Nice work. Before checking the thread, I looked at the Influence levels and got a nice surprise. That's a 3.1% point gain on Dynamic Commodities.
From what we know, killing faction ships lowers their Influence (probably indirectly by lowering their Security). But that couldn't have been the only thing going on, as Dukes also gained 1.1%. Maybe the Missions Influence thing does work, or started working.
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Well if they are losing influence we can assume its getting distributed evenly amongst the others.
I killed about 50 ships last night, from all factions there but the dukes. For the past two days I've been scouring USS's and have found the number of ships I can pound through is surprisingly high, due to the system authority that inevitably show up when I hit random non-duke civilians
I'm thinking about making a quick guide on it for everyone, as I have also been making a decent profit. Also stacked some slave missions and got the alternative offer while beating through those USS's, and did it multiple times.
As you can see, even though it might be helping dukes in Mikunn rather than HR, it does have a detrimental effect on the native HR factions that offer the alternates.
Been testing the strategy for two days and I think I'm ready to post a quick guide in the comWatch