Therein lies my problem... I have no idea how go about doing that... The faction in control is down to 7% influence already
Ok, you want to be careful there. Below 7% you can't start conflicts (wars/elections). So, you want to work for the controlling faction (trade, exploration data, missions, bounty hunting) until they bump into the influence of the faction above.
Yeah, I did make the assumption that because they said "my" asteroid base that this was a colonised system, in which case no factions would be native, but it's a fair point.
Instead of doing murder sprees and abandonning missions. If you just took missions from the faction you wanted to boost the controlling faction wouldn't care about most of what you do so that's trivial. Some forethought helps. For the faction you want to win you take missions and hand in + influence. For the other factions if your reputation starts falling you take a couple of missions and pick + reputation. That'll maintain the reputation with minimal work and the faction you're working on will still be growing in influence the fastest. Bonus points if you pick the + reputation missions to go against other factions in the system that aren't the one you want boosted.
Although any war should mean the best asset each faction has is up for grabs. If you're only interested in control of the system, you may only need one war- example here:I have similar problems in my current colonization. The faction I wanted to move up, had no missions on the bulletin boards because they were so low. Fortunately they had a system a few jumps away where they were at the top, which meant they offered bounties on pirates in the rings, that I could then hand-in in my system. Due to the way the BGS works, handing in small bounties each day, works better than a big bounty on one day, but hey... killing pirates is fun, so my sporadic play times meant I did this (I'm the medium yellow bar that climbs) by jumping back and handing in a few million each time.
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Now we are level it has switched to a war... which is going nicely since no-one else is contending it
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Inara is great for monitoring all this. I think I see your commander, can work out which system you are talking about, and the "raiders" do seem to be in a similar position as my faction was, so this strategy should work for you too. Just remember that winning a war will only gain you a single asset (i.e. station) so you might have to win the war, then work for the opposition to trigger another war (that you win another asset in) and another war, and another...
It's perfectly possible. I myself started tipping my toes on (solo) BGS, and as an experiment I started helping one of the minor factions in this system, and got them from 12% influence to 41%, and they gained control of the outpost where I did all the missions.
Many have done it and many more will.
Problems one “may” face:
With regard to the first, bolder and italicised, part. I’m not sure if this stands with Colonised systems. I’ve overthrown many systems now and as you know that was always the case in the past. However, I recently toppled the leading faction in a system I’d colonised and the winner of that war was awarded the first port that was built in the system. In this case it was an Outpost and was considered the Primary Port. I’m now pushing them towards a second war in the hope of attaining the Coriolis station that they still run.
Sorry, I should clarify that- the port that results in system control is going to be the "best" asset because, well, it's control of the whole system. Admittedly yes, colonisation has made that murkier because I don't think previously there was ever a case where an outpost would be considered the main station where there was a Coriolis etc. present as well.
That’s exactly my experience. Which is a shame, as I’d blithely assumed I’d take the Coriolis after the first war
Now I’m curious to know if there’s a way we can find out which station is the primary station once the system is built up enough that it’s no longer obvious.
