FDEV appear to have implemented a mechanism where CMDRs can hand in bounties at any station - i say appear as i do not know if this is a bug or a design 'feature' that they didnt tell us about. And since FDEV continues to refuse to publish the rules/design that govern BGS it will remain impossible to know which.
Anyway, this new feature encourages CMDRs to claim bounties for small factions that appear in only one or two system - previously many would not have bothered to fly to the system to claim them and if they did go to the system or used the Interstellar broker functionality this would be far less frequently and bounties were be cashed in in bulk.
We already know that influence from bounties is based on transactions count and not the bounty value. Therefore, what i believe is happening - and what would account for many PMFs seeing other minor factions in their system influence inexplicably going up - is that all of these new bounty claims are being registered for the smaller factions and generating a significant amount of new influence.
Naturally this is exacerbated by the fact the bounty hunting has become much more worth while - NPC cargo has become more valuable in Res sites, the number of wanted npc ships appears to have increased.
There does seem to be an associate bug also coming into play, since, the bounties are for ships that may not have been killed in the system in which the faction that created the bounty is present. Therefore, while there is an increase in the influence for the faction giving the bounty, the security increase is being given to the system in which the bounty is claimed. So there is no way that controlling faction of the system in which the faction that created the bounty can see an increase in its security - we get these inexplicable increases in faction influence without a corresponding increase in the CF security.
From my experience over the last 4/5 days I would say that BGS is currently totally broken!
Anyway, this new feature encourages CMDRs to claim bounties for small factions that appear in only one or two system - previously many would not have bothered to fly to the system to claim them and if they did go to the system or used the Interstellar broker functionality this would be far less frequently and bounties were be cashed in in bulk.
We already know that influence from bounties is based on transactions count and not the bounty value. Therefore, what i believe is happening - and what would account for many PMFs seeing other minor factions in their system influence inexplicably going up - is that all of these new bounty claims are being registered for the smaller factions and generating a significant amount of new influence.
Naturally this is exacerbated by the fact the bounty hunting has become much more worth while - NPC cargo has become more valuable in Res sites, the number of wanted npc ships appears to have increased.
There does seem to be an associate bug also coming into play, since, the bounties are for ships that may not have been killed in the system in which the faction that created the bounty is present. Therefore, while there is an increase in the influence for the faction giving the bounty, the security increase is being given to the system in which the bounty is claimed. So there is no way that controlling faction of the system in which the faction that created the bounty can see an increase in its security - we get these inexplicable increases in faction influence without a corresponding increase in the CF security.
From my experience over the last 4/5 days I would say that BGS is currently totally broken!
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