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Absolutely understand about family pressures and pressures of work. Applies to me too...
The reputation decay is a really minor thing. This is a separate thing - it is to help people becoming caught in a hostile relationship with major and minor factions. It doesn't apply to your rating within the Power. The reputation is separate.
The reputation decay down from 'Allied' only applies to Major Factions - and as long as you gain some reputation with a Minor Faction then it doesn't decay.
I hope that helps!
There are a few different things here. We should probably have had something in for this at the start, but we need to do something. We understand some of the complaints - particularly about swapping ship load-outs.
I also think we should have discussed it beforehand - but given how many things there are in Powerplay, we simply didn't call it out.
This is a bone of contention amongst our designers - and we will do something in the future. There should be a cost to this - but that is for another day. So some news - we will be reversing this change shortly (or 'soonTM' as Michael B would say...), so to be clear this aspect will be as it was before in the public release.
This is a beta after all, and we want the best experience for everyone.
Powerplay makes Human space much more dynamic, and gives more context to the missions, even for those not aligned to a Power. Also - the base level rewards within a Power have pretty low thresholds, which scale based on how well the Power does - so you should easily be able to participate with that amount of gameplay time.
I'm afraid we are not releasing a roadmap.
No - I don't think so at least - it is just the in-progress missions that will be wiped because they now work differently.
The major factions - or 'Superpowers' if you like - are still important - and are essentially made up of the Powers. Things like Naval Rank are still important, as is standing within the Superpower.
It will be great! ;-)
The game is not set in stone. We have plans for the future for just about every game element, but I'm sure you will understand we don't want to go into every detail yet.
Oh yes please. A wall of text is so soulless
Hopefully you can see the game is getting richer over time. The images of the Powers (yes, I know they're not in the beta yet, but we're saving them for the release), do help add what I think you are looking for.
Yes. It is an optimisation to pre-calculate shaders - and it should help lower end cards and laptops especially. The guys have been doing a great job in improving performance.
How long do you think they'd last before someone shot them...! ;-)
The two ships are quite different, even though they share some components. They will count separately.
Hello David!
Sandro said in an interview that Powerplay would give people the chance to feel like they were part of a team, but the current rewards structure of Powerplay actually pits team members against each other as ferociously as it does against the opposition. Will you look at making adjustments to the faction reward structure going forward to allow all faction members to have at least something from their efforts to aid their faction, as it would add a lot of immersive quality to Powerplay.
I'd also like to echo the cacophony of praise for the game overall so far.
We are taking comments like this very seriously. There are arguments either way, but the intention is that you are part of a team, so there is a change coming that should fix this...
When two allied Powers clash over a system it is more covert, but still occurs.
Nothing to say about the promotion of minor faction to major status ? Nothing at all ?? Please ???
We've been working on it since the first announcement of PP !
With a lot of work/play we now control 2 sectors lol
All for nothing ???
Not complaining ! It was fun !! but we would really like to keep going with at least a chance of achieving Major status.
A Minor Faction has to become pretty giant and influential to be considered as a Power. It is not an automated process. We plan to keep the number of Powers down, so that is a factor too.
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