WAR! - Attacking enemy installations

[jack6251]

I've recently been engaged in a War between Federation forces in the Sudz system and enemy Alliance forces. I don't often fly to enemy installations and attack them but after twice knocking out the required amount of power systems (8/8), faction Influence went up as did my Reputation and something else.

My question is - if I keep repeating this am I effectively contributing towards my side winning the war...or am I wasting my time?

I've also engaged in Conflict Zones.

How much do you need to do before you see you're making a difference?

 

[graflex22]

you should ask this over in the Background Simulation sub.


Edit: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forums/elite-dangerous-background-sim/

 

[jack6251]

you should ask this over in the Background Simulation sub.


Edit: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forums/elite-dangerous-background-sim/

Thank you. This is the second thread I've made in a week that needs moving. I posted here assuming (incorrectly) that it was Powerplay related since the current war involves Federation and Alliance parties.

 

[Novarek]

I've recently been engaged in a War between Federation forces in the Sudz system and enemy Alliance forces. I don't often fly to enemy installations and attack them but after twice knocking out the required amount of power systems (8/8), faction Influence went up as did my Reputation and something else.

My question is - if I keep repeating this am I effectively contributing towards my side winning the war...or am I wasting my time?

I've also engaged in Conflict Zones.

How much do you need to do before you see you're making a difference?

That nice, but you have forget one important detail, the Alliance faction you are fighting against is actually a player faction, ours to be more precise, so unless you manage to come with a massive load of random Fed, given the current war score, the war should likely end today with an Alliance victory.

Always check first if the faction engaged in a war is a player faction or NPC, if you side with an NPC faction against a player faction, chance are high that you will have to face severe disappointment at the end.

 

[Dragsham]

Unless the player faction is inactive.
Or depleted due to attrition of oddity recent decisions.

Check system "traffic"

 

[jack6251]

That nice, but you have forget one important detail, the Alliance faction you are fighting against is actually a player faction, ours to be more precise, so unless you manage to come with a massive load of random Fed, given the current war score, the war should likely end today with an Alliance victory.

Always check first if the faction engaged in a war is a player faction or NPC, if you side with an NPC faction against a player faction, chance are high that you will have to face severe disappointment at the end.

I didn't forget anything, I wasn't with that knowledge to begin with and assumed everything was NPC since I'm in solo mode. Thanks for your reply, I'll double check time next, I had no idea there was a crossover.

 

[Novarek]

I didn't forget anything, I wasn't with that knowledge to begin with and assumed everything was NPC since I'm in solo mode. Thanks for your reply, I'll double check time next, I had no idea there was a crossover.

Inara will tell you if a faction is a player faction, an NPC faction, or even an NPC faction backed by a player group, with the name of the player squadron associated to it.

 

[jack6251]

Inara will tell you if a faction is a player faction, an NPC faction, or even an NPC faction backed by a player group, with the name of the player squadron associated to it.

Wonderful! Thank you! I appreciate your info.

 

[Screemonster]

Remember, even factions with no "official" player affiliation might be backed by other players, even individual players without squadrons.

If you decided to "bring order" to certain anarchist systems, for instance, I know a few player groups that would resist that. Same as if you go after a communist faction in any system where Communism Interstellar operates - regardless of whether it's an "NPC faction" or not.
Player-created factions aren't any more special than procedurally-generated ones, they're just more likely to have a player group backing them.

 

[Screemonster]

I've recently been engaged in a War between Federation forces in the Sudz system and enemy Alliance forces. I don't often fly to enemy installations and attack them but after twice knocking out the required amount of power systems (8/8), faction Influence went up as did my Reputation and something else.

As for your original question - this sounds like an installation scenario, not a conflict zone, which don't have as much bearing on who wins the war as CZs do.
It's normal for a scenario to end with influence and reputation messages - you usually get an increase for the faction you were supporting and a decrease for the faction you were attacking.