They expect us to coin 6 decimators for the event, buy the mark upgrades and coin them. coin repair times ect ect
i'm willing to bet that the stasis field around these hives are gonna be the same range as their missiles, meaning that any ship that doesn't have stasis resistance i.e. everything except MK 5 cutters won't even get close to the hives
I wonder if marked up frigates might work as well, since they also get stasis resist. They might not be able to tank the damage as well as the xeno cutters, though Hurricanes at least would have explosive resist with skirmish armor. That's probably my best bet (if that's even a bet), as I don't have a fleet of marked up cutters, much less xeno cutters.
This is going to be very interesting, or very boring not sure which. I have never was much of a fan of the hive (even though many people love them it seems). The only was that was kind of interesting was the original three hives surrounding, but only because it meant certain death so it was rather exciting when they first showed up.
The hives have an AOE field like a carrier that slows (kixeye said they would never do that again). The laser is suer long range as normal, but targets your highest DPS ship, so do not use your swarm carriers. The Explosive missiles have a shorter range than the laser, and hit pretty hard, but....when you get close, the hive has a minimum range for the laser and the missiles, so you only take on a Disintegrator cannons style wepon, which hits moderately. So Laser( Alien damage), Missiles (explosive), and Cannons (alien).
Lead with punishers if you are using covenants etc and have them block/lead the way into the hive.
Good luck! I wont be doing much against those guys lol
Is there a list of points payouts for this event. The reapers are too hard with none Xeno ships so im having to do reapers. The 60 gives 40k which seems to be a joke. Whats the others payout?
The problem with this game is the power curves. Just look at the graphs I made. Said no vega conflict player ever
Whats the difference between a mk 2 and mk 3 crafting box?
"Forged in the flames of the original 8k wars" "Participant in the Jova Crusades; the winning side" "I hate cargo fleets. What else do you want me to say" "I attacked you because you stole my piece of cheesecake with cherry toppings." "The government has ordered me to harvest this farm. Please be patient as your base is harvested." IGN: MasonD ~Condolences to all who share a similar name - there can only be one.
The post has been updated to include hive drops: These new hives will also drop Decimator Cutter Mk 2 crafting boxes (80, 83, 85) and Decimator Cutter Mk 3 crafting boxes (88, 90).
So, you need a fleet of mk3 decimators to kill these but they will drop mk3 decimator crafting materials.
LMAO. Good old kixeye. You guys are good for at least one good laugh every day.
The mk II and Mk III crafting materials boxes are much like the punisher boxes. They really don't drop the patterns, just a increase chance I believe. I have killed two 83s, a 80 and a 90. nothing but cores, parts, xeno parts, and AM.
So I have adopted the kill a 90 and come back in 12 hours strategy.
"Forged in the flames of the original 8k wars" "Participant in the Jova Crusades; the winning side" "I hate cargo fleets. What else do you want me to say" "I attacked you because you stole my piece of cheesecake with cherry toppings." "The government has ordered me to harvest this farm. Please be patient as your base is harvested." IGN: MasonD ~Condolences to all who share a similar name - there can only be one.
From my part, nothing more to say about this event.
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developers talk directly with their players, take ideas from them, worry
about solving problems, add content weekly, and have a very
participative community, ITS FREE_TO_PLAY, his name is STARMADE, search og google or youtube
This is ridiculous as I expected - you needa marked up decimator fleet to take on the new alien fleets - but we only got the decimator last weekend and at 5.5 days to build blank I have one empty hull. What it means is those that coin like crazy will do well and for the rest that only coin somewhat or not at all are totally up **** creek without a paddle. Nice one Kixeye - you really seem to excel last weeks **** up with an even bigger one. Next week will bring an even bigger **** up - cant wait!
Lol,lvl 90 fleets,I love kix,man,so thoughtful of mega coiners,thanks kix,now imma just get 1.5 mil pts and finish the event,thank you for your caring support,except that we ask you to treat us much more harsh and give us less rep time for our fleets and let us have some fun around or we will be forced to be independent from ur caring arms
Level 65 Reaper fleets I used to be able to do with minimal repair with a marked up punisher fleet - now its over 1 hour repair for a paltry 55K points. So stupid me thought lets try the Barrage fleets - just a level 70. Fully marked up Punisher fleet (coz I havent coined any cutters yet!) and got a 7 hour repair bill. Kix have got rocks in their head - I am not even going to try a level 80 or higher as I expect my fleet will get 'decimated'.
