It doesn't though, at least IMO. The largest PMF I've ever been involved with had more issues with smaller groups because all their effort was in a smaller footprint.
Expose more info about solo/pg player actions in station info
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I honestly have no idea. Right now I'm parked at Gabriel Enterprise in Harma, have about 500 million in credits and about 12 ships.
Maybe its set to private so no-one knows I have two Asp Scouts and a CM4?
FD has realised that the BGS allowed for true emergent gameplay. Sometimes you have to beat players to play a mechanic, when players repurpose a mechanic to make it their own it's a bit like a spark in a bottle. Like rocket jumping. Maybe they envisioned something like it, designed Powerplay and when they saw how players used the BGS deemed it more valuable than Power Play for their own vision.
FYI, INARA only shows what you put on there. If you don't run your favourite flavour of spyware to auto-upload information, nothing goes there. I just checked back to my old profile from who knows when... everything there was hand-entered by me and is completely inaccurate.
I'd say that a more than fair assumption of it
Its a bit like Powerplay in that for ages (and really now) because Powerplay itself was static the emphasis fell on the BGS management side of things and has grown in importance.You mean to say I just admitted to the galaxy I own two Asp Scouts for nothing?
I have no clue about PP, we only do BGS. So i dont know how this interacts with one and the other. I could imagine that managing such large groups is hard work. This is a simple statement and perhaps a platitude: Dont get so big that you can't handle it. When we first get in touch with BGS and adopted an abondend XB PMF with 10 controlling systems and a presence in more then 50 systems, we limited ourselves to 3 core systems and about 8 surrounding systems. That was manageable with 3 in game Cmdrs and 2 outside assistents, some mercs from other squads and 1 squad supporter.
More space to controll needs more personal for sure.
This does not encourage other "non-aligned" players to support your stance.
You are describing the current coordinated effort of several hundred players to control the games BGS in specific manners, and the suggestions presented on this thread is you want these hundreds of coordinated players to have access to hundreds of other players info to determine their activities and directly contact (through various responses such as messages, combat, negotiations, whatever) with the intent of effecting other players gameplay activities to be aligned to yours.
I am only skimming the surface of how bad this sounds.
It might not be your intention, but across your posts on this topic this is what you have described.
Could just be a booster gang. A corpo rat. Pirate scum. A travelling salesman. Or me. It doesnt really matter. Today it's me, tomorrow CMDR Knifte from down under. You will never know because you're not ommiscient and the game doesnt work like you imagine. Could be me doing stuff elsewhere, or could be Knifte targetting your PMF that you insist on not supporting because you refuse to play the game like intended and rather make up silly ideas about how the game should fundamentally function.
Players are nothing more than random number seeds - only much better because it's not entierely random but bears sense because humans shaped this world - and not the algo. It's quite a genius design. But you gotta look behind simple pewpew to see that.
Yep, my profile in there is wildly out of date.
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The BGS was designed to provide a dynamic galaxy, where systems would change hands, factions would expand and retreat. Instead players are using it to create a stagnant galaxy, filled with vast monocultures where large numbers of systems have only one faction in control of all stations.
Players need LESS information about the BGS, not more.
Players need LESS information about the BGS, not more.
Factions used to have boni against certain gov types and weaknesses to others. If you had a group specialised in weakening your foe or strengthening your faction - that's where things fit together. Let's say a pirate leader attacks some Imperial Lord who is vulnerable to corpo influence. You find your usual poser gang who like to RP a corp, or just play as corpo mercs. You could have an alliance group who hate imps. Rebellious anarchist who go "death to the corpos"
etc.
Ahh, back in the day it was still colourful. I guess players have learned to game the system, but it's no surprise after quite a couple years.
Wrong. By default it shows it all. You have to manually go in and turn things off if you don't want it shown.
Between PMFs and PP players flipping systems to helpful government types it's gotten awfully bland.
In the last 3 months I've visited > 1,000 Bubble systems. There were 5 anarchies, 1 theocracy and no communism. Colorful it ain't.
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Indeed - and it's entirely optional.
It's all gonner go sideways soon....lol.
Ain't they been saying that for ages?
Bgs somehow is manned. Idk how they all do it but it really does balance out.
Pp too. Amazing really.
Upsetting that balance now that's the rub.
5c or some new expanding player faction..numbers truly count. Not intel.
Ain't they been saying that for ages?
Bgs somehow is manned. Idk how they all do it but it really does balance out.
Pp too. Amazing really.
Upsetting that balance now that's the rub.
5c or some new expanding player faction..numbers truly count. Not intel.
It's all gonner go sideways soon....lol.
Ain't they been saying that for ages?
Bgs somehow is manned. Idk how they all do it but it really does balance out.
Pp too. Amazing really.
Upsetting that balance now that's the rub.
5c or some new expanding player faction..numbers truly count. Not intel.
Ain't they been saying that for ages?
Bgs somehow is manned. Idk how they all do it but it really does balance out.
Pp too. Amazing really.
Upsetting that balance now that's the rub.
5c or some new expanding player faction..numbers truly count. Not intel.
The trouble is, you have to be on top of it, because your opponents will be chipping away it, anywhere and everywhere. This is why I'd love to see better information. The attack surface for a Power is its entire territory and if you let it become misaligned it can make Powerplay fortification much, much harder to do.