One of the dev's revealed quite some time ago now that there is no influence tick in systems with no commander traffic. Surprisingly, maybe this one is actually true.
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A Guide to Minor Factions and the Background Sim
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One of the dev's revealed quite some time ago now that there is no influence tick in systems with no commander traffic. Surprisingly, maybe this one is actually true.
Is there a Reddit or Frontier forum dedicated to the Background Simulation?
There are ED Reddits for XboxOne, Racing, Trading, Mining, Exploring, Bounty Hunting, CQC, etc
The Frontier Forums contain sections for horizons, engineers, powerplay, CQC.
It makes sense to me that there should be a Reddit and Frontier forum for BGS, especially in light of the mission board rework.
There are ED Reddits for XboxOne, Racing, Trading, Mining, Exploring, Bounty Hunting, CQC, etc
The Frontier Forums contain sections for horizons, engineers, powerplay, CQC.
It makes sense to me that there should be a Reddit and Frontier forum for BGS, especially in light of the mission board rework.
You're soaking in it. Yes this is it. This thread here is pretty much all there is.
Yes they did, but that actually flew in the face of what was actually happening in reality in lots of peoples experience. There is plenty of chat about 'decay' if you shuffle back about 20 pages. Hence the reason it has raised its head again in the last page and I was confirming I had also seen the change of no traffic no % loss.
I wonder if in that stream they were actually talking about the 2.1 BGS without telling us. A few things they said that didn't fit with my experience then do now in 2.1.
dynamicbob
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Ok heres something BIG
theres a new government type called "workshop" on galmap, does anyone have any idea at all what that means ?
theres a new government type called "workshop" on galmap, does anyone have any idea at all what that means ?
That seems to be a reference to engineers. If you look at an engineer base on the system map surface view it'll say "Location: Workshop" when you hover over the base on the 2nd system map tab.
Why it's on the galaxy map filter is unknown.
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dynamicbob
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so maybe they are about to give engineers their own minor factions and allow them to expand thats the only reason i think they are put under government types ( as a placeholder)
i don#t think so; they even don't show up as minor factions. the allegiance is important, because you will gain reputation with them easier, if you have good reputation with the alligned major faction.
This is certainly frustrating as I agree with you that expansion should happen after 3 - 5 days but I am guessing we must be washing in the wrong soap as we are still in expansion.
We are trying to check all our nearby systems but I guess I am guilty of looking more regularly at the Galnet News, however is that flawed or what?
I cannot talk about any other system but we have news reports of minor factions located in our system going into elections with factions that do not exist within this location. Yes it is possible they exist elsewhere but Galnet is adamant the elections are definitely taking place in our very specific location. clearly they are factually incorrect, just like this 3 - 5 days of being in expansion.
We are like children waiting for our Christmas presents that should have come down the chimney on Christmas Day.... boy would I have been disappointed if Father Christmas boycotted our house
Me impatient??? Moi??
News sources in the 34th century are just as unreliable as those of today.
You're not alone - we're seeing the same wrong information in the local newsfeeds. I found one yesterday that said one of the local factions was going to find the upcoming election really tough. Probably going to made exceptionally difficult as the faction they're allegedly coming up against doesn't have a foothold in this system.
But who reads the newspapers anyway?
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Just landed in our system and noted the click has finally happened..
Opened up the local newspaper and guess what?
Yup there we are in bold (not really in bold)
The article is from the system we have moved into and warns its locals how they must wait to see how we behave so...
We can all find our new system by looking at the local Galnet News
Generally speaking, news of expansion is the only accurate news.We can all find our new system by looking at the local Galnet News
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Had 3 factions in retreat state in one of our systems, didn't act against them. They stayed on ~3%, ~2% and ~1% respectively. Only the faction on 1% was removed from system when state finished. Looks like factions need to be driven down to 1% for retreat state to be successful? anyone got different results?
A question: At the edge of the bubble there are a number of inhabited systems with no other inhabited system nearby (certainly not within 30LY). I visited one where the ruling faction was in Expansion phase. Presumably it can't/won't expand? I'd like to go out to the edge and support a faction there - but if it can't expand, I assume there's no point?
Tarrach Tor has 4 factions in retreat.
Wow!... Some prime real estate is about to open up right there.
Nope. had a faction we wanted to get rid of go into retreat, its influence crept up to about 2.5%, retreat ended and its still with us.
Retreat is a global state though right? Like Expansion? I.e when you get it in one system, it appears as an active state in all systems?
If so, it's possible the faction was at low influence in multiple systems, and it retreated from a different one?