Has anything changed in the last patch regarding Merit gain?

[Arknell]

Hi! I've been inactive for six months and just got into the game again, I am loving the new ships. I am trying to quickly get 750 merits for rank 3 with Aisling to get prisms, but I am not sure I am doing it right. I heard a year ago that you should go to an enemy-allied system (fed, alliance, or independent), find a compromised nav beacon, and shoot wanted ships that are locally affiliated (meaning they are by association fed or alliance). Is this not a good way to quickly get merits? Do wanted ships give no merits at all anymore?

Someone said you can get 30 merits per kill if you fight in an enemy anarchy system. That might be true but no anarchy system has comp nav beacons, so finding targets there takes longer for me.

Does anyone have any suggestion for a faster Aisling merit gain than hugging CNBs? Do I need to get a FSD interdictor and hunt fed/alliance Clean cargo transports? Do I go into a CZ? HazRES?

Thankful for tips.

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

first - you should ask that in the powerplay section

i think you missunderstood what you need to shoot.
every power spawns two different npcs that count for grinding merits. a combat and a cargo specced version

for example, for mahon you will find ships called "Alliance Enforcer", in LYR "Sirius Defender", etc.
they are easy to find and identify.

just shoot down the right ones in their respective control systems and cash in the vouchers.