This week in powerplay really brought this out in droves.
A Lavigny-Duval crashed and burned, and was then brought back to life again through changes that only affected her power. This seems really unfair to everyone else who were doing their best to avoid falling into that trap.
Being brought back to life by a change in overhead calculations (which so far only affects her - all other powers have exactly the same overhead costs as when she crashed), means she now has a CC surplus - so why did she lose two systems? Systems only revolt if there's a CC deficit the week after they went into turmoil, and she doesn't have a CC deficit any more. This seems unfair to A Lavigny-Duval's supporters.
Bringing A Lavigny-Duval back from the crash also wrecked havoc on the standings. Not just because everyone but Hudson moved down one spot, but also because Aisling Duval suddenly swapped with Torval. Somehow Torval managed to stay in 4th while Aisling Duval dropped from 3rd to 5th - all because A Lavigny-Duval moved from 10th to 2nd. This seems really unfair to Aisling Duval's supporters.
Bringing A Lavigny-Duval back from the crash directly affected the standing value percentages by rather significant amounts, but the amounts vary from power to power. Mahon had the biggest drop of 9 percentage points while Yong-Rui had the smallest drop of only 2 percentage points. This seems really unfair to Mahon's supporters.
A Lavigny-Duval's overhead was seemingly changed from (exploited systems)^3/74,000 to (exploited systems)^3/94,295 (a reduction of 1,145 CC) but this new calculation hasn't been applied to any other power. That means the other powers were cheated out of between 11 CC (Antal) and 692 CC (Hudson) and a grand total of 2,556 CC. This seems extremely unfair to everyone else.
Part of the problem is the amount of black-box calculations happening in the game. Standings and overheads for one. Part of the problem is that changes were made that only affect one power (overhead calculations) so far. Sure, they may be changed for everyone next week, but that still robbed everyone else of 2,556 CC that could and would have been used to expand into other systems.
Combine this with the perceived Empire bias (Imperial Hammer, Prismatic Shield, Advanced Accelerator), and you've managed to make people even more angry. Add in the lack of action when Archon Delaine's had problems and it just seems like you are trying to keep the Empire on top at the cost of everyone else.
Now - it may be the case that the actions taken would have been identical had it been Hudson that crashed and burned, and to be honest I think this is the case. Your behaviour so far, however, doesn't exactly point towards treating everyone fairly. It feeds into the perceived unfairness, and it's ticking people off.
A Lavigny-Duval crashed and burned, and was then brought back to life again through changes that only affected her power. This seems really unfair to everyone else who were doing their best to avoid falling into that trap.
Being brought back to life by a change in overhead calculations (which so far only affects her - all other powers have exactly the same overhead costs as when she crashed), means she now has a CC surplus - so why did she lose two systems? Systems only revolt if there's a CC deficit the week after they went into turmoil, and she doesn't have a CC deficit any more. This seems unfair to A Lavigny-Duval's supporters.
Bringing A Lavigny-Duval back from the crash also wrecked havoc on the standings. Not just because everyone but Hudson moved down one spot, but also because Aisling Duval suddenly swapped with Torval. Somehow Torval managed to stay in 4th while Aisling Duval dropped from 3rd to 5th - all because A Lavigny-Duval moved from 10th to 2nd. This seems really unfair to Aisling Duval's supporters.
Bringing A Lavigny-Duval back from the crash directly affected the standing value percentages by rather significant amounts, but the amounts vary from power to power. Mahon had the biggest drop of 9 percentage points while Yong-Rui had the smallest drop of only 2 percentage points. This seems really unfair to Mahon's supporters.
A Lavigny-Duval's overhead was seemingly changed from (exploited systems)^3/74,000 to (exploited systems)^3/94,295 (a reduction of 1,145 CC) but this new calculation hasn't been applied to any other power. That means the other powers were cheated out of between 11 CC (Antal) and 692 CC (Hudson) and a grand total of 2,556 CC. This seems extremely unfair to everyone else.
Part of the problem is the amount of black-box calculations happening in the game. Standings and overheads for one. Part of the problem is that changes were made that only affect one power (overhead calculations) so far. Sure, they may be changed for everyone next week, but that still robbed everyone else of 2,556 CC that could and would have been used to expand into other systems.
Combine this with the perceived Empire bias (Imperial Hammer, Prismatic Shield, Advanced Accelerator), and you've managed to make people even more angry. Add in the lack of action when Archon Delaine's had problems and it just seems like you are trying to keep the Empire on top at the cost of everyone else.
Now - it may be the case that the actions taken would have been identical had it been Hudson that crashed and burned, and to be honest I think this is the case. Your behaviour so far, however, doesn't exactly point towards treating everyone fairly. It feeds into the perceived unfairness, and it's ticking people off.
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