Elite Factions - contacts

[AlSki]

But since you can't add a new player faction to any system any more, that doesn't matter

I can only hope FDev take this into account in the future. I am assuming they shut down the player factions because they were running out of systems, but with colonisation I would assume that balance changed. The problem now is that anyone aligned to a squadron with a player faction has already got a player faction in their system.

Maybe I'm unusual here, but I wanted a system not aligned to my factions goals so I've had to BGS it to get someone else's Imperial Anarchy faction (there were no local npc factions) into the system I am in, in order to make it a wretched hive of scum and villany.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Yes, colonisation has certainly added a lot more systems, but only a relatively small fraction only contain NPC factions.

Having your home system be a new system that no-one from your group has architect rights on could also be very risky since the architect can potentially mess things up intentionally or otherwise for BGSing purposes.

 

[AlSki]

True, but conversely, allowing the architect to add a new player faction to their system even if a player faction already resides in their system, would provide a faction home that the new faction could spread from (or not).

Ideally I suppose we should see new NPC factions spawning across the newly colonised systems as various hidden conditions get triggered?