I see. I did not consider that, since I never really did power play. I pledged for ALD for RP purposes. But never did anything. I would not even know how.lol
How is that with LYR? Do you have to just pledge for LYR to get the bonus, or do you have to do something actively ?
Well, as said, I haven't done any PP at all, so I had to read it up myself - any PP expert, if I got something wrong, please correct me.
It's explained in the link I provided above along with the info I found in the Elite Wiki.
Just pledging is not enough, but you also need to earn
Merits to achieve a
level 5 Rating for your choosen power (LYR in this case). That can be done by combat, piracy, or transportation of special goods.
As dying in combat loses the billions of exploration data you may be sitting on, transport is probably the more attractive alternative. The cargo you need to carry is limited and spawns over time, but it is possible to accellerate that by paying credits.
- each cargo unit earns you 1 Merit point
- accellerating the spawn rate of the cargo unit costs 10kcr per unit
- you need 10k Merit to unlock the level 5 rating
- => you can pay ~100 million credits for 10k cargo units = 10 k merit points to unlock the level 5 rating
- you get 60 million back from the delivery, so you only lose 40 million to triple your exploration income
- just remember that you also need to deliver the 10k units,
- ~40-50 trips in a Python
- ~15 trips in a Type 9
- (I think it's mission related cargo, so you can't unload and stack it up in a fleet carrier, but others might correct me on this)
- and don't die if you get intercepted (solo mode advised )
Oh and one last thing, your rating only changes with the Powerplay tick on Thursday morning (UTC), meaning over the week you work to earn your merit points, and with the tick your rating will increase according to the work you have invested in the previous week. And if you don't invest effort in a week, your rating will drop with the next tick.
Edit: Oh what were these screams? Could that have been the open-only Powerplay advocates???