As the title suggests I am wondering if one of the ten power play factions can be over thrown. I am wondering as I'm looking long term and I'm interested to see if player groups could potentially bring about change in the game in a way that affects more than just how many credits we get or community goals. I'm not saying there isn't loads to do. I'm over 300 hours into the game and I've only been 600ly away from the bubble. Any opinions are welcome.
Can players topple one of the 10 power play factions
- Thread starter Karas 1987
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In theory, yes - "a power which fails to expand while in the bottom three is at risk of collapse" - and there are various ways an organised group either from another power or acting independently could try to force that. Also in theory multiple consecutive occurrences of that condition increase the risk further.
In practice powers have met that condition many times previously with no collapses occurring - Patreus was there for several weeks in a row - so either there's another undocumented condition which applies (minimum player numbers? minimum control system count?) or as is strongly suspected it's not an automatic action and needs Frontier's manual intervention to occur. Could be both, of course.
In practice powers have met that condition many times previously with no collapses occurring - Patreus was there for several weeks in a row - so either there's another undocumented condition which applies (minimum player numbers? minimum control system count?) or as is strongly suspected it's not an automatic action and needs Frontier's manual intervention to occur. Could be both, of course.
I've never really dabbled in power play seriously, but I don't think that Frontier would let powers die at the moment until another few updates, but I think that with enough players one could really screw up a power.
I'll drop my BGS stuff for a while and number crunch some power play and get back to you with the results.
I'll drop my BGS stuff for a while and number crunch some power play and get back to you with the results.
This ^^. Also "when" player factions or groups of them can become major powers, it would all be done by frontier manually...
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Was answered in the stream. Previously there were set failure conditions but powers got a "free pass" because there was nothing to back-fill them. Relatively major powerplay overhauls and changes coming in soon by the sounds of it to tweak it and make it work better, possible loss of powers and new powers to create a more dynamic system.
Was answered in the stream. Previously there were set failure conditions but powers got a "free pass" because there was nothing to back-fill them. Relatively major powerplay overhauls and changes coming in soon by the sounds of it to tweak it and make it work better, possible loss of powers and new powers to create a more dynamic system.