Powerplay Noob Powerplay question!

[GunnerBill]

So my local HazRes has become infested with Felicity Winters Federal Agents - all clean. In order to do something about this and get to blow stuff up I thought I'd sign up for Mr Yong-Rui,

When I go to this system I am now hostile but the federal agents are not marked as enemy.... EH?

Help plz, I thought this was gonna be a feeding frenzy

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Hostile basically means that your kind is not welcome in that system. They can attack you with impunity while you cannot attack them back without becoming wanted. Signing up for another power does not give you carte blanche to attack other ships in their systems.

 

[GunnerBill]

Hostile basically means that your kind is not welcome in that system. They can attack you with impunity while you cannot attack them back without becoming wanted. Signing up for another power does not give you carte blanche to attack other ships in their systems.

Eh? I thought that was the whole point - go and fight the war for your power, kill the enemy, no?


So if I am sick of this system being taken over by swarms of these stupid federal agents wandering aimlessly about in this HazRes, literally doing nothing, I just leave?

 

[SHEPR0N]

If you want them out of the system for good you'd have to go after the control system that controls the system you are in (each control system has a 15LY bubble, all systems in it are exploited by the power in charge of said control system). Frankly on your own that's not very likely at all, you'd need another power's player group to attack with you and your personal interest might not align with their interests that much.

You can just ignore Fed Agents really, as long as you just bounty hunt and don't kill their friends or get wanted they'll leave you be. The worst thing that can happen is one interdicting and scanning you.

 

[GunnerBill]

If you want them out of the system for good you'd have to go after the control system that controls the system you are in (each control system has a 15LY bubble, all systems in it are exploited by the power in charge of said control system). Frankly on your own that's not very likely at all, you'd need another power's player group to attack with you and your personal interest might not align with their interests that much.

You can just ignore Fed Agents really, as long as you just bounty hunt and don't kill their friends or get wanted they'll leave you be. The worst thing that can happen is one interdicting and scanning you.

Thanks for the tip. Previously I had been ignoring them but lately they've turned the res's here to hippy conventions of love and peace, sometimes there is literally nothing wanted in these places yet 10's of these fools in multi ship wings just cruising about.

I commented on this in the main forum a while back and someone indicated that they might eventually go away when the BGS cycles or something... is this likely now as that was well over a week ago now?

I wouldn't normally be bothered but this is very close to my home base where because of the handy facilities I am able to supply with most of the I need while I am testing a bunch of builds. So in short I need quick war for testing then refitting nearby.

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OK OK! Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree :d

Why are these dudes in the haz res? Surely that's a bug right??

 

[SHEPR0N]

PP ships don't care about any BGS states. As long as a system is exploited or controlled by a PP power they will be there too. They also don't care about security levels.

You might just be unlucky with not finding wanted ships. If you enter a RES or nav beacon instance, PP ships will be in the initial spawn. However in contrast to the usual named mining or pirate NPCs there won't be new ones spawning. So if you stick around only valid targets or mining ships should join you.

It makes sense PP NPCs are in such focus points imo, they are trying to keep the system clear of people from hostile powers that don't belong there. I don't understand why PP cargo ships spawn in RES sites though, it seems they spawn trying to be miners and head for the asteroids but once there they remember they actually don't have mining lasers equipped they'll decide to just troll off again.