What a wonderful post Walt!! Thank you for articulating it so well and putting all the updated information in one place!
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I've been playing -suffering- the BGS ever since January when I became allied to the Social Eleu Progressive Party. We've since expanded and controlled, fallen and risen, and are now stuck due to bugs.
nice post. I'll need to bookmark this one. +rep.
A few questions, since I and my group are just getting into this as of 1.4. I've learned a lot, but there is much that is just not clear and I'm after going trough the patch notes more will be rewritten in the future.
3-In the OP states that only player actions can impact influence. Did a dev confirm that? In the month or so we've been tinkering in our system we've seen a lot of radical influence swings that either don't seem to be commensurate with the effort we are putting forth and too large judging by the traffic reports to be attributed a concerted unseen player effort, I'm wonder if these seemingly random results may be related to the "Scenario rebuilds" mentioned in the 1.4 patch notes.
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3) Extremely certain. We have seen systems that stay untouched on the Frontier keep their influence for weeks on end. Sometimes months... simply because no one cares to visit.
I am not sure this is a hard truth right now. There's a bug that really swings the influence up and down erratically and it is still an issue. We can attest to this because we are certain and sure there are no other human players affecting our system. Even if they do visit and do trade, there is no way our influence would go from 87% to 13% keeping the same low traffic. Is bugged right now.
Conversely, we just expanded into a tiny system and yes, it seems like influence there is more static, stable. We don't visit much and it's remained basically the same for days, whereas main system gets daily "tick".
Thank you for this guide +1 rep
So if i understand this correctly .. let's say, i want support "Future of LHS 3447". They own Trevithick Dock in LHS 3447. Currently, there is another faction in charge of the system (LHS 3447 CO something ...). What can i do to turn it around, and see my faction in charge?
Bounty hunting
Just said before by my monkey fellow, but will repeat it: LHS 3447 is probably the worst system in the Galaxy to affect the BGS. Last time I went there -like 4 months ago- the system was a mess!! Factions are starving, i war, lockdown, unrest, etc. There is every single obstacle that you can imagine, is present. The reason: well, is where all the new people start!
Not only the traffic it gets is crazy, it is also an amount of people that have no idea whatsoever of what they are doing as they are figuring out the game yet. They are too busy to focus on landing and lowering the gear than to realize there are families dying under their docking pad because no one has brought them any food in weeks.
You definitely want to pick another system with a different traffic. As long as all new people keep starting in there, LHS 3447 will never be a stable system.