If a minor faction is retreated from a system, but they continue to own odyssey settlements with working commodity markets and still have working mission boards in that system, and can still accept bounties, can you in effect “unretreat” them.
Retreats and Odyssey Settlements
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No, when the processing for the daily tick catches up within a few hours they will disappear from the mission board and the settlements will roll over to someone else.
And if the controlling faction retreats, assets (including the controlling station, of course) are transferred to the faction with the highest influence.
What happens if the two highest influence factions are locked in a war at that point I don't know has been tested.
What happens if the two highest influence factions are locked in a war at that point I don't know has been tested.
Can a controlling faction even enter a Retreat state? Like in theory you can reduce their influence below 2.5% with a lot of pain and suffering on your part keeping other factions below "Coup" influence levels but just why? lol
it can, or at least it could some years ago. haven't seen such a situation for a long time.
Certainly seen it tried recently. They wanted the faction both out of the system and out of control, and doing both at once was a convenient way to do that.
It narrowly had too much support to be retreated, but the principle was sound and they got a lot closer that way than by trying to win the wars directly - they did get as far as Retreat being active and under the threshold for some (but not the crucial) days, whereas the direct wars they'd lost 4-1 at best.
I saw a native anarchy controller stayed on 1%, and continously pushing up the other factions, because under 7% there are no conflicts, and that granted a temporary invulnerability and no risk of losing any assets.