I am at my powers headquater waiting for 30 minute timer to get my next 25 cargo to fortify systems
This is so sad.
You know you can do other things while it respawns the merit tokens?
Take a BB mission, kill pirates, do a side-trade, hit a RES, travel to an enemy control system and earn 15merits per kill every minute or so...sad.
Each kill = 15 merits and 6K bounty on your head....tokens are 100K per 10; so it's cheaper to pay your blood-money after a weeks underminning than it is to pay for merit tokens for fortifying. And a damn site faster than fortifying. You can also take kill missions in enemy space to pay for your repairs.
Then when you've got enough merits (I stop at 800 or so because I don't have the spare time to try for level 5) for your level 4 rank return to the HQ and pick up 1 lot of tokens, and fortify some control system on the way back to enemy space. It's easy and a fun rampage.
Unless you are watching a movie and logging in every 30mins it must be pretty boring just reading Galnet and the forums?