Pretty straight forward. Right after the patch we went into an election ... it was impossible for us to win. the more we put in the more we lost it seemed. We then tried doing missions for the opposing faction ... but that seemed to still help them. I know others were having similar issues so i was wondering if this most recent patch fixed that issue. Thanks in advance
Status of the BGS
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After 3.3.03 having dropped I cautiously re-started working the BGS in some low-traffic systems and so far I`ve got the impression that it`s more or less working again as it should and used to be. But YMMV, OTOH can you exclude some guys working against you in the mentioned election?
Things generally seem more stable than they were, but there's still reports of misattributed conflict actions in some systems.
(Not always - the few conflicts I've checked on have always been going the way I'd expect given the PMFs involved - but it does still seem to be happening)
(Not always - the few conflicts I've checked on have always been going the way I'd expect given the PMFs involved - but it does still seem to be happening)
Things do seem to have settled down quite a bit but I’m still experiencing quite large INF swings but thankfully all INF missions & CZ results are going to the right factions and all government types seem to be reporting correctly. So basically, BGS doesn’t seem broken any more, just a little bent... 
It's not working properly for a lot of us.
Working ok for me right now. Actions producing the expected results and generally running smoothly, wars and elections going as indicated in-game. As others have said, some people are still reporting problems but I've not experienced them myself.
This is where im at tbh. If its not fixed i really dont wanna play because the BGS is what im doing right now. I have plenty of money and have done my fair share of exploration for the time being. Id like to work on my faction expanding/taking over but with the current state (if its still borked that is) it just does not seem worth it to throw my time at it. Right after the patch about 10 of us hit it HARRRRD and we were all so disappointed with the state of the BGS and got smashed in our election. None of us have really put any time into the game since then. I love the game. I love playing it. But i do not want to play something thats even kinda broken. I just want it to work lol.
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We are using Star Citizen Levels of Work arounds
What do you mean?
She means it's massively broken, and I concur.
If they don't fix it soon, I don't think there will be anything left for me in this game.
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We have been increasing our influence and reducing the controlling factions by smuggling onto the black market which was working until yesterday.However all our work yesterday was unrewarded as both our influence was capped at 32% as our factions went into an election.
We are hoping the smuggling will work again as doing missions seems to lower our influence or has no effect.
We don't want to have to resort to murdering their ships atm.
We are hoping the smuggling will work again as doing missions seems to lower our influence or has no effect.
We don't want to have to resort to murdering their ships atm.
Just checking, but you are aware that during an election (or war/civil war) both side's influence is fixed for the duration, 2+7 days?
The influence of both sides during war/election is locked pending, during and when on cooldown period and not just to each other, as any other factions in the system not in a conflict cannot take any influence from both parties that have the election/war for the duration.
What this means is you need to be aware what is going on with other factions in the system before deciding whether you will try to push your factions influence there. Because your faction can only gain influence if there is influence to take from others.
My faction had situation a few weeks ago where 4 of the other 5 factions in system had election/war pending or active, which meant that effectively we could only take influence from that 1 remaining faction that wasnt locked in a conflict, which was very ineffiecient, especially as they only had about 2% inf we could possibly take anyway as you can only take nominal amounts of inf from those that are already low, which meant that our actions pretty much counted for nothing.
Only thing we could do in that situation is walk away and go do something else for a week then picked it up again once those other factions wars/elections had finished.
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Roger that. We have been at war for a few days. During that time we have won at least 2/3's of all battles we've fought in CZ's, turned in boat loads of combat bonds, been completing massacre missions and so on. Yet we are totally losing the war. Mind you, this is a out of the way system that does not see many commanders coming through. So frustrating...
UPDATE from me and my group:
-wars and CZ: work.
-elections: work. (doing only poll data missions, the others seem not to work or do the opposite!)
-expansions: will tell in 4 days at the end of our first 3.3 expansion!
-retreat: it's harder now to obtain IMO.... very difficult to put a faction under 2.5%.... don't want to think a bout a bug by now. We are trying for a second time against a npc faction. Will tell in 2 days.
-civil unrest, lockdown: don't work. Security bar don't go under "none" state.
This is only my feedback, of course.
-wars and CZ: work.
-elections: work. (doing only poll data missions, the others seem not to work or do the opposite!)
-expansions: will tell in 4 days at the end of our first 3.3 expansion!
-retreat: it's harder now to obtain IMO.... very difficult to put a faction under 2.5%.... don't want to think a bout a bug by now. We are trying for a second time against a npc faction. Will tell in 2 days.
-civil unrest, lockdown: don't work. Security bar don't go under "none" state.
This is only my feedback, of course.
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This is working. Could be though in high pop. But bear in mind if it is tough for you to move the slider to lockdown, would be tough for others to move also.
We are in a state of "elections" with the controlling faction. We did courier missions and trade missions from our faction from Sunday to Monday. What is our surprise when we saw that we began to lose the election. We really did a lot and I just didn't expect this. I sit puzzled over what it is and why. Yesterday we again did a lot of courier missions. I'm waiting for the server tick to see the result, but I have a bad feeling.
Please tell us what to do to win this election, we have been going to fight for the system for so long.
Please tell us what to do to win this election, we have been going to fight for the system for so long.
Well: at the moment you must do ONLY poll data dedicated missions!!!!!!! Only those missions work fine!!!!!! Don't do any other kind of missions!!!! Some missions do the opposite.....