I agree with you completely. Personally, unless it is a passive ability (scan/planet buffs aside), I rarely click activated abilities.

When you get strong enough, the boosts from all those things, while nice, just isn't that much difference.

As to whether the rewards are worth the CTP, that is up to the player. There is no one in the game that is forced to do the mission (unless you want something from a follow up mission). There is more than enough time for one to wait and decide if the mission is worth doing. Do I think this was a great chain, no. Was I happy to have a new chain, yes. Was it expensive, yes. Was it worth it, that depends. I was happy to have new stuff to do and new features, even if many were frustrating. The NFX crate ability is cool, as is the Lutuma Memory Core ability.

One has to remember, that Dan added CTP not for trading but for some missions and upgrading bases. We took it upon ourselves to use as a trading item.

Yes, i have and no they are not extractable.

So I kinda need 20k ctp. I have 2 mil EM for sale. Anyone interested? LOL

they have charges, and structures with charges can never be extracted

so no suprice theire

I will trade 20k ctp for 200 mil em

I shouldn't post when I'm tired. I meant I have 2 mil EM for sale lol.

GridMine effect duration is 5 minutes, but can be removed with a Containment Cage.

Good to know, so it's just an attiroth-like ability except a debuff instead of repair ships you must remove. Was worried it'd be like the elios pulse.

good to know. i kill all mine with the raix gun so i couldnt add that.

An interesting note: what if the Oruas Eye made any planet with an Eye Chamber an invincible planet? Currently, beyond the five mission planets, the two year reward and the morphogenic inhibiters (which you need four of), there aren't many ways to make a planet invincible, and, lore-wise, the Lutuma did use the Eye to predict any threat to them to become unstoppable until it left them, and the thought of making eye chambers just for cool decorations and not use the eye seems... silly, I am guessing the two are linked. I wouldn't put it past the developer to make it only affect a single planet, but, optimistically, it'd buff all of them or at least more than one, as I think the unreal degree of energy to get it would make a few invincibles a proper reward... Then again, one could say the same of the Darmos Drone or Kriell.

It would make it interesting then if one should save the Eye Chambers as they can't be extracted.

Doubt it. It would be pretty pointless the Eye having 8k def if that was the case. Enemy Immunity (like Reactive Barrier) would be more realistic as it would compliment the defense bonus.

Or at least some type of planet buff/transformation (i.e. into some new planet type), but, point taken. It still does seem the two artifacts will be linked in some way.

perhaps the eye could give all plaents with an oraus deployed a rift trap type effect when attacked...so you have time to make arrangements!

more likely it will be a nice item for one planet...which probably wont need def/att or cloak considerations

regarding the ctp expense...i think for many people now they either use ctp for ridiculously priced dysons....or buy fluxes....what the hell would you do with the rest of your ctp? There are prismatics now...so an occassional cost there...but not a huge one....why not roll 20k ctp and see what happens?

No worries or risk really..someone will do it for us and post...so you will :

a) go wow, yup glad i didnt do it
b) go meh, thats ok, maybe later
c) curse the day you and/or Dan was born and up your game to get to it on the chain

4pm tuesday, unless somone beats me to it.

I don't have anymore CTP so I'm out until the Chuhn event begins for those scrapping bonuses.

4 pm what timezone?

eastern, so per server time it would be 3pm, or 15:00

I couldn't be bothered with 20 hour timers.

Last time I did those was on The Key of Kassivar, and that was a massive disappointment.

Oruas Eye is an Ally

Rank 100 - Ability: Far Sight
Rank 60 - All Shield +5% (Fixed, no rank bonus)
Rank 30 - Cloak 60 (before bonus)
Initial stats Defense: 90, Energy: 80 Scan: 70
Use Bond ability to rank - (Costs 200 Complex Tech / 300 Energy)

I haven't got pictures as a legion mate got the eye. (Thanks SonicScrewdrver)

That's looking pretty good. Expensive to get to rank 100 @ 19800 CTP(99 ranks), but given that chuhn, thanksgiving, scruuge events are coming, everyone should be able to earn 200 ctp a day to rank this pretty thing....

p.s. no i didn't forget an event, gtfo of here Bane