Does FDev have any plan to reinstate search and rescue?

Mo Mo

Mo Mo
Search and rescue activities produce zero merit since the 'rebalancing' a couple of weeks ago.

As an Aisling pledged Cmdr, I get a bonus for doing search and rescue work - currently this is completely pointless.

So, will S&R be reinstated any time soon? If not, then FDev needs to change Aisling's bonus lever to something else, and soon.

Some comment/feedback from the dev on this would be nice.
 

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Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Mo Mo said:
As an Aisling pledged Cmdr, I get a bonus for doing search and rescue work - currently this is completely pointless.
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Something to note here is that a lot of Power's bonuses don't affect merit earning - all the trade-good related ones, for example, give a bonus voucher (which doesn't give merits) rather than directly affecting the sale price (which would). Similarly I think the bounty ones affect the payout at cash in (which doesn't give merits) rather than the amount received in space (which does). Obviously all the "weapons are cheaper" / "you don't get bounties" / "free refuelling" ones aren't good for extra merits either.

The S&R bonus is somewhat unusual in that it did also give bonus merits, though whether it was supposed to I'm not certain.

The S&R bonus does also apply to Wreckage Components - though for some reason not Black Boxes - which come under the "Salvage" action rather than the "Rescue" action. So you can still get substantial bonus merits for those.


(As someone who really liked just hopping around the "Power Wreckage" signal sources and who also gets a S&R bonus from Kaine, yes, I hope they fix this soon too)
 

zimms

zimms
I agree that it looks like Frontier doesn't intend the bonuses to also increase merit rewards.
 

Angus McSix

Angus McSix
Mo Mo said:
So, will S&R be reinstated any time soon? If not, then FDev needs to change Aisling's bonus lever to something else, and soon.

Some comment/feedback from the dev on this would be nice.
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No. FDev doesn't care.

I agree that some comment/feedback would be nice, but it's been 4 weeks since they turned it off. Given FDev's track record, I assume it's never coming back.

Which is a damn shame, because wrecks make up over 80% of the powerplay signal sources I see wherever I go.
 

Angus McSix

Angus McSix
Maintenance is only 40-60 minutes this week, so it stands to reason that Search and Rescue of escape pods will still not yield merit rewards.

Settlement Data exploit: Fixed in one cycle.
Escape Pod exploit: No progress after five weeks
Disappointment level: High
Surprise level: None.
 
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