Kix plewase turn down the dps a lot - this is just impossible at the higher fleets
Oh yes and ps - the res payout has also been almost halved! Way to go - you really know how to kep players - I am seriously looking for another game as this one is in the toilet
So kixeye are definitely about causing damage - when you take 10% damage against these Barrage fleets JUST GETTING TO WITHIN YOUR OWN FIRING RANGE then you come to realise that the only thing Kix are interested in is your wallet. The game is now officially dead - we have just had THREE people in our alliance quit because of this event - I mean just inb the last hour. I have just decided to make this a NO COIN EVENT.
Honestly Kixeye YOU REALLY NEED TO RETHINK THE DIRECTION you are taking. I am trying to to start ranting and swearing but its really hard. Forget thbis game, forget Kixeye and save your wallet folks
I saw the rep discount for 1 hour after you reduced damage on new hives. That will really help with my 14 hour rep. Way to go. Why not give rep credits instead?
Also, why is it now costing more coin with rep reduction??????
4 coins at 18.5 mins and 6 coins at 24.5 mins, so it looks like 1 coin per 3 mins rep. That's a reduction???? When it's normally one coin for 3.5 mins rep??? Seems to work ok for the one coin rep, but what is going on above that?
Someone please correct me if I am wrong but I checked 3 times now.
@CM_Scarlett So I saw your post in the other thread about hives getting a difficulty adjustment, sounds good, but what about Reapers? Reaper 60 fleets are about 10% too OverPowered, they need an adjustment also.
Other problems:
-Points payout on 55 co-op 10k then jumps to 40k for 60 reaper, should be at least 20k for the co-op 55. In all the time I have played Vega the event fleets generally increase in points payout by 33-50%, increase especially if the fleet level is changing the tier bracket for its fleet level, so logic would place the 55s at 50% of the 60s 40k points which is 20k points.
-If the points payout can't benefit the mid-level players, in some way, then they are stuck grinding these low level fleets. Did the math, would take 8 hours to grind co-op 55 hives(10k points) to get the 1million points needed for the new top armor blueprint, which is a BP that is essential to get in building your next Xeno class ship, if they even dream of continuing playing this game with how much they have to catch up.
-This mobilization event is still offerring ONLY ISC hulls crafting materials, WTF? Only players that need that stuff are Mid-Level players, But of course the points value for this stuff is aimed at coiners and top level players. These boxes should all have their values lowered by 50%, example: Pattern Box 550k points dropped to 225k points. A middle level player is grinding hives, takes 23 co-op 55 hives to earn one box.
-No demon core Pattern boxes or Parts boxes.
-I'll leave the discussion about the new top level hives for the other thread, and just say they are total **** show an make it seem like the development team have one mandate: ' "Make the game all about Coins" - remove fun, interesting, and technical from game play.' Just throw logic out the window.
@CM_Scarlett So I saw your post in the other thread about hives getting a difficulty adjustment, sounds good, but what about Reapers? Reaper 60 fleets are about 10% too OverPowered, they need an adjustment also.
Other problems:
-Points payout on 55 co-op 10k then jumps to 40k for 60 reaper, should be at least 20k for the co-op 55. In all the time I have played Vega the event fleets generally increase in points payout by 33-50%, increase especially if the fleet level is changing the tier bracket for its fleet level, so logic would place the 55s at 50% of the 60s 40k points which is 20k points.
-If the points payout can't benefit the mid-level players, in some way, then they are stuck grinding these low level fleets. Did the math, would take 8 hours to grind co-op 55 hives(10k points) to get the 1million points needed for the new top armor blueprint, which is a BP that is essential to get in building your next Xeno class ship, if they even dream of continuing playing this game with how much they have to catch up.
-This mobilization event is still offerring ONLY ISC hulls crafting materials, WTF? Only players that need that stuff are Mid-Level players, But of course the points value for this stuff is aimed at coiners and top level players. These boxes should all have their values lowered by 50%, example: Pattern Box 550k points dropped to 225k points. A middle level player is grinding hives, takes 23 co-op 55 hives to earn one box.
-No demon core Pattern boxes or Parts boxes.
