Elite: Game talk

Rawnu
28 Nov 2024, 6:45pm
IndyOverall, I'm hopeful that AX will stick around, but I'm concerned that it's "slowed down" quite a bit recently. Currently, IMO, if you don't get in//near a system on Thursday or Friday, you're out of luck for most AX fun IMO.


This is one thing that always bothered me, if you had no time to join in on Thursday/Friday, by Friday evening (CET) most stuff was done and Saturday morning all was over. Btw, Frontier released a new AX pre-built ship that doesn't seem to suck, so maybe there's a future for AX combat anyway.
Connor McCall
28 Nov 2024, 7:44pm
Think the Titan is heading for Sol, Mars due to alien artfacts that where found ages ago might be tied but could be wrong
Kasumi Goto
28 Nov 2024, 8:19pm
RawnuThis is one thing that always bothered me, if you had no time to join in on Thursday/Friday, by Friday evening (CET) most stuff was done and Saturday morning all was over.

That was really more a Frontier balance issue for allowing weeks-long states to just be bushwhacked out of existence within a day, than anything to do with the system itself. Previously before they went and "balanced" things a few times, we ended up with an overly weak invasion state because Frontier were too heavy-handed in ensuring that the Thargoids didn't risk capturing systems (but I'm sure that would have been more welcome than their often not-so-hidden tweaking of other things to ensure that everything proceeded according to their timeline).

MeowersRaijin would've been a more proper candidate

Except players decided to blow it up first because it had a handful controls less than Cocijo at the time of deciding which to target next after Thor was reduced to smoldering debris, so it went up as fireworks and Frontier were fine with that outcome because they were leaving those decisions to the players. But my vote on "Which Titan is the last to live" would also have been Raijin because it is a better name. Functionally and visually, besides the glyph paint patch on the hull, all Titans are the same anyway.

... as for what will happen with AX, I think Frontier have been fairly clear with their messaging that the war is simply changing its form rather than going away or stopping. And even if this is only a preliminary stage, I would say dealing with a roving Titan rampaging across the Bubble is a fair bit different to the boring stalemate the Titan incursion pretending to be a cheap WW2 tactical simulator (but in space) has been for a year*. And I'm not completely sure that Cocijo will actually find its end with Sol, or if it does that the attacks will then all just suddenly stop... fighting in Thargoid home space is nonsensical silly anyway and would make no sense unless you had a deathwish or ten times Salvation's ego.

Also, I think some more thought should be put into how this is approached by the Thargoids. They could've just outright invaded Sol, but instead they've chosen to send in a scouting fleet ahead of the Titan's arrival, like they're looking to observe the system in a semi-normal state before the Titan arrives to do... who knows what there. Probably won't be too pretty for the locals, though.

*Now if only they (Frontier) had done this earlier and made multiple Titans follow this kind of behavior, because that could actually have posed a much more significant as well as dynamic threat and been much more interesting as a result. Purely looking at the lore factors, which mean while SCO now allows us to 'catch' the Titan in transit, there isn't much that can be done about it moving as interdicting it might be (is?) impossible, for humans at least. So mobility is actually a Titan's most dangerous weapon, yet apparently the Thargoids somehow weren't clever and didn't think of this even a year and a half ago when their 'old-style' assault was showing its weakness to humans, and they still have 8 Titans already in place to terrorize the Bubble.

... I can barely keep my eyes from shutting so I guess rest it is, now that I've posted.
AH
28 Nov 2024, 8:35pm
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Miner Willy
28 Nov 2024, 8:36pm
Guess I picked the wrong time to visit Sol in a ship without Anti-Xeno config
AH
28 Nov 2024, 8:37pm
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Rawnu
28 Nov 2024, 8:54pm
Once Cocijo swings into orbit above Triton you will all realise what’s up…
Miseri
28 Nov 2024, 9:28pm
RawnuOnce Cocijo swings into orbit above Triton you will all realise what’s up…


You got any actual lore context for the reasonsing behind this belief

I want the sauce, I need the sauce
(you are welcome to tell me to do my own research I was just curious if there was anything in particular other then the latest trending raxxla hunt craze that might have led to you thinking Triton has something on it worth noticing other then its Locked)
Miner Willy
28 Nov 2024, 9:28pm
Thought I might as well take some missions to deliver injured people to rescue ships while getting the hell out of dodge.....

