Elite Dangerous | Powerplay 2.0 Update

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PhoebiousZ

PhoebiousZ
Oskar Schwarz said:
Finally! You just need to check the leaderboards of some powers that have merit bonuses for rare goods trading and settlement data deliveries.

And please, try to maintain a good balance of all merit sources. Some powers, like Li Yong Rui and Archon Delaine, are gaining massive amounts of merits from trading rares — just look at their leaderboards from previous cycles, it's insane. Meanwhile, Pranav Antal's 'bonuses' for exploration and exobiology data are currently nerfed to the bare minimum, making competition between powers extremely unbalanced and flawed. You could try to boost other merit sources to match the current meta.

I understand the idea that each power should have a boost in a certain playstyle aligned with their ethos and lore, for example, trading for LYR (that's why they would have bonus in rare goods trading). However, in practice, the imbalance in merits gained from each activity — which also makes some of them the meta and other useless and non-competitive — has led to a very unfair competition.
Some powers don’t have any activity that could be considered meta for merit gaining. In my opinion, there should not be any kind of meta for merit gaining, allowing players to support their power in the way they prefer.
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There you are. I was wondering when you will step forward and mention LYR for massive amounts of merits. Maybe you should be more careful when selecting which power to support.
 

SubitaNeo

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Paul_Crowther said:
This effects score and merits.
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That one, and similar "your past grind is now trash" updates, should be advertized some days before it is applied.

I know people who dedicated precious hours filling their carrier in order to deliver it in a future day all at once, to optimize gaming time and now they lost their few game hours available for them.
They should be compensated, they didn't exploited the game, it was told them to do so by one of the mandatory first weekly assignments.

It is not fair (and btw it does not regards me. I have no rare goods or plan to deliver power data or escape pods, I'm fine with combat, that should be a bit buffed, merit wise).
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Neestar said:
I'm sure @Ian Doncaster will correct me if i'm wrong here, but i don't believe your very 1st set of Weekly Assignments ( to unlock initial Ranks ) will reset/refresh upon the next cycle tick.
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I don't know.

I've seen reports from some players that they didn't bother to complete all of them, and got given rank 1 (or maybe more, depending on earnings) at the start of the next cycle anyway ... and from others that the incomplete ones were still there and they remained at rank 0.

(Either way you get to keep the merits and most of the early rank rewards aren't very interesting anyway, so not getting your rank until a little later probably isn't too bad in practice - it's the not having a way to tell people that that's going to be the bigger problem!)
 

Darrack

Darrack
CMDR_Brantford of FLC said:
You know what? If Frontier makes Powerplay Open-only (and removes the ability of players to block other players from instancing with them) then I say let em try to make as many merits as they want at the Stronghold Carriers farming SLF's.. At least PVP teams will then have the ability to stop them or slow them.
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Lets not turn this into another Hotel, we would have to get Hilbert involved.

O7
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
Ha ha! So just like exobiology maybe Frontier can let everybody keep their ranks but roll them back internally. So if you are currently rank 42 it will take you a decade to catch up and reach rank 43.

:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 

Da_Enderdragon

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Ruthless4645 said:
Power Play 2.0 is already 3 weeks old and to this day remains a bug riddled mess that so far has had...

1. Exploration data for merits suspended.
2. Exobiology data for merits suspended.
3. Rares trading for merits suspended.
4. And will most likely soon have the kill spamming of SLF's at opposition Stronghold ships suspended.

Yet no bug fixes or patches have been seen so far, not really a good look. Unfortunately PP2.0 is also ruining the game play of players that are not even remotely interested in playing it.
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explo and exobio are no longer suspended, just nerfed into the ground.

which is honestly not much better
 
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