Is the faction that owns a station the one that controls it or the one that has the most influence?

[Ford Solo]

I've been doing missions at a station that is controlled by one faction, but another faction has far more influence there.

When I turn in bounties/exploration data at this station, am I helping the faction that controls it or the one that has the most influence?

If I were a betting man I would guess the controlling faction is the one that benefits regardless of who has the most influence, but I just wanted to make sure. TIA

 

[Adept Geraden]

Is the faction that owns a station the one that controls it : YES

or the one that has the most influence? NO

 

[smiths121]

I've been doing missions at a station that is controlled by one faction, but another faction has far more influence there.

When I turn in bounties/exploration data at this station, am I helping the faction that controls it or the one that has the most influence?

If I were a betting man I would guess the controlling faction is the one that benefits regardless of who has the most influence, but I just wanted to make sure. TIA

Hello Cmdr, the BGS thread has a lot more detail (it lurks on the 1st or 2nd page).


Ok when you turn in a bounty, the bounty helps the faction (or super power) named in the bounty, regardless of which station you turn it in at.

When you turn in exploration it is the the faction that controls the station that benefits. Trading is the same, the influence and rep gain for both exploration and trading are tied to the station where you sell. Bounties are named.

One station in a system is more important than other stations, the controlling station. The minor factio that controls that, controls the system (their government, allegience etc is copied to the galactic map), the controlling faction supplies the police and owns the juridsticition "between" the station and planets. You'll notice jurdistiction changes if you arrive at a station that is not controlled by the controlling action. Juridstiction is who offers bounties (outside of KWS), and if you committ a crime which factiion it is against.

Hope this helps

Simon

 

[Jmanis]

Like others said, try the background sim page.

However...
- Bounties help the faction who issued it, unless it's a superpower bounty (e.g It says "bounty for Federation/Empire" rather than "Bounty for jet power exchange"). These will help the station controller.
- Exploration data will help the station owner.

Station ownership isn't tied to influence levels, but station ownership can change when you have wars, the winner of which gets the "most valuable" asset owned by the loser, whatever that means. The station which controls the system (usually the largest) is always the most valuable.