You said "A small minority of players are new to this 10 yo game and didn't have that opportunity. But they are likely working on unlocking engineers and imperial cutter right now. Which gives far greater advantage."
I'm curious; what DO you play for?
What is not clear?
When was the last time you turned them in? I ask because if it was after yesterday morning, then that's great news, but also some garbage on FDEV's part that they returned them to the game without announcing it, and so it is a thing worth knowing.
Oh, that. No, that's due to system state changes AND those stations being depleted of their stock. I know, I kept Inara open the whole time and kept refreshing for each run I did in my Type 8. Oh... station x and y have dropped to 0 available (or down to 20 vs 80 earlier), now switching to stations a and b for this route.
No, its not clear.
I'm pretty sure I handed a couple of them in after the powerplay tick last Thursday, and also during the weekend I think. It was already down to 15 merits per pod on Thursday. I did not try that yesterday, that's for sure.
That you made my point for me, and don't see it is rather worrying.
See, this happened for a few of us in the Crew too.
I have discovered an issue where certain [nerfing] actions are excessively used to downgrade the Powerplay experience out of the box
I agree, I am not a fan of on foot missions, just because of how they are delivered.
Ah okay.
I think last week I had a 'scan ships' mission I could not ignore because it pretty much finished by itself. There was some 'haul rares' type I did because I wanted to see how well rares were paying. The 3rd one I don't remember what it was, the 4th and 5th were both on-foot missions so I did not even read the description any further.
On that we certainly do agree.
You need to rewind so you know what you are replying to. This discussion of noobs wanting prismatic shields for their imperial cutter that they don't have is irrelevant to why cmdrs have chosen to do PP in the last 3 weeks.Ah okay.
A. So yeah true, first they need the ship and engineers. But once they've finished with that, they might want to unlock the prismos as well. And not even necessarily for the Cutter. Maybe that new player is a wannabe PvPer who needs to build an FDL or Python2. Anything is possible.
B. It certainly does not need it in Solo. But in Open the ten thousand bazillion shield hitpoints is the greatest strength of the Cutter. At least those ones are significantly harder to kill than those shieldless "flying cargo rack duct taped to an FSD" kind of builds.
In no particular order, I enjoy AX Combat, mining very occasionally, a lot of trading and a bit of exploration now and then. Conflict zone combat and Exobiology. I really enjoy building and testing different ships for different purposes. The Spires and Titans are awesome, I like the rescues from stations and I loved the AX Reactivation missions when they were a thing. AX Port Invasions are my biggest draw. Those are the activities I always go back to.
Okay, I hope I did not misclick.
This post did not quote anything, so I guess we can call it the context.
Dude, in the last 3 weeks noobs that never had access to PP 1 wanting to unlock poweplay modules will be a very small amount of PP players. For the simple reason that grinding +34 ranks doesn't make any sense to a new player that has other significantly more advantageous things to do in the game. Yes there will be a few odd outliers of experienced players that happened to reset their game and can zip through engineers, guardian stuff, imperial and federal rank, etc. in under 3 weeks. Poor timing on their part. Oh well.
