2 days ago, Bastok had zero influence in Ronfaure (imagine that). I personally have never seen Bastok claim this region before, and being a bit bored, I decided it was worth a try to take it through bribery of the gaurd there. Having previously done this in Derfland many years ago, I knew the "value" of the armor pieces ahead of time (which ones give the greatest return vs. cost to craft). So, for those who are curious: it took 2 days of crafting and trading various armor pieces to the npc to overtake the lead in the zone at a cost of about 1.5 million gil. for comparison, Derfland was around 300k gil to convert.
Perhaps now that Bastok has a foothold there the zone will be ours more often (though I doubt it, lol) Be sure to get the OP this week just in case^^
~Druce