Xebeth wrote:Deareim wrote:For those who are interested to ticket we have opened due to that, there is an official answer from FD.
Yep, and the answer is utter tosh in my opinion.
That was my initial reaction and may be the ultimate judgement, but I realised that we don't yet have enough information to make a complete assessment.
As everyone knows, the greatest hindrance to a full understanding of the BGS is the lack of transparency regarding active players - those in Open, other groups, other instances and so on. We're like the prisoners in Plato's allegory of the cave and extrapolating reality at second hand.
Without a record of influence changes for
all factions in a system, especially in times of conflict, we don't even have the shadows on the wall to give us hints and are reduced to blaming an unseen and uncaring deity for hurling the thunderbolt that unfairly disrupts our plans. Probably too many mixed metaphors there.
I know this is Walter pounding the same old path, but I've yet to see any alternative to thorough record-keeping as a guide to understanding the BGS. While the effect of influence grabbing during conflict has been observed, we now know that it is by design. What we don't know are the working parameters and conditions for this mechanism and we can't make an adequate assessment without a lot more data collected from many more instances of the mechanism in action.
Apologies for the lecture.
The BGS is hard work.