OK, Elections are seriously bugged

Pengman19

Pengman19
This is really frustrating... We lost the first two days of elections. We were doing courier sensitive poll data missions AND poll data retrieval missions. I read on these forums that maybe the poll data retrieval missions are bugged. So we stopped doing them.

We won the next two days of elections. So we were back at square one, a tie.

Now, today, I checked the status, and now all of a sudden the faction we are competing against has 2/3 of their bar full!! How does this even happen? Plus, we are pounding these missions like crazy, and we are checking the traffic report and it's more or less just our ships in the system.

But, putting aside the fact it makes no sense that they even won day 5 of elections, how do they win two days worth of elections in ONE day?! This is beyond frustrating.
 

lollo1572

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As Falco said, and me and my group can confirm, now winning the elections is quite easy: only few poll data missions a day must be done! Don't touch any other kind of missions! ;)
 

Deleted member 166264

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lollo1572 said:
As Falco said, and me and my group can confirm, now winning the elections is quite easy: only few poll data missions a day must be done! Don't touch any other kind of missions! ;)
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Nice that it worked for you. My squad's been doing that in the last three elections and each time the CF somehow pulls ahead in the last couple days and wins.
 

Mangal Oemie

Mangal Oemie
Could be. But I think the frustration comes from not knowing whether that's the case, or contributions for your faction are instead counted for the opponent. That not-knowing is what drives BGS players from the game.
 

Alshain

Alshain
Mangal Oemie said:
Could be. But I think the frustration comes from not knowing whether that's the case, or contributions for your faction are instead counted for the opponent. That not-knowing is what drives BGS players from the game.
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I certainly agree there. After today's patch with still nothing, I feel pretty resigned to the fact it's not getting fixed and all enjoyment y in BGS is dead.
 

Deleted member 166264

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Alshain said:
That actually sounds like opposition more than bugs.
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Could be that for the last two, but I know the first one was due to bugs. I had tanked my rep with the CF before the election yet during the election my rep with them increased even though I was taking missions only for our faction.
 

Deareim

Deareim
Just limit yourself to Courier and PAX. Even better, just PAX.

And try to limit the number of transactions by cmdrs. For instance, not one doing 50 and another 25. Better is to have one with 25 and other with 25.
 
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Tharrn

Tharrn
I have moved the slider forward for our faction by doing just one or two sensitive poll data missions a day in a system with no traffic but my own ship.

Really sounds like opposition.

Edit: P.S. and I ensured the missions don't go to a different faction in another system we are present in.
 
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Dommarraa

Dommarraa
Tharrn said:
I have moved the slider forward for our faction by doing just one or two sensitive poll data missions a day in a system with no traffic but my own ship.

Really sounds like opposition.

Edit: P.S. and I ensured the missions don't go to a different faction in another system we are present in.
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A light touch seems to be far more effective (less buggy) than a sledgehammer across the entire BGS, not just elections.
There may always be opposition, there may always be some random just doing stuff for Cash or Rep, but without any tools to tell, we can only report what we think is wrong, even if we cant categorically prove it.
 

IMaelstrom

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Tharrn said:
I have moved the slider forward for our faction by doing just one or two sensitive poll data missions a day in a system with no traffic but my own ship.

Really sounds like opposition.

Edit: P.S. and I ensured the missions don't go to a different faction in another system we are present in.
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I've been winged up with Mr. Pengman, I'd follow up with the following;
We've kept a close eye on the traffic report, and Peng has good communication with his crew running the last couple of election attempts.
My observations are, as we had opposition on our first election, and the 2nd elections as described by the OP, the first two days of our 3rd election was unopposed.

Our system's population is only in the 10's of millions.
We can create 10% INF swings with little effort.
We have been trying to unseat the controlling faction in the only system we are present in (newly formed player faction),
The opposing faction's home is 25ly away, with player activity, and controls approx 30 systems and in another 30 systems.

We've only taken courier poll missions, zero interactions with any other contact, market, ect. in the conflict system (other than buying fuel..lol).
Election#3
Day 1, tried the light touch, about 12 missions total between a few CMDR's. We lost the day.
Day 2, a mobilized crew, over 100 missions between a handful of CMDR's. We lost the day.
Day 3, "continue and hope for a lucky break". We'll see...

"Just limit yourself to Courier and PAX. Even better, just PAX." Deareim.
---What is the acronym PAX? at this point I'll try anything.

I understand the BGS is unstable, so this is just a sharing session. But if I can find a work around, I'll try it.

My next experiment is to prop up a faction in another system who has the same controlling faction as ours, to force an election. Then run missions for the controlling faction and see if it runs a reverse victory.
What do ya think? Wasting my time or worth it?

I'm also curious, if propping up a faction to create a conflict with the controlling faction, and, getting those INF% low enough, is jumping the conflict possible? I've heard the term "coup", but I'm not sure how that works.

In the meantime, I seem to have no problem creating INF in surrounding systems to create war conflicts to create "Massacre 'not to be named faction' ships" in order to inflict revenge!! lol.. It makes me feel better!!
 
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sterilefuture

sterilefuture
Losing these is far more frustrating when you're facing some HIP 205342428 Clown Party.

The light touch approach appears to work in some systems the same way it does not work in others. Scoring 46-48 infleunce points was what allowed us to win the measly 3 days of the elections. A slight deviation from that amount, let alone any huge swings, always resulted in a loss. Even that only lasted until the first boom state. Whether it had any effect, nothing else has worked in this system since then. The elusive random joe opposition that never existed wins once again.
 
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