The normal ships around a power carrier gives at least double that. The SLFs are all Elite. It was a fun way to earn decent merits, and to nerf it by that much just felt like spoiling the party a bit too much. When you've tasted caviar, it's difficult to go back to sausages.
Elite Dangerous | Ascendancy Update 1 - Thursday 21st November
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It's a good start, but there's still a ways to go.
Of note:
- Bounty Hunting Missions from the Mission Board do not give merits as a reward when being turned in. This seems counter-intuitive and needs to be addressed.
- Merits through mining, to the best of my knowledge, only offers merits if the mined goods are sold in the same system from which they are extracted. This needs to be expanded upon. They should offer merits as a reward no matter where they are sold.
- Passenger missions: There is no mention of passenger missions at all in the Powerplay handbook, so I assume they offer no merit rewards. This needs to be addressed.
- Powerplay signal sources: More than half the signal sources I see are Wreckage signal sources. The variety of signal sources greatly needs to be diversified.
- When collecting powerplay data in a reinforcement system, data ports can appear behind doors requiring a certain level of clearance and sometimes even in restricted areas. Players always have a security clearance of zero, meaning that unless the player is lucky to piggyback behind someone walking through a door, they must commit a criminal act to gain entry. This seems counterintuitive, especially since power Classified, Political, and Association data are the only types that count for merits and unlike in an undermining system, they don't trigger the settlement alarm when downloaded. Please find a way for players to set a security clearance level. Perhaps through the purchase of a consumable item, or tied to the player's reputation with the minor faction associated with the installation.
- Undermining via criminal acts currently counts 100% in Odyssey settlements, but out in space, murdering clean ships and system security yields a massive bounty and notoriety, but no merits. Merits are only rewarded for murdering clean powerplay ships, of which there are few and far between, due to the problem addressed in point 4. Please address this.
- In Conflict systems, ships do not spawn in Powerplay Conflict zones. This needs to be addressed.
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Yeah this was bizarre. It made more sense to just buff the other methods of collection if this was the route they wanted to go with.
Thank you so much. You heard us and the effort we put into communicating with you is proven worthwhile. We will happily continue providing feedback, and look forward to the continued refinement of PowerPlay 2.0.
Sincerely,
CMDR LuxSublima
Prismatic Imperium
I have a suggestion for that but I won’t post it again …
The empire as a whole allows it, Aisling in specific is opposed to it. So under the old PP system, imperial slavery was legal in ALD/Patreus/Torval space but was illegal in Aisling space specifically.
It sounds like that rule's returning now.
Except they do it in whatever system grinds the fastests regardless of overarching power strategy.
This is correct, and this announcement is a huge relief to many players active in PowerPlay that are pledged to Aisling. She has always been projected as the Imperial Reformer against slavery. Thank you again, Frontier!
So you already reduced the amount of rare goods in each system limiting us commanders that are not 100 yet from reaching 100 in this century. We are forced to grind longer and then you stop it completely? So now there is no reason to even play the game cause we cannot advance and get the weapons and equipment we need? Are you making those that are level 100+ to roll back and start over? The "...Look into..." in your post does not instill alot of confidence that this is going to be a fair fix for those of us that have been shorted from gaining levels expediently, to unlock the gear we need/want from the Power we pledge. I think it is only fair that you either advance us all to 100 with all unlocks or stripping all those that made it 100+ in the first week back to level 1 and make them start over and take away all weapons and equipment from their accounts they had access to because of making it to level 100+.
If we are fixing ethos stuff, is there consideration that the Lavigny faction which is for law and order has a weekly task to go commit crimes, I mean a lot of crimes?
I certainly believe so. The lore is part of the game. It matters to many players. Some pledges to their Powers have been loyal for 150+ weeks. To have that loyalty time deleted AND have their pledge's Ethos erased is... Well it was a mistake that thankfully Frontier is correcting. I am hugely grateful to them for listening.
Wherever there is more damage to a Power's Ethos, I absolutely support bringing it to attention so that it can be fixed. Software development is an enormously complex activity. Frontier Development deserves respect and the benefit of the doubt. Help them make the game better. We will all benefit.
Respectfully, we Feds and others will never drop it. Powerplay is meant to be played in open and with all the danger that Elite Dangerous is supposed to be. Learning evasive maneuvers, training your Power's pilots to either fight as PVP'ers or learn how to escape them by evasive maneuvers/proper engineered ships is how you avoid being killed.. not scurrying to a private group or solo play.
If we can't get Open Only PP, then making merits worth a lot more in Open and alot less in PG/solo seems like a very good compromise.
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1) Why merits and not simply a penalty to control score? (Overkill)
2) What about at 2am UK time when most European players are asleep and the US players start undoing all our hard work? (Flaw in your premise)
Re:5 - Cmdrs can clone whatever security level they need; if you don't get caught it's not an illegal act! But perhaps the lawful PP data should only be in Lvl 0 habitat ports (arguably less fun.)
No, it's massive overkill based on a flawed premise.
All "Support" category missions give merits - so the Odyssey Reactivate/Restore missions also work (and give quite a lot per mission)
I can think of various possible reasons that the others don't but it would be interesting to know the real answer.
(Especially for passenger missions, which is a whole side of the game which doesn't appear in PP at all: at least most other mission types you're doing something you could do a different way and get merits)
Specifically, though, crimes in someone else's territory. Oh, I see there's lots of crimes happening in Aisling Duval space. Maybe this system should switch its support to ALD who can really bring the criminals under control? Look, now that ALD is in charge the crimes have stopped overnight!
They could have had things like:
Transport x security personnel from system a to system b to support our efforts to reinforce the system.
Transport x prisoners from our penal colonies to system b to increase crime rates and undermine power j's control in system b
