At the best of times it takes at least 30 minutes to an hour to complete, so yes, it's the "sweep across" rather than "flashing". Once you see *a* change you really want to wait an hour to be sure nothing else will happen in a given system. If in doubt also completely restart your client to be sure caching effects aren't distorting your view (mostly affects the Galaxay Map, rather than System Map, but best to be safe).How far over has the Tick now drifted, and does it sweep across the galaxy slowly rather than flashing through like an update in a database?
I'm sitting here, flicking in and out of the various sources of Faction information, and I'm seeing no change from yesterday.
The types of event that can cause multiple changes include:
- An Expansion or Invasion - as these change the number of MFs in a system the influence levels will also change, and in the case of an Invasion a War will go pending as well. I'm not sure if a Retreat completing will cause issues as presumably that simply happens as part of the system's tick, rather than being part of another system's tick. There is a caveat on Retreat that if a MF has somehow left its home system in the past, was only present in a single other system, and then completes a Retreat from that other system, then it will re-appear in the original home system, possible after that home system had already ticked.
- Non-conflict states can show as new only to then be overridden by a conflict state. That means, for instance, all systems of the MF going from Boom into either None (they're not the system with the conflict) or into War/Civil War/Election (they are the applicable system).
You get the idea.
