Titan

[Earth Defence Force!]

So who has actually done any damage?

[Planewalker]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Sampling was far too effective for a while, which resulted in no invasion systems week after week, no conflict zones either.

FDev dialled back the effect sampling has on alert systems, and now we get invasions again and it's a proper war, not 'peel a few cells off an orthrus and job done'

Yes the probe memes were rife during that time. x|

U18 TITAN ATTACK
Edit: video from https://www.youtube.com/@TheBuurPit just to avoid confusion.
There may be a surprise after the hotfix today as per twitter statement.

"503" is a server code, so a bit of inside humor there. XD


Update: 1-5% damage on Taranis now. Let's goooooooooooooo!!!

[Darth_Lopez]

Originally posted by funkynutz:

Originally posted by Will:

Can't wait till this thargoid nonsense is over. I have no idea what is going on and just get killed instantly. I've literally stopped playing the game until the thargoids are gone.

Buh bye then. I have a sneaking suspicion things are going to be ramped up, rather than wound down...

Dear god I hope so $$_$$ give me more space cheddar

[Fedup]

Originally posted by Planewalker:

Case in point here is the current state:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/thargoid-invasion-next-target-systems.612125/post-10318474

I don't know what I am seeing there.
You mentioned "100 systems" I was pretty sure the Thargoids controlled several hundreds of systems and expanding...

[Darth_Lopez]

Originally posted by Fedup:

Originally posted by Planewalker:

Case in point here is the current state:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/thargoid-invasion-next-target-systems.612125/post-10318474

I don't know what I am seeing there.
You mentioned "100 systems" I was pretty sure the Thargoids controlled several hundreds of systems and expanding...

You've been out of touch for a very long time it seems, and in a largely uninhabited region of space....

The thargoid War Progressed pretty steadily, Most Thargoid Maelstroms were reduced quite significantly about 6 months ago. Coordinated strikes by player groups hit them hard, ground invasions began being repelled rapidly. With the loss of ground invasions more combat occurred around stations, defensive fighting largely came to a stand still, AXI and friends pushed inward on Taranis and leigong and have reduced Taranis below 10 Controlled systems (at one point I think it was just the maelstrom system itself) Leigong is Presently sub 20

Oya stands at 42, Indra 86, Thor 71

The 3 Largest are Raijin hadad, and Cocijo all over 100 but none larger tahn 121 currently.

For the region of space that the bubble is "hundreds" is less than 600 systems (down over 1000) from the initial invasion force.

Their sphere of influence has only shrunk after the early months. As we round on 2 years of war the territory has dramatically reduced. I mean hundreds is still technically accurate, but the total controlled systems is only 535

[Fedup]

Originally posted by Darth_Lopez:

You've been out of touch for a very long time it seems, and in a largely uninhabited region of space....

Yes to both! I am on a carrier (Funky bus) that does Newbie tours waaay out of the bubble. We have been to the edge of the galaxy 2 months ago. It was spectacular.
Anyway, back to the "out of touch", I am completely out of touch, I just read the galnet news. I play solo for a few hours per week, aboard that carrier and when we're in the bubble, I do some basic fetch quests.
I do not do combat. I do not seek out Thargoids etc.

Originally posted by Darth_Lopez:

Their sphere of influence has only shrunk after the early months. As we round on 2 years of war the territory has dramatically reduced. I mean hundreds is still technically accurate, but the total controlled systems is only 535

So, WE ARE winning!

[dave46563]

I've had 2 Thargoid encounters. The first - they knocked me out of hyperspace. Cockpit goes dark. I'm just floating there when all of a sudden a massive ship comes from above and makes some noises. Turns around and jumps out. Systems rebooted and away I go again. That was a few years ago.

Second - starts off the same as above, only this time. I'm acting all cocky thinking they'll just scan me again. I've got no Thargoid items onboard. Errr, nah. They attack as soon as I'm out of hyperspace. I was dead quicker than you can say Waters of Shintara.

And ok I'll admit I went looking for the second, just to see what they would do. It was a small Sidewinder so no huge cost. After that, I made sure I kept away from Thargoid controlled space. They look amazing in-game, but my combat skills really are so pathetic.
The Bubble is big enough that I had to look for them to bump into them.