Mining for Merits not working anymore?

Eduard_Balman

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Until yesterday i was mining void opals and selling them for merits in system. I was selling them to market 3 at a time and each time i got a bunch of merits until suddenly... no more merits. Today i tried again but it still doesn't give me any merits. Is there a cap on the amount of merits you can get per day? I leveled up 5 ranks. Is there a cap on the amount of ranks you can get per day?
BTW. The demand for void opals is still high in system.
 

Zador

Z
Has the state of the system changed? Is it still reinforcing for your power? Selling in same system depends on that system's state. AFAIK there's no cap but I've not done it recently. I've sold Platinum for merits when there's zero demand and still got 60000 merits for a full load - and for mined commodities there's no benefit of selling in small amounts, only when bought from a market.
 

ꝁestrel

ꝁestrel
SlickPBW said:
Selling them in small amounts, giving more merits than selling them all at once. That should make no difference for the same amount of mined commodities.
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That's so silly haha. I just sold it all at once and went 0-90 in rank pretty fast 🤷‍♂️ It was platinum mining though.
 

geoffrey.hdt

geoffrey.hdt
Do you really need to sell in small amount?
Have you checked and compared lately?
When I merit mined platinum, I found that selling 100 at a time was the same as smaller amount. More than that and there was a loss of merits.
I do not recall I had to do that for merit core mining.
 

Monk

Monk
Never tried doing that with small amounts...but I sold a bunch for reinforcement last night and jumped four ranks.
 

RikonGB

RikonGB
I quite often mine and sell as can mine semi afk while doing other things
I have tried the sell them singularly to compare merit rewards, but from what I have seen I get extra few merits when selling them in bulk over singularly
these are usually batches of 5, 10 or 20 as only mine then sell what found
 

Eduard_Balman

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madmongoose said:
If you had a full refinery and the refined goods get compiled into your cargo they won't be tagged properly and tend to wipe out merit generation. It's the only reason I can think of. Also don't sell in small batches the small batch thing is for large profits mined stuff can sell all at once.
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That might be it. I was selling in small batches because i had the suspicion that i was not getting the total amount of merits i should when i was selling all at once.
Also the system status changing while selling might have prevented me from selling the rest of the minerals for merits because they were mined during a different system state.
 

Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
For your perusal:

Powerplay - Is there a limit for mining merits?

Reinforcement system. Mining stuff and selling to a station in the same system. After about 150 tons i get no more merits, despite the station having thousands in demand. Is there a limit per day/week/cycle or something?
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk

Apart from this there is no difference if you sell one, three, ten or twenty units at a time. The exploit you might be thinking of was trading, IIRC.
 

Eduard_Balman

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ok, so i tried this again in a different system for a different super power.
i sold 12 units at a time of monazite to market, gaining about 1800 merits each time until the fourth time only gave me 300 merits.
Selling more monazite does not get me any more merits, even at a different station in system.
Market demand is high.
The system status did not change.
All ore was in my cargo hold, not in refinery.
 
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geoffrey.hdt

geoffrey.hdt
I am considering defecting to another Power, start from scratch and not abuse any of these high merits earning activity such as mining.
If only the weekly tasks were more fun/challenging (some are OK'ish, but some are absolutely mind dumbing or even worse, bugged).
 
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