merits calculation....example

The merit earning system, as it seems is INTENDED to work is not realistic at all. Assuming you pay 100 million to buy your first 10,000 merits: In essence, that would mean for those buying their upkeep, the entire 50 million in weekly earnings would have to be dumped to merits, plus some if the 2nd contribution was half the first and continuing on from there:

By FD's formula:

week1: 10,000 = 10,000
week2: 5000 + 5000 = 10000
week3: 2500 + 2500 + 5000 = 10000
week4: 1250 + 1250 + 2500 + 5000 = 10000
week5_ 625 + 1250 + 2500 + 5000 = 9375
week6: 625 + 1250 + 2500 + 5000 = 9375
etc....


The way it CURRENTLY stands isn't much better, but the contribution fluctuates from 5000 merits down to 3000 merits and back up (roughly). (depending on if your 2nd contribution week was 2500 or 5000 merits).

Now, assuming you DON'T want to buy your merits, then making your way up to and maintaining 10000 merits IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!
 
Have you considered that you should not be able to buy money os therefore it is working as intended.
3334 is the required per week to maintain 10,000 as far as I know.

Trade merit cargo normally and do combat.
 
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The merit earning system, as it seems is INTENDED to work is not realistic at all. Assuming you pay 100 million to buy your first 10,000 merits: In essence, that would mean for those buying their upkeep, the entire 50 million in weekly earnings would have to be dumped to merits, plus some if the 2nd contribution was half the first and continuing on from there:

By FD's formula:

week1: 10,000 = 10,000
week2: 5000 + 5000 = 10000
week3: 2500 + 2500 + 5000 = 10000
week4: 1250 + 1250 + 2500 + 5000 = 10000
week5_ 625 + 1250 + 2500 + 5000 = 9375
week6: 625 + 1250 + 2500 + 5000 = 9375
etc....


The way it CURRENTLY stands isn't much better, but the contribution fluctuates from 5000 merits down to 3000 merits and back up (roughly). (depending on if your 2nd contribution week was 2500 or 5000 merits).

Now, assuming you DON'T want to buy your merits, then making your way up to and maintaining 10000 merits IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!

do a search, your math is wrong.

First, you're not going to pay for all the merits, factor in the round trip times and the free ones, that's a HUGE difference.

Next, it's earned merit decay, starting after one full calendar week.

For example, if you earn 5k merits a week
Week 1: 5k earned, 0 carried over = 5k merits total
Week 2: 5k earned, 5k carried over = 10k merits total
Week 3: 5k earned, 5k carried over from week 2, 2500 carried over from week 1 = 12500 total
week 4: 5k earned, 5k carried from week 3, 2500 from week 2, 1250 from week 1 = 13750 total
week 5: 5k earned, 5k from week 4, 2500 from week 3, 1250 from week 2, no more from week 1 = 13750 total.

anyway, TLDR: weekly earned x 2.75 is total value approached.

Also, undermining kills are 15 merits a pop, it's simple as hell to farm 300+ an hour at least.
 
do a search, your math is wrong.

First, you're not going to pay for all the merits, factor in the round trip times and the free ones, that's a HUGE difference.

Next, it's earned merit decay, starting after one full calendar week.

For example, if you earn 5k merits a week
Week 1: 5k earned, 0 carried over = 5k merits total
Week 2: 5k earned, 5k carried over = 10k merits total
Week 3: 5k earned, 5k carried over from week 2, 2500 carried over from week 1 = 12500 total
week 4: 5k earned, 5k carried from week 3, 2500 from week 2, 1250 from week 1 = 13750 total
week 5: 5k earned, 5k from week 4, 2500 from week 3, 1250 from week 2, no more from week 1 = 13750 total.

anyway, TLDR: weekly earned x 2.75 is total value approached.

Also, undermining kills are 15 merits a pop, it's simple as hell to farm 300+ an hour at least.

Your math is based on the currently broken system, which is not how it is supposed to work according to FD. The merits you earn this week are immediately halved next week. This will certainly be fixed. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=163495

And killing enemy ships for 15 each as a sole way of reasonably getting up there is not a good alternative.
 
Your math is based on the currently broken system, which is not how it is supposed to work according to FD. The merits you earn this week are immediately halved next week. This will certainly be fixed. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=163495

And killing enemy ships for 15 each as a sole way of reasonably getting up there is not a good alternative.

not surprised that their math is wrong, but that's how it is and has been for ...4 or 5 weeks now?

and killing ships, especially for those who don't have a type 9 or conda is perfectly good for earning merits. at this current rate, it's 35 ships interdicted and killed undermining per day to get and maintain rating 5 (for practically no cost), as opposed to (let's say a type 7, buying merits, 15 minute round trip, 200 merits one way, plus 32 cargo at 1k profit per ton, then 232 cargo at 1k profit per ton back...just for simplicity and 'best case' scenario, and we'll say you're getting 20 free commodities, which seems more than reasonable for a mild effort previous).

30 minute increments means 20 free commodities, and 380 bought commodities, so 3,800,000 deficit every half hour, or 7,600,000 every hour and a total of 800 merits. add in 232x2 and 32x2 for 528 regular commodities at 1k per ton for 528k profit, a net loss of 7,072,000 per hour. (we'll just call it 7 mil).

going by the same 3636 merits per week (with the bunk math that FD is currently using) to get and maintain rating 5, that's 4.6 (rounded up) hours, or 32,200,000 credits per week invested.
getting the same 3636 merits per week by combat means roughly (350 merits an hour is my lowest average in a vulture, which is about type 7 quality) 10.4 hours at a cost of about 0. so, there's a 5.8 hour difference in amount worked for a 32,200,000 credit cost, or 5,550,000 credits earned per hour, which, if you have a type 7 or vulture, you're most likely not making reliably.


Now, if you have a smaller trader ship, the numbers skew even more in favor of interdiction as the primary source of merit income.
 
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