EDO vs EDH BGS values

Has anyone done the math yet to see the difference in kills values, or other values?

I ask because after months of trying to fend off BGS attacks using Horizons and having less success than usual, I decided to give edo a try.
What a joke
first off, its sad seeing the npc stupidity.
Running toward my srv with gun in hand and flashlight waving. why do they look like ants? die like ants.
yet each kill has a skimmer value for credits but a bgs value apparently equal to dozens of ship kills in EDH.
10cents per kill against me.....aka 1000 credits ooooo, soo worried.

No wonder anarchies are suffering.

FWIW, I am killing non anarchy things for this test.

I am amazed that a measly 25 kills done twice on the same settlement had a bigger BGS effect than 75mil in bounties spent properly(regarding caps)
This was similar to doing about 250 clean ship kills, yet the punishment was momentary and a total waste of my effort to clear.
Those bounties on my head should have been over 225 million, not pocket change as it was equaling less than 50k credits
Notoriety of 3? that's insulting.
I know this because I have done this more than a few times.
I once had a bounty of over 2.5 billion on my head. I know what it takes to get that and to have notoriety of 10 for over 6 months because it was a daily thing.

This test was done in a 6bil population system.
I do 50 kills and get roughly 2.5% inf loss
do that in Horizons and get roughly 250 mil bounty on your head and 10 notoriety that lasts 20 hours.
to get that loss in Horizons takes a lot more than 50 kills, try about 300 kills and zero opposition.


To this I say, you need to make some serious adjustments.

And as for the continuation of help the ANARCHIES, all I can say is why are killers not being fined?
Normal is no fine.
ok, normal play with correct BGS, it wont matter then will it????
But if an entire settlement is slaughtered for fun or for parts. not cool.
Anarchy or no, RETALIATION is required for senseless meaningless wholesale MURDER.
Notoriety needs to be jacked up, fines need to be corrected.

I refuse to believe these BGS numbers are as sad as they are and people have not been yelling about the unfairness.
BGS effort in EDO on foot is at least 10 times as powerful as similar action in Horizons is worth, WHY?

I was able to counter in Horzons by handing in 10 times the bounties I normally do, now I see why.

Doing this in my 6bil pop system rapidly became a job.
Collecting and spending as much as 75 mil per day in anarchy bounties is no small task for one person.
Along with many cutter loads of goods for trade and for black market.
Only to see it has no value once the on foot slaughter brigades start noticing.
but 50 on foot clean kills, not only reverses the oppositions daily effect, but makes it so no bounties were required for the day. 30 minutes of barely any effort.


I'm all for the Dangerous, full scale slaughter of offensive opponents, but lets be fair about it. this is so far from fair its like it was never even considered.

Planning on fixing this, or is this how you plan to force the unwilling BGS players to switch to EDO?
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someone tell me I am wrong.

fwiw, I have been adding all my BGS stuff to an excel book for years.
long before the last major BGS overhaul where it was made so x-faction could be in different states in different systems, the math aka the equations for BGS fine detail manipulation was easy to come up with.
That math, or that equation still works, just harder to get results when you no longer see the daily change like we used to.
but as I mentioned before in another place, I made a prg that takes a snapshot of the INF screen and gives the actual value for Economy and Security so a person can see and measure the sliders daily movement.
So I know from that what is required to adjust the BGS.
But as long as there is competition in EDO, it is all 100% meaningless, the only counter is massive number of players in Horizons or use EDO.

Is anyone besides the Anarchy guys even bothering with monitoring this?
 
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I get that
I am familiar with OBI's threads.
I am astonished though that this is not just an ANARCHY issue.
But it is because of my Anarchy faction that I am fighting for that I am now using EDO(hating it) to counter what are actually tiny attacks that somehow EDO is magnifying by 10 or more.
I did not want and don't want to use EDO.
But I am also tired, very tired.
I have never lost so much BGS wise, I normally do NOT lose.
Yet I have lost so many systems and soo much of my time trying to defend them.
This is My last resort because this is now in my Home system.
Which was my pmf Empire factions until I recently gave it over to my Anarchy faction.
Taking it over and getting my Anarchy faction up to 72% inf was easy.
But now that it has been noticed, some weeks ago, it has become a nightmare to support. 6bil pop. this is crap.
Even (1 billion in negative trade, failing 60 passenger missions (to the opposition)) and 26mil x 3 in bounties, still had my anarchy faction declining.
and didn't even phase the opposition.

but 30 minutes in edo in my srv does.
This is so imbalanced, it deserves nothing more than EDO BGS being disabled until it is corrected, this is a very insulting bad joke.

