Powerplay Merit Decay

[Markoz]

I lost more than 50% of my merits at the end of the last cycle! I'm done with Power Play, it was an waste of my time, effort, and money!

 

[Silverst]

I lost more than 50% of my merits at the end of the last cycle! I'm done with Power Play, it was an waste of my time, effort, and money!

What's going on FD, I've been robbed?:S

Here is a visualisation of what happened to you, as it has been explained in previous posts;

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Merits	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7
Gained week 1	10000	5000	2500	1250	0	0	0
Gained week 2		5000	2500	1250	625	0	0
Gained week 3			5000	2500	1250	625	0
Gained week 4				5000	2500	1250	625
Gained week 5					5000	2500	1250
Gained week 6						5000	2500
Carried over		5000	5000	5000	4375	4375	4375
Total	10000	10000	10000	10000	9375	9375	9375

Once you've hit the end of Week 4 suddenly only 4375 merits got carried over (or a bit more if you didn't reach rank 5 from scratch). That's because the merits you earned during that first week that got you to rank 5 stopped being carried over (cf what markkuk said on the first reply).

Here is now the visualisation of what people have been advising in the thread, which is getting 5334 merits a week (in the example I'm using 5336, but that is just for the sake of having whole numbers );

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Merits	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7
Gained week 1	10000	5000	2500	1250	0	0	0
Gained week 2		5336	2668	1334	667	0	0
Gained week 3			5336	2668	1334	667	0
Gained week 4				5336	2668	1334	667
Gained week 5					5336	2668	1334
Gained week 6						5336	2668
Carried over		5000	5168	5252	4669	4669	4669
Total		10336	10504	10588	10005	10005

With 5334 you would get 10001 total instead of 10005, but you get the idea.

I'm guessing the reason behind this mechanic is to prevent players who abused a bug to gain lots of merits from staying at rank 5 indefinitely, without having the moderation team manually searching for them. But hey, I'm not the devs so my guess is as good as anyone's

 

[Jesters09]

Ah thanks for that, I thought I would get 5K carry over each week, dunno why, I just thought that's how it worked.

 

[akaliel]

Yeah the decay has a diminishing returns to it