moral what?
Thargoid invasion - Next target systems?
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Interesting. My own test showed a significantly lower number for escape pods - did you sell them to the carrier’s market rather than hand them in to the Search and Rescue contact?
Given the progress on 19600, jumped over and getting to work, 454 samples in so far - would be fun to see if anything happens far as some fed rescue effort etc. if bold and brash independent pilots reclaimed the system before they could spool up a megaship.
-- 1,358 samples delivered by approx 14:41 servertime. We'll see if it does the trick.
- It did indeed to the trick.
-- 1,358 samples delivered by approx 14:41 servertime. We'll see if it does the trick.
- It did indeed to the trick.
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So in my experiences with the Scythe so far, I haven't seen an evidence of an anti-guardian field but it does seem to put out some sort of wave when it jumps in. It doesn't look like a shutdown field (and there's no warning), is it some kind of "ping" scan that detects pods (I did get a few ship scan notifications) ?
Without the AG-field I'm thinking they might actually be fun to try taking on with a SLF.
Without the AG-field I'm thinking they might actually be fun to try taking on with a SLF.
I think there is a "scan detected" warning if you have that voice prompt on, no display in the HUD though. I think it is safe to assume the green wave is their version of a manifest scan.
They can also detect your ship that way even in silent running. I was doing that while observing Scythes in signal sources, and they’d start firing when within 3 kilometers(though with no sign of active aggression, as they kept continuing on their patrol paths) after getting scanned by such a pulse.
That will also render the heatsink + SR combo redundant when trying to escape from one when running evacs.
I presume you’re joking, but in case you’re not…
Quandary
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a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation.
Certainly… but I’m quite afraid evacuation vessels won’t have that luxury. They might also go after one even if it only carries passengers.
(Will the Far God Cult start offering passenger missions to take their nutjobs to salvation? Now that would be quite funny.)
They also seem to not aggro on you unless you shoot them or bump into them. They fire a few lackluster shots, but you can pretty much circle dance with them with no real fight. All they do at that point is fire their incredibly fast hatch breakers at you.
I am. Forgot the smiley. My CMDR has no moral compass whatsoever. His moral compass is how much the mission pays.
I honestly think that’s on purpose. They really don’t look like and behave like combat ships at all… but they also have a weird niche between Glaive and Orthrus where it comes to doing stuff. One that I don’t know how to describe well.
The only ships I see them pose a threat (of destruction) to is shieldless paper evac boats. Though, that said, I wouldn’t so much rate their threat based on firepower as that they can steal fuel(from account of others), cargo and passengers in your evac runs.
That, and the fact that they are really, really creepy. Damn things give me the chills all over. I partly blame the Dedicant logs. Something you could have ripped straight out of a horror movie.
yeah I thought so too.
Indeed, victory in HIP 19600! Col 285 Sector UD-G b12-2 is a few percent away from another consecutive prevention of all attacks, and while I would love to adopt Haitchane, at present that is still very much at the mercy of Fleet Carrier jump queues. We will try to finish it; no promises, though!
Alert at 17:40 2nd August 3309:
Col 285 Sector UD-G b12-2 Alert 94% *95.2% — Cocijo 26 Ly, 2174 Ls planet
Evictions:
Tougeir Control 30% *30.5% — Oya 16 Ly, ~8.9k strength
Haitchane Control 28% — Leigong 30 Ly, 1087 strength
At minimum it appears to be passengers and occupied escape pods, other escape pods unknown yet, and it seems to be a case of interdicting if and only if you have them. That is to say, moving a dozen full holds of Research samples saw not a single interdiction, while carrying two pods gave me two Scythe interdictions between arriving at a star and docking at a carrier orbiting the star.
The empty system strength seems to be unchanged—the difference could be that the test in Daruwach was an inhabited system, and perhaps that escape pods have an increased effect there. It is a slightly strange hypothesis, but it is the best I can imagine for the moment in the absence of anything else!
Alert at 17:40 2nd August 3309:
Col 285 Sector UD-G b12-2 Alert 94% *95.2% — Cocijo 26 Ly, 2174 Ls planet
Evictions:
Tougeir Control 30% *30.5% — Oya 16 Ly, ~8.9k strength
Haitchane Control 28% — Leigong 30 Ly, 1087 strength
At minimum it appears to be passengers and occupied escape pods, other escape pods unknown yet, and it seems to be a case of interdicting if and only if you have them. That is to say, moving a dozen full holds of Research samples saw not a single interdiction, while carrying two pods gave me two Scythe interdictions between arriving at a star and docking at a carrier orbiting the star.
The empty system strength seems to be unchanged—the difference could be that the test in Daruwach was an inhabited system, and perhaps that escape pods have an increased effect there. It is a slightly strange hypothesis, but it is the best I can imagine for the moment in the absence of anything else!
We will have to prove this first assumption. The test this evening with 28 ocupied escape pods gave us nearly none progress (pods ware stored on carrier...), so it is absolutely unsure atm.
Out of curiosity, where was the new test conducted?
Daruwach again, and sold in Ross 112 again.
All of these things lead me to think that these Thargoids just don’t have any real individualistic behaviour, at least not the ships we interact with. They are either controlled by a higher intelligence or programmed because they seem to always perform perfectly predictable actions and never deviate from their laid out paths. Like they are mindless drones.
Like the one above, if they don’t find what they are looking for they ignore you completely until you behave a certain way, even though you belong to a party they are at war with.
Either that they are the most disciplined soldiers ever.
It’s not too much of a stretch to imagine what we are fighting is the ‘rank and file’ of the Thargoids - aka their drones, which are, presumably, intelligent, but not sentient/sapient, and directly controlled by the queens. Which are probably all comfy out in Witch Space while laughing at human idiocy.
(That last part about them laughing at us is a joke, so don’t take it too seriously. Although I would like to know how much of a threat the Thargoids actually think humans are.)
They seem very much like the Zerg from StarCraft.
Is everybody who is testing pod effectiveness using the same turn in method? They can be either turned in to search and rescue or sold to the commodity market...