I am leaving tomorrow - my power that is, here's why.

[SteveLaw]

It's much easier to just fancy your Power Play leader. Like life, and like being signed up for Aisling Duval, the longer you think about it, the harder it gets!

Too much information.

 

[GJ51]

1. He is LEAVING not DEFECTING
2. He is leaving a political party that cares nothing for the sacrifices he has made
3. A political party who forgets him within a month
4. A political party who expect sacrifice for miniscule reward
5. A political party whose payment and reward system is designed from within an asylum
6. A political party who distrust those who dont work for them 24/7 without pay.
7. A political party that can be BOUGHT [ Very American politics I must agree on ]
8. Factions who are too incompetent to have spies and the ability to reverse engineer other factions toy guns

Really, and these are the shakers and the movers with that amount of incompetence in the top?

They work for FD

 

[Heater]

1. He is LEAVING not DEFECTING
2. He is leaving a political party that cares nothing for the sacrifices he has made
3. A political party who forgets him within a month
4. A political party who expect sacrifice for miniscule reward
5. A political party whose payment and reward system is designed from within an asylum
6. A political party who distrust those who dont work for them 24/7 without pay.
7. A political party that can be BOUGHT [ Very American politics I must agree on ]
8. Factions who are too incompetent to have spies and the ability to reverse engineer other factions toy guns

Really, and these are the shakers and the movers with that amount of incompetence in the top?

Add to this do not do a damn thing, and it sounds just like the US Government!.

 

[Snarfbuckle]

It's much easier to just fancy your Power Play leader. Like life, and like being signed up for Aisling Duval, the longer you think about it, the harder it gets!

Followers of Zemina Torval gives me the shivers.

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Add to this do not do a damn thing, and it sounds just like the US Government!.

And that is why the PowerPlay mechanics is - It's too close to a depressing reality.

 

[mnyiaa]

Mahon is great... and sucks. Giving a trading ship a fixed heatgun to fend off pirates was an insanely stupid and poorly thought out idea. Have the devs ever tried aiming at a fast moving target, using a T9. I think not. All the other factions get cool guns, and perks, we get stuck with "EVERYONE HATES US" and essentially becoming the boy on the school ground that loses his lunch money to the bullies... I'm talking to you, Z HUDSON!

 

[Arry]

Add to this do not do a damn thing, and it sounds just like the US Government!.

Sounds like every government; 10 minutes after the election.

 

[Mikey2305]

Dont care about your power leader? Ask him out for a drink or have him round for a meal or summat... Im sure there would be something

 

[Whiterose]

NO !!! Not a deserter, never, my term is up, i am free to leave, i am not defecting. I have worn my badge with pride, earned my honour in battle, i now retire to live the peaceful life of a trader.
Long live the Empire, or was it the federation, no, maybe it was Independents, you know, i just can't remember, but that's the point of my post.

Lol, the thing is, I shall be taking leave of absence from my power for a couple of weeks due to the nebuli calling me out for exploration, and then I am doing the Lands End to John O'Groats bike ride, so shall lose all my ratings, rep and everything else, but I shall return to my power like a love sick puppy when I get back, providing he is still in the top ten. If not I can be bought by the highest bidder. They say ED is a mile wide and an inch deep...I am shallower than that, lol.

 

[fruitbat]

They say ED is a mile wide and an inch deep...I am shallower than that, lol.

must....... resist......... joke....... about........ Yorkshire, red rose ftw!

 

[Moriarte]

I still don't know about his future, or mine in that power, it just feels like if i stay i will just have to regain the decay every week to stay at rank 3, and i find no reason to justify doing this.

Think harder! Use your imagination!

Seriously though, I wholeheartedly agree. I made 750 merits during two evenings of first week of power play. Since then I haven't launched ED. I am afraid I'll be tempted to maintain that "position" and hate myself for being a hamster.

Decided to put the whole thing on pause until planetary landings. Plenty of stuff to do and plenty of great games to play instead.

 

[.Stu.]

