Does ED have an update for influence, elections, war, etc.?

[Wes_7569]

I'm not sure if it is a bug, or if I just haven't figured out how the new influence since the update works. I've been working on the 10th Fleet at Barnard's star and during one week of War it seemed my efforts paid off but after the war was over nothing seemed to be working with influence. Now there is an election and even with all of the missions I've been doing to help the 10th Fleet win, they are losing.
I looked on the forum but everyone seems to have answers that are all over the place, does ED have detailed anywhere for how it works now

 

[BaddMongo]

I've been working on the 10th Fleet at Barnard's star

Barnard's Star is right next to Sol and averages traffic of 400+ ships per day, so pretty impossible for 1 person to effect anything in this system. Not to mention the system is already controlled by another PMF (Hutton Truckers) who I suspect might have a vested interest in making sure that no 10th Fleet upstarts challenge for control of their system.

 

[Marcus Machiavelli]

Oh yes OP, as Maddmongo said, give up on fighting the Hutton Truckers as those guys and girls are grind monsters.
Work on expanding from your other system or open diplomatic channels with the Truckers and ask for a small station?

 

[Alshain]

I looked on the forum but everyone seems to have answers that are all over the place, does ED have detailed anywhere for how it works now

This itself is a symptom of a very recent overhaul a few months ago. We are still figuring out a lot about the "new galactic order" and a lot of the guides you will find are for pre-3.3.

 

[Wes_7569]

Freak truckers. If i keep selling biowaste, will that keep giving them outbreaks?

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Freak truckers. If i keep selling biowaste, will that keep giving them outbreaks?

Selling biowaste to the commodity market is highly unlikely to do anything. There's no high-quality evidence that this ever worked, despite pre-3.3 rumours.

Transferring biowaste using a haulage mission *might* still cause outbreaks - it would have, pre-3.3 - but is only practical to an agricultural destination, and the evidence for it working in 3.3 is much less clear: I don't think anyone's done a proper test of it.

For observational data: the majority destination of local Biowaste missions in Colonia has had 106 faction-days of outbreak since January 1, which is considerably more than any other system ... but systems which do not receive these missions have had 30-70 faction-days of outbreak since January 1, so the missions are clearly not crucial ... and some systems which often *send* these missions, which used to reduce Outbreak for the sender, still have some outbreaks. So it's currently very inconclusive.