If cooling was a concern, doing it in a vacuum via radiation would probably be the least efficient way to do it. It would have probably served them better to park themselves on an appropriate ammonia world, and it would naturally keep prying commanders away as well, but then I guess we wouldn’t have a game.
Thargoid invasion - Next target systems?
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If cooling was a concern, doing it in a vacuum via radiation would probably be the least efficient way to do it. It would have probably served them better to park themselves on an appropriate ammonia world, and it would naturally keep prying commanders away as well, but then I guess we wouldn’t have a game.
It's not a full vacuum where the spires are placed, but a thin atmosphere. So no, it wouldn't just be radiating it out into vacuum for the spires.
So they are instead used for...?
The secret to running cold is engineering your power plant for efficiency and/or a beam laser with the thermal vent experimental effect. If you can keep the TV beam trained on an enemy, you can keep your ship at 0% heat just by firing your laser.
The caustic sink module helps when you get hit by a corrosive missile or a toxic cloud. It just absorbs corrosive damage so that it does no damage to your hull, and you just eject it like a heat sink once the bar fills up. It's much nicer than boiling off the caustic or dorking around with decontamination limpets. The xeno scanner probably isn't strictly necessary, you could probably leave that out for another heat sink or caustic sink if you wanted.
The gauss do still have use, just that if a Glaive shows up they suddenly won't have any use because they'll melt.
now and then we do a little trollingSo they are instead used for...?
There’s that, and then there’s the fact that most people can only repeat the same gameplay so many times before it’s time to do something else..
Nice thing about gauss is that the standard version is best, and Ram Tah can make them immune to the anti Guardian field
Oh, a pad hog, what a pain. I was in my PG so not guilty but I'd qtd anyway if I was calling it a night. From doing rescues where the rescue megaships have only one L pad we are painfully aware of that problem.
No, there's nothing in the previous games that could be connected to it as such.
Unless... (to self - No. Stop Phill stop, you've not even had your second cup of tea yet, let your brain rest a bit before letting it run riot.)
You don't need any guns for rescues, you either fight or rescue but not both at once because it's counterproductive. You'll compromise a fighting ship to try and do rescues with it as well, and compromise a rescue ship by trying to make it fight as well. Engineer ships for both activities and swap between them as needed and for bit of variety. Getting bored with rescues, do some combat for a bit, and vice versa.
Both the Beluga and Cutter are fine. All my rescues last night were in either the Beluga or Conda.
Very useful post for those going Thargoid hunting but don't want to be in over their heads:
source: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/where-can-i-find-scouts-and-only-scouts.631363/#post-10502829
source: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/where-can-i-find-scouts-and-only-scouts.631363/#post-10502829
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Was there an actual CZ or is it just rando spawns?
I was there yesterday too, but it took me a while to realise there wasn't actually a CZ bar...
Full CZ for me visiting the megaship. Don't see why it wouldn't spawn one for you,,,
The bars get broken from time to time but the event continues anyway. At the end of Procyon the bars stopped moving yet we did get to the hydra phase each time. It is just a surprise when it happens is all.
so 8 of 12 controls taken care of in a few days. Here I thought it would be close. Still a lot of invasions that will turn into controls, though, if not taken care of.
Despite humanity's impressive advancements in energy projection technology by 3310, mastery over plasma, a unique state of matter, continues to be an elusive goal. The result is a chaotic, scattered trajectory akin to futuristic birdshot, though less impactful.
In a bizarre turn of events, 1,399 Thargoids have been greeted in a manner that defies logic and reason. This unorthodox welcome was made possible by technology so absurdly comical and seemingly impractical that its very use served as a stark reminder to both the inexperienced weapons creators and the extraterrestrial visitors themselves.
The unconventional method of greeting not only showcased the sheer absurdity of the technology employed but also emphasized a fundamental truth: regardless of the obstacles or challenges presented, there are individuals who possess the ingenuity and resourcefulness to make even the most improbable solutions work.
In a bizarre turn of events, 1,399 Thargoids have been greeted in a manner that defies logic and reason. This unorthodox welcome was made possible by technology so absurdly comical and seemingly impractical that its very use served as a stark reminder to both the inexperienced weapons creators and the extraterrestrial visitors themselves.
The unconventional method of greeting not only showcased the sheer absurdity of the technology employed but also emphasized a fundamental truth: regardless of the obstacles or challenges presented, there are individuals who possess the ingenuity and resourcefulness to make even the most improbable solutions work.
There were only four controls to start with, so that's 0 of 4 done.
Probably just a janky instance.
Something funny not about current assault : since the start of Thargoid war, they have been able to capture humans but no human was able to capture any Thargoid.
I must have been thinking invasions, true.
Escape pods seem a novel concept to them...