Like the title says-I'm interested in helping a faction expand but I have no idea what systems said faction is active in (has a presence in). Is there a fast way to find out what stations/settlements a faction controls or do I have to manually hover over each in system map for every system they are active in?
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If there's a fair bit of player activity, you can look in Inara or EDDB. Otherwise, the news bulletins in a station will tell you if anything interesting is happening in other systems to any local factions.
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Are you pledged to a Power for "PowerPlay". Have you looked at the Galnet News within the PowerPlay menu? Have you looked at your pledged power to see what they are doing to expand where?
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Take the home system for the faction and check the systems in a radius of about 20LY in all directions. That will likely exhaust all the expansion targets for an unmanaged faction.
http://inara.cz/galaxy-starsystems
Type the system name into the search box then you get a list of minor factions present in that system , click on any of those and you will get a further list of systems that that faction has a presence in.
Type the system name into the search box then you get a list of minor factions present in that system , click on any of those and you will get a further list of systems that that faction has a presence in.
Though not always 100% accurate.
Those two websites will give you a list of data that has been collected - it's not always up-to-date or complete though. My minor faction is listed, but is present in far more systems than those given on Inara or EDDB.
In this case the water would be muddies probably by a number of things for SOME factions. I imagine if you googled us a little our website or youtube and things would pop before anything which showed which factions we're present in
But Eddb and inara are the best shouts, for my money
What's your faction name? Let's try it.
Hang on, I guess it's Pixel Bandits. Here it is on the front page - no need to click further: "Home System. Ising Vision" That's by searching "Pixel Bandits home system"
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That doesn't tell you what other systems they're present in though. Take The Workers of Manite Labour Union. Unsurprisingly, they're a faction in Manite. The other systems though... Well, EDDB and Inara list some, but by no means all of them.
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Yeah, no point searching websites for your own faction if you don't know the locations to maintain them. Well maintained player factions, yes. Or EDDB/Inara for any factions where players who are running the 3rd party tools go. Otherwise, you have to do it the hard way.
It'll give you our home system for sure, but it won't tell you every system we're in straight off the bat, would it?
Google is good, but it can only search what is available.
So no easy way in game. This is the kind of thing that's driving me nuts about this game-so many cool features ALMOST fully implemented-but simple things like being able to click a minor factions tab and see what systems they are active in aren't there. It's not a game breaker but is is def a QOL issue that should be rather easy to fix and should probably have been implemented from the beginning-unless they don't want us messing with the BGS which would suck. Other little annoyances- factions firing on their own faction-pirates not recognizing me as friendly despite the station being green-these are all little issues but they do add up and detract from the game over time 
Thanks for the replies anyways though-I'll use those tools you suggested when I get back from the black.
Thanks for the replies anyways though-I'll use those tools you suggested when I get back from the black.
One thing as a counterpoint - the larger a faction is, the more it presents a cross-section for attack.
You can put a faction into lockdown by attacking a ground installation and killing its skimmers. Systems with tiny populations that initially only had three, two, or even one faction present, are prime expansion targets. The low population also means that the influence levels in such systems can be bossed around very easily, which can put the faction into faction-wide states like lockdown, civil unrest, or war, blocking or overriding other states and negatively affecting markets and outfitting.
In other words, some factions might not want every system they're present in to be advertised by the game to all and sundry. Quality of life for you might not be quality of life for another group.
I wouldn't say that the devs don't want people to play with the BGS (it's the primary focus for my group); it's rather that it's a background simulation, not, to quote a dev, a "foreground simulation."
As for being friendly/allied with a faction and them not recognising you, one thing I've seen in the game is a system authority ship apologising after interdicting me, with text along the lines of "sorry, sir, I didn't realise it was you" -- the sysauth that interdicted me was for a faction I was 100% allied with. With regard to factions firing on their own, American police still shoot and kill American citizens, and pirates are, well... pirates.
You can put a faction into lockdown by attacking a ground installation and killing its skimmers. Systems with tiny populations that initially only had three, two, or even one faction present, are prime expansion targets. The low population also means that the influence levels in such systems can be bossed around very easily, which can put the faction into faction-wide states like lockdown, civil unrest, or war, blocking or overriding other states and negatively affecting markets and outfitting.
In other words, some factions might not want every system they're present in to be advertised by the game to all and sundry. Quality of life for you might not be quality of life for another group.
I wouldn't say that the devs don't want people to play with the BGS (it's the primary focus for my group); it's rather that it's a background simulation, not, to quote a dev, a "foreground simulation."
As for being friendly/allied with a faction and them not recognising you, one thing I've seen in the game is a system authority ship apologising after interdicting me, with text along the lines of "sorry, sir, I didn't realise it was you" -- the sysauth that interdicted me was for a faction I was 100% allied with. With regard to factions firing on their own, American police still shoot and kill American citizens, and pirates are, well... pirates.
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