Conflict is starting and influence levels are different ?

[Jef_Jago]

Hello all,
Up to now I always saw that conflicts started when 2 factions reached the same level of influence. During conflict phase they both stay at an equal level of influence until the end of it.
2 days ago, a conflict started in one of our systems and I see on Inara that the influence curve have crossed. At day one of the conflict the attackers are 3% above the defender's.
Is it normal ? I've never seen this before.
Thank you for your answers

 

[Jmanis]

It's caused by states with inherent influence loss, such as Outbreak, Famine, Terrorist Attack, Infrastructure Failure, Natural Disaster etc.

 

[Jef_Jago]

Thank you, I didn't know this.

However this does not seem to be the case in our system



I looked for a case you mention and in the example below we have a "normal" (?) influence balance.


So ... ?

 

[Danieros]

The likely thing is that the influence-changing states ran out. There's data available for 16 july, but the previous data point is on 12 july, so we have a 4-day gap in information.

 

[Jef_Jago]

Ok yes, that could be.
Thank you