I thought about it, but unfortunately it's very luck dependent so one race wouldn't be too informative. You'd need to calculate across dozens!
Elite Dangerous | Ascendancy Update 1 - Thursday 21st November
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I thought about it, but unfortunately it's very luck dependent so one race wouldn't be too informative. You'd need to calculate across dozens!
Because explorers need to research how space amoeba react to being shot with Concord Cannons to complete their codex entries!Why would powers in constant conflict with one another give any merits for cartography data of an irrelevant system 30K Lys away anyway?
Can this review please also include Pranav Antal and Li Yong-Rui regards the somewhat strong nuking of merits for exploration and exobiology. It seems excessive to simultaneously neuter merit gain and also have then set a date of effect. The date is fine, and already baked in, boosting merits back up to a more contextually relevant level (to make exploration and bio a valid and reasonable method to gain merits) would be appreciated.
If the goal is to diversify what commanders can do, then encouraging people to return to exploration rather than the focus on "excessive" actions, would be a great start.
A stick works better with a carrot.
Thanks.
Frontier has intentionally included exploration along with numerous other activities into powerplay. There are two powers specifically focused on this. On the contrary, if you are a galactic power and wish to spread influence, say via missionary actions and colonisation, knowing what is out there might be pivotal to such goals.
Or you can just arbitrarily decide what everyone else should be doing, based on biases that don't make a whole lot of sense.
- Delaine: gains extra merits for smuggling
- Antal: NOPE
- Also Delaine and Antal: are neighbors
- Me, pledged to Delaine:
you can still continue to gain merits and rank up after loyalty 100. I don't see a problem with giving players better access to goodies while also motivating them to keep playing.
Right, so that smuggling is better than any other possible trade bonus and you can abandon transport missions if trade/smuggling gets back to acceptable merit amounts >_>
And let's avoid mentioning the part where you can pirate a friendly with oh idk rares maybe
FDev, please give us rank 100 immediately so we can stop grinding and start playing.
Stop - the - grind! Stop - the - grind!
(And all modules please)
Stop - the - grind! Stop - the - grind!
(And all modules please)
My proposition would be to have 2 sort of unlocks along the rank system:
The first unlock early on would be your superpower's particular module "We grant you access to our module"
A second unlock later on (but not too late) would unlock all the other power's modules at once. Something like "We grant you access to other power's modules we've secured"
As to which ranks these would be unlocked, depends on where the merit balance is planned to be. As it is with current activities, I'd say Ranks 25 and Rank 50.
So every activity is nerfed, and then they reduce the the effort for earning rank...
But the ammount of control point to conquiert /reinforce system stay way to much hight ! esspecialy because there is no notification for control point earn per action. We made lot of test and we can says that control point are not link to merits point. It would be nice to also have a notification et some activities resume somewhere to track how much point we made per reinforment activit to acknowledge if we are performing well or not.
But the ammount of control point to conquiert /reinforce system stay way to much hight ! esspecialy because there is no notification for control point earn per action. We made lot of test and we can says that control point are not link to merits point. It would be nice to also have a notification et some activities resume somewhere to track how much point we made per reinforment activit to acknowledge if we are performing well or not.
I expect for data already gathered to be nullified merits/wise, or you will still enforce the cheaters that abused the bug.
Yes I noticed the smiley face, so I am assuming some level of sarcasm here.
However in my opinion, any science and tech discoveries would be helpful in standing or inf to the power at the highest level. They are making scientific first discoveries. These discoveries could be dark matter, nuclear fusion or fission break throughs, etc in those systems. We are not told the details but yeah, anything scientific or cultural related is a leap in role playing.
And who knows maybe those first discoveries could cure all disease and wars, but if stolen by the darker, seedier powers could make amazing, and all powerful new weapons to take over the galaxy with...
And keep grinding. I am only lvl 13, so I got a long ways to go yet
Yea that's true, and that's why you're rewarded with an exorbitant amount of credits (for salad data anyway). But why merits?
And I'm not talking about merits on a personal level or on a power level, globally. That's okay, after all it was them, not their enemies, whom you sold your data. But how does dropping a large amount of cartography data help your power fortify any specific system against undermining attempts, for example?
Imagine the work of a power contact in a fortified system:
"What have you got, CMDR?"
"Killed 10 undermining ships"
"Well done, here's your merits. And you?"
"Brought a Cutter load of battle weapons."
"Awesome. What about you?"
"Mined some ores for you guys."
"We are truly grateful. And you, CMDR?"
"No need to worry anymore, the cavalry has arrived. I've just returned from a 2-year trip to Beagle point. Look at the map of this red dwarf system 30000 Lys away, it has 2 gas giants with 8 moons. That'll show them!"
@Paul_Crowther
I second this question.
I appreciate that Powerplay 2.0 is the golden child at the moment, but this is still pretty game breaking for many players, from those looking to buy, and those players with 100's of hours worth of resoruce tied up in a system that is broken and cannot make credits from it.
Great to finally see changes but:
I see nothing for doing crimes being buffed- given how they are punished in triplicate (bounty, notoriety, and local rep) you have done nothing to address this, nor refine / tell us how PP C+P actually melds with the BGS C+P.
Even more laughably you have held Powerplay 2s NPC difficulty worse than Powerplay 1s brain dead NPCS- I thought strongholds were supposed to live up to its namesake and actually be a challenge to be in? All you have done is lower the reward for what is essentially killing fruitflies instead of perhaps, changing SLFs to something that can fight back....so really I'm disappointed at how little has actually been changed.
Also:
I think it's wrong for exobiology to be included in Powerplay 2.0. People are out there collecting exobiology data on a large scale over several weeks. Then you come back to the bubble, give it away and suddenly you are in the power play of your power at rank 100. Anyone who does exobiology already has the advantage of earning several billion. No other way of playing (trading, mining, bounty hunting) earns you more and doesn't even come close to the rewards of exobiology. The player out there pursuing exobiology in the vast universe is not exposed to the dangers that other players in the bubble are. Some players did exactly that at the beginning of Powerplay 2.0 (submitted exobiology data) and were suddenly way above rank 100. That's roughly compared to the other players in the bubble. I hope that exobiology is no longer included in Powerplay 2.0.
...and roughly a hundred of enemy commanders have been destroyed by our agents in our territories last cycle.
It would be nice as well to have PP NPCs that can actually worry people in the gaps inbetween. Right now I'm more worried about them drooling on my shoes.
No worries matey, at the moment (unless something has changed in the update notes) black markets don't give merits at all.
- Delaine: gains extra merits for smuggling
- Antal: NOPE
- Also Delaine and Antal: are neighbors
- Me, pledged to Delaine:
We have a ridiculous +30% increase in BM prices (at rank 100) which is also useless as BM prices are depressed.
YOU MENTIONED HIPPIES? GO AND KILL'EM ALL, THAT'S WHERE WE EXCEL FOR THE ARCHON!!!
It is when you're in a Keelback
And yes, I won that fight - thank you.That bait the SLF fighter escort is well documented, you have to lure the SLFs away from the carriers so you can farm them. Let's not pretend it's a Star Wars pew-pew scene amidst carriers firing their big guns.
“Awesome! our latest star maps including potential expansion locations and mining hotspots will not only help our research teams gain an edge over our rivals, but also help us attract more allies who are interested in galactic real-estate!”