LOL. BGS doesn't work, people complain. BGS works, people complain.
Ok, as I understand this, this is how it went.
A number of player groups came together to make the CG happen. The CGs were a success. As all systems have 5 factions, FD needed to add some factions. They could have called them anything, but instead decided to reward those who participated by naming the factions after them, separate from any existing player groups. Simply a nod to the more active players/groups that made it happen.
After this, what would appear has happened is a group or groups moved into the area and worked the BGS to get a faction named after a pirate group into the highest ranking position.
So, i don't see what FD have done wrong here.
I don't think you understand then... The player groups did not move in and work the BGS to get control of the system. The groups that were there when the system opened for business were hard coded in there.
The controlling faction, "The Ant Hill Mob", is unfettered, making them a pirate group and the system is anarchy.
People complaining that it was given to a player group
do not have a valid complaint.
People complaining that a station that was the focus of multiple CG's ended up with an unfettered control faction in charge of the station in an anarchy are a different story. The station wasn't built as the result of the Background Simulator calculating that the Maia system was ripe for colonization and it picked a bunch of random names/factions to fill the five slots. It was hand placed by the devs after long series of community goals to build a new research station. Speaking as someone who participated in every phase of the CGs and was very much looking forward to seeing a large scientific outpost of some kind. Since the CGs and the station itself were the result of Dev intervention, I was expecting to see a controlling faction that reflected that, possibly under Alliance or Federation control since that's who controlled Kaushpoos for the CG's, or at the very least the corporation which made it happen. I was expecting to see system security ships zooming around and patrolling the system, in order to attract explorers and long distance traders because that would make SENSE.
I was hoping to take part in a little bit of Elite: Dangerous history.
Everything about Obsidian Orbital was created by hand by the dev team - except for the factions. They should have taken the extra steps to fill in the blanks to make it unique, logical within the ED universe and give people a reason to go there.
We were told all of our efforts were going to build a science outpost at Maia. Instead we got a biker bar.
And that's the complaint. A station that should have been something unique was slapped in without any sense of purpose or consideration of why people wanted to see it done in the first place. I can't speak for anybody else, but had I known that ahead of time, I might not have bothered with the whole affair except to make a few quick credits, which is all CG's seem to boil down to anymore.
