There is a lot of information in this thread and we now have fixes for some of the issues and others are being worked on.
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I'd like to try to understand what this means right now in terms of what our actions can currently achieve with Faction standings, what will "queue" for when the remaining fixes go in and what will have no effect. I understand that FD want to keep some level of mystery but given that there are known issues, I just don't want to waste my time on something that simply isn't quite working yet.
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I have located a system where the Empire has 1% influence and four independents split the remaining influence between them. My plan is to help the Empire gain control of this system. Is it worth pursuing this at the moment, or is it better to wait it out?
Keep in mind that we will be told when fixes go in but we won't be told all of the information regarding what that actually changes or how it really works "under the hood".
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At the moment I think there are a few "features" that have not been mentioned (that i've seen) that are possibly either not working or aren't quite as clever as they could be.
I docked at the main station in my target system and waited for several refreshes of the BB to locate missions for the 1% Empire Faction. Most of the time there weren't any missions. In the whole time I was watching, I saw two.
The first was to take goods to an outpost (I was in a Clipper

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So in summary, give it a go or wait for more fixes?