Fortress and Virus

RAYMONDRONALD

What is the Max No of Bases need to inject Virus into fortress to get it Defence to it lowest point

IE>- If we hold 6 Hubs do All 48 Bases need to Inject, or less to get fortress defence to lowest point

gamerdruid

Injecting doesn't only reduce the level, but also gives time to kill the fortress. 25 are sufficient to reduce the fortress by the max amount, this gives 50 minutes, the extras give time.

RAYMONDRONALD

Thanks
Think we may need to inject 48 for the extra Time

methuselah

You can inject 50 if you are careful. Have the extra 2 staged and ready, have someone inject and jump off, your 49th jumps on, and injects. Rinse and repeat for #50.

Be careful with this though, you don't want to mess this up and raise the shields in the middle of your attack

GeneralRGP

@methuselah, just to get clarification, I wanted to attempt to get all 50 virus injections on Firestorm 10 a couple of weeks ago and was told that if someone moved off of a hub after injecting the virus, the time would be deducted and it would not make a difference. So, we didn't make the swap out. When the "fort team" departed, post destruction of the DF, I did not see a time deduction, none-the-less, it would be great to hear it from someone else.

chertosha

I can confirm that when i was helping an alliance kill the fortress, i injected the virus, hit the fortress a couple times. When it was clear the fortress dies, I left alliance, and my 2.5 minutes were immediately subtracted from the timer. At that moment one hub was lost, but the time of others who already injected and now sat on an incomplete hub was not subtracted.
I have not tried substituting 49th and 50th person. Maybe it worked at some point in the distant past, but I think now it would not work.

GeneralRGP

thanks, chertosha, that helps a lot.

MD7707

Do you guys know if you can inject the virus from a HUB which you do not entirely control?

gamerdruid

Do you mean when the rest of the hubs are complete and the fortress defences are down?

MD7707

Yes. We have 5 HUBs fully occupied and the 6th one has only 5 bases on terminals. Would those 5 people be able to inject the virus when the shield is down?

EE_Elephterion

As long as the Terminal is counted for your alliance and not displayed as 'contested' your allies should be able to inject.

MD7707

EE_Elephterion wrote: »

As long as the Terminal is counted for your alliance and not displayed as 'contested' your allies should be able to inject.

So if we have 5 bases there and the other 3 terminals are not occupied then we are ok.
Thank you

jim64

All 8 terminals need to be controlled for members on that hub to inject.

methuselah

jim64 wrote: »

All 8 terminals need to be controlled for members on that hub to inject.

This is correct. I had no idea on the time reduction that is interesting. I've had 50 people on, had 2 jump off so 2 could jump on and inject, but did not notice any deduction. Perhaps if you stay in the alliance and jump off there is none?

Or perhaps I just was a stress monster and not paying close enough attention