Granting a 50 million credit award for rank 5, was a mistake Frontier.

[dayrth]

Lot of posts here and I haven't read all of then, so this may have been said before. If so, my apologies.

If the rewards for rank 5 (or possibly all ranks), varied depending on how well your power was doing it might make people think a bit harder about where to invest their effort.

 

[Space Sniper]

Yeah maybe so, I guess they need to see for themselves as well. Once I realized how shallow this game feature was, I was very disappointed in Frontier. I immediately stopped and said, "no more of this crap". I have decided not participate in the hopes that the feature dies off because no one is joining in. This PP requires players to work properly, without people, it wouldn't work.

I vote NO to PowerPlay, all those who agree, say NO to PP in your posts. Lets get out our pitch forks.

 

[EddyRockSteady]

I vote NO to PowerPlay, all those who agree, say NO to PP in your posts. Lets get out our pitch forks.

If you say no, good on you. Don't get involved in Powerplay.

Just please, for the love of all things golden, quit trying to tell others what to do. It will not matter if 1000 other members also do not want to get involved in PowerPlay: What matter is that there are 1000 other members that do want to get involved and do so every day.

We enjoy it.

You do not. We get it, we really do. Find something else to do with your time then. The game does not suffer if you don't get involved, it really does not.

 

[Snarfbuckle]

It was a bad move because PP ranks is a short term reward with no incetive to stay in a power for the duration.

Ranks should have been almost limitless making merit decay redundant
Say 100+ ranks instead of 5 with tiny rewards for each, rewarding patience and TIME instead of quick cash grabs

Ranks should not ensure a steady income, we are players, we should PLAY the game, not game the game
We should not get something for free, the ranks should be the carrot for further gameplay, not the END of gameplay

Ranks & time should apply bonuses in owned systems
Add a 1% bonus to mission payout for any mission done from an owned system for each rank - promoting factions under control by your PP faction.
Add the same bonus to any bounty in these systems
Add 1% to discount to modules and ships bought in controlled systems for each month affiliated
Add 1% for each rank to the weekly payout as a modifier
Whenever a player reach over 100% bonus the overshooting percentage goes as a bonus to the weekly payout

Linear Rank Payout
Rank payout should have been linear and not 10 times each rank.

Time Affiliated Should Be Rewarded
Each week affiliated with the faction acts as a multiplier to your rank income.

So lets say we get 10 credits per rank and weeks affiliated as a multiplier.

Yes, weekly earnings become crap because they should be.

A rank 125 with 52 weeks under his belt would gain:
12% reduction in ship costs and modules in owned systems
100% mission reward from missions in owned systems and bounties
125% increased weekly reward
+25% multiplier to the weekly reward (overshooting percentage from ranks not applicable to mission bonuses)

So he would earn a base 65000 credits with a +125% so that's 146250 X 1,25 = 182512,5 credits a week,

 

[Space Sniper]

If you say no, good on you. Don't get involved in Powerplay.

Just please, for the love of all things golden, quit trying to tell others what to do. It will not matter if 1000 other members also do not want to get involved in PowerPlay: What matter is that there are 1000 other members that do want to get involved and do so every day.

We enjoy it.

You do not. We get it, we really do. Find something else to do with your time then. The game does not suffer if you don't get involved, it really does not.

Yeah your right, didn't mean to be selfish, I'll drop the pitch forks. I guess there will be people that like it, my bad... I just got a bit carried away.

 

[Spidy]

Lot of posts here and I haven't read all of then, so this may have been said before. If so, my apologies.If the rewards for rank 5 (or possibly all ranks), varied depending on how well your power was doing it might make people think a bit harder about where to invest their effort.

I really like this idea. Make the rewards dependent on the cc available to your power, people will think twice about expanding into systems with negative cc!Also, I agree with the idea of voting for expansion systems to get rid of those grind driven bad choices.

 

[Thetele]

They should just remove over fortyfying, undermaining... If we couldn´t do more than 100% people would be forced to help their power and farming easy merits would be harder.

 

[tomalus]

Last two weeks I needed 3600merits to maintain rank 5... I made a measly under 10mil profit from wages due to having to fast track cargo... The time I invested in doing the hauling of 3600 merits I could of made more then triple more cash by just trading.Or playing the game and having fun. Last time I read about it from this week reset you will need 5600 merits to maintain rank 5, wich btw without the measly wage profit gives absolutly worthless rewards to anyone non ALD bounty hunter.

The "free 50mil" is a myth, in realiity you waste your time grinding for less credits then playing the game normally for nothing.

 

[telperion]

Last time I read about it from this week reset you will need 5600 merits to maintain rank 5, wich btw without the measly wage profit gives absolutly worthless rewards to anyone non ALD bounty hunter.

Yeah, agreed. I only made it to rank 4 which has been just about manageable without buying merits so I've made a couple of 5 mill / week pay days but it's ruining the game for me so when they do the change you're talking about I think I'll drop out of PP and just go back to having fun playing the original game, methinks.

 

[tomalus]

Yeah, agreed. I only made it to rank 4 which has been just about manageable without buying merits so I've made a couple of 5 mill / week pay days but it's ruining the game for me so when they do the change you're talking about I think I'll drop out of PP and just go back to having fun playing the original game, methinks.

I made a mistake by going for rank 5, I didnt do it asap on week 1 or 2, but I read those guys saying you need 1250 merits to maintain rank, and got burned by the grind, and incinerated by news you needed 5600.

 

[Bortas]

With the new system, rank 5 is a moneymaking gift to players who already had 100's of millions.

Surely this was not the intent?

I guess it is too late to change, as many commanders have poured millions into the system already :/

To be honest, I think it's not a problem. If somebody is grinding for rank 5 for the 50 million bonus, he is doing something wrong.

Trading commodities is much more efficient and will earn 50 millions in a fraction of the time required to grind 10k merits.

Personally I think the cash bonus is just a minor, but necessary incentive to participate in PP, because it's currently the only financial reward. Other than that you get nothing for your efforts.

 

[Johnny Kelso]

To be honest, I think it's not a problem. If somebody is grinding for rank 5 for the 50 million bonus, he is doing something wrong.

Trading commodities is much more efficient and will earn 50 millions in a fraction of the time required to grind 10k merits.

Personally I think the cash bonus is just a minor, but necessary incentive to participate in PP, because it's currently the only financial reward. Other than that you get nothing for your efforts.

Apart from the 'bonus' items of course