50million?

Sounds good.

What's the 50 mil for, how long did it take you to get it, in game play terms, and how often will you get it?

Trying to compare it to say trading/smuggling in my Conda.

Cheers

I am staying after tomorrow. Already have my prismatic shields, and get my first 50,000,000 payout tomorrow with many to follow.

 

[CMDR_Havok]

I left Hudson yesterday, could not even wait until Thursday. Just too disheartened with the number of design questions and unanswered feedback. In fact the only communication I've seen from FD about PP is the sticky they created which would add even more grind if implemented. Powers' HQ not being the same faction; background sim so wonky that it seems impossible to flip it; enemies roaming free in the power's HQ; lousy credit rewards for killing enemy powers that interdict you; imbalanced faction numbers; solo/private groups undermining or 5th columning with no recourse against it; bias towards PP trading activities due to fast tracking quotas; merit treadmill not only causing grind, but causing PP to be played inefficiently (ie most players over fortifying the closest systems just to grind merits); and more that I've already forgotten.

The lack of feedback and interaction is really what has pushed me away from it, because conceptually I like the idea, but it's so full of holes right now it doesn't feel worth it to stick with it until some needed changes are made. What has really gotten to me is trying to flip Nanomam for the last four weeks, and seeing faction influence changes on a daily basis that make zero sense, and not a single word from FD despite many posts and bug reports about it. That was what completely soured me to it - not to mention the fact that the Power HQ should ALREADY have been faction aligned. The background sim is a system that was supposedly in place from launch; now we relied on it to try to get our HQ flipped, and it has been a total failure. And there's no feedback, we don't know if it's solo/group players sitting there and accepting/dropping missions, or what. Not a single word about it - silence. So after a while it begs the question, why am I doing this? It's not fun.

So I'm back in the black on another exploration trip and will monitor PP happenings from afar, and maybe when I see some progress I'll come back. Meanwhile I can enjoy what this game does best, which truly is the modeling of the galaxy, epic sound and effects, and a fun piloting system.

This is the most accurate description of PP that I have seen so far.

It makes no sense that Hudson would have chosen a non-Fed system as his HQ, when he's President of the Federation!!

As many have commented, the devs just don't seem to care enough about the game that they are making to get even the most basic stuff right, the whole game is full of implausibility and incongruity. If they want us to eventually start paying for expansions then they had better start doing better than this ill thought out mess.

 

[lefty1117]

I didn't even mention the complete lack of player coordination and comms tools. No power-specific chat. Not even any subforums here. No way to bring players together in-game.

 

[Cosmos]

I'm likely going to be doing the rounds of a few powers myself to get some of the goodies they have. Then it will be back to my chosen power but I agree comments about PP made here. What difference does it make who has what territory? Why should we care?

 

[CMDR Hagglebeard]

I did the same. Now I'm a hundred light years from any of the powers

 

[Iskariot]

Currently i am at 3 weeks 6 days in my power, (at least i was last night)
I am at rank 3, and i am waiting for the weekly cycle to end tomorrow, i will get my special weapon to try, and then leave the power.
At least i have tried it for 4 weeks, i have even spent credits on fast tracking occasionally, i have fortified, expanded and prepared, and tried undermining, but just ended up with a transaction tab full of bounties everywhere, (not good for a trader)

After 4 wks i still see no point to it all, i still don't care about my power leader, (i tried), i still know nothing about him, or his history, i still don't see why he wants to expand, what he will do when he does control the galaxy, if it's possible even.

I still don't know about his future, or mine in that power, it just feels like if i stay i will just have to regain the decay every week to stay at rank 3, and i find no reason to justify doing this.

As a trader there are too many adverse effects as well, the main gripe i have is being interdicted as a hostile in all other powers territories i trade in, unable to legally fire back and defend myself, the amount of fines and bounties i have had in the last month are more than i have ever had.
The discounts are still available to me as a loner, so again, why do i need a power.

