I don't know much about BGS and I think that the faction with most influence is the one usually controlling the system, but I've just noticed that the controlling faction for Deciat, Independent Deciat Green Party, has 1.0% influence and is in charge. Am I misinformed? Is it a bug? Did FDEV locked the control for this minor faction? Can somebody explain it to me?
Is it influence tied to system control?
- Thread starter Cryvern
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Short version: Influence level has nothing to do with being the system controller or owning assets.
It's a highly improbably scenario in the current BGS, so no doubt this dates back to pre-3.3 BGS, although it is still plausible.
Influence causes the following effects.
- Causes expansion when above 75%
- Causes a coup conflict when a non-controlling faction reaches 65% influence.
- Causes retreat for a non-native faction when below (2%?)
- Causes a conflict to start if two factions "pass" each other, and one of them owns an asset, and neither are currently in a conflict.
So theoretically it's possible for this to occur as follows:
Consider the following system
Faction A: 30% (controller, Owns controlling asset)
Faction B: 25% (at war with C, owns an asset)
Faction C: 25% (at war with B)
Faction D: 15% (owns an asset)
Faction E: 5%
It's entirely plausible to do the following:
Everyone's in conflict, so A is now stuck for a bit. But when B&C resolve, with, say, B as the winner, it becomes (shorthand)
B: 29, C: 21, A: 20, D: 15, E:15
D&E are still in a conflict, and A and C didn't equalise. So with the right combination of actions next tick, you can hurt A dramatically, and end up with:
B: 40, C: 29, D: 15, E:15, A: 1
So B owns an asset, D and E are still in conflict over an asset, and A is at 1%, and in control. Since A is also native, they can't retreat, and you have the current situation.
Of course, B might hit 65% and go to war for control with A, but if A wins, they'll gain B's asset, and A will move to just 5% influence. It's actually a really strong position.
Faction A: 30% (controller, Owns controlling asset)
Faction B: 25% (at war with C, owns an asset)
Faction C: 25% (at war with B)
Faction D: 15% (owns an asset)
Faction E: 5%
It's entirely plausible to do the following:
- Work for faction E, and maybe do some hurt to Faction A, and you can end up with the following:
- Faction B & C: 25% each (at war for an asset)
- Faction A: 20% (owns controlling asset)
- Faction D: 15% (conflict goes pending with E, owns the asset)
- Faction E: 15% (conflict goes pending with D)
Everyone's in conflict, so A is now stuck for a bit. But when B&C resolve, with, say, B as the winner, it becomes (shorthand)
B: 29, C: 21, A: 20, D: 15, E:15
D&E are still in a conflict, and A and C didn't equalise. So with the right combination of actions next tick, you can hurt A dramatically, and end up with:
B: 40, C: 29, D: 15, E:15, A: 1
So B owns an asset, D and E are still in conflict over an asset, and A is at 1%, and in control. Since A is also native, they can't retreat, and you have the current situation.
Of course, B might hit 65% and go to war for control with A, but if A wins, they'll gain B's asset, and A will move to just 5% influence. It's actually a really strong position.
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Looking at the system history, interestingly not - someone has been gradually setting this up with the shuffle you describe since about July.
In the context of Deciat being a hotbed of voilent criminal activity which should work against the controller all the time, it's pretty impressive from my view that some group is still able to affect that level of control.
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