04-24-2018, 09:14 PM
Cultist Staging Grounds
With Cultist activity becoming more and more noticeable in recent days, a new revelation has come to light. First in Manchester, and now in California, Cultist outposts and invasion carriers are making an appearance. Heavily armed and well defended, these staging grounds are a severe threat to all who are not looking for an early grave.
These hidden staging grounds indicate the beginning of a Cultist offensive, and while they are currently vulnerable, the longer they go unchallenged, the harder it is for standard life to continue in the systems they occupy.
With Cultist activity becoming more and more noticeable in recent days, a new revelation has come to light. First in Manchester, and now in California, Cultist outposts and invasion carriers are making an appearance. Heavily armed and well defended, these staging grounds are a severe threat to all who are not looking for an early grave.
These hidden staging grounds indicate the beginning of a Cultist offensive, and while they are currently vulnerable, the longer they go unchallenged, the harder it is for standard life to continue in the systems they occupy.
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The Concept
This is to give a different take on the way that the Cultist raids will be handled. Several systems have carefully been seeded with Cultist outposts and staging bases. While these bases are active, Cultist raids in that system and surrounding systems are far more likely to happen, over a system without a base nearby.
Once a Cultist base is discovered, it can be freely engaged as if it were a standard Cultist. Once the Cultist base is destroyed, a new derelicts location will be revealed, and information to finding it will be shared amongst the base attackers.
Additionally, Cultist events have shown two clear flaws. The drop system is in the advantage of whoever has the lowest ping and the highest b spam, and that players will either ignore ID completely to get rewards, or focus on killing off whoever is hostile to them before the cultists, resulting in drawn out events and players barred access to the system while it happens.
While we can not entirely correct either of these problems, we have already begun investigating alternative means, as well as altered rules for the duration of these events, to ensure that *everyone* can enjoy them to the fullest.
What This Changes
Cultist Npc's will occasionally appear in systems near an outpost.
Cultist Outposts will appear in well hidden spots.
The longer a Cultist outpost lives, the more well defended it becomes. A base thats been alive for one day is going to be more easily killed than a base thats been alive for 4 weeks.
The killing blow of a Cultist base will result in the last attacker of a base receiving information pertaining to the location of special Derelicts.
Rare, Unique and otherwise unobtainable commodities will begin to make an appearance, as well as standard sci-data and codename rewards.
