This is exactly why I don't want the Thargoids to be a gamechanger. I speak as an individual and minority but I as a player am not the slightest bit interested in the Thargoid plotline. I am in fact completely ignoring it as if it were in a different game. I have no problem with other people doing this content and would never for a second demand that FDev remove it but I won't be happy if I'm forced into it. Content should be optional and with all the happenings near Maia it basically was. Members of my group have shown me rescues from burning stations and Thargoid surface structures which I admit were interesting but not enough for me to go poke it myself.
I honestly hope the Thargoids remain optional content because if the absolute worst happened with most the bubble on fire and random hyperinterdictions at every turn then that could quite possibly be the end for me. I do realise too that random hyperinterdictions were a regular thing in the old games but I didn't play those and didn't know they were a thing when I started ED. Basically it's not what I signed up for.
People are funny creatures.
I sort of feel the exact opposite. Not saying Thargoids should be taking out noobs in Eravate, but a full scale war should have a small impact on every day life, for anyone in the bubble. Even if it's just a change in supply and demand.
Unfortunately, FD seemingly aren't great at this sort of thing, and the Thargoids will probably just poke around the outside of the bubble, having no meaningful reason to engage them.
Or, it'll be some big misunderstanding, and it'll all be over, like that federation/empire war that never happened that I was so looking forward too.
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
