Merits vanished. Bug or feature?... confused!

[Dave_R]

I had about 200 merits to hand in a few days ago. Today I logged in and went to redeem them and they have vanished.

Is this because I missed handing them in before the powerplay cycle? Is this how its supposed to work or is this a bug?

If this is how its supposed to work I think its the last straw with power play. I play an hour so ever few days, which seems like a lot to me, but it seems the only way to make powerplay worthwhile is play every day for hours!

As a consequence of this I now have a bounty on my head which will last for another 5 days and nothing to show for it.

 

[Gedemon]

I had about 200 merits to hand in a few days ago. Today I logged in and went to redeem them and they have vanished.

Is this because I missed handing them in before the powerplay cycle? Is this how its supposed to work or is this a bug?

If this is how its supposed to work I think its the last straw with power play. I play an hour so ever few days, which seems like a lot to me, but it seems the only way to make powerplay worthwhile is play every day for hours!

As a consequence of this I now have a bounty on my head which will last for another 5 days and nothing to show for it.

I didn't believed it when someone told me it wasn't a bug, but yes it's a "feature".

I've stopped playing for a few weeks then...

No, I hadn't lose many merits that day, but I did lose something more important: faith in FD ability to make an immersive background sim...

How can they when they add this kind of "features" and act as if there is no problem with it ?

 

[h347h]

I had about 200 merits to hand in a few days ago. Today I logged in and went to redeem them and they have vanished.

Is this because I missed handing them in before the powerplay cycle? Is this how its supposed to work or is this a bug?

If this is how its supposed to work I think its the last straw with power play. I play an hour so ever few days, which seems like a lot to me, but it seems the only way to make powerplay worthwhile is play every day for hours!

As a consequence of this I now have a bounty on my head which will last for another 5 days and nothing to show for it.

In Galnet, it specifies to hand them in. Though obviously not every one looks at it. I would if I were you in the future.

 

[barneby]

In Galnet, it specifies to hand them in. Though obviously not every one looks at it. I would if I were you in the future.

pretty much this... its written even in galnet (and i think its in the manual as well)...
but its only logical... pp works in cycles... when a cycle ends everything is worked out as it stands by that time... nothing you did in the last cycle works for the following... its logical as well. example for mahon: he wants us to transport contracts and such. offers or agreements to be made change over time as the needs for them do as well and old ones are worth nothing anymore.

 

[Drink!]

I don't remember seeing anything that said it had to be turned in, but I just assumed if PP works on a cycle, it has a deadline.

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Every Thursday morning usually about 8am uk time the servers update applying minor changes, fixes and other stuff from the Devs. This has been the case since pretty much always.

Powerplay was built to update the same time and acts like a community goal so anything not submitted by the deadline becomes useless. It's mainly to stop people stacking powerplay merits for the next cycles.
Best advice is to cash in merits by Wed evening and stay in the faction HQ area to pick up your weekly salary.

 

[SirAdelaide]

Cash in on Wednesday, yes. But you don't need to be at HQ to get your salary. I got mine on Saturday from an unaligned outpost on the edge of civilisation.