Thank you to commanders Gr3y and Anoobis for your replies. I can understand percentages not adding to 100 because of rounding, but I have an example of one system where the total comes to 89%. I wanted to have some opinions before sending off a ticket, so thank you again.
A Guide to Minor Factions and the Background Sim
- Thread starter Walt Kerman
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in system map or right hand panel?
That definitely looks like a bug.
The BGS definitely rounds the influence to the nearest fraction of a percent. This can be seen by observing a system with zero player activity. A change to influence can ripple for a few days as the BGS gradually takes the rounding into account and tries to balance at 100%. So for a few days it can add up to 99.8 or 100.2, but will eventually settle at 100.0.
It's in the system map, and closely matched by the right-hand panel
if the system map only adds up to 89%, that's beyond any rounding errors.
Oh, there is a long tradition of systems like that. My own system adds up to 93.7, and it has been like that since forever.
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In my case, I was told by support that there actually is a faction not showing on map - then one of the new engineers turned up in the system. So there might be something hidden in your system too.
That's weird. I wonder if the BGS thinks there's an extra faction in the system. It would be worth pushing a faction to 6.3% to see if it starts a conflict.
In so far as I have observed - all bounties handed in through the Interstellar Contact option does not affect influence for anyone.
Superpower Fed/Alliance/Empire bounites help the owner of the station where they are turned in normally - but if you use the Interstellar Contact it does not.
Minor Faction Specific bounties turned in normally where they have a presense should usually help their influence in that specific system - but again, that Interstellar Contact is where they are not and it will only help your rep.
Yes, I raised a bug and was in fact told that there is a hidden faction. I assume it is connected with the resident engineer.
You aren't paranoid enough. some people would have a 200 page conspiracy thread on this.
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Look for a double line in the system map properties like this.
Jane Turner
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We operate on about an hour - though recently I had an example that suggested it was more like 30 seconds
A little update for anyone concerned;
Test system remains the same still.
Faction A; 64% - recovering Famine at the moment.
Faction B; 24.8% - went through Boom, in a conflict in another system and is recovering Boom currently.
Faction C; 11.2% - Currently Boom, started a few days ago from work in other systems.
I have continued to periodically kill Wanted targets - mostly pirates pulling me over in the system - and still not showing changes relevant in this system. On a side note, I have on occasion purchased items from the market in this system and the influence is not changing. It appears safe to state the influence change is only at the point of where the items are sold to.
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Question about lockdown.
Lockdown shuts down every station owned by a faction, regardless of which system. Does it matter which system I turn in bounties to try and shorten the lockdown?
Lockdown shuts down every station owned by a faction, regardless of which system. Does it matter which system I turn in bounties to try and shorten the lockdown?
_trent_
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I've often wondered that myself. I suppose it comes down to whether or not the hidden buckets like 'wealth' and 'security' are system-wide or faction-wide. It would make more sense if they were faction-wide, but using sentences with word 'sense' to describe the BGS is always asking for trouble.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the "Boom" state bucket needs to be increased a lot, or on the whole just be a lot more difficult to occur? It's pretty much the defacto "None" state these days... before most states expire there's usually a Boom state pending, and if a faction is in a None state, it's usually either Boom pending, or in a conflict in some other system.
Not that I hate the Boom state, just think it happens waaaay too often...
Not that I hate the Boom state, just think it happens waaaay too often...