Elite Dangerous | Powerplay 2.0 exploration and trade balance changes

Paul_Crowther

Senior Community Manager
Frontier
Greetings Commanders,

Following a review of the use of exploration data and trading on Powerplay 2.0 we will be making the following changes:
  • We will be temporarily disabling the merit and system score gains for Exploration and Genetic Samples data for Powerplay 2.0
  • You can continue to explore, gather and sell data but it will not count towards Powerplay 2.0
  • We have a deployed a fix to balance Powerplay 2.0 trading - Trades will no longer result in excessive merit generation. We will continue to monitor and adjust as needed.
  • We will be adjusting the Powerplay 2.0 ranks of Commanders who have excessively benefited from trading and exploration data
  • Once our review is complete we will announce when exploration data will be eligible to count towards Powerplay 2.0
We thank you for your patience.
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Paul_Crowther said:
Greetings Commanders,

Following a review of the use of exploration data and trading on Powerplay 2.0 we will be making the following changes:
  • We will be temporarily disabling the merit and system score gains for Exploration and Genetic Samples data for Powerplay 2.0
  • You can continue to explore, gather and sell data but it will not count towards Powerplay 2.0
  • We have a deployed a fix to balance Powerplay 2.0 trading - Trades will no longer result in excessive merit generation. We will continue to monitor and adjust as needed.
  • We will be adjusting the Powerplay 2.0 ranks of Commanders who have excessively benefited from trading and exploration data
  • Once our review is complete we will announce when exploration data will be eligible to count towards Powerplay 2.0
We thank you for your patience.
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Thanks for being so prompt- will other aspects such as these be looked at soon too?

Powerplay 2 balance: murder rewards far too low (committing crimes task)

In the past murdering NPCs has been nerfed several times, and this has leaked into Powerplay 2 where it is a stated goal for some powers (and I assume a general one for others). This frankly is a bit silly, because murder should be the best way to undermine and yet the rewards are not balanced...
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Archon (The King™) bonus balancing

1) Black market bonus needs upping considerably. The 30% that is in game now is really like 10% because BM take cuts beforehand. If you want crime to pay, then make that bonus really tempting considering the effort to get stolen goods in the first place. Put it up to something crazy like 200%...
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Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan
Paul_Crowther said:
Greetings Commanders,

Following a review of the use of exploration data and trading on Powerplay 2.0 we will be making the following changes:
  • We will be temporarily disabling the merit and system score gains for Exploration and Genetic Samples data for Powerplay 2.0
  • You can continue to explore, gather and sell data but it will not count towards Powerplay 2.0
  • We have a deployed a fix to balance Powerplay 2.0 trading - Trades will no longer result in excessive merit generation. We will continue to monitor and adjust as needed.
  • We will be adjusting the Powerplay 2.0 ranks of Commanders who have excessively benefited from trading and exploration data
  • Once our review is complete we will announce when exploration data will be eligible to count towards Powerplay 2.0
We thank you for your patience.
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I am waiting, because I am an explorer. But I will be back in the Bubble next month so I hope everything will works fine then. o7
 

Alconchloe

Alconchloe
Paul_Crowther said:
Greetings Commanders,

Following a review of the use of exploration data and trading on Powerplay 2.0 we will be making the following changes:
  • We will be temporarily disabling the merit and system score gains for Exploration and Genetic Samples data for Powerplay 2.0
  • You can continue to explore, gather and sell data but it will not count towards Powerplay 2.0
  • We have a deployed a fix to balance Powerplay 2.0 trading - Trades will no longer result in excessive merit generation. We will continue to monitor and adjust as needed.
  • We will be adjusting the Powerplay 2.0 ranks of Commanders who have excessively benefited from trading and exploration data
  • Once our review is complete we will announce when exploration data will be eligible to count towards Powerplay 2.0
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While I understand the need for corrective actions to the powerplay system as the system is implemented into the live servers, how much do you plan on adjusting these commanders(Me included), who spent 10+ hours of real life session time to farm these out not even knowing this was unintended?
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
darkthought said:
I don't think Fdev expected Fireytoad to drop 10 BILLION credits in one go.
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The thing is thats the conceptual limitation of using a commodity that you can store like data- you can have years and years of the stuff. Since PP is effort based, that data is effort, just time delayed. This is counter to most other commodities like cargo hauling, mining, shooting stuff which can't be stacked up like that.
 

Purrfect

Purrfect
I hope that exobiology comes back soon and with a realistic merit balance compared with say merits/hr of play as combat or trade, as exobiology is Antal's ONLY perk, and it's very situational for most players. It takes significantly longer to collect exobiology than to bounty hunt for the same amount of merits with the old merit calculations, so please don't nerf it into the ground, because otherwise, we're gonna continuously call for a re-balancing of perks, especially compared to those who have say 100% bounties as their perk.
 

Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan
Rubbernuke said:
The thing is thats the conceptual limitation of using a commodity that you can store like data- you can have years and years of the stuff. Since PP is effort based, that data is effort, just time delayed. This is counter to most other commodities like cargo hauling, mining, shooting stuff which can't be stacked up like that.
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no need to change core mechanics if you could only take a data after PP2.0 relase...
 
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