Help The Fuel Rats Maintain Control of our Home System!

[Stillkill]

Exerpt from Reddit post(https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/9rv2z2/come_save_the_fuel_rats_from_losing_their_home/)

TL;DR: The Fuel Rats Mischief are 26 hours away from losing their home system in a civil war with the Constitution Party of Fuelum! Come hand in combat bonds in the Fuelum system under the name of TFRM!

Since the Rats’ inception in 3301, Fuelum and its station Wollheim Vision have been the ‘home away from home’ of many a weary rat and fuel-starved traveller alike. Yet today, our occupancy is under direct attack. Therefore we, the Fuel Rats, are hereby pleading the galactic community for aid instead.

Approximately one day ago, the rising influence of the Constitution Party of Fuelum triggered a civil war with our minor faction, The Fuel Rats Mischief. At the time of this post, the CPoF are sitting on 72% and climbing, while the Rats are only at a meagre 21%. If drastic changes are not made, the Rats will lose this system in 26 hours.

How can you help?
In order to raise faction influence during a civil war, combat bonds must be acquired within Combat Zones in Fuelum and handed in at a Fuelum station, specifically while fighting for TFRM. Fuelum is currently hosting a multitude of other wars, and fighting for these other factions will not help! Combat bonds must be acquired in a CZ in Fuelum while specifically affiliated with TFRM through the ‘functions’ tab in the far right systems panel, or else these bonds will have no effect.

EDIT: Current rat-intel tells us that TFRM CZ's are most likely to be found in orbit of bodies A4, A5, A7, and A8. A5 was found by u/The_Rathour to have one correct low-intensity CZ, meanwhile A7 was found to have nothing but correct high-intensity CZ's.

FURTHER EDIT: It's important to note that the BGS is based on transactions, meaning that a 1M CR combat bond is as valuable to our cause as a 100k bond. Therefore the emphasis should be on collecting and handing in multiple individual small bonds, as opposed to amassing large ones and handing them in at once. Combat missions that reward in 'INF' will also be beneficial to our cause. The situation is looking up, but there's a lot of fighting to go. Heartfelt o7's to every CMDR that has come to our aid so far.

What happens if we lose?
The Rats will always be around to rescue stranded CMDRs, and losing Fuelum and Wollheim Vision will have no (observable) effect on that. Us rats would simply be re-restricted to our cockpit canopies, squeaking amongst each other through the harshness of a communicator, reminiscing the days of relaxing in the comfy booths of Wollheim’s bar. We won’t stop refueling until the stars wind down (and then some), but without our station, we’d be reduced to nothing but a fragmented and broken people, mourning the loss of a once-great system that we all called home.

Help us Commanders. You are our only hope.

[malorob]

so in a nut shell if you loose then there is no hope of re building........

[Ambitious Dreamsickle]

Originally posted by Stillkill:

Exerpt from Reddit post(https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/9rv2z2/come_save_the_fuel_rats_from_losing_their_home/)

TL;DR: The Fuel Rats Mischief are 26 hours away from losing their home system in a civil war with the Constitution Party of Fuelum! Come hand in combat bonds in the Fuelum system under the name of TFRM!

Since the Rats’ inception in 3301, Fuelum and its station Wollheim Vision have been the ‘home away from home’ of many a weary rat and fuel-starved traveller alike. Yet today, our occupancy is under direct attack. Therefore we, the Fuel Rats, are hereby pleading the galactic community for aid instead.

Approximately one day ago, the rising influence of the Constitution Party of Fuelum triggered a civil war with our minor faction, The Fuel Rats Mischief. At the time of this post, the CPoF are sitting on 72% and climbing, while the Rats are only at a meagre 21%. If drastic changes are not made, the Rats will lose this system in 26 hours.

How can you help?
In order to raise faction influence during a civil war, combat bonds must be acquired within Combat Zones in Fuelum and handed in at a Fuelum station, specifically while fighting for TFRM. Fuelum is currently hosting a multitude of other wars, and fighting for these other factions will not help! Combat bonds must be acquired in a CZ in Fuelum while specifically affiliated with TFRM through the ‘functions’ tab in the far right systems panel, or else these bonds will have no effect.

EDIT: Current rat-intel tells us that TFRM CZ's are most likely to be found in orbit of bodies A4, A5, A7, and A8. A5 was found by u/The_Rathour to have one correct low-intensity CZ, meanwhile A7 was found to have nothing but correct high-intensity CZ's.

FURTHER EDIT: It's important to note that the BGS is based on transactions, meaning that a 1M CR combat bond is as valuable to our cause as a 100k bond. Therefore the emphasis should be on collecting and handing in multiple individual small bonds, as opposed to amassing large ones and handing them in at once. Combat missions that reward in 'INF' will also be beneficial to our cause. The situation is looking up, but there's a lot of fighting to go. Heartfelt o7's to every CMDR that has come to our aid so far.

