I had a big day today, I flipped a system to my favoured (NPC) faction. ED Bucket List Box ticked, it was months of work and I'm pretty pleased with myself.
Or I was, until I met a Pledged player.
No, no PvP was involved, they just came to investigate the change & happened to meet me, we had a chat in the dock.
I'd been away for quite a while & my home system had gone to pot, the factions were all over the place and the long standing Fed aligned corporate controlling faction (exploited on the fringes of Hudson space) had been usurped by a neighbouring independent Feudal faction. I assumed this was just down to skimmer missions & other min/maxing stuff, and I spent the last 3 months going through the motions to tidy up the system and put my preferred faction back in charge.
But apparently putting a Fed aligned faction in control of a system in Hudson space is a problem, because it's more efficient to fortify Feudal factions than one that is aligned to the same superpower as the controlling (or exploiting in this case) power.
This doesn't seem right.
Apparently my personal goals are at odds with the team goals in a way that I had not expected - if anything I figured any Hudson pledged players would be chuffed one of 'their' systems was back under Fed/Corporate control.
Why would any Power Play activity be affected by regular player BGS transitions like this? Why does one type of faction need to be more optimal than another?
And if there must be a preference, why does Hudson prefer a Feudal faction to a Corporate one?
I'd be interested to read the reasoning behind this if it can be justified, but if it's 'just one of those things' then I think it should be changed.
Mostly I think I'm just not keen on the idea that I can no longer ignore Power Play. After 4,700 hours over 3.5 years it's finally forced itself on me for more than something for PvPers to fight over.
As a footnote I should add that the chap was very polite & hoped a compromise could be reached. I hope so too, because it's one thing to go up against another player influenced faction, but quite another for my work in a quiet area of the bubble to have been noticed and now be at odds with an entire Power's worth of mission runners
Or I was, until I met a Pledged player.
No, no PvP was involved, they just came to investigate the change & happened to meet me, we had a chat in the dock.
I'd been away for quite a while & my home system had gone to pot, the factions were all over the place and the long standing Fed aligned corporate controlling faction (exploited on the fringes of Hudson space) had been usurped by a neighbouring independent Feudal faction. I assumed this was just down to skimmer missions & other min/maxing stuff, and I spent the last 3 months going through the motions to tidy up the system and put my preferred faction back in charge.
But apparently putting a Fed aligned faction in control of a system in Hudson space is a problem, because it's more efficient to fortify Feudal factions than one that is aligned to the same superpower as the controlling (or exploiting in this case) power.
This doesn't seem right.
Apparently my personal goals are at odds with the team goals in a way that I had not expected - if anything I figured any Hudson pledged players would be chuffed one of 'their' systems was back under Fed/Corporate control.
Why would any Power Play activity be affected by regular player BGS transitions like this? Why does one type of faction need to be more optimal than another?
And if there must be a preference, why does Hudson prefer a Feudal faction to a Corporate one?
I'd be interested to read the reasoning behind this if it can be justified, but if it's 'just one of those things' then I think it should be changed.
Mostly I think I'm just not keen on the idea that I can no longer ignore Power Play. After 4,700 hours over 3.5 years it's finally forced itself on me for more than something for PvPers to fight over.
As a footnote I should add that the chap was very polite & hoped a compromise could be reached. I hope so too, because it's one thing to go up against another player influenced faction, but quite another for my work in a quiet area of the bubble to have been noticed and now be at odds with an entire Power's worth of mission runners