What's the threshold for civil war?

[surfin'bird]

Greetings, cmdrs.

I was convinced there needs to be a similar influence with two factions to trigger a civil war?

Currently, I am in a system that has two non controlling factions (more of them, of course - but my question is about these two)...

Faction A: 18.4%

Faction B: 7.5%

These factions haven't been closer than 7% to each other for months.

Any infos?

Kind regards,

cmdr surfin'bird

 

[Jmanis]

They need to equalize (i.e have one faction overtake the other). So, you'd need to work faction B up to overtake Faction A to trigger the civil war.

 

[surfin'bird]

Sorry, I was somehow off track today... what I meant was: How in the world could a spread this large trigger a civil war? That's what happened - I just don't get it - as nearly equal influence was said to be the one and only factor triggering one?!

 

[Greno Zee]

From what you describe they shouldn’t be in a civil war. One scenarios comes to mind:
is it possible the system is not the home of any of these 2 factions and coincidently they are both in a civil war in their respective home system?

 

[Jmanis]

What system/factions?

 

[Captain Thea Kreutzer]

Greetings, cmdrs.

I was convinced there needs to be a similar influence with two factions to trigger a civil war?

Currently, I am in a system that has two non controlling factions (more of them, of course - but my question is about these two)...

Faction A: 18.4%

Faction B: 7.5%

These factions haven't been closer than 7% to each other for months.

Any infos?

Kind regards,

cmdr surfin'bird

They need to be within the same amount of influence to start a civil war or election

 

[cmdr milesred]

the threshold for any conflict to actually occur is each factions INF must be 7% or above..
otherwise for 2 factions to go to civil war, they need to be equal in INF, or if one of them is the systems controlling faction, then another faction can 'challenge them into a conflict by hitting 60% INF or higher(preferably below 75% which will trigger expansion)

That all said, if either one was below 7%, no conflict will trigger, also if either was in a conflict in another system, again, no conflict will trigger.
Inara or eddb can shed some light on whats actually been going on.

If you try to push one of the factions INF up to equalize with another faction and it fails to equalize but instead sails on above them, that is a great indicator that they are doing something else in another system.

 

[surfin'bird]

From what you describe they shouldn’t be in a civil war. One scenarios comes to mind:
is it possible the system is not the home of any of these 2 factions and coincidently they are both in a civil war in their respective home system?

Dumb me. THAT is what happened. I was so shocked to see them in CW without being close in influence, I did not realize this is an option (living in the post Q4 update world with multiple states in multiple systems, yet...)

Thanks a lot!

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

From what you describe they shouldn’t be in a civil war. One scenarios comes to mind:
is it possible the system is not the home of any of these 2 factions and coincidently they are both in a civil war in their respective home system?

The factions don't need to be in their home system for a civil war. If both factions originate in the same system, wherever they get into a conflict it will be civil war instead of war.