It does affect the BGS. Partly because they all affect minor faction influence effects, partly because they affect things like security level and bounties. Changing commodity prices and availability via power bonuses affects trade also influences the BGS. Do you honestly think that Torval's impact on the trade of Imperial Slaves in her systems results in absolute no effect compared to when it wasn't a Torval system?
Powerplay A frank discussion about the future of Powerplay.
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It does affect the BGS. Partly because they all affect minor faction influence effects, partly because they affect things like security level and bounties. Changing commodity prices and availability via power bonuses affects trade also influences the BGS. Do you honestly think that Torval's impact on the trade of Imperial Slaves in her systems results in absolute no effect compared to when it wasn't a Torval system?
Quite right Martin. I was being shortsighted re: system security etc., though for my part I would not include indirect effects (e.g. bonus affects players affect BGS).
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Hudson pledge here. I made my 10.000 merits from 4.700 by undermining alone. It was miserable and involved me using the ramming bug (you can ram a ship to death and it won't run, trigger security response, or attack). ~200 merits an hour alone and ~350 merits an hour with a wing. It is just not a commitment I am willing to make at the cost of working on Engineer upgrades, community missions, and other fun stuff.
The seven of us in my guild/clan are going to let our merits decay to under 1500 and exit Powerplay. At least that is the plan.
There are a lot of good ideas offered up to fix PowerPlay, but my hope is a real-time persistent state. Every hour run a check. If a system is undermined, but not fortified, it starts a 24 hour clock. If the system is not fortified at a greater percentage than undermined after 24 hours it will switch to turmoil for 48 hours (conflict zones). The winner of the conflict zone gains control of the system. Decay the undermining/fortification amounts on some sliding scale with a modifier based on the value of the system. Keep all GUI elements in the game the same. Pay the rank bonus once a week like done now. This would allow for a real-time war to break out between factions where someone like John Casey could manage borders. One day I hope to see a message pop up in my game to say Sol is under attack. Please refer to Galaxy Power console for details.
The seven of us in my guild/clan are going to let our merits decay to under 1500 and exit Powerplay. At least that is the plan.
There are a lot of good ideas offered up to fix PowerPlay, but my hope is a real-time persistent state. Every hour run a check. If a system is undermined, but not fortified, it starts a 24 hour clock. If the system is not fortified at a greater percentage than undermined after 24 hours it will switch to turmoil for 48 hours (conflict zones). The winner of the conflict zone gains control of the system. Decay the undermining/fortification amounts on some sliding scale with a modifier based on the value of the system. Keep all GUI elements in the game the same. Pay the rank bonus once a week like done now. This would allow for a real-time war to break out between factions where someone like John Casey could manage borders. One day I hope to see a message pop up in my game to say Sol is under attack. Please refer to Galaxy Power console for details.