Thargoid invasion - Next target systems?

Similarly, when players decide that Cocijo is too boring to actually bother destroying, the Thargoids will have an "adaptation of their tactics" to accidentally lean on the self-destruct button at a dramatically appropriate point.
Or the Queen just decides it’s let its drones have enough fun messing with human stuff and calls the Titan back home.
 
It'd be so easy to keep it as the same irrelevant "for scorekeeping purposes only" system as the current one is
This sentence reminds me of fans at cricket matches filling in their own score cards, or plane/train watchers noting down Model and S/N (all 3 of these do exist!).

Plane watcher - oh look there's a Boing 737 TK8256 - darn I've already got that.
Driver near airport - darn that plane looks low - oh its coming in to land!
One immersed in PP, the other, I'm going exploring and see Sag A*
 
Well, that is essentially the problem with trying to combine an in-game strategic layer with any sort of narrative importance or pacing: you get the utterly counter-intuitive result that the more effective player tactics are, the more effective the resistance gets to keep the story on track ... and the less effective player tactics are, the less effective the resistance must be to ensure players don't get too far behind. Neither a purely strategic simulation nor a purely narrative approach has that problem.

I look forward - from a safe distance, you understand! - to seeing if Frontier intend to make the same mistake with the new Powerplay. It'd be so easy to keep it as the same irrelevant "for scorekeeping purposes only" system as the current one is, and so tempting not to...
You Sir, are the anti-white knighting hero the community deserves. I stand by to do your bidding my liege...
 
Putting aside the somewhat questionable nature of the Oya panic event... which I'm not too sure on what to think of it when any RP context is put aside... I am still curious how other Titans might/would respond to losing enough of their controls. Or spires, if it is tied to that (probably to be determined).
 
Putting aside the somewhat questionable nature of the Oya panic event... which I'm not too sure on what to think of it when any RP context is put aside... I am still curious how other Titans might/would respond to losing enough of their controls. Or spires, if it is tied to that (probably to be determined).
The exact nature of the response is probably not so important as the removal of the ability to make any meaningful plans with a timescale more than the current week.

Even the mere threat that something as unpredictable as this could happen means that the difficulty of Indra and Thor must be revised substantially upwards ... while even at somewhere as relatively straightforward as Hadad the possibility that the next "panic attack" could instantly create new Controls without requiring Alerts first means that removing the final Spire before the Titan is dead would be extremely risky.

(For actual "new tactics" options, sending some Hydras to defend the Spires, or if done early enough adjusting the system targeting priority to go for more inhabited systems, or having the next Titan attacked actually pick up and move to an AW further into the bubble over the course of a week then place a bunch of high-strength Alerts in and around a critical system at the cost of leaving most of its systems vulnerable and too far away to do it much good during and after the move)
 
The carrier [SNPX] Resolute has a buy order for Col 285 Sector HD-G b12-1 and is stationed in Cephei Sector ZZ-y b3.

Col 285 Sector HD-G b12-1 is actually directly beside our parking spots in Lyncis Sector VU-P b5-5, whereas your Carrier would be two jumps away—we will start harvesting in Col 285 Sector HD-G b12-1, but deliver them separately instead!


... nuttin but broken instances ...

Is that still arising due to many Commanders freezing the vents, where it starts behaving if only one Commander uses the Nanite torpedo?
 
Col 285 Sector HD-G b12-1 is actually directly beside our parking spots in Lyncis Sector VU-P b5-5, whereas your Carrier would be two jumps away—we will start harvesting in Col 285 Sector HD-G b12-1, but deliver them separately instead!




Is that still arising due to many Commanders freezing the vents, where it starts behaving if only one Commander uses the Nanite torpedo?
okay, yeah I´ve had a nive spot in cephei Sector ZZ-y b3 which was why I had the carrier stationed there.
It´s hard to say how many samples are missing. From 88% it would be 192. But I´ve just delivered 224 Samples from which 128 were definitly out of Col 285 Sector HD-G b12 plus another 164 are on my carrier. I´ve closed the buy order on the carrier.
Conclusion the system is most likely finished with the next tick.
 
