How is merit decay going to change next week?

[Polusk]

How is it possible to consider it as positive mecanism?
I'm not trying to troll. I would appreciate to share thoughts about it, understand the other side.

For me it is just breaking part of the game.
This game tries to be immersive. How could it be with:
- a magical day in the week where all our efforts are judged and recomputed by our lovely power?
- A power forgetting all your involvement just because you had a dead PC, or holidays, travel for work or any IRL good/bad events?!

I would understand that -in game- spending time in something else than helping our power would be not appreciated by it. But IRL?! That's not fair, that's not immersive.

At the end, PowerPlay looks like another game in addition with ED.
ED has minor factions, and major factions.
But powerplay doesn't care about this political layer. It prefers to add its own layer "Powers". And because it doesn't try to be immersive at all, instead of opening the "geopolitic" layer in the galaxy map, you open the "powerplayyy". (And I will not talk about its complex rules based on CC, merits, fast-tracking -_-, etc...)

Sorry for being so rough about PowerPlay, but I'm really so disappointed that Frontier made a such big effort on something which, for me.... is totally off topic. (as my bias from merits to powerplay judgment !)
My feeling is that they spend months for adding a lotto-like game, with nice pictures, on top of ED. Probably powerplay is a good lotto game...

But why is it in ED?

 

[Ant_Solo]

It isn't as far as I can see.

My carryover this morning is consistent with half of last week (correct) plus half of two weeks ago (should be a quarter) plus a quarter of three weeks ago (should be an eighth).

That would work out at 4445 per week if not fixed properly next week.

FDEV claim it is working as intended:

Hi guys,
I'd just like to clarify this morning's merit decay all looks to be working as intended.
Previous weeks decay appeared to occasionally do something a little odd but everything this morning seems absolutely fine - if you have any questions about how the Powerplay system works, why your merits are the way they are, or why a system won't have been taken then I'll be around most of the day.
Design questions or suggestions are welcome but I won't be able to give definitive answers on those.
CMDR Vanguard

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3dhgx3/powerplay_tick_16072015/

 

[Quineloe]

Then don't grind? I don't understand. I don't enjoy grinding merits and I don't care for the perks, so I don't do it. There's plenty of other stuff that I can do for fun within the scope of powerplay, and I'm sure you can find something too.
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It begins with getting off the bash train and pulling away from the herd mentality.
Sure there's lots wrong with powerplay. Doesn't mean there's not fun to be had though.

Yeah, plenty of people are enjoying murdering other players for no reason other than them being pledged to the "wrong" power.

 

[Spider95]

I thought i had this merit stuff figured out but this week has totally baffled me.

My last 4 weeks (starting with this past week first) merit earnings were: 1861, 1105, 2169 and 1755.

If the formula is working as intended (100%, 50%, 25%, 12.5%), that should mean i carried over 3175?

What I got was 2062 ... how?

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