Discovery 4.86 Storyline: Tau Conquest

[Exsiled_one]

I also don't see why is Friday upset at Zelot. The person to talk to here is Igiss or the Development team as whole.

I would be greatly interested to what is going on with the dragons as well, since it appears that Kusari lost a chunk of forces fighting off the Gallic forces.

Although I agree that Kusari is far from wiped out, because it didn't lose much or any of it's core systems, the Dragons could attempt to do something there.
But saying that, I still don't see the reason to go after Zelot for this, I doubt he orchestrated the Kusari roleplay as whole.

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[Friday]

I also don't see why is Friday upset at Zelot. The person to talk to here is Igiss or the Development team as whole.

I would be greatly interested to what is going on with the dragons as well, since it appears that Kusari lost a chunk of forces fighting off the Gallic forces.

Although I agree that Kusari is far from wiped out, because it didn't lose much or any of it's core systems, the Dragons could attempt to do something there.
But saying that, I still don't see the reason to go after Zelot for this, I doubt he orchestrated the Kusari roleplay as whole.

Do not fear - this is a text-based medium, and some subtlety can be lost. Zelot merely happens to be posting there at the time - it could have been any of the rest of the development team.

What I was trying to say is that neither statement is mutually exclusive. People can be unique, have an effect on things, play the role given to them, and take on a role. They can do this on different characters, or in the same characters. People within the Dragons do indeed play that 'soldier' role, others express points of view that are considered radical - even by Dragon standards. Both of these are valid.

And as for lobbying - it is a very common practice. Everyone does it in one form or another - myself included. I simply dispute the notion of 'leaving it up to the players' = bad, as it attempts to establish a hierarchy between player and developer - whilst ignoring the fact that most developers are also players - hence creating a conflict of interest.

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[Glis]

Hello, i don't know if this has been mention cause I'm not crazy to read through 29 pages only to see it probably hasn't so i would like to see some updates or whatever you call it on the BHG|Core- VS Order| war... please?

P.S I know this may not be the place to request it but yeah.. as usual I don't know where to make this post..

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[sovereign]

Hello, i don't know if this has been mention cause I'm not crazy to read through 29 pages only to see it probably hasn't so i would like to see some updates or whatever you call it on the BHG|Core- VS Order| war... please?

P.S I know this may not be the place to request it but yeah.. as usual I don't know where to make this post..

This release is not the complete storyline. You'll know more as 4.86 approaches.

Just be patient.

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[bluntpencil2001]

and we will have Xeno's in control of Liberty, and the Bretonian would be the strongest house in Sirius by far.

I once killed a Xeno NPC named George Bush, you know. They'll have two Presidents sooner or later!

Unfortunately, these Xeno redneck presidents will lead the most powerful House in Sirius, not decent Bretonian people.

Sooner or later, the Libertonian government will build a giant fence to keep out illegal Junker and Zoner immigrants. And Hispanics.

Oh wait, did you mean what players wanted, or what characters wanted?

Me, bluntpencil2001, would have Liberty the most powerful, by far (not Gallia). I'd probably have Bretonia owe them some heaps of lend-lease crap or something, with their economy so linked that some crappy housing junk in Liberty would screw them.

My characters would either want some socialist super state or Bretonian imperialism all over the joint, but they're not me. If they got what they wanted, me, the player, would have nothing to do. If you get what your character wants, your character may as well retire.

I guess I may be giving other players, and myself, too much credit. Maybe we're all stupid and don't want a decent story, but just want to win, or something. I can always go back to pen and paper RPGs and have that there, amirite?

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[MarioR]

I like it. Really i do but ... i know that is just the first part but there are a lot things missing. One thing that is every people forgeting ... well ... not all ... 2 or 3 spoke of it ... is what about the Zoners? Everyone says that there is 4 houses, now 5 plus the hispanic houses, Outcast and Corsairs, but and the Zoners? How many bases are controled by Zoners? I even can ask how many systems are controled by Zoners? We ... i fly for the Zoners ... are more powerfull than many imagine. So please don't forget us. Freeport 6 and Freeeport 10 are in the front line of this war. What will happen when a Zoner ship passes by Tau 23 to Tau 37 to suplly Freeport 10? Will Gallic respect our neutrality?

