Not sure what the +influence means on the completed mission page, I suspect it refers to an increase in your influence with said faction, and not the factions influence in the system (as this doesn't seem to change). If you look at the mission summary page and then your Status: Rep influence page you'll notice that your influence goes up with that faction (blue arrow pointing up).
4,000,000 cr Mission! Are you the commander that got what's needed?
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I'm trying to stick with the rep/mission work, but I don't see any significant improvements have hours of missions. I think it's broken.
Well that's a real effect and a pretty significant one at that.
So so far one effect would be if that the feds take over a station a lot of commodities become illegal. So far that's the only effect I've heard of and it's not a good one. What's the benefit of letting the feds take over a station? Seems to be none. What would be the benefit of helping the alliance or empire take one over? There should always be give and take when choosing what factions to help expand or take over. Maybe feds would offer better outfitting or higher tech items if you're allied or high ranked with them, same for empire and alliance.
The entire system is bare bones at best. Another curiosity: I never see ships belonging to another system's factions. Do they not trade with each other? Do they never go to war with each other? (well they might but not yet). Every system seems completely self-contained.
Exactly. Once you become allied with a local faction there's no reason to do donation missions, and in many cases there's no reason to become allied at all. Why spend time becoming allied with the local mob faction who only has 7% influence in the system?
I'm not complaining, I just wish the system was a lot deeper than it is. It has major potential.
Got one system to civil war state, local faction 98.97% coverage of the system, and they went into Expansion stage. So, there is a benefit... in a sense - now those folks are reaching to nearby system(s).
vonvonbraun
Banned
I have yet to have this pop
does it give you a rank up straight?
does it give you a rank up straight?
Yep, and remote enough place (where isn't too much players to mess with it, or stall, or reverse), 3-4 players can flip the scales.
It has pretty much been confirmed to be broken by this well documented effort to affect change in a particular system. I suggest you read the Thread which documents the effort step by step over a number of days, and the conclusion that they have made no progress whatsoever with close to 60 players working in unison: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=84770&highlight=mikkun
FD has not responded to any of the tickets submitted about it yet, though they were on holiday.
vonvonbraun
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Man I've spent the last week or so in the Kappa Fornacis system fighting off the Federal scum that have been bombing my onion farms... And the Farmer's Union keeps asking me to donate 4 million credits 
I've killed so many Feds though!
Sincerely,
Under Appreciated Imperial Pilot
I've killed so many Feds though!Sincerely,
Under Appreciated Imperial Pilot
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But I'm wondering what the benefit of their expansion is other than to say "I helped a faction expand." I mean tangible ingame benefits. I think you get cheaper refuel and munitions from allied stations so maybe if you expand a local faction you're allied with to other systems and get them to take over stations you can benefit, but why not just get allied with the existing factions instead? It's easier.
I'm not a fan of doing it for purely roleplaying purposes. The gamer in me who loves games like Crusader Kings 2 wants more out of the system, much much more.
And even a large bunch that show the influence system is broken.
That makes a lot of sense.That's exactly what I was thinking.