Tomorrow i will get my new weapon, get my wages, and leave. I will watch the powers game from afar, and if in the future i see a reason to pledge, i will return.
But for now i see no reason to stay either.

I stopped for many of the same reasons and also because for me the way merit decay is implemented is very demotivating.
I could keep doing what I did and try to reach rank 5, but I do not see any reason to do so.

I did not leave my power yet, but I might. I am not active for her anymore anyway.

In general I do like the political layer that PP adds, but I do not really care about the expansion of any power to be honest.
I am not a political guy in real life either.
The only reason why I involved myself was for personal reasons.
PP gave me a new way to experience the ED universe and I wanted to have a taste of that.
After 4 weeks there is too little to keep me involved though and if you add the eroding merit decay to the mix the result is that I can not find the motivation to continue with it.

PP needs to be dressed up more with more variety and interesting stuff to do.
It has to be more personal too !!! And that is a very important point I think that is true for ED in general.
It would have helped if personal agents of the power would have contacted me with special missions for example.
A screen could have popped up when I entered a station that addressed me personally and asked me to do some special missions.

 

[Finbar]

Lol, the thing is, I shall be taking leave of absence from my power for a couple of weeks due to the nebuli calling me out for exploration, and then I am doing the Lands End to John O'Groats bike ride, so shall lose all my ratings, rep and everything else, but I shall return to my power like a love sick puppy when I get back, providing he is still in the top ten. If not I can be bought by the highest bidder. They say ED is a mile wide and an inch deep...I am shallower than that, lol.

I guess (if you are literal-minded enough) the Lands End to John O'Groats bike ride is 874 miles long and about 0.25 inches deep, so although you may be shallower, you are certainly not going to be put off by the thought of a bit of grind

 

[Ralph Vargr]

I guess (if you are literal-minded enough) the Lands End to John O'Groats bike ride is 874 miles long and about 0.25 inches deep, so although you may be shallower, you are certainly not going to be put off by the thought of a bit of grind

Pt. Barrow to Key West. Yowie! I'll let someone else map it.

Used to ride 40 miles a day. Might be able to ride two, now.

 

[EAGLE 5]

As much as it pains me I've been contemplating leaving the whole Power Play fiasco behind and return to doing my own thing.

I went in with a clean rep with the ability to go everywhere and do anything. Was good for a while made some money a little over 10mil in 3 weeks of playing and found the whole marauding and bounty on your head thing entertaining for a bit... headed into week 4 now my reputation is frayed with all factions who knows how much money in dormant bounties I have on my head and the proud owner of two of the most worthless weapons I've ever bought. I can't help but feel that this whole power play thing was nothing but an unrewarding grindfest to nowhere.

 

[telperion]

As much as it pains me I've been contemplating leaving the whole Power Play fiasco behind and return to doing my own thing.

I went in with a clean rep with the ability to go everywhere and do anything. Was good for a while made some money a little over 10mil in 3 weeks of playing and found the whole marauding and bounty on your head thing entertaining for a bit... headed into week 4 now my reputation is frayed with all factions who knows how much money in dormant bounties I have on my head and the proud owner of two of the most worthless weapons I've ever bought. I can't help but feel that this whole power play thing was nothing but an unrewarding grindfest to nowhere.

It absolutely is. Which is why if one isn't enjoying it one should either simply leave and ignore it or alter one's perspective and simply get out of it what you want. I'm pulling 5mill credits a week from it for doing very little. At the moment I'm taking a break and doing a CG. I'll probably leave PP when they change the decay mechanics to what they intended but at the moment the decay isn't too bad and lets me bust it on merits for a week (in between doing missions) and then spend a week doing something else whilst still maintaining my level 4 status in PP.

But yes, it is basically a grind-fest. But then again, what in ED isn't if you're looking at it from a grinding perspective? It's pretty much all grind unless you overlay the game with a roleplaying layer. I've found that makes the game massively more enjoyable. The issue with PP is I don't seem to be able to overlay it with a roleplaying layer. For some reason it resists it.