Influence caps/gains and the wine analogy

[Able Arry]

all other factions than the CF in state of none.

well, we anyway will monitor that system until it expands.

I'm not sure if this is similar to your case, but it just feels really odd.
LP 787-52 (Pop 18.79 Million) over the past few days has been seeing controlling faction increases well in excess of the cap.
We just accelerated to expansion, and beyond, with 3 consecutive ticks of massive gains.
60.9% --> 67.2% --> 75.1% --> 81.9%
There was a reasonable amount of negative INF work done but not a huge amount, at least not compared to what we have done in the past. Maybe all the extra came from the negative INF?
Exotic states were limited to Boom and Civil liberty for the controlling faction. One of the lower factions was in expansion state from a different system.
Not complaining! Glad it happened before the Odyssey update landed.

 

[goemon]

well, i have attributed the strange gains to negative influence via missions (system i brought up is target for massacre missions, not a hotspot though. those come with negative influence for the target faction. used those myself to enforce pirate spawn for lack of comp nav beacon or res.)