I think Joel took it personally, the new Major Order is to defend 10 (!!!) planets in five days:
There are five planet defenses active right now, all currently failing.
Haha Joel's like, "alright you little bastards".
What happens when you fail?
The main benefit is everyone gets an in-game currency reward if you succeed. Nothing huge, but the equivalent of what you would normally get in 4-6 missions of normal play.
They have sometimes tied new content to major orders. For example, a few weeks ago there was an order to capture planets that were supposed to contain mechsuit manufacturing plants. When we completed the order, they released new mechsuit content. Had we failed, they probably would have written a new story line where we got them a week later.
My guess is if we fail this order, there will probably be a different set of planets that we fight on next week, but it won't really be noticeable from a gameplay perspective. Just a different set of 5 or 10 planets on the map closer to Super Earth.
Long-term, there might be a wider plan for what happens if we succeed or fail too many orders. For example, last week we succeeded in a bunch of orders against the robots so they claimed we successfully wiped them off the map and couldn't fight them anymore. Then a few days later they launched a "surprise invasion" and it basically reset the map, just on different planets.
Made this as a result: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18072991
Was this actually a thing? I logged on for the first time in a week last night and there were no major orders. Wasn't sure what I missed.
Yeah there was a major order to kill 2 billion terminids from yesterday morning. It was done by evening.
Yea the user base killed the 2 billion target in 14 hours lol
I logged in at like 99.5% or something, so I jumped in as soon as I could.
