From 607171f0503180dcc23551e436e5d7c546925cf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Stinglmayr <fstinglmayr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 10:47:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add read me with odd BGS occurences

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+# BGS Oddities
+
+This file gathers BGS related oddities, as well as bugs within the player journal.
+
+## Bounty Vouchers without factions
+
+Somtimes bounty vouchers do not have faction information listed in them. It is unclear
+what caused this bug, and it is also unclear whether this bug still persists within
+the game:
+
+```json
+{ 
+  "timestamp":"2021-10-07T14:57:50Z", "event":"RedeemVoucher", 
+  "Type":"bounty", "Amount":20750, 
+  "Factions":[ { "Faction":"", "Amount":500 }, { "Faction":"", "Amount":20250 }]
+}
+```
+
+## Combat zones
+
+Combat zones receive no mention within the player journal whatsoever. There is no event
+when one is lost, or won, or what sort of difficulty it was. It is technically possible
+to deduce combat zones from the text messages you receive from the combat coordinators.
+
+## Influence given to empty/non-existant factions
+
+Mission can give negative reputation and influence to an non-faction. This happens when
+you affect an asset that is not owned by anyone. For example, randomly generated surface
+POIs sometimes do not have an owner. If you receive a scan, infiltrate, or sabotage mission
+for such a POI, the non-existant owner receives negative influence, and you damage your
+reputation with that non-existant owner:
+
+```json
+ "FactionEffects": [
+    {
+      "Faction": "",
+      "Effects": [
+        {
+          "Effect": "$MISSIONUTIL_Interaction_Summary_EP_down;",
+          "Effect_Localised": "The economic status of $#MinorFaction; has declined in the $#System; system.",
+          "Trend": "DownBad"
+        }
+      ],
+      "Influence": [
+        {
+          "SystemAddress": 251012319587,
+          "Trend": "DownBad",
+          "Influence": "+"
+        }
+      ],
+      "ReputationTrend": "DownBad",
+      "Reputation": "+"
+    }
+]
+```
+
+## No influence given to target or source faction
+
+Sometimes neither the target faction, nor the source faction receive any influence. This
+can happen because either the target faction, or the source faction - or both - are
+currently in a conflict, and thus cannot receive any influence at the moment.
+
+Systems that are influence locked also do not hand out influence to its factions.
+
+```json
+{
+  "timestamp": "2022-02-25T21:30:45Z",
+  "event": "MissionCompleted",
+  "Faction": "Social LHS 6103 Confederation",
+  "Name": "Mission_Courier_Elections_name",
+  "MissionID": 850025233,
+  "TargetFaction": "Delphin Blue Federal PLC",
+  "DestinationSystem": "Delphin",
+  "DestinationStation": "Aristotle Orbital",
+  "Reward": 122300,
+  "FactionEffects": [
+    {
+      "Faction": "Social LHS 6103 Confederation",
+      "Effects": [
+        {
+          "Effect": "$MISSIONUTIL_Interaction_Summary_EP_up;",
+          "Effect_Localised": "The economic status of $#MinorFaction; has improved in the $#System; system.",
+          "Trend": "UpGood"
+        }
+      ],
+      "Influence": [],
+      "ReputationTrend": "UpGood",
+      "Reputation": "+"
+    },
+    {
+      "Faction": "Delphin Blue Federal PLC",
+      "Effects": [],
+      "Influence": [],
+      "ReputationTrend": "UpGood",
+      "Reputation": "+"
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+## Megaship scan missions both marked as abandoned and failed
+
+Megaship missions that bug out, may both be marked as "abandoned", and "failed". It is
+unclear which of these two counts. A failed mission has negative BGS implications, whereas
+an abandoned mission should not.
+
+```json
+{ "timestamp":"2022-11-09T07:33:08Z", "event":"Missions", "Active":[ { "MissionID":899075054, "Name":"Mission_HackMegaship_name",
+  "PassengerMission":false, "Expires":51072 }, { "MissionID":899075080, "Name":"Mission_HackMegaship_name",
+  "PassengerMission":false, "Expires":51072 } ], "Failed":[  ], "Complete":[  ] }
+
+{ "timestamp":"2022-11-09T08:23:59Z", "event":"MissionAbandoned", "Name":"Mission_HackMegaship_name", "MissionID":899075054 }
+{ "timestamp":"2022-11-09T08:24:05Z", "event":"MissionFailed", "Name":"Mission_HackMegaship_name", "MissionID":899075054 }
+```
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