Economy Bar has stripes

Hello Commanders!

I am currently working toward a boom in my system, however the boom section of the economic bar has stripes on it. Can anyone tell me what that means please? I've looked all over to no answers.

Thanks in advance
 
Of the top of my head, it's an indicator that you're heading towards Boom, which will happen when you reach the end of that section.
There's discussion here:
 
The stripes are the "overlap" area. To get Boom to trigger, you have to make the pointer cross all the way to the far end of the striped area. To get the Boom to stop, you need to push it back all the way down through the striped area again.

It was put in place to create a lag, preventing a system sitting right on the border between two States and flip-flopping rapidly back and forth between the two states. That would have created an exploitable situation - such as a cmdr keeping a faction right on the brink, and nudging it back and forth, skimming profits off the top without ever having to leave spacedock.
 
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