Also everyone is saying " Ooohh poor Bretonians!" Take it easy! All wars in the bloody history of mankind there were always allies. I can see right now ,Kusari and Bretonian fighting side by side, with the help of Liberty and even Rheinland, and with the Outcast and even the Gaians on other fronts, also fighting the Gallics.

And ... what about the Nomads? Will Nomads take advantage and take a change on a full scale invasion?

I like it! More RP and less PVP.

Take care all.

M?rio - captain of the Zoner ship Taurus

[Igiss]

Ok, time for me to reply. I can't address all feedback, apparently, but I will try give answers to some of the most frequent questions (and concerns).

First of all, thanks to everyone who read the first part of the story to the end. I was ready that many of you will consider it nonsense (probably even more of you than actually did consider it nonsense). The poll created elsewhere shows that the story has a deal of support, and that's great. I hope that you'll be no less interested in our further history announcement, cause this is just a part of what's going to happen in 4.86. Very important part, but still just a part. Plus, remember that 4.86 events are only a part of what's going to happen in general. We have some plans for futher development as well.

Starting with a few commonplaces in your comments: Bretonia gets beaten again, Gallia pwnz all for no reason, Kusari... nothing certain about Kusari. I'll start with Gallia. In 4.85, only a part of the house of Gallia was accessible. Now, the central Gallic systems will become accessible, and those will prove that Gallia is actually larger than any other house - and even with 4.86 systems in place, it won't be all Gallia that you see, cause we leave quite a lot for further updates.

Gallia is truly much stronger than any other House at the moment, possibly stronger than two Houses combined, even if those two aren't Kusari and Bretonia drastically weakened by the previous war. Kusari, hoping to win the war by one final strike, has lost all the power of this strike in the fruitless and brief war with Gallia. It has no power to fight an offensive war any longer, let's be clear about that. The same is true about Bretonia, but they'll have to defend themselves now if they want their independence (which they do, of course). All remaining resources will now go to strengthen Bretonia's defenses, and if it receives any help, it will be Liberty only and it will be economical for the most part. Neither Rheinland or Kusari are going to ally themselves with Bretonia. For Kusari, House that's possibly in an even worse situation than Bretonia in military terms (excluding the fact they aren't going to be attacked by a superior power), such alliance is a suicide. Rheinland has no interest in defending Bretonia with so much going on near its own borders. Plus, Rheinland has its own resources severely depleted, and Gallia doesn't have many economical reasons to attack them.

Liberty... well, Liberty's going to prepare for a war with Gallia too, and they are interested in ending the conflict with Rheinland as soon as possible. How? Wait for future posts.

It's true that Bretonia is going to be attacked in quite a harsh way, not even in 4.86 but later. And Bretonia is going to lose more than just Edinburgh. But it will be a temporary setback. Our goal is to leave no party denied of what they deserve, and if there was a setback before, it's going to be compensated later. What if GRN are destined to become an "underdog" one day? Not soon, of course, but anything may happen.

Now, to player factions and their interests. The matter with QCP will be sorted to the best interests of the faction I believe. Same can be done for other factions to some extent. If you feel that your faction's interests or position in the universe will be severely affected, we should work on finding a reasonable solution. If you don't demand too much for yourself, it's all very possible. Like I said, the development takes longer than we estimated, so many things are not yet completed, and subject to change.

Server events would be something we (devs) would really appreciate seeing. Organizing such thing is a complex task to do, but the outcome could be great. Remember we could use the event scenes for our trailer video(s), for example.

I'm aware that the new starmap of the mod was leaked (due to my own stupid mistake), and we'll be posting it for public view soon enough.

Thanks for all your feedback, and keep it coming! All you say is very much appreciated.

[sovereign]

Will Gallic respect our neutrality?

The GRN will respect Zoner neutrality as much as they do now.

That is, eat Trebuchets you insignificant weasels.



Actually, that isn't entirely fair. The GRN are working on possible negotiations to be made at a later date. But until then... "eat Trebuchets you insignificant weasels" is pretty accurate. Not that the Zoners are taking things lying down, they send warships into Gallia now and then...

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[bluntpencil2001]

The GRN will respect Zoner neutrality as much as they do now.

That is, eat Trebuchets you insignificant weasels.

Sign me up for the Foreign Legion!

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[Death.RunningVerminator]

I wonder what the royalties will do about this...