As far as I can tell, there is basically no real benefit to owning horizons settlements. The only purpose they seem to have, is to be targeted by other factions in missions involving destroying their powergrids or for hacking their data nodes, which seems to have a negative impact on the controlling factions influence.
Also, if you hang around at your factions settlements, you're trespassing and from what I understand, if you get hit with a trespassing bounty, it causes harm to your faction.
So what's the benefit of owning these? Are they just straight up -undesirable- to have?
The other thing to is...how do you get rid of them? You have to go to war, again and again, and lose them one by one by losing the war. It works to your benefit if you are invading into a new system and you quickly climb the ranks, and avoid taking on any unecessary assets along the way and only pick up the juicy ones at the top like the controlling orbital station. But if you, for whatever reason, have ownership of a bunch of these, they only seem to serve to drag you down as they are targets of opportunity by other players to harm your influence and quickly boost other factions influence by stacking the power supply/hacking missions against you.
Also, if you hang around at your factions settlements, you're trespassing and from what I understand, if you get hit with a trespassing bounty, it causes harm to your faction.
So what's the benefit of owning these? Are they just straight up -undesirable- to have?
The other thing to is...how do you get rid of them? You have to go to war, again and again, and lose them one by one by losing the war. It works to your benefit if you are invading into a new system and you quickly climb the ranks, and avoid taking on any unecessary assets along the way and only pick up the juicy ones at the top like the controlling orbital station. But if you, for whatever reason, have ownership of a bunch of these, they only seem to serve to drag you down as they are targets of opportunity by other players to harm your influence and quickly boost other factions influence by stacking the power supply/hacking missions against you.