Can you build your own empire in this game?

[Degekstuh87]

Hey all, Can you build and expand your own empire in this game like X4? Making trading stations, hire ships, build them and run your own economy?

[r3aktor]

You are funny

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

No, you are the one who is doing the job, not the one who tells others to do it for you. This game is not about managing your empire.

[ShelLuser]

No, and yes... "sorta".

No, you can't build your own Empire and such but you can pledge yourself with a superpower and try to help them expand and take over other systems.

Or... allign yoursself with a local faction and then help them increase their influence, thus eventually take over the system they're in.

[Degekstuh87]

ty all for your reactions :)

[IconoclastEntityActual]

Absolutely not, this game don't even give you the illusion of having some say over the factions. It is all extremely superficial and abstract. You just grind for the sake of grinding. Elite Dangerous at the end of the day, is more of a simple grinder than Black Desert Online.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Ascended One:

Absolutely not, this game don't even give you the illusion of having some say over the factions.

This will be news to the thousands of commanders running player-owned factions in the game.

And to the thousands of commanders engaged with the BGS every day, which turns Elite Dangerous into a galaxy-wide game of Risk.

[Condasoft]

Nothing you do in this game has any impact on the universe, this needs to change imo.

[Sirius]

Originally posted by Insta:

Nothing you do in this game has any impact on the universe, this needs to change imo.

1. Not true at all

2. Imagine if a single player had actual severe impact, you wouldn't get anywhere

It's fine as it is, your impact is slight but measurable in certain areas (say, filling demands of a space station, discovering planets, affecting system states) but if you think you should be able to make big changes based on your personal actions in an approximation of our actual galaxy, then you severely overestimate the worth of said actions.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Insta:

Nothing you do in this game has any impact on the universe, this needs to change imo.

For that the universe needs to change first. It's too big for any human being to be able to influence it in any way.

When it gets to this point, then we will be able to impact it:
https://youtu.be/1pWWC_58YTs

[Ghojo]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Originally posted by Ascended One:

Absolutely not, this game don't even give you the illusion of having some say over the factions.

This will be news to the thousands of commanders running player-owned factions in the game.

And to the thousands of commanders engaged with the BGS every day, which turns Elite Dangerous into a galaxy-wide game of Risk.

And yet, all they do is nudge a few numbers on a spreadsheet ever so slighty, without ever really changing the the ingame world.

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by Insta:

Nothing you do in this game has any impact on the universe, this needs to change imo.

Sorry, but even I know this is total nonsense. And I don't even care about the BGS in the first place! ;)

A few months ago a fellow commander came here asking 'Imperials' for help because his home system got "overrun"; people had done a lot of missions for opposing factions allied to the Federation and thus the system got new management.

SO... I went over there, discovered that the location was easily reachable by shuttle from my home system and thus I transported most of my Imperial vessels there (Imperial Eagle, Courier & Clipper) and spent several sessions doing missions for the Imperial faction and only asking for influence.

Slowly but steadily we're making progress. We're getting very close to bringing the system back to Imperial control :)

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Ghojo:

And yet, all they do is nudge a few numbers on a spreadsheet ever so slighty, without ever really changing the the ingame world.

My group converted 50 odyssey settlements in one system to anarchy, creating a huge fun-filled farm.

Stations change their services depending on whether they're anarchy or not

You can generate expansions which then fill the mission boards with Mining Expansion Missions worth 50m a shot

Those, along with all the other reasons the BGS keeps many playing the game for thousands of hours.

Have you looked into it properly and seen how complex it really is? https://novaforce.com/guides/bgs/

[Parminio]

Originally posted by Degekstuh87:

Hey all, Can you build and expand your own empire in this game like X4? Making trading stations, hire ships, build them and run your own economy?

Yes. You can.

It's called "Player Factions".

Realistically though, it's not something that one person can do. Like the old saying goes, "It takes a village."

Your best bet would be to join an already established Faction. You can also choose to support it on your own without their direct knowledge and fight for them and help influence outcomes.

There's a lot to it, and it takes a LOT of work and commitment, but it is available.

I tell you, you have to ignore the vast majority of people posting in these forums as they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. They're just here to complain and talk you out of playing the game.

[Condasoft]

But nothing really changes in the universe.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Insta:

But nothing really changes in the universe.

Well the Milky Way galaxy is only one of the estimated 4 trillion in the known universe, so I guess your statement is accurate in that way.

But within the Milky Way, yes, it does change things. They might not be things you notice or care about, but they change all the same.