Powerplay Farm merits faster.

shunulu

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Pledge to A. Lavigny Torval. Go to any Expansion system. Do not jump in "Crime sweeps" (Conflict zones for A. Lavigny Torval). Just wait at supercruise other factions' stupid AI ships in expansion system (like a hunter spider in real life :D ). Every ship you interdict and kill will give you 30 merits. Mostly 2 or 3 wings of them and double or triple merits (60 or 90 merits). I did this just 5 days and reached 10.000 merits easily. After that i was bored...

I don't know how works other factions' warzones, I didn't try them. But i exactly know that i won't wait hours and hours for just 10 merits to carry another systems.
 

EUS

EUS
shunulu said:
Pledge to A. Lavigny Torval. Go to any Expansion system. Do not jump in "Crime sweeps" (Conflict zones for A. Lavigny Torval). Just wait at supercruise other factions' stupid AI ships in expansion system (like a hunter spider in real life :D ). Every ship you interdict and kill will give you 30 merits. Mostly 2 or 3 wings of them and double or triple merits (60 or 90 merits). I did this just 5 days and reached 10.000 merits easily. After that i was bored...

I don't know how works other factions' warzones, I didn't try them. But i exactly know that i won't wait hours and hours for just 10 merits to carry another systems.
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That is still 48 kills required/day, every day.
or 67 kills/day over 5 days, I don't know how long it takes per kill, let's say 3 mins each? (from waiting, interdicting, going back to waiting) 3hrs, 21 min per session, for daily kill, which is not bad, I suppose. But if it's 5 mins avg/ kill, it's 5.5 hr daily sessions required.
 
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shunulu

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I was in a vacation and i remember that i usually was playing at 3 sessions about 1-1,5 hours. Morning, afternoon and night. I thought it would take 7 days at very beginning but in fifth day i reached 10.000 merits. Of course i can understand that everyone has not a lot of times for playing but i believe it is better than waiting.

About per kills 3 mins; you can be probably right. Because i really don't remember. Just i remember that waiting is sometimes painfully long :) Killing is very very short with good ships (I did it with Python) I actually didn't calculate what time it will take, just reached...

Edit : Also Combat rank will have Speedy Gonzales' speed :D

Edit 2 : If you don't have that much of time, i think after 2 weeks you can easily achieve that goal. No need to try hard, it is only a game of course...
 
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pakriksz

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So there is no place where i can always (so after i blow up one, i can instantly target another one) find enemy ships for undermining? When i'm bounty hunting at nav beacons, and high intensity resource extraction sites, sometimes 10 minutes pass until i find a new ship to target, also there are a lot of system authority vessels.
 

Joey2o15

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Mitore said:
Then just leave forums, nobody needs you here then.

So anyone got an idea how to get those merits in 4 hours for rank 5?
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I find undermining to the be the quickest way, by yourself you're looking at 800 maybe 1000 merits a hour. In a crime sweep, in a good wing you may get more, unfortunately getting people to wing up in crime sweeps is rather hit and miss. I've lost count of the number times there's been 3 other CMDRs in a crime sweep all competing for merits instead of working together, all attempts at getting a wing going fall on deaf ears and i end up going somewhere else rather than compete for merits with a bunch of idiots.......
 

EUS

EUS
Joey2o15 said:
I find undermining to the be the quickest way, by yourself you're looking at 800 maybe 1000 merits a hour. In a crime sweep, in a good wing you may get more, unfortunately getting people to wing up in crime sweeps is rather hit and miss. I've lost count of the number times there's been 3 other CMDRs in a crime sweep all competing for merits instead of working together, all attempts at getting a wing going fall on deaf ears and i end up going somewhere else rather than compete for merits with a bunch of idiots.......
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Not sure about your undermining numbers, the best I've done is 15/hr * 30=450. This is due to the long re-instancing that's required after each kill.
It takes way too long for the galaxy to reset after going back to SC. The interdicting & killing is quick.
Combat merits are quicker even if they only pay 1/3 of undermining, but there are some weeks where your power might not be allowed to have any.
 
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Joey2o15

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EUS said:
Not sure about your undermining numbers, the best I've done is 15/hr * 30=450. This is due to the long re-instancing that's required after each kill.
It takes way too long for the galaxy to reset after going back to SC. The interdicting & killing is quick.
Combat merits are quicker even if they only pay 1/3 of undermining, but there are some weeks where your power might not be allowed to have any.
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A few wings of 3 gets you well on your way to the numbers i quoted, you need to be careful in your selections. You can easily miss a wing in SC and end up targeting a single ship instead.
If you get yourself in a good wing i would agree crime sweep merits would be the way to go, unfortunately that's not always possible. Crime sweeps on your own can be tough going due to the tougher ships and of course the 'dear god' moments when a group of ships decides you're public enemy No1 and you have to jump out.
 

Kayin

Kayin
Hurricane Moon said:
10,000 merits can be earned in about 4 hours if you "think outside the box"...and you don't spend a penny.
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Only 4 hours? I do it in 2 hours. I'm WAAAYYY better at this game than you. Ask me how I do it? Of course I won't tell you, because then you'll realize that I'm lying. Oh wait...

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No but seriously, Wing of 4 undermining together seems cause more wings to spawn (from what I've experienced). Last night I was doing this with a wing of 2 and hit 1000 merits in about 1.5 hours. It would've been higher if my wingman knew how to work with wing mechanics. I would predict it'd be even faster with more people as long as you can tag everyone. Especially if you have players holding wings of NPCs in an instance for other players to polish off 2 wings back to back.

That's how I suspect you could do it quickly. Really sucks if you have no friends though.

-K
 

Wihglah

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I got to rank 5 in 5 days last week. I did a few marked military arms runs then just hit the military strikes hard. I would say I got about 980 kills in about 16 hours. A wing of 4 could knock it out in about half that time though.
 
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