powerplay 2.0

There seems to be a fundamental element missing from PowerPlay. In many ways the improvements to PP2.0 have inevitably made PP2.0 more restricted and less likely to expand without a concentrated effort of a larger group of CMDRs. While that is one way to approach balancing the system, what about...

Hi folks, With the 2025 edition of the Guide, I want to add the following to the BGS Guide, assuming Vanguards doesn't totally destroy the existing BGS and replace it with something new. PowerPlay 2.0 - how to improve merit generation by BGS manipulation... and stop PCZs with wars (I know...

Cycle 37: No Intensity, No Victory Ahoy Crew! Service update: Pegasi Sentinel correspondents and editors closed the shop and went on summer holidays (they deserved it!). As a result, from this Cycle report and onwards [very likely until the second half of August], coverage and other news may...

Ahoy Crew! Trailblazers 3.4 Trailblazers 3.4 [surprise!] update came out today with a number of news and changes affecting the Powerplay 2.0 framework. We’re currently assessing the impact of the update… it is more than welcome the introduction of a PvP/Powerplay CG goal (destroying specific...

Ahoy Crew! Last Frontier Unlocked before the summer (holiday period) and where the new Panther Clipper MkII (or Panther Mk2) was showcased, coming on next 22nd of July. The new hauling “meta” ship looks like a massive toad with a maximum cargo of around 1200t but possibly more (?) than that as...

Hi commanders, It has now been a few months I joined one the most controversial/hated Powers, have been pretty involved, and have met exactly zero opposing player. We even had a couple of very "active" contested acquisition systems, for which a lot of effort was invested on both sides (we...

Ahoy Crew! It happened: after cycles/weeks of talking about attacks that hit some Powers' systems (Yuri Grom and Jerome Archer, most of all, but also Zemina Torval and Archon Delaine). The one that hit Sol (>1.7 million CPs of undermining) in a previous Cycle triggered maximum alert at FDEVs...

Title. How or why this isnt the case, is beyond me. If I pirate cargo, I should be able to sell it in archon space for reinforcement merits or acquisition merits or both. (Both preferred) We get these nice hauling CGs where some form of piracy actually can take place, and then I get the cargo...

Ahoy Crew! Another quiet week, maybe even quieter than the one before, since there wasn't even a new CG… but a new one just started this week in two different systems Winiana and Apura (spread by an internal dispute in the Alliance, between the prime minister Mahon and the councillor Kaine). A...

Thanks to a recent update of player journals containing powerplay standings, Inara got an update with detailed information on the system's reinforcement and undermining points. My addition is in the form of a Kaggle notebook that scrapes data from Inara and runs a simple analysis...

Greetings fellow Commanders and hopefully Devs that may see this thread. I come to you today as part of a holy crusade to get the Power Play Conflict Zones, as well as the BGS in general, fixed to the point of playability once more. I mention both of these things together because from my own...

The title says it all (or not). I understand that Powers do not own settlements, and as such there cannot be Power Conflict Zones where the two conflicting Powers are fighting each other. On the other hand, one can undermine a system by raiding any settlements and killing everybody (don't...

Ahoy Crew! Soon or later FDEV would have had to fix something for the Powerplay, but that it decided to do so with a full broadside of changes was a surprise. These changes come with a new release of Trailblazers, which actually includes a lot of other updates/fixes and improvements too... (for...

Ahoy Crew! Was the one that just ended a "quiet" week? Well... so and so, as not much happened in the news. The CG in Dhan continued for the whole week (it closes today), acting as a background for a bit of PvP action. At this point, all that we/players have to do is to wait for the next...

Good afternoon, Would it be possible to add a note on each of the Powerplay commodities offered for pickup at the Power Contact with which system type they're intended for? At present, I am unable to tell the difference between Archon Delaine's Kumo Contraband Package, Marked Slaves and...

Ahoy Crew! As anticipated last week, Powerplay data has finally been inserted into the journal and therefore readable by external applications (e.g. EDMC) and available in an aggregated/organized form on platforms such as Inara.cz . As it also happened (and happens) for BGS or trading, data...

The operation was silent. Precise. Ruthless. As the dust settles in Paesi, it is the Raiders of Tortuga who emerge from the shadows - victorious. With surgical precision, they struck the heart of Imperial infrastructure, slipping in and out before the enemy knew what hit them. The goal: secure...

Ahoy Crew! Over the course of the Cycle it would seem that Colonisation activities have stabilized somewhat. The systems hosting the Trailblazer megaships continue to be well trafficked (pirates from the Crew had some fun following haulers' wakes to rob some cargo). Archon Delaine thanks for...

