Has everyone here been mostly killing Dynamics Commodities ships? Also are Dynamics Commodities ships the system authority vessels?
I've never conducted a controlled test relating to killing faction's ships and noting the effect on influence. From my experience killing ships in combat zones seems to have no effect on influence. Do you kill their ships at Nav beacons, and their stations etc?
That's the primary way we brought down DC Influence prior to the Civil War. I don't think we've put in a concerted effort during Civil War (I did a kill 2 authority mission last night). We've got an increase in Law Party Influence to 22% (1.02 proportion), a DC decrease to 17.8% (0.937), and Dukes got an increase to 41.3 (1.02 proportion).
I was only playing a couple of hours, and turned in between 150,000 and 200,000 in combat bonds. I'm pretty sure a number of the guys playing way longer turned in a lot more. So assuming at least a couple of million in combat bonds only pushed Law Party a 1.02 proportion. Doesn't seem great or likely to me. The other thing is, Dukes shouldn't be getting an Influence boost, but got the same proportional increase. I doubt that's a coincidence. Future and Silver also increased 1.02. I'm guessing we're driving down DC Influence, and sharing the Influence increase between the remaining factions.
That's what happened previously attacking DC assets before Civil War. So my guess is, Combat Bonds don't increase issuing faction's Influence, but may decrease the target faction. We're seeing about the same gain from yesterday's forays as when we hit DC hard over the last weekend at the checkpoints. Looks like you can either do conflict zones or checkpoints. Of course conflict zones will pay, but if you're too hostile to Law Party to participate, hit the check points or RESes.