At the minute we are in the 'shock' phase of PP2- there is no real co-ordination because its so new and that balance is out of the window.
Yes, quite possibly - though I think that once the between-activity balance is established, the number of merits needed to flip a system might need to come down substantially. If moving an Exploited system to either None or Fortified requires enough merits to get 4-5 new recruits to maximum rank, even
without opposition, that process is going to lead to very slow changes / only the largest organised groups being able to make changes.
(While PP1 merits were generally a fair bit slower to obtain, I don't think
any single PP1 group was making enough merits per week to flip a single PP2 system; if my Power is at all representative, the mean merits per player per week is probably going to be under 10,000 and the median will be less than that)
What I expect (or hope) is that once things have become more established, a bigger picture (which is really a collection of hotspots and battle lines) appears.
There's an interesting set of conflicts building around Leesti (Mahon stronghold virtually surrounded by Kaine space and right next to Kaine's HQ) but that's a highly unusual situation; in most powers the conflicts will be at the edges and harder to "focus" because it'll be less clear why
both Powers really want that particular system as opposed to a different one, and people won't be dropping Strongholds next to opposed HQs to start with.
