First Place Conquest: Bastok...

[Dieth]

1. Exping in beastmen claimed areas /with Signet to raise Bastok influence. You can get double points by exping with an All same nation party.
2. Expeditionary Force runs to influence zones under beastmen control
3. Garrison to retain influence in already held zones
4. Trade junk armour/weapons to the Outpost vendors to increase influence, I used to this when levelling crafts with all the crap I was churning out.

If you're not actively trying to help Bastok get first place, don't complain that the system is broken.

[JackDaniels]

1. Exping in beastmen claimed areas /with Signet to raise Bastok influence. You can get double points by exping with an All same nation party.
2. Expeditionary Force runs to influence zones under beastmen control
3. Garrison to retain influence in already held zones
4. Trade junk armour/weapons to the Outpost vendors to increase influence, I used to this when levelling crafts with all the crap I was churning out.

If you're not actively trying to help Bastok get first place, don't complain that the system is broken.

1) There's only so much one person can do
2) Like I said, I don't have endless time to play ~ organizing a group of people to do numerous expeditions is a little overwhelming and kind of unrealistic to ask of a casual player
3) Lol Garrison
4) I'm new, I could barely afford my mog marbles.

All in all you have a point. I'm just making excuses, if I want the Republic Aketon badly enough then I'll have to work for it. It's just that citizens of Sandy will never have to work for their 1st place on every server, the conquest system is completely unbalanced (just like everything else in this game lol). And it's silly of SE to expect us to go through so much BS to get first place lol.