-I'll leave the discussion about the new top level hives for the other thread, and just say they are total **** show an make it seem like the development team have one mandate: ' "Make the game all about Coins" - remove fun, interesting, and technical from game play.' Just throw logic out the window.
Great post. There is a serious decline in points. This trend places the maximum effect/benefit with attacking higher level fleets. However, there is a considerable damage spike. While xeno cannon punisher fleets can handle these reaper fleets. I have yet to hit the reduce difficulty new hives.
This is a common theme in events. Mandating newly released tech to complete events is a clear handicap towards F2P, which imo is a false advertising when Kixeye advertises a game as free to play, yet requires large amounts of repairs. To hit lower would under 60k for events requiring 6 million worth of points.
The point rewards are reduced for the same fleets without any clear reason then speculations which tells us, it a move to mandate spending/eating the cost of repairs in order to keep up with the arms rebel race.
"Forged in the flames of the original 8k wars" "Participant in the Jova Crusades; the winning side" "I hate cargo fleets. What else do you want me to say" "I attacked you because you stole my piece of cheesecake with cherry toppings." "The government has ordered me to harvest this farm. Please be patient as your base is harvested." IGN: MasonD ~Condolences to all who share a similar name - there can only be one.
I saw the rep discount for 1 hour after you reduced damage on new hives. That will really help with my 14 hour rep. Way to go. Why not give rep credits instead?
Also, why is it now costing more coin with rep reduction??????
4 coins at 18.5 mins and 6 coins at 24.5 mins, so it looks like 1 coin per 3 mins rep. That's a reduction???? When it's normally one coin for 3.5 mins rep??? Seems to work ok for the one coin rep, but what is going on above that?
Someone please correct me if I am wrong but I checked 3 times now.
Normally, the first 4.5 minutes are 1 coin, every three minutes after that are one coin.
wow, I have zero interest in participating in this cluster. looking in sector it looks even less fun than than comments make it out to be. Take **** tons of damage, no skill in piloting required. You guys have taken this game so far down a rat hole its comical.
@CM_Scarlett - I have claimed the Exal heavy talonite blueprint but it does not shown in the BP list. Playing on IOS. Is this another update issue again?
This is going to be very interesting, or very boring not sure which. I have never was much of a fan of the hive (even though many people love them it seems). The only was that was kind of interesting was the original three hives surrounding, but only because it meant certain death so it was rather exciting when they first showed up.
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They're too **** strong, you guys expect us to use cutters which have less armor to kill these things when they deplete your shields in 2 shots
The hives have an AOE field like a carrier that slows (kixeye said they would never do that again). The laser is suer long range as normal, but targets your highest DPS ship, so do not use your swarm carriers. The Explosive missiles have a shorter range than the laser, and hit pretty hard, but....when you get close, the hive has a minimum range for the laser and the missiles, so you only take on a Disintegrator cannons style wepon, which hits moderately. So Laser( Alien damage), Missiles (explosive), and Cannons (alien).
Lead with punishers if you are using covenants etc and have them block/lead the way into the hive.
Good luck! I wont be doing much against those guys lol
"Participant in the Jova Crusades; the winning side"
"I hate cargo fleets. What else do you want me to say"
"I attacked you because you stole my piece of cheesecake with cherry toppings."
"The government has ordered me to harvest this farm. Please be patient as your base is harvested."
IGN: MasonD
~Condolences to all who share a similar name - there can only be one.
The MK2 has a chance to drop a mk2 pattern, whereas the mk3...a mk3.
Other than that, the standard armaments and parts, with a T6 core if you don't get a pattern. I don't know if T5 cores drop or not.
So I have adopted the kill a 90 and come back in 12 hours strategy.
"Participant in the Jova Crusades; the winning side"
"I hate cargo fleets. What else do you want me to say"
"I attacked you because you stole my piece of cheesecake with cherry toppings."
"The government has ordered me to harvest this farm. Please be patient as your base is harvested."
IGN: MasonD
~Condolences to all who share a similar name - there can only be one.
