Powerplay Arissa Lavigny-Duval Power Play Cycle 15

[DraigUK]

Whether we quit, or whether we carry on playing is a personal decision but is this thread about that, or is it about the advancement of our power?

I would love to see some type of leadership..

I would love to see some type of well publicised strategy both short and long term.

There appears to be lots of advice but I struggle to make head or foot of what is needed.

I obviously need to do more research but I just get bogged down with far too much wordiness. I need a location that makes things SIMPLE...

I just want simple instructions that say fortify 'x'..

stop when it gets to 'x' per cent

Stop if the opposition gets to 'x' per cent before we get to 'x' per cent..

As you can see I am clueless but I am Elite in both combat and trading..

I have the know how to fight and the know how to develop decent trade routes but this powerplay baffles me

I just need decent advice and I will be a better asset to this power that has offered me so much

Glojo

Everything you could possibly need is on the first post.
All you have to do is read it and use the links.
I've been doing this less than a week and I'm rank 5, so if I can do it so can you.

 

[glojo]

Everything you could possibly need is on the first post.
All you have to do is read it and use the links.
I've been doing this less than a week and I'm rank 5, so if I can do it so can you.

I have no idea what your point is but ever since the first week of powerplay, I have been rank 5. By Thursday night I will have hammered a Crime Sweep and accumulated sufficient merits to maintain my rank for the next 7 days. Yes I can do 'it' but I cannot figure out how to be an asset to this power.

I read the links and it simply states I fortify systems on a priority basis, from the top down..

I guess I have asked the question and will carry on doing my own thing as opposed to the helpful, team player thing.

 

[Krezan]

Rather have a pint.

 

[glojo]

Rather have a pint.

Now we are talking..

I'll try another way of asking my questions...


I easily get approximately 1400 merit thingies per hour from a Crime Sweep.

I usually nip into the nearest controlled system to 'cash' these things in as all I am interested in is geeting enough to maintain my rank..

Is there a better use for these credits?

Should I take them to a more deserving system?

I tend to stop going into a Crime Sweep once I have earnt the required number to keep myrank..

Would our alliance benefit from me continuing pummelling a crime sweep?

I have the guns, I have the time.... I just need to be pointed in the right direction

And YES I have looked at the guide on the first page and congratulations to whoever wrote it, but sadly I lack the intellect to understand it (My bad)

 

[znôrt]

I have the guns, I have the time.... I just need to be pointed in the right direction

i think the only way to help with guns in the present situation would be undermining other factions, in the (somewhat thin) hope that this would divert their efforts from undermining ald space to fortifying theirs. which factions would be preferred, i don't know.

other that that, just wait it out. powerplay is just a spinning wheel. it will come around.

 

[DraigUK]

The best way to help at the moment isn't blowing stuff up to get merits for yourself (that bit is easy).
While you probably need to do some of that to maintain your rank, that isn't the best way to help overall, it is simply self serving.
Which is fine, but if you really wish to help...
The best way to help is to fortify the systems listed.
By doing space trucking.
Either waiting 30 mins to get another 50 tickets at rank 5, (they are called Lavigny Garrison Supplies) until your hold is full or spending money (500k at a time) to speed this up.
I've lost count how many millions I've spent today, but that is fine because I know I will have 50million given to me Thursday.
Then take those tickets (called Lavigny Garrison Supplies) to the target system until that system has hit the Trigger.

Anything you give at that system after the trigger is reached is utterly pointless.

For example, goto the "Control" tab and look at Guathiti. The trigger for it is just 2,526.
However people just keep on wasting tickets dropping them there, because it is quick and easy to do so and gain merits. This currently shows as having 46,131.
That is 43,605 tickets that are in effect wasted, and could have been put to use elsewhere.

Now look at the spreadsheet and the recommended hitlist, and it will tell you the top 5 places to take your tickets to.
Pick one of them and do that until it hits the trigger then pick another from the list and do it all again.

That is the thing that people need to do to help.