I want to fight in pp combat zones to grind merits - but I can't seem to find powerplay combat zones with anyone in them. I find plenty of them, and I'm specifically going to the ones with the power I'm pledged to in contested acquisition systems - but they've been empty both nights I've tried...

One of my weekly mission is to gain about 100,000 of bounty in one system. I accumulated over 900,000 woth of bounty in that system and it doesnt count that much, only 30,000. Any thoughts?

TL;DR reaching +100% exploration bonus requires immense amount of exploration Below is a simple calculation done to estimate how much exploration needs to be done in order to begin ripping benefits from faction-specific bonus for explroation rewards. Idea is simple: you complete initial...

I am trying to complete the initial Powerplay assignment for rescuing escape pods in Reinforcing systems. I am pledged to Nakato Kaine and working the assignment in her home stronghold system system. I have collected pods from Power wreckage sites and turned them in to the power contact at the...

I don't understand enough about Powerplay but I am interested in the +100% bounty payouts and -30% ship weapon costs perks now available through Powerplay 2.0. This is the system (A) that I live in: I have found a nearby system (B) for Bounty Hunting missions: Q. What happens if I pledge...

Supposed to sell 8 rare goods to Daramo for weekly powerplay assignment. None show in the commodities market and the black market contact lists them all as illegal. Selling on black market isn't counting towards assignment progress. Same at other stations I checked in system, logging didn't...

Ahoy Crew! We open our usual end-of-Cycle report with some, let's say, "organizational" news. The Tortuga Discord is [finally] up and running, so thanks to the Crimson Privateers for the hosting and for the resources they have dedicated to Archon Delaine's and Kumo Crew powerplay activities...

And with no way around that. If you mine goods in open, then transport them in private, they no longer count - at least towards control points. Same with trading goods etc.. You'll solve a lot of problems by doing this.

Greetings and Salutations! Let me to be the first to announce, that, not to be outdone by Kumo or Winters, ADC has its own coup! Mongoose is on the loose! Who gave me the keys, you say? … Actually … hmm that’s strange… there are no keys?!!? Oh Noes! Your friendly neighborhood Mongoose is locked...

Ahoy Crew! Unfortunately there are no seas to sail in Elite; Dangerous, and therefore no islands either. Tortuga exists, not as a geographic location where pirates and scoundrels can take refuge and relax, but as the venue from which these posts, along with releases and updates regarding the...

Pledged to ALD. This week assignments include delivering biological samples to any vista genomic outlet in Hunapel. I delivered so far more than 70mil worth of biological samples to a vista genomic outlet in Hunapel (Russel Ring station), but the assignment is still active as not completed...

Let's talk trading. Bought Semiconductors for 645pr unit. 788 tons = 508,260 credit cost Sold Semiconductors for 1,445pr unit. 788 tons = 1,137,872 credits sold Profit = 629,612 credits. Profit margin = more than 55.33% Total merits = 164 merits. 164 merits divided by 4 is 41 Control...

Have excess materials from care packages that are already collected in one package instead of taking up the same amount of space for something like 5 lead, I am not even at powerplay rank 100 yet, and I still have tons of care packages I can't collected as I maxed them out. Have a button to...

Hi everyone, is it normal that the merits from exobiology haven't been reactivated yet, even after more than a month since the new powerplay update? Have they forgotten about them? I love this game but it's unbelievable that there's always something missing or broken after months and months of...

I'm trying to reinforce a system that is exploited in this cycle (however, its current cycle progress shows it has, or will, move to fortified.) As this is for ALD I'm looking for Garrison Supplies in Stronghold and Fortified systems that are linked to it via a dotted purple line in the...

In Powerplay 2.0, one of the levers to acquire or reinforce a system is to trade for at least 40% profit. At the start of Powerplay 2.0, this lever was very overtuned and thus quickly disabled before returning with a much lower merit rate. Unfortunately the new formula behind this lever is...

With the news that some merit earning methods being suspended again. I think there is an overlooked issue with powerplay that needs addressing. PS: I know this suspension is about fixing exploits too, which is obviously a needed fix. But this post will focus on something else. To me it seems...

Stronghold Carriers seem to be almost comedically weak. I was watching this video , and as you can see, it only takes one pacifier shot to kill them. That makes them almost impossible to defend, as anyone can just fly around blowing them all up in rapid succession. This got me thinking about...

Кто-нибудь разобрался как и где выполнять одиссейные ( в рамках пп ) миссии ? В чём вопрос : Есть миссия по добыче секретных данных в Reinforcement System в задании написано в своих системах , тут-же ниже ,что в системах конкурентов ,это как ? Второе я не очень понимаю , если в своих , зачем...