And in terms of storage carrier, I didn´t think there would be so many cmdr concentrated in those systems therefore it´s probably better if the collected samples are sold to the rescue ship immediately after collecting. The instance Efficiency isn´t needed with so many cmdrs
The Nadira still has a buy order of 1000 for all cmdr wanting to earn some money. And then that system should be done aswell. But SNPX is now doing some Titan progress, maybe that will take the confusion a bit out of it.
 
It's either:
1. The AI is amazing, it analysed our tactics, perceived a weakness in our tactical approach, and developed an entirely new, never before seen tactic to confound and delay our inevitable victory. Or . . . .
2. FDev tweaked it to so that everything is completed to a release schedule.

I could not possible guess which ;-)

07 CMDRs
M-5 was well designed and well programmed.
Dr. Daystrom would be proud.
 
In addition to the post of @PapaDragon_I: The [SNPX] ISS Nadira (apologies --> docking access is available for every one now) has moved to Cephei Sector EQ-Y b1, collecting samples for system Cephei Sector AF-A c21; buy order 2.300 set.

The Nadira order is now complete!

With all twenty other planned Alerts complete, the remainder of this week for us will be:
  • Keeping the M. Hadad perimeter sealed.
  • Attacking T. Oya.
  • Later in the week, perhaps effecting up to two more Alert completions at M. Oya.
I am a bit mindful that three more Alerts would expose the Spire site; that may not be an immediate problem, but it will be a massive problem for the full clearance effort if it falls prematurely. That being the case, going beyond two more Alerts really means committing to going for six more Alerts to push M. Oya into a Final Ten scenario next week, which would be a lot of unreasonable work!
 
The amount of Orthrus sitting ducks killed at the spire site in Oya last week to get the 85% discount on the Control attacks, it's a miracle that it had any left to do Alert scouting with, never mind a fleet of well over three times the usual size. Even before that, Oya hasn't had an Alert succeed for four weeks and has had poor Alert success for the entire war. Compared with the other Titans which didn't do this militarily extremely powerful "new tactic" Oya should have far less forces than they do.
When you mention "sitting ducks", does that relate to cheesing?
 
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Morning, apologies for the quiet, 4am test batches were an experience.
So to make sure I'm getting things, pretty much, the line/question is... how crazy would we like to get. because stopping here = all good if old rules resume, the fresh controls cannot spawn alerts for a week as I recall?

Whereas, if people truly want to charge Olympus... Bar two I think (The former Lyncis Spire at >40k -- ~41400 at Lowest from test batch, and WO-A b3 at >60k+ -- ~69931 from test batch)? the worst alerts should be under 20k apiece. Muchihiks now reading 44% in the background, so we may see the spire exposed from general enthusiasm given the ~4d 23h remaining - i don't know who's targeting there.

But, whether we went completely obscene, gather for any further systems for this week then deal with finishing the sample orders for the inner 6, plus fresh contenders... Or aim for the outer ten's 15% and spire-assisted recapture, is roughly the question, with a general view towards the latter, yes?
 
This is probably a good test of whether an attack can be called off to protect a Spire position for future weeks. Once Tougeir completes, there will be Muchihiks at 61% and AF-A c9 at 43%, and if both of those complete (which there's plenty of time for at current pace) the final Spire will be peripheral next week.

If those two attacks can be called off - or at least one of them can! - despite them clearly being possible to complete this week, then next week is "safe" to strip as many controls as people feel up to, and no major worries if that isn't all ten.

If they can't be called off, then it would be safest to assume that a Spire attack couldn't practically be called off at 85% either, and next week would probably have to remove as many controls as possible assuming that the Spire would not be available in future.
 
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