But it is time consuming and expensive to do so, so most don't.

I hope that helps, I don't know how else to make it clearer.

 

[Tatter73]

Now we are talking..

I'll try another way of asking my questions...


I easily get approximately 1400 merit thingies per hour from a Crime Sweep.

I usually nip into the nearest controlled system to 'cash' these things in as all I am interested in is geeting enough to maintain my rank..

Is there a better use for these credits?

Should I take them to a more deserving system?

I tend to stop going into a Crime Sweep once I have earnt the required number to keep myrank..

Would our alliance benefit from me continuing pummelling a crime sweep?

I have the guns, I have the time.... I just need to be pointed in the right direction

And YES I have looked at the guide on the first page and congratulations to whoever wrote it, but sadly I lack the intellect to understand it (My bad)

If you are not into trucking then you could go to Nurundere and oppose Hudson's expansion there. It is basically the same as fighting in a Crime Sweep, just it is called a "Military Strike" and you should fight against Hudson's forces there. Expect enemy player activity, so if you are not into PvP then go Solo. Where you turn in your merits matters not.

 

[aspiringexpatriate]

I read the links and it simply states I fortify systems on a priority basis, from the top down..

I guess I have asked the question and will carry on doing my own thing as opposed to the helpful, team player thing.

That is what we need the most this week more than anything else. Fortification of the systems on this spreadsheet from the top down. Stop fortifying at 100%. Right now, it looks like Damoorai is the highest income system still unfortified. Every time you drop something off, use the "1 ton test"; give 1 ton of garrison supplies so that your fortification numbers update. If it still requires the full load, continue delivering. If it is done, move on to the next one, or the next closest one, which is probably Tujing.

I easily get approximately 1400 merit thingies per hour from a Crime Sweep.

I usually nip into the nearest controlled system to 'cash' these things in as all I am interested in is geeting enough to maintain my rank..

Is there a better use for these credits?

Should I take them to a more deserving system?

I tend to stop going into a Crime Sweep once I have earnt the required number to keep myrank..

Would our alliance benefit from me continuing pummelling a crime sweep?

I have the guns, I have the time.... I just need to be pointed in the right direction

And YES I have looked at the guide on the first page and congratulations to whoever wrote it, but sadly I lack the intellect to understand it (My bad)

As for Expansion in Crime Sweeps, Af Leporis is a good system, but Sirius Gov wanted it back. We wanted to try and work a way of failing that, but right now failing that expansion due to turmoil would lose our control of at least Birite, and while we can handle that, I'd rather not 'aim' for that. So we're fortifying every where profitable, and if we're still projecting a shortfall, we're fortifying everywhere.

Sorry, I drifted from Expansion to Fortification. In answer to your questions, no, it does not matter where you turn in merit vouchers earned at a Crime Sweep.

Our Power over-pummels Crime Sweeps, so we would not benefit from over-doing it.

If your combat ship is the same ship as your fortifying ship, you could take a load of fortification supplies to Sietae, and then proceed to Nurundere and oppose that Hudson expansion as part of Operation Janus by pummelling Military Strikes. Be aware, there are Hudson CMDRs patrolling the area trying to impose a blockade of the system.

You could oppose Delaine expansions, Winters expansion, or more Hudson expansions. You can find those on the galaxy map by filtering to those Powers and looking for the concentric circle icons. Or you could go to Galactic Powers in your menu and pick a Power > Expansion tab > View on Map.

Additionally, you could fit an interdictor and undermine their control systems. Undermining a control system over 100% has no benefit.

If you explicitly only want orders and don't wish to think for yourself, you might want to sign up for a Lavigny aligned player group. We have Lavigny's Legion, Les Corsairs de l'Empire, Orden Comandantes Imperiales, Knights of Lavigny (might be inactive), the White Templars, and the more free-form Kamadhenu Chapterhouse of Inquisition. The Chapterhouse does not give orders. Everyone else does. However, if you wish to stay in Lavigny space, need no more merits, and want to earn credits in a way that will benefit the Power, check out the Chapterhouse Lantern. It lists the conflict zones and names the faction who will benefit Lavigny's cause if they win.

