I recently started actually contributing to powerplay. I think when we're expanding I can generally make 300 merits an hour in crime sweeps for A Lavigny-Duval (bask in her greatness). Obviously people with more resources at their disposal can do this faster. I saw a report of an anaconda doing it in 9 hours
Obviously if there are no crime sweeps than I can currently make 30 merits per hour if I'm strict with my timings, or more if I spend a hilariously imbalanced amount of money
Now, some rough maths: that means for me:
33.3 hours to reach rating 5, roughly 16 hours to stay there per week
5 hours to reach rating 4, roughly 2.5 hours a week to stay there
Now, I'd be pretty embarassed if I couldn't make 1 million an hour bounty hunting and as this is something I have to maintain on a weekly basis, I don't really see much point in doing it.
On top of that for being pledged I get interdicted far more often, meaning wasted bullets, potentially wasted repair work and worst of all, wasted time.
I'm considerably better off maintaining 100 merits as I can easily do this, and it makes my bounties considerably more valuable, even if Lavigny is doing poorly in powerplay.
The only reason I can see to do powerplay is some sort of role-playing based pride in your power, and to get the power specific gear.
Honestly, why bother going for higher ranks when this is such a waste of time?
Maybe the decay should be less
or the salary should be better
Or maybe maintaining ranking should give you an amount of XP in your empire/alliance/federation navy rank.
Anything, just please give me a reason to do it.
Obviously if there are no crime sweeps than I can currently make 30 merits per hour if I'm strict with my timings, or more if I spend a hilariously imbalanced amount of money
Now, some rough maths: that means for me:
33.3 hours to reach rating 5, roughly 16 hours to stay there per week
5 hours to reach rating 4, roughly 2.5 hours a week to stay there
Now, I'd be pretty embarassed if I couldn't make 1 million an hour bounty hunting and as this is something I have to maintain on a weekly basis, I don't really see much point in doing it.
On top of that for being pledged I get interdicted far more often, meaning wasted bullets, potentially wasted repair work and worst of all, wasted time.
I'm considerably better off maintaining 100 merits as I can easily do this, and it makes my bounties considerably more valuable, even if Lavigny is doing poorly in powerplay.
The only reason I can see to do powerplay is some sort of role-playing based pride in your power, and to get the power specific gear.
Honestly, why bother going for higher ranks when this is such a waste of time?
Maybe the decay should be less
or the salary should be better
Or maybe maintaining ranking should give you an amount of XP in your empire/alliance/federation navy rank.
Anything, just please give me a reason to do it.