What happens if we lose?
The Rats will always be around to rescue stranded CMDRs, and losing Fuelum and Wollheim Vision will have no (observable) effect on that. Us rats would simply be re-restricted to our cockpit canopies, squeaking amongst each other through the harshness of a communicator, reminiscing the days of relaxing in the comfy booths of Wollheim’s bar. We won’t stop refueling until the stars wind down (and then some), but without our station, we’d be reduced to nothing but a fragmented and broken people, mourning the loss of a once-great system that we all called home.

Help us Commanders. You are our only hope.

individually i am a scientist but i can pass the word onto my colleagues at large.

[Camel Tony]

WITNESS!

[ZombieHunter]

26 hours is not a long time to increase influence. But by advertising this and asking for help publicly you've invited every PVP faction to destroy any help that might come.

That being said, count me in. I'll be there in my FDL straightaway.

EDIT:
Make that I'll be there as soon as movie night with the wife is over. Priorities ya know.

[Sam Sann]

Well i never participated in any rp but...

I'm moving my Imperial Shrimp there.
It's safe to go there in Open play?
i'm at Mobius aswell.
But i want to see CMDRs

[Stillkill]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

26 hours is not a long time to increase influence. But by advertising this and asking for help publicly you've invited every PVP faction to destroy any help that might come.

That being said, count me in. I'll be there in my FDL straightaway.

Would a pvp faction be so evil as to actively destroy Fuel Rat ships?

[ZombieHunter]

Originally posted by Stillkill:

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

26 hours is not a long time to increase influence. But by advertising this and asking for help publicly you've invited every PVP faction to destroy any help that might come.

That being said, count me in. I'll be there in my FDL straightaway.

Would a pvp faction be so evil as to actively destroy Fuel Rat ships?

Yes and any ships helping them.

[HairballHacker]

Yum. These rats are so cruchible and juicy and with just a bit of salt!

[Agony_Aunt]

Damn, that's a war i can get involved in. Just not sure i could get there in time... will see later today.

Also, you're not exactly right about the transcation based nature of handing in combat bonds, at least as it was explained to me by various BGS experts.

100ks worth of bonds isn't as valueable as 500k. However, there is no point in accumulating millions of combat bonds between handing in. There is a drop off in value as it goes up, so in terms of time spent, 100k is more valuable than 1 million, because you have spent more time doing combat for little extra reward.

The sweet spot is apparently somewhere about 400k, with a max of 500k before it stops helping.

Again, that is how it was explained to me. They could be wrong, a lot of the BGS stuff is a black box.

[HairballHacker]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Damn, that's a war i can get involved in. Just not sure i could get there in time... will see later today.

Also, you're not exactly right about the transcation based nature of handing in combat bonds, at least as it was explained to me by various BGS experts.

100ks worth of bonds isn't as valueable as 500k. However, there is no point in accumulating millions of combat bonds between handing in. There is a drop off in value as it goes up, so in terms of time spent, 100k is more valuable than 1 million, because you have spent more time doing combat for little extra reward.

The sweet spot is apparently somewhere about 400k, with a max of 500k before it stops helping.

Again, that is how it was explained to me. They could be wrong, a lot of the BGS stuff is a black box.

I was told it is transaction based because the H2F2 guys could just go into a CZ in Solo and rack up many many millions in bonds while being AFK. Don't know if it is really true but covering it up with transaction based rather than actually fixing it is pretty much what I would expect from the likes of FDev.

[ZombieHunter]

Make sure you are helping the right faction. There are no less than 3 wars going on in that system now.

[TiberiuS]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Make sure you are helping the right faction. There are no less than 3 wars going on in that system now.

Sounds like a quiet and peaceful place... lol

[TiberiuS]

Originally posted by HairballHacker:

I was told it is transaction based because the H2F2 guys could just go into a CZ in Solo and rack up many many millions in bonds while being AFK. Don't know if it is really true but covering it up with transaction based rather than actually fixing it is pretty much what I would expect from the likes of FDev.

This may change with the new system where you have to win days during the wars to make a faction win. But how the goals/quests in the CZs exactely play into this is a bit unclear for now.

[Agony_Aunt]

Made it to Fuelum. Done one run in my trusty CM4. Stayed until i ran out of ammo.

Only found 1 CZ so far for the right faction near the outer station, but that place doesn't have rearm, so i either need to synthesize or return to the inner station. Can still hand in bonds at the outer though, so maybe ill synthesize from now on, i've got loads of stuff for it anyway.

Will do one more run shortly before i'll have to take a break.

On the matter of transactions - it might be on a transaction basis. Regardless, i shoot whatever is near and hand in when i run out of ammo. Seems to work fine.

[Lywelyn]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

26 hours is not a long time to increase influence. But by advertising this and asking for help publicly you've invited every PVP faction to destroy any help that might come.

cough pg/solo cough

pvp folk don't care, they just looking for targets

true tho some may want to pop