And now before that never happens, time to reclaim what was once taken, with ease.
My new most powerful ship - srv on land in EDO.
f that, think I'll just use my hammer conda's. its faster and looks better, wiping out settlements with rails.

this part seems is reverse of Horizons, I take a lot of damage from goliaths and other skimmers
but so far in edo I barely noticed them.
 
Thing is - BGS is always about finding the right tool for the job. And fdev said that the endgame of EDO was ... the BGS.

Foot CZ pay a lot, and get a lot of kills so are, unsurprisingly, good for BGS that uses that. Good luck, OTOH, winning an Election using EDO. or curing a Blight, or an Outbreak.

So really I'd say we need more ways to affect the BGS in EDO really, otherwise it will never be generally useful.
 
its not even about pay. it is about actions and balance.
pay has only been an indicator of BGS weight for me for very many years.

there is no balance at the moment.
As for the tools, I use them all. just sad to discover the huge imbalance is because fdev as I have said so many times has not yet got even 10% of edo connected.
This here has nothing to do with that 10%(other than I see it as a dis-connect), but it seems pretty lame to insert BGS effect numbers in EDO that are sooooo different from Horizons.
I have avoided EDO because of the crap frame rate and because of the losses I incurred when it released and they didn't/don't care and I did not appreciate the scam of purchasing a 'Fully Developed' add on. I spend 10x that amount on paint, every year.
And going into EDO, seeing program-wise what it actually is, disgusts me. I am a programmer and the setup is so transparent, as well as knowing what is going to be done took more than 4 years for Horizons. to replicate that for the glove on the ship that is the suits would take the same effort. said this many times.

Should be free to any cmdr that has spent over $100.00 on cosmetics IMO.

Then even after I got less angry, watching others play a full live(not beta but should be) and lose materials, lose ships, lose missions, lose soo many things.
Having lost much in beta's I know it doesn't matter, cause its a beta.
But when it is live, and you are fighting to defend your BGS daily, I don't have time to jump through the fdev hoops of getting stuff replaced due to incompetent programming.
Lost more than enough days of not being able to play at all in Horizons thanks to many Friday updates making weekends a total waste of unable to log-in, un-able to go into outfitting, etc..

And if this is(not likely) intentional, then a huge BGS disclaimer should be on the Horizons load screen, telling us that if you want to affect BGS, you need to do it in EDO because even though it works better(more fully integrated) in Horizons, that VALUES have 10X more impact in EDO.
FWIW, if it is not intentional, maybe fdev should consider the disclaimer anyway.
As a BGS player, you won't see everything in the forums, ever. and you might not notice what EDO is doing unless you see it for yourself in total dis-belief.

How many Horizons BGS players are aware of the gigantic difference?
I average 12 hours a day and I was not aware of this difference until today.

I'd like to know how many BGS players we have.
I'd love to know the size of the population fdev is ignoring.
 
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Factions aren't required to own odyssey settlements if they don't want the negative effects that come with them...
Yeah, except when Odyssey launched you got those by default based on influence percentage at the time. And presto, 25+ settlements in the larger systems.
 
But it only takes one war to drop them all, and you don't even need to lose the overall conflict.
Yeah, but I think I'm the only one trying to maintain this faction and it's in the middle of PP territory since mid-2021 when they got a few new control systems. Going into war means losing control altogether and you'd be surprised how many random players don't want to fight a war for the anarchy faction anyway. And even if they do, there's no way of keeping track of which settlements are gained or lost. In one case where I won a war, I actually ended up with more settlements despite my best efforts to get rid of most of them.
 
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