 

[glojo]

That is what we need the most this week more than anything else. Fortification of the systems on this spreadsheet from the top down. Stop fortifying at 100%. Right now, it looks like Damoorai is the highest income system still unfortified. Every time you drop something off, use the "1 ton test"; give 1 ton of garrison supplies so that your fortification numbers update. If it still requires the full load, continue delivering. If it is done, move on to the next one, or the next closest one, which is probably Tujing.



As for Expansion in Crime Sweeps, Af Leporis is a good system, but Sirius Gov wanted it back. We wanted to try and work a way of failing that, but right now failing that expansion due to turmoil would lose our control of at least Birite, and while we can handle that, I'd rather not 'aim' for that. So we're fortifying every where profitable, and if we're still projecting a shortfall, we're fortifying everywhere.

Sorry, I drifted from Expansion to Fortification. In answer to your questions, no, it does not matter where you turn in merit vouchers earned at a Crime Sweep.

Our Power over-pummels Crime Sweeps, so we would not benefit from over-doing it.

If your combat ship is the same ship as your fortifying ship, you could take a load of fortification supplies to Sietae, and then proceed to Nurundere and oppose that Hudson expansion as part of Operation Janus by pummelling Military Strikes. Be aware, there are Hudson CMDRs patrolling the area trying to impose a blockade of the system.

You could oppose Delaine expansions, Winters expansion, or more Hudson expansions. You can find those on the galaxy map by filtering to those Powers and looking for the concentric circle icons. Or you could go to Galactic Powers in your menu and pick a Power > Expansion tab > View on Map.

Additionally, you could fit an interdictor and undermine their control systems. Undermining a control system over 100% has no benefit.

If you explicitly only want orders and don't wish to think for yourself, you might want to sign up for a Lavigny aligned player group. We have Lavigny's Legion, Les Corsairs de l'Empire, Orden Comandantes Imperiales, Knights of Lavigny (might be inactive), the White Templars, and the more free-form Kamadhenu Chapterhouse of Inquisition. The Chapterhouse does not give orders. Everyone else does. However, if you wish to stay in Lavigny space, need no more merits, and want to earn credits in a way that will benefit the Power, check out the Chapterhouse Lantern. It lists the conflict zones and names the faction who will benefit Lavigny's cause if they win.

Hi,
Thank you very much indeed for this most helpful post.

I will try to figure out what 'concentric circles' look like and maybe get involved in that exercise or... Look at one of the groups you have recommended.

 

[glojo]

The best way to help at the moment isn't blowing stuff up to get merits for yourself (that bit is easy).
While you probably need to do some of that to maintain your rank, that isn't the best way to help overall, it is simply self serving.
Which is fine, but if you really wish to help...
The best way to help is to fortify the systems listed.
By doing space trucking.
Either waiting 30 mins to get another 50 tickets at rank 5, (they are called Lavigny Garrison Supplies) until your hold is full or spending money (500k at a time) to speed this up.
I've lost count how many millions I've spent today, but that is fine because I know I will have 50million given to me Thursday.
Then take those tickets (called Lavigny Garrison Supplies) to the target system until that system has hit the Trigger.

Anything you give at that system after the trigger is reached is utterly pointless.

For example, goto the "Control" tab and look at Guathiti. The trigger for it is just 2,526.
However people just keep on wasting tickets dropping them there, because it is quick and easy to do so and gain merits. This currently shows as having 46,131.
That is 43,605 tickets that are in effect wasted, and could have been put to use elsewhere.

Now look at the spreadsheet and the recommended hitlist, and it will tell you the top 5 places to take your tickets to.
Pick one of them and do that until it hits the trigger then pick another from the list and do it all again.

That is the thing that people need to do to help.

But it is time consuming and expensive to do so, so most don't.

I hope that helps, I don't know how else to make it clearer.

