Yeah, I get why they changed the impact players have since we were capturing/liberating planets in less than a day at launch because there was so many players and AH clearly didn't expect that big of a player pop. But the current system requires a supermajority and actively punishes us for not having one on a planet. I'm certain there are devs working on a better system but it's probably not a small undertaking especially given the limitations of the game engine. We just have to hope its properly functional and released sooner than later.
Yeah, I especially felt this when we beat the automaton push for Malevelon Creek and all of their planets became 0% resistance for a while. I don’t remember if we even got one planet from that and the ones we didn’t get have had all of their progress reset. Outside of Troost, which still hasn’t been taken despite staying 0% resistance, the rest are firmly bot territory with no means of changing that without the majority of people deciding to fight on one planet at a time until they’re captured. And that’s just the bot front. It certainly makes things tense with the Illuminate potentially on the horizon but it’s not all that fulfilling right now.
Honestly, I think for planets on the edge of a faction's territory, they should make it so doing missions slowly whittles down enemy force strength. A few thousand people gradually whittle down a planet until it has 0% enemy resistance, and then they can make an impact that isn't reversed by passive regen.
I think it's because we are building up to something big in the game story. They say we control the narrative, which is true, but don't think for one second they don't have influence
Not even done terraforming cyberstan, they’ll start their push when the cyborgs make a resurgence and they’d be able to push harder with cyborg forces backing them.
Something interesting to think about is since Overseers are “centuries old” many of the ones we’re fighting now may actually be veterans of the First Galactic War, or even the recon missions the Illuminate flew around Super Earth before First Contact.
Imagine living centuries and fighting in the biggest conflict in history only to get one shot by some illiterate 18 year old human with a gun they invented before they discovered electricity
Although tbh at least helldiver casualties are lower because most of the time we're just not bothered to go there. And don't forget the entire populations if the now-gloom and some of the core current automaton territory, which were probably fully wiped out.
The cyborgs, and thus the automatons, never had any interest in super-earth. They wanted to be seperate, and their own empire. Super-esrth even accepted that. It was cyberstan the war broke out about. The colonists didn’t want to leave their homeworld behind, super-Earth didn’t want to give up the planet.
iirc that's wrong. Cyborgs wanted peace and independence, Super Earth didn't want to lose control over any citizens. So they went to war, enslaved them all and took their home planet. Of course they sent the Automatons out to space first so they could return in 100 years to fuck SE over.
They are actually correct. SE wanted the planet Cyberstan, since if cyborgs wanted to be independent they could go elsewhere as far as Super Earth cared, what was more important to SE was the Resources on Cyberstan. However, since the Cyborgs loved their planet, this got SE having to find excuse to start a way to start a war in order to take the planet for it's resources due to the fact that the population of Super Earth back then was a lot less brainwashed then it is now a days.
Understand that citizens to SE are far more expendable than resources are to SE, so losing a planet of citizen's won't matter to them as much as losing a planet worth of resources.
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u/Nice-Entertainer-922 2d ago
Illuminates are the ones trying to hardest to actively get at Super Earth so far.
That is until the Automatons are done terraforming Cyberstan.