Just wondering how exactl a power fights a freedom fight group?
They dont seem to need CC, have command capital or even a system to undermine. Im not really sure f teh working but they just seem to be another invisible force that lurks around to undermine / oppose powers with nothing to lose.
The way I'd do it if I were FDev would be to create an automated system to set up 'Backing' systems - the controlling faction in these systems are presumed to be funding, coordinating, or otherwise providing crucial support for freedom fighters. Systems can only be contested by Freedom Fighters within a certain range of a backing system, which can be set up anywhere that isn't already exploited/controlled by anyone, but costs a
significant amount of player-hours of effort to establish, and this effort must be provided by players who are allied to the controlling faction of the system, not pledged to any power (maybe also haven't been pledged to a power for x amount of cycles). If a player could not participate in establishing a backing system, they cannot pledge to the ensuing Freedom Fighter power's temporary presence.
The backing system would become a temporary power, maintained only by sustained effort by its playerbase, called 'Freedom Fighters of [System Name]'. This allows powers a way to fight back (as they can identify a system they themselves can undermine; should the backing system fall, not only would the controlling faction take a serious influence hit/automatically start a civil unrest state, all merits invested in undermining systems within its vicinity by the freedom fighters would be retroactively eliminated. As both groups have something to lose, negotiation will most likely be attempted, and as coordinated, otherwise neutral groups with a firm base in their region would be the only groups capable of really pulling a FF attack off. This makes FF's not really useful for 5C'ing factions and beyond the scope of most griefers.
Likely there's some aspect of this that wouldn't work, but something along these lines seems optimal to me.
