Powerplay confused between minor faction alignement and the governement type

[Haileene]

First sorry if I don't use the correct terminology (wording) but I'm very confused about what is more important in the BGS and the systems in regard of PP.

What is more important for the PP as far a systems goes ? the type of governement ? or the "alignement" (Empire, Independant, Federation, Alliance) of the minor faction controlling the system ?

So for instance is it better to push an Independant Cooperative minor faction in a system for Aisling Duval ? or a Patronage Empire minor faction ?

To be honnest, I play more the PP just for modules, but as I like more the BGS "gameplay" I just want to make it useful to the PP I'm pledged to.

I do understand the pro's of the correct governement (have read the The Official AD Slack Background Simulation Guide), what I struggle to understand is if it's counter productive (which it was in my initial thought, but now really starting to think that governement type is more important than the "alignement" of the minor faction) to work and push for an independant minor faction in a controlled area from AD but that has the correct governement for an easyier fortification.

So push the independant minor faction with correct governement type ?
Or
Push the Epire minor factions with the "neutral" effects over the independant minor faction ?

On a side note, I don't care much about my rank with the Empire, I have that under control and understand how to work it out. So I can perfectly play a bit to push an independant faction for a while.

Thanks for serious answers. [up]

 

[Justinian Octavius]

Government type, eg Dictatorship, Cooperative etc is currently more important as it counts towards Trigger reduction. As I'm sure you will conclude this makes no sense whatsoever especially for Powers that have influence bonuses towards factions of the same Superpower type. Hence FDev was going to introduce an Ethos override so all Empire factions would always benefit an Empire Power. Hopefully this is still on the cards.

CMDR Justinian Octavius

 

[Haileene]

Thanks for answer, and as you said it, it's really counter intuitive indeed (and doesn't make sense much, but I could get the reasoning behind it).
The worst of all, is the insane discrepancy between the minor factions governement types for a given faction type.
When you search for minor factions that have the correct governement type for AD for instance, good luck, besides player minor factions and a very very few NPC minor factions. :O