Does "taking a dive" on missions affect influence?

[The New Number Two]

Is there any validity to monkey wrenching a faction by taking it's missions, and purposely failing them?

For example, if I accept a job to transport 27 tons of tea to Alioth, and then throw a Boston Tea Party in the station no-wake zone, jettisoning the cargo-. Does it affect the faction's system influence? I get that it lowers my favorability to that faction.

Any agent provocateurs out there with Project Mayhem experience?

 

[Ishi-Limina]

My understanding is that failing a mission does not affect Influence, only Reputation.

 

[Robert Maynard]

From what I remember it used to - then that was fixed - as it was too effective a way to tank a Faction's influence (for no real effort).

 

[CAPT. Ho Chi Minge]

I would tend to think it far too easy to exploit so no it would only be your reputation to that faction. Although unconfirmed it would be a very bad oversight to allow failing a mission to alter the BGS in anyway. Think how easy it would be to kneecap a player faction group.

Bah.. ninja'd .. see above lol.

 

[Jmanis]

From what I remember it used to - then that was fixed - as it was too effective a way to tank a Faction's influence (for no real effort).

^^ This.

 

[Schlack]

There's an active discussion on this very topic in the BGS thread

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ckground-Sim?p=5752559&viewfull=1#post5752559

Abandoning missions has no (or negligible) influence effect. The suggested effect for deliberately failing requires corroboration by further testing.

 

[The New Number Two]

Excellent, thank you all. I will check out that other thread, Schlack.

Edit: Deliberate failure was what I was wondering about. Dump mission critical cargo and blow it up. Let assassination targets escape. Et cetera. The VIP passenger scenario sounds like a surefire loser, if it works.

I don't need to do this, mind you. I was just curious.