What are the signs that a HSAP has been claimed?

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Jimmy C
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What are the signs that a HSAP has been claimed?

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So I decided I was ready to claim a HSAP sector. The thing is, I was under the impression one of the other factions would claim another sector right away. But when I checked after making the claim, all of the other HSAPs were still marked as unclaimed at both ends. Since this is a 1.1 updated game, is the uncreated ninth sector messing things up? Or did they claim the sector for the Terran plot?
If it's a matter of time, I intend to claim the other sectors as quickly as I can. I got the funds.
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Re: What are the signs that a HSAP has been claimed?

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Jimmy C wrote: Thu, 12. Aug 21, 18:42 So I decided I was ready to claim a HSAP sector. The thing is, I was under the impression one of the other factions would claim another sector right away. But when I checked after making the claim, all of the other HSAPs were still marked as unclaimed at both ends. Since this is a 1.1 updated game, is the uncreated ninth sector messing things up? Or did they claim the sector for the Terran plot?
If it's a matter of time, I intend to claim the other sectors as quickly as I can. I got the funds.
What I've observed is that the NPC races claiming HSAP's happens after you build a TOA, not when you claim one.

The sequence seems to be:
1. You claim TOA.
2. You build TOA (this excludes the starter plot one, building that only advances that plot).
3. Very shortly after (if not instantly) the NPC races start claiming their HSAP's (chosen randomly it seems) and building TOA's.
4. Once the NPC's have built a few TOA's collectively (seems may be 3 or 4, one usually being the special ones players can't claim) they stop until you build another TOA.

The sequence repeats until all TOA's are built.

Since you can only claim and build on one HSAP at a time the NPC's will eventually beat you to at least a few even if you have TOA's staged in every location and enough credits to pay all the fees.
If you go slow and build just one at a time (and the let NPC's claim the max they can) you will still have to build at least three TOA's to allow the NPC's to claim all of theirs.

I can't speak to the Terran plot issues or a v1.1 game however when I did that plot in a v1.0 -> 1.1 -> 1.2 game (before I restarted) I had no issues as I'd only built one TOA and the NPC races had claimed and built to their limit at the time and therefore could not interfere.

I also suggest restarting with v1.2 as that missing sector means you are missing something that is otherwise unobtainable.
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Re: What are the signs that a HSAP has been claimed?

Post by Jimmy C »

I decided to reload and hold off claiming the HSAP until I got enough materials to build the TOA. Got that now, so I'm going ahead again. The races can have the blank sectors.

The last sector would have the gamma kyon emitter. Don't need that since nothing can use that unless you can capture a khaak destroyer.

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