Best way to get merits for LYR?

[Rudicle]

I've been doing all the weekly tasks and I'm still at level 7. I was so close to getting the pack hounds before the PP2.0 update but all my progress was wiped. I was hoping that LYR would be included in one of the CGs soon as well for the extra merits.
The only other way I've found that's somewhat easy is to sell rare goods in allied systems. But finding a large quantity of rare goods is difficult.

What's the fastest or best way that you have found to get merits quickly?

 

[Kamiyoda]

Mining

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

Mining

indeed i dropped a clanger as have been doing my mining for the current CG in Delkar. I have moved now so i can do PP progress too its a few more jumps (i can do it in 6 jumps my T10 without stopping to refuel so long as no more than 240 tons in my hold but it arrives with empty tank on fumes so a network disconnect will maroon me (when the journey starts the map will say you will run out of fuel but as the ship burns fuel it gets lighter so it can just make the final jump, its that fine (or just put a fuel scoop on but where is the fun in that ? )

but if you do your mining at GCRV 1568 Plat hotspot on AB 1 A Ringand sell all your stuff in the station (Cernan dock) except platinum, then dump the rest at the CG you will do well in terms of powerplay AND the CG

 

[Ashnak]

What would you consider as "a large quantity" of rare goods? Using https://inara.cz/elite/commodities-rare/ I never had a problem in filling up my trading Cobra Mk.V. Merits get a boost if you can sell the rares at a large profit. Other things that went well (at my scale) were scanning of Megaships (in Reinforcement, Acquisition or Undermining systems), selling exploration data, collecting assorted wreckage junk from undermining systems (and turning them in at friendly systems in range, I haven't yet checked what junk collecting in acquisition or reinforcement systems brings in - or how the merits vary with handing in in various systems). Escape pods don't seem to count towards merits.

Can't give you the numbers, though, as I'm not on my gaming PC right now. Megaships yield 500...700 merits per scan (some researchers have two scan points), a load of power wreckage junk is at least in the same order of magnitude, as is a hold full (64 tons, ok) of high profit rares. Leesti is a nice source, as you can get two high volume rares there - as long as your destination system buys Leestian Evil Juice....

Edit: regarding range - my cobra does a bit over 200 ly on a full hold without refuelling, so I can get maximum rares profit.

Edit again: plundering 4 or 5 power wreckage POIs in CD-25 636, bringing the haul back to BD-22 286. 6 Black Boxes, 1108 Merits - 17 Wreckage Components, 903 Merits - 19 occupied escape pods, no merits but half a mil in credits - 3 damaged escape pods, no merits and a bit of loose change.