All systems across the galaxy with no population are anarchy systems, systems with population can also be anarchy systems, anarchy systems doesn't mean no population, it means no central government to impose or apply laws.
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All systems across the galaxy with no population are anarchy systems, systems with population can also be anarchy systems, anarchy systems doesn't mean no population, it means no central government to impose or apply laws.
Anarchy is confusing...
I've been aware of this double title for quite some time.
I just wondered about the emergence of outposts where you can only get to the FC and colonization is limited to 10 years.
Shouldn't there be a logical explanation within the history of the game world?
It's a game! Anarchy systems have no government that applies or sets laws, not sure what you mean by double title, that's simply what it means, all systems.
To me, systems with Anarchy have a double name.
1. A system with no people at all.
2. A system with pirates. (this is crudely written without elaboration)
When I wrote here about Anarchies I was referring to systems without people at all. Uninhabited.
UPD.
By the way, Anarchy is still:
1. A form of government.
2. Security.
I don't know if they can exist without each other.
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Technically they are still anarchies true, you get populated anarchies and unpopulated anarchies. The reason unpopulated systems are called anarchies is because there is no crime reporting, no policing and no help from the authorities if you get in trouble. Anarchy is not a synonym for unpopulated, it's meaning is simply that, no law and order, be that because the system has fallen into piracy or there simply is nobody there to apply any sort of order makes no difference.
Now opted for security - anarchy, hmm. I wonder if even 10% of the bubble is populated?
Easy enough to work out, 20,000 inhabited systems, how many system altogether, just subtract one from the other.
The trouble with logical explanations for things involving humans and why and how they did things is that humans don’t necessarily do things for logical reasons.
Uninhabited systems way out in the black showing as Anarchy is really due to the game not having a category None or N/A in the list of government types and so Anarchy is used as it almost means the same.
I've been having the - semi-related - thought for a while that using "Uninhabited" for the majority of those systems outside the Bubble (except maybe those which contain Thargoids) would really be a better descriptor than "Anarchy" since there is no one in those systems to enforce even a basic and loose structure for members of an anarchic organization or community (which isn't always pirates, but that is a distinction ED likes to gloss over and from a narrative standpoint I am sure the superpowers are all too happy to let persist, and a different subject).
Yes it is a rather strange thing, even more remarkable is that there is an entirely uninhabited system in the bubble that isn't an anarchy and is subject to superpower control. I am not sure how that came about since I would have thought some sort of faction would be a prerequisite for superpower control, but there it is!
I took a look and it turns out there's no Anarchy security in other systems. So there are only 2 options: anarchy and uninhabited.
The lawless status is redundant.
This is a good point, and given that Frontier have stated you can only colonise an uninhabited system, it would make sense to have such systems clearly marked.
I'm hoping we'll get another galaxy filter that only shows player colonized systems, or at least greys out other systems and has colonized ones colored.
I have no doubt we will get an update of the gal map and system map for colonisation, the system map because they have to show markers where players can actually place installations, and the gal map, less sure on that one, but it's always been a little bit annoying that uninhabited systems are marked as Anarchy since Anarchy is typically used to represent a political movement or social system and not just uninhabited, we shall see, it's January now, probably toward the end of Jan we will start seeing more info from FDEV, go Jan!
I don't quite understand your insertion. It should be a star chart from the time of Ptolemy.
It was something people put on maps, indicating there was no information available.
My point is that these maps weren't really maps for navigation, they were sort of fiction to show outsiders.
Have we had a definite answer from FDEV about being able to start to colonise from the Colonia region?
I ask because if not then I (and presumably others out here) need to haul everything 22kly if I (or they) actually want to try out the colonisation feature.
Seems a bit of nonsense to be only able to start from the bubble.
I ask because if not then I (and presumably others out here) need to haul everything 22kly if I (or they) actually want to try out the colonisation feature.
Seems a bit of nonsense to be only able to start from the bubble.