Elite: Game talk

Vasil Vasilescu
today, 3:17pm
BrotherblazeHey guys, hoping for a little bit of help regarding BGS.. If two factions are within 5 percent of each other how do I make the more dominate faction take a settlement from the more minor one ?


Super Short Version:
Do missions for your preferred faction to increase their influence.

Moderately Detailed Version:
Generally, settlements and stations will only change hands if the two factions are engaged in some form of conflict such as war, elections, or civil war. Also, those conflicts tend to happen when their influence levels become equal. If there is no conflict there will be no taking control of settlements, but increasing a factions influence will help it maintain dominance.

Since all player actins contribute to BGS, other players might be working for the opposing faction. How many others are working for the opposition you will never know. If the other faction is an active player faction, odds are one person will not be able to sway the conflict if the player faction decides to pay attention to what is going on.
Brotherblaze
today, 3:21pm
Thank you for the speedy detailed explanation. For my case I think I need to make their influence equal for this conflict to occur in order for their stations to change hands. Thanks again.
Kasumi Goto
today, 5:30pm
Frontier really seem to insist on the Mandalay’s improved atmospheric flight characteristics when we don’t have any environments that notably affect how a ship flies aside from the caustic death cloud that surrounds an active Titan (and a dead one but you are not getting to it for the first week and a half - 2 weeks following its destruction anyway). And I guess maybe the Lagrange storm clouds, but I’ve never found one yet, only regular ones.

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