids really the bad guys/ a threat to humanity?' is getting my goat a little. I'm hoping this is cleared up soon, because without that clarity, we'll just have people not help out AEGIS because they think they're just INRA in different clothes and miss out on all the blowing up thargoid gameplay which has been awesome so far.
I think we've now got 9 out of 20 AEGIS stations out of action. I'm only speculating here but if all of them are out of action, do we 'loose' and the thargoids attack home worlds?
As far as AEGIS is concerned, I don't think they are INRA 2.0 but the ambiguous nature of 'are the thargoids really the bad guys/ a threat to humanity?' is getting my goat a little. I'm hoping this is cleared up soon, because without that clarity, we'll just have people not help out AEGIS because they think they're just INRA in different clothes and miss out on all the blowing up thargoid gameplay which has been awesome so far.