Thank you from the Hutton Truckers - a 5 month battle against the BGS

Cmdr Steele

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As my esteemed colleague cmdr Riverboat has said, it did feel like some weeks we just couldn't put enough time into the effort but credit where credit is due - i held the highest wanted status for quite some time then i met cmdr Bret Riverboat and invited him to join me in cop killing to assist with the effort in Georges Pants. Allow me to share with you that this man is a combat machine!

He blitzed my previous effort within a week and though we both were wanted and had crimson stain bounties on each of us in excess of 1m credits, when 2.1 hit i noticed my bounty had slipped down to a paltry half million.

I tried to catch up to no avail and though there were many combat pilots whom we were lucky enough to have join us in our struggle none other than CMDR BRET RIVERBOAT held the highest bounty for the longest time; which is a testament to his personal effort in the fight of our lives!

#forthemug

o7 CMDR BRET RIVERBOAT

Sincerely,
Your brother in arms,
CMDR VANION STEELE
aka
HOPS 1
 
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AliJax

AliJax
The Moment when the News Broke, and we had a reporter & film crew at Zamka Platform Coriolis Station as the Now Loyal to the Hutton Orbital Truckers Co-operative gunners fended off any last remaining Crimson Scum ships, was a great moment in the Elite Dangerous & HOT History.

Somebody should wake up Cecil he's been far too quiet in recent times, and give him an excuse to have a drink.

Congratulations to All Truckers and their Allies.

#ForTheGin
#ForTheMug
#ForTheSticks
 

Roybe

Roybe
Vingtetun said:
True PwP gaming - a 5 month mission to work together to win something..... and the team did it.

It only remains for me to say - we're LIVE on Hutton Orbital Radio on Thursday night 20:30 BST for a celebration - www.huttonorbital.com and click "radio" - join in on the Lave Radio teamspeak channel teamspeak.laveradio.com (there is a Hutton channel in there) and, from Hugh Mann's studio - a great rendition of #forthemug - listen at: http://elitemeet.info/chm/

We are back to Hutton Trucking and WOW do we have some exciting new missions for everyone coming up!
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07 to everyone! Sounds like a great ride was had by all! Good luck on your future endeavours. And, yes, the BGS IS the way the game is meant to be played!
 

DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
Vingtetun said:
We have a lot of intelligence on how it works now.....
despite our assertions that there were bugs,
in every single case there was a reason why.
When it came to the wars, instead of trying to control our 5 systems plus 6-8 others to make sure we were clear,
we just controlled the one we wanted and rolled the dice each time regarding whether we were in the clear or not.
We lost every time.

Only got a handle on it when we properly studied what the factions were doing elsewhere and started working in those sectors too.
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Congratulations.

As they say "what doesn't kill you - can be written off as a learning experience".

But seriously Well done, that was a long hard slog.

As I understand it being in six systems is about the threshold where constant state management becomes critical. AEDC's primary faction is in more than fourteen systems now, and we have other factions that we look after as well.

We had to move away from Spreadsheets a long long time ago.
Databases are the go.
- You end up having to track hundreds of systems.

Tip of the hat, We'll see you in the next "Rise To Power"

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the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
Vingtetun said:
they handed us a small military outpost up there in space - not the shiny planetary one. Apparently, the population of the military base was higher - with soldiers squeezed in there like sardines.
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Orbital facilities > planetside facilities.

Population isn't assigned on a per-station basis; it's system-wide..
 

Vingtetun

Vingtetun
It nearly broke the team but we learned so much.... there have been changes since the last point release that mean we have had to change tactics, and we're not convinced that the war and election states are really working properly now - it is STILL better to win during the 3 day pending period when you can throw everything at it and get a sizeable lead and then sit back during the war itself and bolster your other systems than it is to genuinely fight like a trooper during the live bit.

However - onward with our 9th system now (having deliberately ditched one as we didn't want conflict with another player group).

Our next challenge is a system with 10 times the population of GP!
 
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