|
Author |
Thread Statistics | Show CCP posts - 19 post(s) |
Arkady Sadik
Minmatar Gradient Electus Matari
|
Posted - 2009.11.11 14:22:00 -
[1]
Ok. In a system with both an outpost and an iHub, does the TCU become vulnerable when either the outpost is captured or the iHub is destroyed (as the text implies), or do you need to capture the outpost and destroy the iHub to make the TCU vulnerable (as the flowchart implies)?
|
Arkady Sadik
Minmatar Gradient Electus Matari
|
Posted - 2009.11.11 14:45:00 -
[2]
Thanks for the answer.
Where can TCUs be anchored? Specifically, do they also need to be anchored at planets like iHubs (if so, what about systems with one planet?), or can they be anchored anywhere, including close to POSes as some people implied in some threads?
Regarding prices, I posed the current SiSi prices (which can still change of course) in the appropriate thread, please discuss there. :-)
|
Arkady Sadik
Minmatar Gradient Electus Matari
|
Posted - 2009.11.11 14:52:00 -
[3]
Originally by: Genevieve Mitsuda One thing I don't understand is that you mention in the blog the attacker having to make a choice, Outpost or iHub
From the dev response above, you do not really have that choice - you have to do both, so the only "choice" you have is the order in which you do it, and then "do both" sounds like a sensible answer, because you either have superiority or not, rarely both.
SBUs with 6h onlining time means you start attacking a system at 18:00, and at 24:00 you can start reinforcing the hostile outpost/iHub, and only then will your SBUs be invulnerable. Sounds ... a bit long.
|
Arkady Sadik
Minmatar Gradient Electus Matari
|
Posted - 2009.11.11 15:22:00 -
[4]
Originally by: Teck7 No, you do not, they get salted with a random variable so they can come out at any random time.
Currently, the variance is 1h, so if you say "come out at 18:00", it will come out between 17:00 and 19:00 - not that bad, really.
And once iHub and/or outpost exit reinforce, the SUBs become vulnerable, too. So the defender defines that quite accurately.
|
Arkady Sadik
Minmatar Gradient Electus Matari
|
Posted - 2009.11.11 15:33:00 -
[5]
Originally by: Teck7 No, you can not, the timers are salted randomly as it says in the blog relative to the 24/48h timers.
Originally by: Devblog Owners of the structures will be able to set a preferred time that they wish for them to come out of reinforced mode and then a random variable will be applied that determines the exact time they will exit reinforced.
The "random variable" is the variance attribute on the structures. Was 1h on the last SiSi update, not sure what it is right now.
hth :-)
|
Arkady Sadik
Minmatar Gradient Electus Matari
|
Posted - 2009.11.11 15:54:00 -
[6]
Originally by: Nightbird What happens if the Resource Hub or Outpost are in reinforced (but not both), and the SBUs are taken below 51% coverage?
Can't happen - once either of them is reinforced, the SBUs become invulnerable, too. Also, once either of them exits reinforced, SBUs are vulnerable again.
I.e. the attacker decides when to do the first attack, during which the attacker is vulnerable (SBUs) for 3h/6h (not decided yet). Then both the attacker (SBUs) and defender (iHub/Outpost) are vulnerable. Then both are invulnerable until the time the defender picked (iHub/Outpost reinforce time). Once that time happens, again both attacker (SBUs) and defender (outpost/ihub) are vulnerable.
Defenders have 4 chances to get the timing right to be stronger than the attacker during their preferred time (2 reinforce timers for both ihub and outpost).
|
Arkady Sadik
Minmatar Gradient Electus Matari
|
Posted - 2009.11.11 16:23:00 -
[7]
Hm. What happens if the SBUs die - do you lose all your progress, or just part of it?
Say, you took over the outpost. Then the iHub exits reinforced mode, and you lose SBU majority. Do you lose the outpost, even if you can anchor enough SBUs a bit later? That would mean it's never sensible to take the outpost first.
SBUs are somewhat flimsy at the moment, and defenders having 4 chances to determine fight times as opposed to attackers only having 1 timing chance seems to make it rather difficult to keep SBUs.
|
|
|
|