Lets test this persistent universe and see if FD are true to their word.
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I'm on 5k tons and I'm in the top 5%.
I just reached 7k tons right now, but I got to the top 5% early this afternoon when I reached 3k. The threshold has probably gone up a bit, but you may not be very far from it.
Are anarchy pirate factions supposed to go extinct? I remember in January, I tried bounty farming in systems with strong pirate factions. I re-checked those systems today, and on every single one of them, the pirate faction has dropped significantly, with no exceptions. The drops were remarkable as well, like 26% down to 10%. Not a single faction was stagnant, let alone increased.
The reason behind this seems pretty simple. As explained, every time you kill a ship of a faction with a bounty, that faction loses influence. Since most ships with a bounty belong to the local pirate faction, that faction of course loses influence, when a player decides to bounty farm in that system, while the others lose a lot less since they have fewer ships with bounties on them. So relatively speaking, every other faction becomes stronger.
The only way a pirate faction can gain influence is if someone starts doing missions for them, but nobody does that because it's utterly pointless, especially if your goal is to make it stronger so it is easier to bounty farm.
Are there any ways a pirate faction can gain influence I'm not aware of?
The reason behind this seems pretty simple. As explained, every time you kill a ship of a faction with a bounty, that faction loses influence. Since most ships with a bounty belong to the local pirate faction, that faction of course loses influence, when a player decides to bounty farm in that system, while the others lose a lot less since they have fewer ships with bounties on them. So relatively speaking, every other faction becomes stronger.
The only way a pirate faction can gain influence is if someone starts doing missions for them, but nobody does that because it's utterly pointless, especially if your goal is to make it stronger so it is easier to bounty farm.
Are there any ways a pirate faction can gain influence I'm not aware of?
When a faction loses influence, the other factions gain a bit, proportionally to what influence they already have (since the total influence is alway 100%, logically enough). So if a group was to start working against the most influential factions in the system, this would allow the pirate faction to make a comeback. But as Lugh's history has proven, it takes a dedicated, organised group of players to do that. And it will be done at a loss. So it is even more unlikely to happen than just some commanders doing missions for the pirates. So yeah, this looks like a relatively serious design flaw.
Maybe you should consider starting a thread about it.
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the stations in lugh have an above-average stock, but the best, closest i've found is arth. xeaex is good too, as is hill pa hsi
By the way, is anyone here thinking of going to Lavecon? I hadn't been intending to go, but after making so many friends in Lugh I wondered if it'd be nice to catch up IRL...
Is it better stock than Shinrarta?
I tried gc3 beam and fc3 cannon yesterday but my time to kill was much much longer than 2 gc3 puls.
I don't suck at flying or something but i had problems with any other outfit than puls.
At least in a combat zone.
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Very well Cmdr,
Thanks for the intel. Will begin hauling for a while and pass by in combat zone half an hour as a cherry on top
Latest trade locations anyone? Running a stripped for purpose 42t cap cobra.
I think it's bugged. I did a mission unrelated to the war, but for CSG (kill some pirates in nearby systems, and donate to CSG 40k credits in a station) and Silver Natural Ltd got all of the influence.
Not really, did 3 million plus bonds tonight.