Interdicted mid frame shift just by the thargs. (as per post above I have no anti-Xeno on this ship).
Rather than getting completed obliterated, the damn things fired their version of hatch limpets (foreign object det4ecd) and proceeded to steal the human cargo.

Is this new behaviour or just something I haven't heard of before?
Rawnu
28 Nov 2024, 9:38pm
Miseri
RawnuOnce Cocijo swings into orbit above Triton you will all realise what’s up…



You got any actual lore context for the reasonsing behind this belief

I want the sauce, I need the sauce


The sauce.
Black Adder
28 Nov 2024, 9:50pm
Apparently Cocijo is not in any hurry, seems it is waiting for the weekend and for FD to sell some ARXed KMKIIs.

Last edit: 28 Nov 2024, 10:38pm
Vasil Vasilescu
yesterday, 12:22am
Miner WillyThought I might as well take some missions to deliver injured people to rescue ships while getting the hell out of dodge.....

Interdicted mid frame shift just by the thargs. (as per post above I have no anti-Xeno on this ship).
Rather than getting completed obliterated, the damn things fired their version of hatch limpets (foreign object det4ecd) and proceeded to steal the human cargo.

Is this new behaviour or just something I haven't heard of before?


The thargys have been jacking passengers for a while. I've not encountered it, but only because the rescue ship I use is optimized for speed. Overcharged, drag drive engines, enhanced charge power distributor, and four pips to the engines allows for near constant boosting above 500, which keeps me ahead of the goids long enough to jump way.
Miner Willy
yesterday, 12:28am
Vasil Vasilescu
Miner WillyThought I might as well take some missions to deliver injured people to rescue ships while getting the hell out of dodge.....

Interdicted mid frame shift just by the thargs. (as per post above I have no anti-Xeno on this ship).
Rather than getting completed obliterated, the damn things fired their version of hatch limpets (foreign object det4ecd) and proceeded to steal the human cargo.

Is this new behaviour or just something I haven't heard of before?



The thargys have been jacking passengers for a while. I've not encountered it, but only because the rescue ship I use is optimized for speed. Overcharged, drag drive engines, enhanced charge power distributor, and four pips to the engines allows for near constant boosting above 500, which keeps me ahead of the goids long enough to jump way.


Thanks, once I got out I transferred my AX KMII for the return trip, a should have done it before leaving Sol.
Kasumi Goto
yesterday, 2:55am
Rawnu
Miseri
RawnuOnce Cocijo swings into orbit above Triton you will all realise what’s up…




You got any actual lore context for the reasonsing behind this belief

I want the sauce, I need the sauce



The sauce.

If we put aside roleplay fun, I think the Titan - should it head into Sol directly - will actually park in Earth orbit. I doubt it is to open a diplomacy channel or to establish an embassy, however.

And I still insist we consider the fact that the Thargoids did not outright invade Sol but instead are happy to just poke around and do a bit of sightseeing while the Titan is on its way, as if they're observing, or looking for something. (Could be the gold disk on Voyager, as a few people have theorized, but I'm not entirely sure of that)

And on the subject of Scythes (the Thargoid people stealers) an ECM can take out their hatchbreaker as well as the FSD reboot missiles. But, of course, speed is actually a better defense against them. I don't think the alert state of Sol has any actual meaning except to allow evacuation operations to be conducted, because it might actually only be attacked once the Titan itself arrives. And that is when the real fun madness starts.

(I don't believe that anyone in-universe in Elite is quite prepared for what the Titan is going to be throwing out)
AH
yesterday, 9:01am
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