Confirmed that I have all 925 samples for Col 285 Sector RH-B b14-0 on board. I see that we're at the 85% mark so I'll drop those off after work tomorrow.
Thargoid invasion - Next target systems?
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I wish that storyline had played out a bit more. All those poor folks cocooned inside the Titans apparently with no adverse effects! I'm guessing it was a bit of fluff to justify the rescue gameplay loop (which is fun don't get me wrong!) Would be ace if there was more to this as the titans start to react to being on the back foot. Maybe they could be 'activated' somehow to cause problems at on foot facilities etc?
We still hold out hope they will become an interesting story...
That was a very careful choice of adjective, cmdr.
As an idle question (and because I'm stuck at work eagerly awaiting home time so I can grab me a shiny new Python Mk2):
When do we foresee the last Titan falling? I'm assuming we see Haded fall by the end of May-ish. (The half way point!) So conservatively, maybe August?
When do we foresee the last Titan falling? I'm assuming we see Haded fall by the end of May-ish. (The half way point!) So conservatively, maybe August?
About a month per Titan has been the pace for Oya and Hadad (Leigong and Taranis already having been significantly weakened by comparison), so that would be the end of September for the other four if that pace can be maintained.
But the others have much bigger starting control counts (Raijin and Cocijo especially) and stronger connectivity, which could delay things further ... and then Cocijo's inner core is particularly resilient for the sort of control-reduction strategies which have worked so far (so might require something like battering it down as much as possible at 6-7 controls for several weeks).
In the absence of any relevant changes from Frontier's side I'd be expecting something closer to the end of the year, but they've obviously got a lot of scope to make things faster or slower if they want.
Cheers Ian, that answered my question perfectly!
Very difficult question, unfortunately! Some of the others will not work the way that first four have, and one cannot really be sure what forms of planning will be needed or how much time it will take. I am preparing a special Titan Indra post due to that!
T. Hadad should become vulnerable on 23rd May 3310, if Frontier stops deciding that Titans can attack 30 systems from nowhere. The T. Indra plan needs some preparation time; perhaps a couple of weeks, followed by four periphery weeks, but I cannot be sure. Titans Thor and Raijin should be less strategically demanding but may need the incredible T. Oya treatment.
T. Cocijo is a uniquely hard problem of its own with the 17th place Spire site, and probably should be left until last, just in case we get ways to overcome that!
Cheers Aleks! Its maybe fitting that the last Titan puts up a struggle, and is suitably epic in its downfall! From a narrative perspective as the coda to the Thargoid struggle.
What in the Galaxy has happened to the peripheries? It looks as if either an entirely new set of systems has benefited, or perhaps the periphery size has increased!
Peripheries at Cocijo, Raijin and Thor look normal; solid sweep of the outer 10 at Indra in the last hour but that could have been being prepared for a while as they're all individually fairly distant systems. The sudden jumps around Hadad aren't of a continuous set counting inwards so it doesn't seem to be periphery action ... some sort of store-and-deliver move by someone who miscalculated the strength by a consistent margin, perhaps?
That would be an absolutely massive delivery!
They look quite continuous to me! The spurious part is that Col 285 Sector KW-M c7-7 and Col 285 Sector QM-B b14-5 only seem to have gained half the effect.
Of course my Carrier was out of position and the Carrier jump time is high; it is inbound to be within range of the three populated Control systems with HIP 30502 in mind first, although if this is related to peripheral progress, I suspect also that it is breaching 85%.
Ah - yes. Wasn't in game yet so relying on DCoH numbers there, which hasn't updated for all of them.
A periphery extension might make some sense - the original 10 having been balanced for 5 Alerts per maelstrom, a boost somewhere over 20 (22?) covers 9 Alerts better and might even allow for another increase in the Alert count. But if so it seems to have been applied retroactively for this week in a slightly odd way - even without the halving, Omumba and Montioch have jumped the same % amount but that's taken them over the 85%.
Some odd numbers at Indra too now I look more closely - the original periphery has jumped 90%, and then another 12 systems seem to have jumped ~16% each.
Still not seeing similar at Cocijo - the original periphery progress was ~3% but that doesn't seem to have been retrospectively applied to further systems.
EDIT: though Raijin is odd too - 24% jump on what seems to be a standard 10 periphery, but where did that come from?
A periphery extension might make some sense - the original 10 having been balanced for 5 Alerts per maelstrom, a boost somewhere over 20 (22?) covers 9 Alerts better and might even allow for another increase in the Alert count. But if so it seems to have been applied retroactively for this week in a slightly odd way - even without the halving, Omumba and Montioch have jumped the same % amount but that's taken them over the 85%.
Some odd numbers at Indra too now I look more closely - the original periphery has jumped 90%, and then another 12 systems seem to have jumped ~16% each.
Still not seeing similar at Cocijo - the original periphery progress was ~3% but that doesn't seem to have been retrospectively applied to further systems.
EDIT: though Raijin is odd too - 24% jump on what seems to be a standard 10 periphery, but where did that come from?
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Now a whole load more systems show as completed!
And more extremely substantial - if not quite as large jumps at Indra, too.
It must be a new Thargoid "strategic adaptation".
It must be a new Thargoid "strategic adaptation".
Oh, i'm fairly sure that part is not over yet. Just other parts are busy atm.