Faction Systems

EDCopilot can generate a report on all your in-game minor factions’ systems. There are some setup tasks that need to be undertaken to enable this feature, instructions can be found <LINK>.

About the Report

The report will list all your systems in a tabular format and will detail the following:

* System Name
* System Sub Sector [3]
* Faction states.
* Rival faction states.
* The number of factions in the system.
* Your factions influence percentage.
* Your factions position.
* The name of the rival faction [1]
* The rival faction influence percentage.
* The position of the rival faction.
* How long ago the system was updated on the EDDN network.
* Delta Influence [2]

[1] In the case where your faction is in position 1 i.e. controlling the system, the rival faction will be considered to be the second place faction.

In the case where your faction is not in position 1 i.e. not controlling the system, then the rival faction will be considered to be the faction in first place.

[2] Delta Influence is your factions influence percentage minus the rival factions influence. In the case where you are not the controlling faction, Delta influence will show as a negative value and the system will be highlighted in red by default.

Should delta influence fall below the configured tolerance value (20 by default) set in the feature settings then the row will be highlighted blue by default.

Where your factions influence percentage in a given system is above 70% the data will be highlighted in red by default, this is to warn that the system may be getting close to expansion.

Sub Sectors [3]

If your minor faction is present in many systems, Sub sectors can be assigned to each system by clicking within the relevant column. More on sub sectors and their use in the keeping the report Upto date section.

The Server Tick

Each day Elite dangerous has a “server tick”, this is the point where all commander actions are aggregated and effect on the background simulation (BGS) are calculated.

EDCopilot displays the last server tick at the top of the faction report page but will also notify you if EDCopilot is running when the server tick happens.

Keeping the report upto date

In order to keep the report relevant and upto date, you must additionally run a third party program that will keep the EDDN online system up to date for your faction systems, an example of such a program would be Elite Dangerous Market Connector (EDMC)

As EDCoPilot is aware of the tick time and displays this information with the report, there are voice commands available to determine which systems need to be visited by a CMDR in game.

Using VoiceAttack say “Faction systems <X> hours” where X is the number of hours ago the tick occurred.

EDCopilot will then determine which systems have not been visited outside of this tolerance and will generate a bookmark group called “Faction Systems to Visit” for you to easily navigate though the systems that need visiting.

If you have multiple Sub Sectors assigned then a bookmark group will be generated for each subsector allowing you to assign subsectors to you squadron members to split up the work of visiting systems.

Associated voice commands

 Faction systems <X> hour
 Rerun faction report
 Stop faction report
 Resume faction report
 Show sector <Phonetic>
 Reset filters

Provision has been made to hide portions of the report this can be useful to isolate the import or critical systems ie those with low delta influence or those approaching expansion influence levels

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