Elite Dangerous | Powerplay 2.0 Update
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That's what I plan on doing, the next GW2 story chapter was released yesterday.So,.....still no word on how FDev is going to solve all of this PP 2.0 stuff..... time to play something else.
I don't know about other powers, but 50k wouldn't get you near top 10 in at least one of them. 400k plus would be needed for 10th.
Other commentors have answered your whole list now I think.
I'd just like to signpost that @Nowski is maintaining a thread over here in the Powerplay subforum which is where the majority of these answers were first discussed. (If anyone jumps to this thread but wants to discuss what FDev do next, please keep that discussion on the FDev thread here, Nowski's thread is for Nowski to collate facts!)
With tea.
Top 10 is not the same thing as top 10%.
Indeed, seems I misread that, although I doubt 50k would get you into the top 10% either to be fair. More likely when it calms down and people have given up.
I never bothered to look it up, but if anyone, @Ian Doncaster would know the merit thresholds of each category. He is probably the single most reliable source of that kind of information on this forum.
Worked for me last week (Kaine) and I think I had a bit of slack.
It's quite possible that Aisling as a power with a player base larger than the smallest five put together (according to Inara estimates) has slightly higher thresholds there, though probably not by all that much.
Annoying they don't allow you to see each powers leader board in some way really.
The way I look at is that more players generally effectively lowers the thresholds for the top spots since more players can be in the top 10%.
Neither on-foot nor ship-based security becoming hostile if you are scanned while carrying stolen goods (that came from a non-Delaine system?) whilst pledged to Delaine and in a Delaine controlled system would make sense.
You can transfer to carrier, then move carrier to target system and unload in bulk.
All it really does is lower the short tasks, you still need the commodity to reset (10 m) I chained 3 systems to do this, spent the week loading and an hour unloading getting a bit over 20k merits.
Where without carrier my loop was making around 3k merits per 30-35 minutes.
I enjoyed the carrier version more and the time I spent was about the same for the same level of reward.
Ok, I get it, suspend these overly exploited ways to earn credits. I just ask you to PLEASE get this sorted and have these methods back online ASAP. It shouldn't be a difficult fix, surely?
Depends on how they plan to do that. I'm hoping for a more comprehensive overhaul than just tweaking a few numbers. That will take time. Best would be a full reboot of the whole thing, once the problems are sorted.
FDev just need to preserve the data on CMDRs current merits (adjusted for whatever they are currently reviewing as an exploit), which should be simple enough as it already forms part of the "save" file.
They could then rollback the update. Fix the issues. Continue to deliberate on what was and was not overgeared. Update the save files. Communicate in detail with the community. Re-implement the update both bug and exploit free, with balanced merits and a projected how long it will take to get to 100.
They could do that, but I doubt they will.
As a AD supporter, 40k got me in top 25% last and this week. The end of the top 10 had over 400k. Most of it seems like rare good and pod collection, AD has a ton of haulers who are used to years of hauling for PP 1.0
Options for balance that make sense to me.
- Increase level requirements (like a general increase every 5 levels or so by like 500 - 1000 per level)
- Require missions to gain level (or every 5 levels)
- merit gain greater then merits for next level is diminished. like 1 level worth is 100%, 2nd level is 98%, 3rd level is 95%, 4th level is 90%, 5th level is 80% etc. UNTIL next tick then reset.
- reset missions daily, have these give higher rewards and lower rewards from "general tasks" to be balanced with each other. While still being able to "farm" with skill. (not lobby switching)
- higher risk = higher reward. allow more smuggling style missions, hacking missions, and combat missions. (be the x ship, defend the x ship or kill the x ship.)
But we’re not fighting a war. We’re engaged with a “hearts and minds” campaign, convincing the locals that our Power has their best interests in mind. Alternatively, we’re engaged in terrorism, attacking civilian (not military) targets to undermine support for another Power.
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