Powerplay Historical Data

GraXXoR · Tuesday at 8:52 AM

Does anyone know if there is a page which shows the historical trends in Power Play.. for example showing the ranking of each power over time or number of fortresses / reinforced systems over time.
I'd like to see what the situation is with powers such as Nakato and Jeromy and who is "up and coming" and who is "going nowhere"

I know that Inara shows all the current powers' states and it does show the gain and loss of powers' systems as a list but it doesn't show any pretty graphs.

Any info appreciated. Cheers.

Rubbernuke · Tuesday at 9:05 AM

How about something like this? Not exactly what you require but close...

Powerplay Weekly Statistics

Interesting. I do wonder how consistent it is long-term, since I do occasionally get EDDN data suggesting that previously inhabited systems now have zero population, and it must have had a non-zero update at some point for that to be noteworthy. It's not zero in game though I bet. It's an...

forums.frontier.co.uk

Ian Doncaster · Tuesday at 9:34 AM

Here's a graph of the overall system count

In summary: everyone has gained systems, with LYR and Duval doing the best, lots of others doing well, and Patreus despite a small player base and repeated attacks still staying net positive.

Power	Gains
Denton Patreus	22
Felicia Winters	73
Pranav Antal	105
Yuri Grom	121
Archon Delaine	124
Zemina Torval	128
Edmund Mahon	174
Nakato Kaine	189
Jerome Archer	237
Arissa Lavigny-Duval	299
Li Yong-Rui	364
Aisling Duval	386

Phoenix_Dfire · Tuesday at 9:50 AM

I do a total rundown for Lave Radio every week, Mind you Ian's done a fantastic job there

Rubbernuke · Tuesday at 9:52 AM

Phoenix_Dfire said:
I do a total rundown for Lave Radio every week, Mind you Ian's done a fantastic job there

In what style? UK shipping forecast style, or 'top of the pops'?

Phoenix_Dfire · Tuesday at 9:57 AM

Rubbernuke said:
In what style? UK shipping forecast style, or 'top of the pops'?

If you'd listen to the show, you'd know! ;-)

But Top of the Pop's Naturally....

Ian Doncaster · Tuesday at 10:03 AM

GraXXoR said:
number of fortresses / reinforced systems over time.

So that's a ~7x increase in the number of Strongholds, and a ~3x increase in the number of Fortified systems.

Currently Reinforcement (net of Undermining) is proceeding slightly faster than Acquisition, though it will take over a decade for everything to become a Stronghold for someone.

Rubbernuke · Tuesday at 1:02 PM

Phoenix_Dfire said:
If you'd listen to the show, you'd know! ;-)

But Top of the Pop's Naturally....

Shame, UK shipping forecast style is very bizarre and yet soothing- much like PP....

GraXXoR · Tuesday at 7:03 PM

Thank you very much for the information.

Though I'm currently at Level 21 with jerome, I'm not feeling the vibes. He seems to be a bit of a corporate douchebag from what I gather despite being Space Costner.

Looking for someone with at least a modicum of morality. IT does seem a shame that all of the main powers appear to have been created with 2D demagogue stereotypes in mind rather than much nuance, though that is likely just my lack of understanding.

Rubbernuke · Tuesday at 7:30 PM

GraXXoR said:
Looking for someone with at least a modicum of morality.

That would be The King™, Archon Delaine. He's the most honest of them all, and democratic.

Ian Doncaster · Wednesday at 12:14 PM

GraXXoR said:
Looking for someone with at least a modicum of morality. IT does seem a shame that all of the main powers appear to have been created with 2D demagogue stereotypes in mind rather than much nuance, though that is likely just my lack of understanding.

I think it's largely inevitable that since we only hear about these people a paragraph at a time it takes a while to develop their characters to even 2D standards. They're mostly also figureheads and archetypes for larger forces so can't afford too much subtlety in their portrayal, or they stop being "representative" of that.

(As for the question of morality, I think you could make reasonable cases for "all of them", "all of them except Delaine", "all of them except LYR", "none of them", "none of them except Delaine", "none of them except Delaine or Antal" depending on exactly how you view the nature of the setting and what moral baseline you go from. But that's hard to discuss without getting too close to (rightly) disallowed topics)

GraXXoR · Wednesday at 12:48 PM

Ian Doncaster said:
They're mostly also figureheads and archetypes for larger forces so can't afford too much subtlety in their portrayal, or they stop being "representative" of that.

Damn! That's a sold point I hadn't considered. When does an Archetype cease to be an Archetype?

After reading the Prospectuses (Prospecti?) it seems there Nakato Kaine and The Smurf at least demonstrate a modicum of care for something at their own expense.
The others do seem very full of themselves.. Delaine is obviously the outlier, tho.

Nathan84 · Wednesday at 1:01 PM

GraXXoR said:
After reading the Prospectuses (Prospecti?) it seems there Nakato Kaine and The Smurf at least demonstrate a modicum of care for something at their own expense.
The others do seem very full of themselves.. Delaine is obviously the outlier, tho.

You know, there's a roughly 50% chance we eventually get a GalNet update along the line of "Kaine was a Thargoid all along" or "The Smurf's money actually comes from turning Imperial Slaves into burgers"

Alec Turner · Wednesday at 1:26 PM

Rubbernuke said:
Shame, UK shipping forecast style is very bizarre and yet soothing- much like PP....

Maybe I should adopt that for my new rundown of top 5 colonised systems by population ...

Col 285 Sector CK-Q c5-24 empire corporate argriculture and high tech 1 billion 283 million 5th,
HIP 753 cooperative independent tourism and agriculture 1 billion 378 million 4th.
etc

Oh god ... I actually like that idea, but can I be bothered?

aRJay · Wednesday at 2:22 PM

Alec Turner said:
Maybe I should adopt that for my new rundown of top 5 colonised systems by population ...

Col 285 Sector CK-Q c5-24 empire corporate argriculture and high tech 1 billion 283 million 5th,
HIP 753 cooperative independent tourism and agriculture 1 billion 378 million 4th.
etc

Oh god ... I actually like that idea, but can I be bothered?

Please do.

For something that is a fairly niche technical report the Shipping Forecasts were always a pleasure to listen to especially as a little kid on a seaside holiday.