No, not at all. You'd get the war pending, you'd build up even more margin to win it. You wouldn't get the expansion pending until the war was over, and you'd need to be still above 75% to get that.
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Very few.
The only immediate downside may be that if you go pending conflict for control on day 3 pending expansion so the conflict for control triggers active the same day as the expansion it will fail the expansion in favor of the conflict.
An annoying downside might be that you'll go pending conflict on day 1 or 2 of the pending expansion, forcing the expansion to annoyingly wait till the conflict for control is over - otherwise it'll just be a normal expansion.
Other than that... nothing really, if you can keep your influence above 60% by the time the active expansion ends you'll still be in a position to attempt to take over the system when the controlling faction is free.
It follows the normal conflict rules, so it'll be 3 days pending then fighting time - the normal 3 day minimum for that winning gap and changeover on day 4 active for the fast run.
Its a 1 day recovery for Civil Wars and Wars, but 2 day recovery for Elections - perhaps that's what you are thinking? If you have a secondary fight where you skyrocket in influence before claiming control of the system you'll need to wait a day or two depending ont he conflict before you can attempt to fight the controlling faction if your influence is high enough.
Yes.
Combat missions are non-combat activities, so they count in elections but not in wars (though any secondary effects of them like getting bounties or bonds to hand in are combat activities and count in wars but not elections)
While the election is only Pending, both combat and non-combat activities count normally, so pile on that influence however you like.
I've heard conflicts dont fail expansions anymore if they are due to go active the same day, expansion stays pending until conflict clears
How recent is your information? I used conflicts to cancel two expansions in late March. From what I've read, another was cancelled in early April.
I've seen it happen - accidentally - to a faction I know since 3.0, too. Might be a very recent change.
o7 CMDR, as I´m new into BGS, i would like to know
When is the refreshing of the System state (the percentige of influence in the System)
Sorry for this question, i didn`t found it in the BGS guide i have.
Thx to all
When is the refreshing of the System state (the percentige of influence in the System)
Sorry for this question, i didn`t found it in the BGS guide i have.
Thx to all
12.45 ish in game time. Check sticky thread called “ what is the tick?”
Soooo...during an election, does that mean gaining fines/bounties on yourself from interdiction/shooting (but not killing) don't count either? What about getting a fine for having illegal goods and getting scanned?
I'm pretty sure that you personally will get fined or a bounty on your head when doing what you described. Live Elections only prevent that anything combat related has an impact on the % of a MF (Murder etc.) but doesn't exclude you as Player from anything in that regard.
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Fines used to count. It was removed due to being exploited. It was too easy to tank a faction by loading up on biowaste and dumping it just outside their station - earning a small fine per can. So now they just cost you credits and reputation.
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So, given that provoking a well-timed conflict was the only reliable / possible way of stopping an Expansion once it went Pending, can we now assume that once an Expansion goes Pending, it's a done deal / the faction expanding will get their target system?
(I have a very expansionist PMF on the edge of the area I work in - in two cases I've nuked their Influence down into the 30s between Pending and Active and they've still suceeded. To say I was ::unprintable:: would be an understatement, but I'm told this is normal behaviour...)
Correct, once an expansion goes pending, it's gonna happen. They can't technically "target" a system though.
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can I coax those with questions into looking at the rest of the BGS subforum
eg.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/400110-Don-t-Panic-BGS-guides-and-help
Apart from anything else - your replies can be more easily indexed into Walter2's fabulous FAQs
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10iKMPhmggDDgxifrlluWim313KUhQ7CEIbOzRyT-DvQ/edit#gid=0
eg.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/400110-Don-t-Panic-BGS-guides-and-help
Apart from anything else - your replies can be more easily indexed into Walter2's fabulous FAQs
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10iKMPhmggDDgxifrlluWim313KUhQ7CEIbOzRyT-DvQ/edit#gid=0
The main reason I post a question here instead of a separate post, is some of my questions don't seem "worthy" of a separate thread. Maybe it's time to lock this one (up to Walt)?
Jane Turner
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