Just a few additional notes here....I'm sure if you could have alerted it NI would have had your back, and I'm also sure it wouldn't have helped. By the time you guarded the planet, I just killed you and could have easily just warped you away, either way it only took 2 seconds to take it by the time you even realized it was under attack. No vortex deflector was used so we could have just warped guards away fast enough for invasion attempts (after all it's only a single click)

Also having the planet debuffed by 45% means that it wasn't technically at 20k when we attacked, I think with the extra defense on the planet it may have been somewhere around 13k after the debuffs were up.

One more lesson clearly learned here in case anyone was wondering, critical hacks ignore cloak.

I'm glad you got a replacement planet, I have to say after fighting so hard on the forums to get these passive defenses on mission planets, it seems like a bittersweet victory.

Now if there was a way of taking back your first one, you'd be king. lol Glad to hear things worked out for you Joe.

... As Dan had said, "strange things do happen in this Galaxy of ours."...

Things happen but things also don't add up, at least to me.

I had 474 planets in my database. The odds of them hacking that planet are 1 in 474 or 0.21%
There is a 5% chance of of a hack being critical. So, that's what, 5 hacks out of every 100. 1 in every 20.
Of those 1 in 20 hacks which is critical there is also a chance that it will reward the hacker with extra RP rather than a planet location. I haven't done the math to add up the overall possibility of this happening but i'm thinking i might have a better chance of winning the lottery.

Because of the timer i couldn't alert. Maybe if there were separate timers (one for planet alerts and one for player alerts) things would have been different. I have absolutely no doubt that if i was able to alert that Ni would have had my back and the planet would have been well defended.

I flux probe all my top planets weekly.

Fact is, i paid for the terraformers to get the exotic as well as paid for the QSEs to get the dyson. I've spent quite a large sum (i'm known as the plastic king to some,lol) on this game and the main reason i bought the arts for those planets was because of their supposed ability to resist such attacks.

I would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to Dan for replacing the Dyson which was taken from me today.

Even he couldn't believe the odds of such a thing happening. As Dan had said, "strange things do happen in this Galaxy of ours."

I am happy that i got a replacement planet, with all the structures that i had on it, and that Dan has done right by me. I am also extremely happy about some future changes which will be implemented (i'll leave that up to him to disclose).

Dan, You are a man of honour and have always done right by me and i thank you for making this situation no different!

I completely disagree. Having been able to alert the planet would have brought in a influx of planet guarders who would have resume guard duty after being warped away. You would have never been able to invade the planet as long as there was at least one person on it. Even with 10 people constantly returning to the planet to guard it, it would have given me the chance to properly defend the planet. I would have stack arts and the def of the planet would have been well over 50k from just arts alone.

So, while you sit there and think there is no stopping you, you're sadly mistaken about that. Fact is, you just happened to get lucky with the cirt hack, even luckier that the crit hack revealed a planet, even luckier that the planet was my dyson, and yet even luckier that i was in a situation where i couldn't alert the planet. You do the math on the odds of all those things coming together in perfect harmony like that. Nearly if not impossible. Heck, even Nocifer said that you guys had tried and failed because of a legion coming to defend the planet, i dont see why this would be any different. Is there something special about this instance of attempting to take a dyson over a previous attempt? Almost seems like the deck was stacked.

It was very interesting to see I missed it by a few minutes I think. I wonder what others would think is a good solution to the problem? Obviously the majority doesn't like the idea of losing their paid planets. I would suggest still allow invasions but the planet gets to be returned eventually, sort of like, it gets to be liberated by the owner in some way.

I completely disagree. Having been able to alert the planet would have brought in a influx of planet guarders who would have resume guard duty after being warped away. You would have never been able to invade the planet as long as there was at least one person on it. Even with 10 people constantly returning to the planet to guard it, it would have given me the chance to properly defend the planet. I would have stack arts and the def of the planet would have been well over 50k from just arts alone.

So, while you sit there and think there is no stopping you, you're sadly mistaken about that. Fact is, you just happened to get lucky with the cirt hack, even luckier that the crit hack revealed a planet, even luckier that the planet was my dyson, and yet even luckier that i was in a situation where i couldn't alert the planet. You do the math on the odds of all those things coming together in perfect harmony like that. Nearly if not impossible. Heck, even Nocifer said that you guys had tried and failed because of a legion coming to defend the planet, i dont see why this would be any different. Is there something special about this instance of attempting to take a dyson over a previous attempt? Almost seems like the deck was stacked.

I have to agree with Bob here.

A Terra planet was taken from a good friend of mine ( Krauzen ) from you guys and I ended up taking it back after I warped a lot of you guys off while our guys were trying for it.

I took it back and fluxed it fast.

Obviously not impossible. It just happened.....

I would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to Dan for replacing the Dyson which was taken from me today.

Even he couldn't believe the odds of such a thing happening. As Dan had said, "strange things do happen in this Galaxy of ours."

I am happy that i got a replacement planet, with all the structures that i had on it, and that Dan has done right by me. I am also extremely happy about some future changes which will be implemented (i'll leave that up to him to disclose).

Dan, You are a man of honour and have always done right by me and i thank you for making this situation no different!