There’s a new thing now where sector owners lose points at the end of each rotation. It used to be where it was only a 50% point reduction at the start of the queueing period but now it’s at the end too. Its really bizarre and doesn’t seem to work very well or predictably. FDEF held 9 sectors one day, but two were given to other corporations by this weird concept. FDEF has also held Service Shop for probably a week or so having far fewer points than the challengers, but still keeping the sector day after day. This method makes no sense, and I see it as something that overcomplicates what was once simple and should be removed/reverted so we can at least predict what will happen.
It is about capturing more sectors and more often instead of capturing and holding to as many as possible sectors. It is in general more rewarding to more corporations, especially since now you get rewards from a sector right from the capturing it, instead of old way withholding it for at least one more cycle
So basically its not a bug or anything, it’s more like capture and forget about it at the same time, move on to the next sector and pray to hold it for half a day or if you’re lucky, for a whole day even. Makes sense why its there so others have a chance but it kinda goes away way too fast…