The "Big 3" as in Empire, Federation and Alliance and changing allegiances freely have nothing to do with the BGS?
(Am I missing something here?)
yes. Big 3 allegiance reputation is about rep, not influence.
The "Big 3" as in Empire, Federation and Alliance and changing allegiances freely have nothing to do with the BGS?
(Am I missing something here?)
EDIT: actually, nah, if you're doubting my interpretation of things, I'll just use the below quotes from the livestream.Yes, the BGS does give a semblance of a living galaxy...but if the devs had not wanted the players to push it around...they would never have attached it to the missions...and the minor factions...the fact that they did, means they expected the players to cooperate and bring about change...regardles of how you might want to paraphrase (some would say, twist) their words.
If they had not wanted the community to 'play the BGS', they could have stopped us right from release...but they reached out to many player groups and let us start figuring out the system...and not very far from that, around the 6 month mark, they actually released enough of the system information, to help everyone play the game the way they designed it.
ED: What is the Background Sim?
Dav: So to us, the whole point of the exercise of all the technical systems in elite dangerous that can be branded "the background sim" is to try and bring the galaxy to life. It's a really big galaxy, we've got an awfully large number of players, and we need to make sure that the galaxy responds and tracks every single player action no matter how big or how small.
It's a good time to say the BGS is supposed to be, it's meant to be two kind of things, we do want it to be a kind of boardgamey experience that you guys can... get together and as groups try to manipulate the world so it's kindof an enjoyable play experience that goes beyond the normal first range ofactions, but it's also supposed to be there as Dav said earlier to simulate just a working world...
If they had not wanted the community to 'play the BGS', they could have stopped us right from release...but they reached out to many player groups and let us start figuring out the system...and not very far from that, around the 6 month mark, they actually released enough of the system information, to help everyone play the game the way they designed it.
Aren't you actually agreeing with each other without realising?EDIT: actually, nah, if you're doubting my interpretation of things, I'll just use the below quotes from the livestream.
Aren't you actually agreeing with each other without realising?
Probably XD