This is the best summary of the state of faction/player relationships I've seen. Could it be reworked slightly as general guidance and stickied?
PMFs: data, charts, and the coming galactic player wars...
- Thread starter Mangal Oemie
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We all BGS in our own way but I wont deny that we had more BGS interest by our members once we had Delta Squadron inserted on the 1.4 update.
Before 1.4 we pushed Jet United and took over 12 systems I think it was. We then had to take over the same systems all over again but with the Delta Squadron faction.
The charts are lovely and I have nothing against player adopted factions however I'd love to see just a player created faction chart... so just the player factions that have been manually inserted since the 1.4 update.
Before 1.4 we pushed Jet United and took over 12 systems I think it was. We then had to take over the same systems all over again but with the Delta Squadron faction.
The charts are lovely and I have nothing against player adopted factions however I'd love to see just a player created faction chart... so just the player factions that have been manually inserted since the 1.4 update.
There is no way to filter that, though. I am using the flag from eddb.io
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LOL those charts are OoD already - our population went up by 7.5 billion today 
That just gives me a reason to re-run them! Although if that happened on today's tick, it's unlikely to be in today's data dump yet...
It's just reading it from the eddb.io data. If you add your assets to eddb.io, it will be counted in.
Since I was already messing with maps that processed over all factions, rather than only those marked as PMF in eddb.io, I thought to return to this chart as well. Three systems controlled or more, or the earlier bars squish everything else down to nothing.
https://i.imgur.com/Y3recow.png
https://i.imgur.com/Y3recow.png
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Great work as always, question about the color coding. What do the different colors stand for here unless thats already there and I just can’t see it on my phone.
Allegiance, - indi is yellow, imp is blue , fed is red and alliance is green
Ah ok, then it’s the same as the other charts color coding. Assumed so, but didn’t want to operate on assumptions. Thanks for the help
Rather then post them all here individually, I created a "data sheet" in an imgur album with updated charts and maps instead that puts them all together with some descriptions
https://imgur.com/a/XrG8YjG
https://imgur.com/a/XrG8YjG
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Great work! We finally appear (only took our 3rd system on the 27th), albeit under a lot of other text
Neat to see your keeping up the details, its nice to watch the progress.
More chart
There are four separate metrics on this chart, contrasted between PMFs on the right and non-PMFs on the left, to see if there is any significant difference: 1. The total population controlled by super power aligned or independent controlled systems divided by the number of systems controlled; 2. Total population controlled divided by the number of super power aligned or independent factions; 3. The average number of systems controlled per aligned faction, and finally 4. the average number of factions present in a system controlled by a particular aligned faction.
Looking at non-PMFs first, the Alliance shows an interesting contrast. It's ahead on average population per system, but the contrast is even greater when it comes to population controlled per faction. This shows that the Alliance has a somewhat higher population density per system, but that larger multi-system factions lead to a real contrast with the rest of the galaxy. It also suggests that Alliance factions dis-proportionally control the systems they are in. Independents, due to their high concentration of anarchy factions that don't rule (see below), have a very low population per faction.
With PMFs, the Federation population per controlled systems is interesting. This suggests that ruling Federation PFMs are concentrated in high population systems, as it is not reflected in the population by faction, where the Alliance is even more dominant than among non-PMFs. The population controlled per faction is more than 2.5 times the average population size of other aligned factions.
Systems controlled per faction between NPC and PMF factions is interesting, too. Both show a similar picture at the top end, with the Alliance factions well ahead. Among PMFs, though, the independents are way up (as many successful PMFs are independent), whereas the Federation's number of systems controlled is only a quarter of Alliance factions.
Finally, when we look at assets, the super powers are ahead, with the Alliance again in front. But among PMFs, the Alliance factions have just under double the assets as Independent factions, and four times as much as the Federation. Independents among non-PMFs are squeezed again by the large number of non-asset owning anarchy factions.
The state of the human populated galaxy
There are four separate metrics on this chart, contrasted between PMFs on the right and non-PMFs on the left, to see if there is any significant difference: 1. The total population controlled by super power aligned or independent controlled systems divided by the number of systems controlled; 2. Total population controlled divided by the number of super power aligned or independent factions; 3. The average number of systems controlled per aligned faction, and finally 4. the average number of factions present in a system controlled by a particular aligned faction.
Looking at non-PMFs first, the Alliance shows an interesting contrast. It's ahead on average population per system, but the contrast is even greater when it comes to population controlled per faction. This shows that the Alliance has a somewhat higher population density per system, but that larger multi-system factions lead to a real contrast with the rest of the galaxy. It also suggests that Alliance factions dis-proportionally control the systems they are in. Independents, due to their high concentration of anarchy factions that don't rule (see below), have a very low population per faction.
With PMFs, the Federation population per controlled systems is interesting. This suggests that ruling Federation PFMs are concentrated in high population systems, as it is not reflected in the population by faction, where the Alliance is even more dominant than among non-PMFs. The population controlled per faction is more than 2.5 times the average population size of other aligned factions.
Systems controlled per faction between NPC and PMF factions is interesting, too. Both show a similar picture at the top end, with the Alliance factions well ahead. Among PMFs, though, the independents are way up (as many successful PMFs are independent), whereas the Federation's number of systems controlled is only a quarter of Alliance factions.
Finally, when we look at assets, the super powers are ahead, with the Alliance again in front. But among PMFs, the Alliance factions have just under double the assets as Independent factions, and four times as much as the Federation. Independents among non-PMFs are squeezed again by the large number of non-asset owning anarchy factions.
The state of the human populated galaxy
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Big PMF insert today. Seems to me, from the records I keep we had 1,371 PMFs on eddb.io yesterday. That is 1,532 today - an increase of 161. This doesn't seem a case of someone flipping NPC factions to PMF, from the spot checks I did.
FD have been busy adding a lot of new PMFs over the last few weeks, since the new application system came online. And I suspect there are still more PMFs that are not yet marked as 'Player Faction' in EDDB.