How do I "play the power?"

[Crescendo]

I guess I'm going about this wrong. I've been on a hiatus (Eurotucking...) because I wasn't sure how PP was going to pan out but I've been missing my space fix and decided to just go ahead and pledge Lavigny-Duval and go for it. I was interested in undermining the Kumo Crew so I flew out to Arawere and started undermining. The problem is that the controlling faction is Empire related and every time I blow up a Kumo Crew ship, my relation drops with the Empire. Should I not have picked a system that was close to reaching its undermining goal? Should I have picked a system not controlled by the Empire? I would really like to give PP a shot but I don't even know where to start.

 

[Zhang]

In Elite: Dangerous, you do not "play the power", the power plays you.

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But seriously, RTFM:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=152185

 

[Ben Ryder]

Play the game as you would normally and get credits, Dont worry about grinding merits at all. When you feel that you need them you can more or less by them. 1 merits works out at about 10000cr. Dont expect any big rewards. Just experiment and have some fun.

This link might help you

[h=2]Power Play - HOSTILE Explained and some other myths[/h]
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=159940&highlight=myths

 

[Daffan]

Kill defenseless npc ships for hours. Than get merits.

 

[Crescendo]

Thanks for the pleasant response. I may have not played much lately, but I have been reading the forum posts (and manuals..) Ben--I remember reading your post and that was what finally got me around to actually just jumping in the deep end. I guess I'll explore some of the other things I can do to help my faction and see what results. Either that or its back to trucking in my modded Peterbilt J/K ... I do soooo love this game though!