log merits in the journal file

[minecrafter]

I'd like it if, every time you got merits, it logged the amount in a 'merits' event in the journal file.

I have checked, and merits are only sent once when you log in for the Powerplay event. This makes things like merit-per-hour calculators impossible without using image-to-text, which is slow, has a significant performance hit, and can make mistakes, or manually figuring out how many merits each event gives you, which isn't feasible.

 

[VampyreGTX]

yes please! I second this!

 

[CMDR Death By Pain]

With how important the journal logs are to the community at large, it really seems like a serious oversight that merits are not logged.

 

[August Lagrange]

I was looking at this myself. I wanted to be able to automatically plug the merits we make into our spreadsheets, but without this it's impossible. In PP1 we had this through events for PowerPlay commodities and other things (although it was limited). Even through the philosophy of "log only the things that directly involve the player" this qualifies.

 

[CMDR_Brantford of FLC]

I think more then just this should be in the logfiles - ie what the totals are for merits on each side if they're working on systems for or against (such as what old PP had - those were in the logfiles)

 

[minecrafter]

I feel like Frontier have all but forgotten about the journal file tbh

 

[Kira Goto]

I feel like Frontier have all but forgotten about the journal file tbh

They added (more) detailed information on Thargoid War progression for its various system states allowing some inferring to be done on the value of each action, so not quite.

They could probably have added this one right off the bad, though.