As a matter of fact, today, for the first time since 3.3 hit, ee#4 went for a system without ammonia. Considering the longest jump ever done on EE#4, i.e., 60Ly from
CD-54 471 to
Orang, I checked for candidates w/ AW around
Otherni with a slightly higher jump range:
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Otherni -(66)-> LFT 434: ['Vinogradov Enterprise - Ocellus Starport (Industrial)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 2) ['LFT 434 5 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(17)-> Pemepatung: ['Salgari Vision - Coriolis Starport (Extraction)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['Pemepatung 3 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(45)-> Bok: ['Landsteiner Orbital - Coriolis Starport (Terraforming)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['Bok 8 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(28)-> Opet: ['Carroll Station - Coriolis Starport (Industrial)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['Opet 10 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(65)-> Apishna: ['Hamuy Port - Coriolis Starport (Extraction)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['Apishna A 1 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(21)-> Er Longs: ['He Port - Orbis Starport (Industrial)', 'Westerfeld Hub - Orbis Starport (Industrial)', 'Hoyle Orbital - Coriolis Starport (Agriculture)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 1) ['Er Longs A 4 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(70)-> Kamadhenu: ['Shajn Market - Orbis Starport (Agriculture)', 'Couper Hub - Orbis Starport (Industrial)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['Kamadhenu 2 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(47)-> HIP 18187: ['Tuttle Gateway - Coriolis Starport (High Tech)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['HIP 18187 6 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(41)-> Phrygiang: ['Revin Hub - Coriolis Starport (Industrial)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['Phrygiang A 3 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(68)-> LHS 1380: ['Gurevich Orbital - Orbis Starport (Agriculture)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['LHS 1380 A 4 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: no)
Otherni -(56)-> Ngaiawang: ['Dornier Terminal - Coriolis Starport (High Tech)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['Ngaiawang 1 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(63)-> He Qiong: ['Wilson Survey - Coriolis Starport (Tourism)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['He Qiong 4 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: no)
Otherni -(52)-> Iota Pictoris A: ['Barmin Dock - Ocellus Starport (Refinery)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['Iota Pictoris A 5 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(55)-> HIP 17298: ['Louis de Lacaille Terminal - Coriolis Starport (Industrial)', 'Froud Hub - Ocellus Starport (Industrial)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 1) ['HIP 17298 AB 5 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
Otherni -(39)-> HIP 30045: ['Kuchner Port - Ocellus Starport (Industrial)'] (Barnie-hosting candidates: 0) ['HIP 30045 4 - Ammonia world'] (attacked in the past: yes)
The only 2 that were not attacked before (either pre or post 3.3) are
LHS 1380 and
He Qiong. Despite the availability of these two systems, the column decided to go for a much closer HT system. If we were prone to wearing tinfoil hats, we could go as far as saying that EE#4 is configured to look for thargets within a 60Ly range and will drop to a different target (Economy: high tech) if none are available, rather than re-visiting a previous tharget. However, since in the past there's been a similar case with EE#6 that, at the time, was steadily going for Economy: Agriculture systems, and suddenly deviated towards an Economy: High Tech target, only to go back to Agriculture on the following week, I'm not feeling that confident about these conclusions. Indeed, contrarily to this time, in that case there were plenty of potential targets w/ agricultural stations and the jump was way over the average jump range for that column.
NOTE: in the past, we've observed thargeted systems being visited more than once by the thargoids (e.g., HIP 9141), but never by the same column/EE.
UPDATE: the situation looks pretty much the same for next week, from
Sokolsci there're no non-attacked systems with an AW and a targetable station within a 60Ly radius, we'll see if they stick to HT, change target, or improve the range.