Elite: Game talk

Indy
yesterday, 9:30pm
RawnuThe Thargoid party has moved to Reynolds' Inheritance in the Holvandalla system. Pew pew, see you there!

It looks like it's 100% now, no?

For both this system and others, so I better understand the game mechanic: Does 100% mean that AXCZs are no longer available in the system? Or just that the "invasion" has been won (and AXCZs will still be there until the duration is complete)?
Kasumi Goto
yesterday, 10:21pm
100% is what it says on the label here - the systems are functionally ‘dead’ to any combat or mission opportunities at that point, and while some AXCZs might persist as POIs in system, all you will find is NPCs circling endlessly with zero Thargoids in sight.

Frontier - presumably - decided to include this “feature” to reduce the amount of wasted player effort but I think all that it did was lead to players getting rather annoyed about “All the invasions are dead on the weekend already, but I didn’t get to play until Saturday/Sunday/Monday/whatever”, and quite a few did not appear to care for their “wasted progress” as long as they had fun. While those who naturally moved along to the next ongoing invasion did so anyway, so it was one of those “trying to herd cats” moments, which I can’t say exactly how successful it was.

It’s also not a fix to poor balancing leading to a state which can last weeks routinely getting cleared in less than a day, and all of them generally being taken out by Monday-Tuesday, if not earlier.
Indy
yesterday, 10:57pm
Kasumi Goto100% is what it says on the label here - the systems are functionally ‘dead’ to any combat or mission opportunities at that point, and while some AXCZs might persist as POIs in system, all you will find is NPCs circling endlessly with zero Thargoids in sight.

Frontier - presumably - decided to include this “feature” to reduce the amount of wasted player effort but I think all that it did was lead to players getting rather annoyed about “All the invasions are dead on the weekend already, but I didn’t get to play until Saturday/Sunday/Monday/whatever”, and quite a few did not appear to care for their “wasted progress” as long as they had fun. While those who naturally moved along to the next ongoing invasion did so anyway, so it was one of those “trying to herd cats” moments, which I can’t say exactly how successful it was.

It’s also not a fix to poor balancing leading to a state which can last weeks routinely getting cleared in less than a day, and all of them generally being taken out by Monday-Tuesday, if not earlier.


That's what I thought and I agree with the sense of "well, I guess I missed it"
Kasumi Goto
today, 1:27am
Well, so I just witnessed a funny little thing in game that makes me want to write a story about the brave AX pilot Galloway… who wandered into Raijin’s space too early and then disappeared into the caustic cloud, never to be seen again.
Meowers
today, 8:41am
Hope we'll get an endless kind of fun after the Titan war, with stations, AXCZs and maybe even Titan bombing available at any, or almost, time. Everything points at it though, but I'm still not sure.
Thinder
today, 9:58am
I'm quiet happy alternating between Combat in CZs and Passenger missions, the Robigo run works at multiple Ranking levels, EXPLORER, TRADE and of course Credit, I reached EXPLORER Elite IV yesterday and am already 1% passed it with only a few runs and my materials INVENTORY is looking better after each run...

On the other hand, I'm gonna stop using Premium Ammo and save for engineering the next ship...
AH
today, 10:51am
It's all hopeless, until puny humans build The Ship Stacker.
It's a "ship" that combines 3+ ships and amplifies their combined shields and firing power.
One ship becomes a "captain" the rest are taking care of the weapons.
It can shoot as one mega-weapon, or each ship separately at a different targets with massive boos from the TSS Rev-Shields (shield that soak up enemy fire and use it in reverse for anything exiting from the protected side).
No, it's not a fleet carrier. It's a large magical cylinder completely useless on its own. OK, has few manoeuvring thrusters and com and...


EDIT: Cant add images from my gallery, so here is a external link https://imgur.com/a/UAMr063

Show up with that, zap few spiky ones out of the existence and if they have any instincts even remotely similar to self preservation, they will back off and game devs need to come up with a next enemy (or someone, we decide to turn against us... as usual). Maybe Brain Trees are getting sick of us taking their materials and decide to wipe us out. You never know.
Meowers
today, 2:11pm
AHIt's a large magical cylinder completely useless on its own.
What a perfect description of me.
AH
today, 2:49pm
Meowers
AHIt's a large magical cylinder completely useless on its own.

What a perfect description of me.


LMCCUOIO

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