Kasumi GotoUnrelated, but I sometimes get tempted to go back to doing AX CZs solo to avoid those boring 6 shard Anacondas that do almost nothing but try to kill Cyclops over and over by shoving themselves into their faces and brute forcing past the hearts.

Now yes, Cyclops is not exactly a difficult opponent when you have the basics down but it still gets boring when you’re trying to have fun in your medium ship, and here comes Mister Blasty in his zero(or near-zero) skill boat and just pulling triggers until whatever they shoot at dies. Even Basilisks are not exempt of their wrath once they’ve lost some hearts.

(Medusas… I’m not too sure how well it works on those but they don’t seem that difficult when you’ve got two or three of those Condas roaming around constantly exerting it within an instant, and equally quickly taking its hearts out. Depending on number of pilots and their ability to stay within optimal range/aim, even Hydras are not that impressive when those Condas are around.)

They also have the annoying tendency to shove themselves into the face of their target and… not really leave much room to fire at it without hitting that big fat Anaconda blocking the view.

Meowers

Bainsey7 I'll try it in solo next as Meowers recommended and we'll see. My money's on "bug-disguised-as-feature" in true fdev style given that, if timed right, it should always work. just not always for me.

Really, I think you should try. I played Solo when was, literally, hunting solo. And it was unable to track in PG AXCZs since several ships have been covering each other with SFNs.

Btw. Warpig_NL, totally like your userpic, it's hilarious, especially the way how the helmet is attached. And early M16s with 20-rounders are my love, lol.

EpisparhThe lag is a general issue. However, Elite Dangerous model of p2p networking is the elephant in the house.
Let's say you are in an instance with 3 players , 3 of you have perfect connection and one have latency , poor networking , perhaps even packet lost (in hackzors case packet manipulation) ... all of you become victims of p2p model, especially if the "master" client in the instance is the one with the problems.

DescartesCan anyone point me to a list of which engineering materials can be traded with each other ?

DescartesCan anyone point me to a list of which engineering materials can be traded with each other ?

Warpig_NLI am still relatively unfamiliar with the rules of AX battles and have a question. Why does it take so much effort to free Hupang from Thargoids? We have destroyed over 60,000 in the last two weeks and are only at 12%, while some systems have already been cleared of Thargoids (100%) after 24 hours with less then 10.000 kills. Is there anything special about Hupang or am I missing something? Over 50% of the commanders are in Hupang, free gameplay for the Thargoids in the other systems (maby a strategic move?).

January 11, 2024: Hupang's recovery is reset to 0%. So we can start again. Nice way to gain credits for a large group of commanders, but the goal of the game is to win back as many solar systems as possible from the Thargoid, right? I would say ignore Hupans and concentrate our efforts on the other threatened (invasion + alert) and already conquered areas in the bubble by the Thargoids. Perhaps the AX initiative can take the lead in this at a strategic level, they are already doing a lot of good work in this area.

With concentrated attacks by commanders on our part on certain systems, we can then "liberate" many more systems from Thargoids every week (sweep method).