So yell me then, since you are the BGS guru himself.. how did you know you were unopposed prior to the war? What was the absolute proof?
The absolute proof was the lack of economic slider changes for
both sides.
I handed in bonds, which should have resulted in +ve security status effect for my side if unopposed.
If opposed, the only thing which could counter that effect are:
1. Missions run in-system, where my faction was the target of them, causing -ve security effects
2. Scenarios run in-system where my faction was the target of them, causing -ve security effects.
3. Missions sourced out-of-system, where my faction was the target of them, causing -ve security
CZ's run for the opposition without bonds handed in could definitely counter my efforts, not denying that, but it
wouldn't counter the security effect from my own bonds.
1 & 2 are out of the question, because both would have +ve/-ve security or economy effects for a faction in that system. There was none, for any faction that day, unless you decided to then balance that
3. is feasible, but as I said, requires near-perfect intelligence of my activities. My faction owns no assets in the system, so that immediately rules out being the target of many mission types... so that really just leaves Spec Ops missions. They're few and far between in most cases, but again, perfect information would be required so as to not over or undershoot the value of my bonds handed in.
So the only workable proposal is that, in response to me running 4 Medium CZs and handing in associated bonds, someone took the time to jump around neighbouring systems for a while, looking and hoping for missions that specifically target my faction, which would've taken a good couple hours given the amount of valid target systems in the area, and took
exactly the right amount of missions to counter the security buff of my bond hand-ins, while also running exactly 4 Medium CZ's worth of conflict zones to counter the war.
That seems
incredibly unlikely to someone just going in, taking some massacre missions and blatting out in a cz for a couple hours.
As for traffic, this is one of those very sleepy systems.
- Inara shows it averaging 0-5 ships
- it's one of those systems where it won't even get an update on Inara or EDDB for weeks or even months on end.
- It's not within a power's sphere of influence
- It's a nothing-system, in terms of it's contents.
- I've observed traffic within it for years now.
- I've had the opportunity to take it for months, and the current faction is only there because I put them there myself.
- I check the traffic every 6-8 hours
Again, none of that is a "smoking gun no opposition"... but it's getting beyond a joke now for the amount of ducks that need to line up for this to have been active opposition.
1T trading hasn't worked for about 3 years, so you writing the book on modern BGS is kinda out of date
My point on that one is that I've been ekeing out how the BGS works for many years now. I know how it works.