The new new Hives are super op
A lvl 73 just killed my well armored fleet before I could do 20% dmg to it
(note that I don't have a fleet of Mk6 punishers cuz the punisher supply run will not Come before August)
I also took the opportunity to tell you all that I play another game, in which the developers talk directly with their players, take ideas from them, worry about solving problems, add content weekly, and have a very participative community, ITS FREE_TO_PLAY, his name is STARMADE, search og google or youtube
Lol,lvl 90 fleets,I love kix,man,so thoughtful of mega coiners,thanks kix,now imma just get 1.5 mil pts and finish the event,thank you for your caring support,except that we ask you to treat us much more harsh and give us less rep time for our fleets and let us have some fun around or we will be forced to be independent from ur caring arms
feature event is all level friendly. this event is high level friendly. the mob has a very bad habit of abusing freedom of speech.
Kix plewase turn down the dps a lot - this is just impossible at the higher fleets
so the items in this event will be very rare if its hard... its hard for everyone. so whats the complain???
In this case, "you" sure isn't me, and never will be, and I'll never forget that.
I should just stop playing. Can't wait for the Vega killer. Won't take too much and there's a lot of others trying.
Will there be point payout graphs for target fleets?
Sector 1600
ID: 15 886 708
Having fun in this event, Mr. Preece?
Honestly Kixeye YOU REALLY NEED TO RETHINK THE DIRECTION you are taking. I am trying to to start ranting and swearing but its really hard. Forget thbis game, forget Kixeye and save your wallet folks
How many parts per box? Is it a set number or random
I saw the rep discount for 1 hour after you reduced damage on new hives. That will really help with my 14 hour rep. Way to go. Why not give rep credits instead?
Also, why is it now costing more coin with rep reduction??????
4 coins at 18.5 mins and 6 coins at 24.5 mins, so it looks like 1 coin per 3 mins rep. That's a reduction???? When it's normally one coin for 3.5 mins rep??? Seems to work ok for the one coin rep, but what is going on above that?
Someone please correct me if I am wrong but I checked 3 times now.
@CM_Scarlett So I saw your post in the other thread about hives getting a difficulty adjustment, sounds good, but what about Reapers? Reaper 60 fleets are about 10% too OverPowered, they need an adjustment also.
Other problems:
-Points payout on 55 co-op 10k then jumps to 40k for 60 reaper, should be at least 20k for the co-op 55. In all the time I have played Vega the event fleets generally increase in points payout by 33-50%, increase especially if the fleet level is changing the tier bracket for its fleet level, so logic would place the 55s at 50% of the 60s 40k points which is 20k points.
-If the points payout can't benefit the mid-level players, in some way, then they are stuck grinding these low level fleets. Did the math, would take 8 hours to grind co-op 55 hives(10k points) to get the 1million points needed for the new top armor blueprint, which is a BP that is essential to get in building your next Xeno class ship, if they even dream of continuing playing this game with how much they have to catch up.
-This mobilization event is still offerring ONLY ISC hulls crafting materials, WTF? Only players that need that stuff are Mid-Level players, But of course the points value for this stuff is aimed at coiners and top level players. These boxes should all have their values lowered by 50%, example: Pattern Box 550k points dropped to 225k points. A middle level player is grinding hives, takes 23 co-op 55 hives to earn one box.
-No demon core Pattern boxes or Parts boxes.
-I'll leave the discussion about the new top level hives for the other thread, and just say they are total **** show an make it seem like the development team have one mandate: ' "Make the game all about Coins" - remove fun, interesting, and technical from game play.' Just throw logic out the window.
****... the sectors are quiet like ghost town. Does that mean the end of Vega is here???
This is a common theme in events. Mandating newly released tech to complete events is a clear handicap towards F2P, which imo is a false advertising when Kixeye advertises a game as free to play, yet requires large amounts of repairs. To hit lower would under 60k for events requiring 6 million worth of points.
The point rewards are reduced for the same fleets without any clear reason then speculations which tells us, it a move to mandate spending/eating the cost of repairs in order to keep up with the arms rebel race.
"Participant in the Jova Crusades; the winning side"
"I hate cargo fleets. What else do you want me to say"
"I attacked you because you stole my piece of cheesecake with cherry toppings."
"The government has ordered me to harvest this farm. Please be patient as your base is harvested."
IGN: MasonD
~Condolences to all who share a similar name - there can only be one.
Normally, the first 4.5 minutes are 1 coin, every three minutes after that are one coin.
@CM_Scarlett - I have claimed the Exal heavy talonite blueprint but it does not shown in the BP list. Playing on IOS. Is this another update issue again?