Powerplay Rank 4.5

Saool · Nov 15, 2015

What would people think about adding a Rank 6 to Power Play, which would be what Rank 5 is now, and adding a new rank 5?

A possible set of stats might be:

Unlocked at 5,000 merits
Weekly Bonus: 10,000,000 cr
175 Preparation Nominations
35 Power commodity allocation every half hour
No benefits other than standard voting/cargo increase

Why? Maintaining rank 4 is pretty easy, but maintaining rank 5 is more like having a second job. Having an additional rank between the two might suit players who do want to pull their weight to support their chosen power, but would also like to have a bit of time for other ventures in the galaxy.

I've not bothered with a poll; just interested in people's thoughts.

Joey2o15 · Nov 15, 2015

I read in another thread that to maintain rank 5 you need around 5350 merits a week, so i fail to see the need for this extra rank.

Saool · Nov 16, 2015

Joey2o15 said:
I read in another thread that to maintain rank 5 you need around 5350 merits a week, so i fail to see the need for this extra rank.

So maintaining this would require around 2600.

I'm not sure what your point is?

Chaodiurn · Nov 16, 2015

I don't see the problem at maintaining rank 5. With the 50 million you get you can fast track back to the top. The problem is getting there. It takes much work and before you reach rank 5 there hardly is a benefit worth noting. Placing something in between rank 4 and 5 that's easier to reach and still pays off nicely could drag more players into PP, in changing the routine from making money of PP into getting PP active by making not utterly hard to gain profits.

So, even if I look at it differently, I still think your idea covers it.

+1

E:/ Without upping the ceiling or lowering the roof, of course.

Antoniius · Nov 16, 2015

Actually, if i understood, the idea is pretty nice, because there is really a big difference from rank 4 to rank 5.

Rank 4 is easy and gives low reward, rank 5 is hard (well, not so hard but.. lets say its hard) and gives pretty big rewards. Probably an intermediate step would be nice

Joey2o15 · Nov 16, 2015

Saool said:
So maintaining this would require around 2600.

I'm not sure what your point is?

Once you're rank 5 in order to maintain it you need around 5350 new merits a week (so i've read). So while yes it's a chore to get to rank 5 in the first place, maintaining it isn't that difficult.

Terry Bruge-Hiplo · Nov 18, 2015

Would be ok with it, as a more linear reward system couldn't hurt. The current one kinda sky rockets at rank 5. Having to grind the merits every week stops being fun and becomes a chore pretty quickly, so there's that too. Then again, can appreciate the distinction and extra effort to get the big pay out. Overall, more in favour of the idea than not.

Koreldan · Nov 22, 2015

Saool said:
What would people think about adding a Rank 6 to Power Play, which would be what Rank 5 is now, and adding a new rank 5?

A possible set of stats might be:

Unlocked at 5,000 merits
Weekly Bonus: 10,000,000 cr
175 Preparation Nominations
35 Power commodity allocation every half hour
No benefits other than standard voting/cargo increase

Why? Maintaining rank 4 is pretty easy, but maintaining rank 5 is more like having a second job. Having an additional rank between the two might suit players who do want to pull their weight to support their chosen power, but would also like to have a bit of time for other ventures in the galaxy.

I've not bothered with a poll; just interested in people's thoughts.

It would be great !

Great idea, well done ! +1

Alexander the Grape · Nov 22, 2015

I like this. Up the bonus to 20 mill credits though (just under what's needed to maintain via fast tracking)

Koreldan · Nov 22, 2015

It should be an intermediate rank between ranks 4 and 5 with following values:

4500 mertis -> 20.000.000 CR

the graphic about the progression:

badtrip · Nov 23, 2015

Powerplaying is not easy but has its own rewards.
It should take 2 days to maintain the 10000 merits if you are lucky enough.
I got intredicted on Friday and got killed in a combat by a cmdr, and all of my merits were lost.
Believe me you get upset because, the whole effort goes for nothing, nothing at all!
So i had to make it this week in 3 days. Yesterday i got my 10k, did some fortifications.
And i have the whole week to do bulettin missions...

So its a doable thing.

Koreldan · Nov 23, 2015

The reason why I'm agree to insert an intermediate Rank is explained below:

Rank	\|	mertis	\|	maintain	\|	days	\|	mertis / days	\|	mertis / ship	\|	ships to do in a day
3		750		375		0,5		750		30		25
4		1500		750		1		750		30		25
4.5		4500		2250		2,5		900		30		30
5		10000		5000		5,5		909		30		30

Check the difference between the days needed to maintain rank 4 and rank 5

badtrip · Nov 23, 2015

Koreldan said:
The reason why I'm agree to insert an intermediate Rank is explained below:

Rank
|
mertis
|
maintain
|
days
|
mertis / days
|
mertis / ship
|
ships to do in a day
3 750 375 0,5 750 30 25
4 1500 750 1 750 30 25
4.5 4500 2250 2,5 900 30 30
5 10000 5000 5,5 909 30 30

Check the difference between the days needed to maintain rank 4 and rank 5

Th stats above wont show the truth!

750 merits would take only 2 hours!
in wings maintaining 5000 takes only 2 days.
Who says that you need to play 5.5 days to maintain rank5?

Antoniius · Nov 24, 2015

badtrip said:
750 merits would take only 2 hours!
in wings maintaining 5000 takes only 2 days.
Who says that you need to play 5.5 days to maintain rank5?

Actually you can do 800-1000 merits per hour in solo killin stuff in CZs (5-6 hours for me to get my 5k merits usually), but i think the calculations are made taking into considerations to "spread" the merits needed in a few days. So, killing 30 ships a day is enough to maintain even rank 5 every week.