AAArrrggghhh frustration at 'fixed' BGS

[dazzlerbing]

Thought I would share



My faction was 3rd in the influence in a system with a settlement to its name, controlling faction in 2nd place with an outpost + settlements, another faction in 1st with an outpost + settlements, with no active conflicts or elections for the top 3 factions. Influences 21%, 23% & 26% respectively, tight I know but I wanted to leapfrog the none controlling faction with the conflict win as the outposts are 200k away from drop in.

so yesterday I did enough to raise the influence to the controlling faction in 2nd place or so I thought, logged in this evening to find we had in fact leapfrogged the controlling faction in 2nd place (now 3rd) and have a war pending with the non controlling faction...influence levels 21.5%, 23.7% & 23.7%.

Don't know if I was trying to be too clever/ too lazy with the tight influences but never managed to do it before....so beware

 

[CC | Zefninja]

The results are quite contrary to what was apparently the fix. We are seeing massive influence drops if "to much" is done for yr faction. FDEV dont know whats potting with the BGS system.

 

[Factabulous]

Raise it as a bug, with more information, OP. factions shouldn't be leapfrogging each other without cause AFAIK, they should still 'catch' on the next faction they cross influences with. A shame Fdev can't work out these basic issues themselves, but if they don't we need to tell them how to fix it.

o7

 

[Ryan Murdoc]

We had some positive results in our area, even one System going up by 5.6% after pouring in 45mil of Exploration data. Systems has 158k population, and under the old BGS that would've ment absolute overkill % wise. Not so in the new one.

Also, as a general rule I'd limit the daily INF injection per CMDR to between 40-50 total (unless you're absolutely sure someone is working against you). Why that much? Don't ask me, snagged it up somewhere on the BGS Discord but seems to actually work out. For us at least.

 

[Jmanis]

That's not a 3.3 thing, nor a bug afaik, regarding the leapfrogging. Been like that for ages.

 

[Jane Turner]

For some time now it has appeared that in a situation where the influence gained would equalise with a higher faction than the one closest in influence, the higher one will catch.

 

[FrogsFriend]

With them all starting so close together and not knowing exactly how much +/- influence has been applied, the sequence of the calculations or the value of influence reached before being adjusted to match another faction, the numbers could have crossed in several ways. A number of outcomes could all be valid. Jane's observation is at least a steer towards a probable outcome.