Powerplay 2.0 State of the Game: Dead on Arrival [confirmed]
Elite Dangerous | Powerplay 2.0 Update
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Cool, now players will move on to bounty spam, especially fighter farming at strongholds, selling for profit at 1 ton at a time and next week we'll just nerf everything so the new powerplay just isn't fun anymore and front lines don't change at all because it's just too hard.
Kill assaulters, if they dare to show in open.
If it is us, WE ARE IN OPEN.
Now if only there was a fix for all that afk nonsense... OOPPs
rootsrat
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With how it worked it was pretty much impossible to do this unknowingly tbh
Soooooo............... what was the point of revamping Powerplay then? Day1 people used exploration and exobiology data, so you disabled that. Then people traded rares and now you've disabled that.
I don't want to come across as totally negative, but what did you & do you expect people to do?
As long as merit counts aren't nerfed into the ground, this is good.
And of course, that pesky data exploit is fixed.
And of course, that pesky data exploit is fixed.
PvP Powerplay at last! Our battles will be legendary!
rootsrat
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If we're beta-testing on the prod server, then a full wipe and reset is 100% in order, following the bug fixes, exploits patching and final balance pass of course. Imo.
This is a good change, but merits from PP cargo deliveries should be buffed now that almost all non-combat PP2 activities have been nerfed - exploration, bio data, trade from the previous hotfix and rares now.
This leaves megaship scanning and holo screen hacking as the main effective non-combat activities - this isn't strictly bad since they're fun new things to do, but they're limited and different form A-B hauling stuff.
This leaves megaship scanning and holo screen hacking as the main effective non-combat activities - this isn't strictly bad since they're fun new things to do, but they're limited and different form A-B hauling stuff.
The sad part is that FD are letting this happen after such a promising start.
this is always going to be an arms race. As long as there will be bugs, there are possible exploits, and players will always strive to find and abuse those exploits.
So yeah. One bite at a time I guess. Accompanied by loads of moaning and gnashing of teeth.
So yeah. One bite at a time I guess. Accompanied by loads of moaning and gnashing of teeth.
Idk why you blocked pod farming. It took 5 minutes a pod to scoop anyway with the abysmal state of the servers. It was the one actually reliable way to get merits because half the game is so laggy i dont get merits usually
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