When two factions are fighting each other, does doing the conflict zones on foot have as much effect as doing them in a ship? Also, if I collect bonds in one system but turn them in in another, will the faction still get credit?
In a war, do on-foot and ship CZs have the same effect on the BGS?
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I'd love to see some hard science here 
But anecdotally it seemed like winning the ground CZs is weighted slightly lower than ship CZs of the same category. This may be due to the additional scenarios in-ship (capitan, correspondents, special forces etc). From a raw BGS point of view you might also need to think about the time to complete of these CZs and what the rate of turnover could be.
Ship CZs also behave differently when there is more that one CMDR in the instance (bug or feature?), taking significantly longer to complete. Does each CMDR then get credit for winning a CZ or does the CZ just count as one win overall.
Ground CZs don't seem to behave differently with more CMDRs but again, does the win count for each CMDR or just once?
As for the bonds question, we've assumed that these count in the system that they are dropped in but I believe these may be subject to diminishing returns. Otherwise CMDRs could save these up and guarantee a win in a specific day by just dumping 100s of millions in bonds on that day.
But anecdotally it seemed like winning the ground CZs is weighted slightly lower than ship CZs of the same category. This may be due to the additional scenarios in-ship (capitan, correspondents, special forces etc). From a raw BGS point of view you might also need to think about the time to complete of these CZs and what the rate of turnover could be.Ship CZs also behave differently when there is more that one CMDR in the instance (bug or feature?), taking significantly longer to complete. Does each CMDR then get credit for winning a CZ or does the CZ just count as one win overall.
Ground CZs don't seem to behave differently with more CMDRs but again, does the win count for each CMDR or just once?
As for the bonds question, we've assumed that these count in the system that they are dropped in but I believe these may be subject to diminishing returns. Otherwise CMDRs could save these up and guarantee a win in a specific day by just dumping 100s of millions in bonds on that day.
Bonds can be collected in one war and turned into another system with a war for the same faction to have effect in the turn-in system.
(If you hand them in to a system which doesn't have a war, that won't help)
Various research has suggested that ground CZs aren't as effective per-CZ as space CZs at winning the overall conflict, but of course they compensate somewhat by giving you more bonds and also winning the specific ground outposts (mostly) regardless of the war result.
Wait, you can win specific odyssey outposts for your side even if you lose the war?
Yes, Odyssey settlements are gained based on the number of on foot wins at that particular settlement.
That’s great to know, thanks!
Which is a bit silly because it means you can't trade settlements via elections... unless you want to have one for every. single. settlement.
The exception being that if a settlement explicitly forms part of the conflict stakes, the overall war result takes priority.