Perfect post and I have now purchased two loads of garrison supplies (800 total) and concentrated on Tujing which is now finally up at 100%.

 

[DraigUK]

Perfect post and I have now purchased two loads of garrison supplies (800 total) and concentrated on Tujing which is now finally up at 100%.

Welcome to the game!

 

[glojo]

Hi folks,
Thank you very much for the advice and the supplies I took to Tujing clearly helped and now I have 980 merits from Nurundere (with a little help from a friend)

Is there a simple\easy way of monitoring the progress of Nurundere please?

 

[Lord of the Isles]

Is there a simple\easy way of monitoring the progress of Nurundere please?

In the left-hand panel in your cockpit, choose:

Galactic Powers --> Galactic Power Standing --> Zachary Hudson --> Expansion --> and select Nurundere

and you'll get info. Trouble is, that info is usually between (approx) 0 to 2 hours out of date (as with most of the stuff in the Galatic Powers area).

 

[GaryII]

If your combat ship is the same ship as your fortifying ship, you could take a load of fortification supplies to Sietae, and then proceed to Nurundere and oppose that Hudson expansion as part of Operation Janus by pummelling Military Strikes. Be aware, there are Hudson CMDRs patrolling the area trying to impose a blockade of the system.

In case you have multiple combat ships you can "park" those near non-imperial powers borders e.g. in our distant control system >80ly from our Capital or in good trade systems like in Zemina any Agri-system to buy cheap Imperial slaves.
Than you can bring merits or goods to sell with your trade ship, change ship -> go undermine -> after that switch back to your trade ship -> buy goods and go sell to some other system.

 

[glojo]

In the left-hand panel in your cockpit, choose:

Galactic Powers --> Galactic Power Standing --> Zachary Hudson --> Expansion --> and select Nurundere

and you'll get info. Trouble is, that info is usually between (approx) 0 to 2 hours out of date (as with most of the stuff in the Galatic Powers area).

Thanks very much indeed

 

[Lord of the Isles]

Fortifying Turmoil Systems

14:35 GMT
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Caria done, fortified by CMDR before me (and also 109% undermined):




Now, like me you may have been thinking: but it doesn't seem from the Galactic Powers area that systems in Turmoil *can* be fortified? But they can, despite bugs in the UI that don't report what is actually happening (sigh yet again for the poor support for Powerplay). For details see our faction's Reddit thread here.

In summary: the Galactic Powers screen always shows fortified, undermined & their percentages as 0 or 0%. When you fly to a system in Turmoil, dock and go to the Power Contacts screen all the entries are similar, reporting 0/0. However, if you do the 1 tonne test routine (deliver 1 unit of Garrison Supplies), the screen updates and shows you the true state of affairs (which never makes it to the Galactic Powers info for any other players; a real pain). Our Research Dept gurus believe that despite not being displayed, this fortifying *will* be counted at the end of the cycle so is worth doing.

Oh, and another bug: the Galnet predictions for our CC balance next cycle apparently count Turmoil system overheads twice, so ignore them. The true prediction figure is best got from our spreadsheet here.

Lastly, well done all for the impressive fortifying this week. We have almost finished *all* the profitable systems in the spreadsheet. As you may have seen from the Reddit discussion, it is not clear at this stage how many (if any more) systems below the line we should aim to fortify. The problem being that it may be impossible to finish in CC credit this cycle, and if that is so, we want to make sure that it is unprofitable systems that go into turmoil, not good ones. And the way to do that is to leave these bad systems unfortified. But with luck one of our experts will be along to confirm/explain that.

 

[Sotapeikko]

Here is the situation for Hip 35246:
View attachment 62228

 

[Trafalgar Law]

Any chance we can persuade some of our allies to undermine Peraesii? It would be good to get rid of that -76.

 

[Lord of the Isles]

Here is the situation for Hip 35246:

+rep but, since it wasn't displaying for me, here is another try (HIP 35246 is *well* done):

 

[Trafalgar Law]

Birite is nearly done just 426 to go.