When loading into a specific faction controlled frontier, it’ll sometimes change to a different faction. Just recently loaded into what showed as a Totality controlled area, but to my surprise it was full of Tharsis Reformation.
Also noticed that sometimes the displayed badge when hovering over a job shows a different controlling faction than the one shown when inspecting the modifiers. I’ve attached screen shots showing this confusing display of conflicting information.
https://imgur.com/a/aeN5Ju5
These two bugs make it pretty confusing trying to understand all the new icons and what they mean when you think it’s one thing, but is a completely different thing. Pretty annoying having to re-queue. Seems like the game can’t refresh the map as they change controlling factions.
On a side note, I would really appreciate a tooltip menu for new content and activities for explaining icons shown on the map that dont have a front facing explanation or tooltip. For example, when viewing the lawless frontier there should be a 3rd tab in the Contracts and Wallet menu bullet pointing descriptions of various icons and important information. Would be helpful to be able to access this when I forget something.
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Edited by FingersXed: 12/14/2025 10:02:50 PMFaction control rotates every 15 minutes afaik, wait for it to change if its around :00, :15, etc. [edit] Oh, and also this one is known to show wrong factions when going for the hidden ghosts.
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I have had the same thing happen, before launching the activity, I look at the modifiers of the activity. Those will tell you who the faction will actually be before loading in. I have not had it "switch" past that. So if the original faction is piker, but then check the modifiers and it says totality, I have only ever had it be actually totality. If it's "tharsis reformation" but the modifier says piker, it'll be piker. It is confusing, but I hope this helps.