im just delivering for merits,no rank is worth thousands of innocent courier lives
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The merit decay doesn't seem to be happening at anywhere near the 50% advertised, fortunately.
No-one is yet sure of exactly what the algorithm is but as a for-instance, someone was posting here the other day who had just over 10k merits, which dropped to around 8k when the week ticked.
No-one is yet sure of exactly what the algorithm is but as a for-instance, someone was posting here the other day who had just over 10k merits, which dropped to around 8k when the week ticked.
so far i think the merits you loose (if for example you got 10.000 already)will FOR SURE be either 1250 loss or like you said 2000 loss or 3 thousand something loss...no more no less
The formula (so far) is:
Merits carried over = (merits earned last week) + (merits earned week before)/2 + (merits earned week before that)/4
With the math somewhat skewed because the first week didn't adhere to this at all.
This means that if you earn X merits every week, you will have 2.75 * X merits in total. So for 10,000 merits you "only" have to earn 3637 merits a week. Which is still a *lot* mind you.
That's 73 cargo runs of 50 merits instead of 100. 36 hours of play (assuming playing the entire time waiting for next merit allocation) instead of 50.
But there are ways around this. Here are two:
1) Buy extra merit allocation. If you already own 3 anacondas and are wondering what to do with the rest of your 1BCr stash, why not?
2) Wake up, turn on ED, receive your 50 tons of stuff. Go have a shower, have breakfast. Get another 50. Do some more stuff, notice 30 minutes have ticked by. Get another 50. Keep doing this, not shipping them, just building them up, with ED just on in the background while you go about your daily chores, getting 50 tons of merits every half hour. Once you've filled your cargo bay, ship them all in one go.
Merits carried over = (merits earned last week) + (merits earned week before)/2 + (merits earned week before that)/4
With the math somewhat skewed because the first week didn't adhere to this at all.
This means that if you earn X merits every week, you will have 2.75 * X merits in total. So for 10,000 merits you "only" have to earn 3637 merits a week. Which is still a *lot* mind you.
That's 73 cargo runs of 50 merits instead of 100. 36 hours of play (assuming playing the entire time waiting for next merit allocation) instead of 50.
But there are ways around this. Here are two:
1) Buy extra merit allocation. If you already own 3 anacondas and are wondering what to do with the rest of your 1BCr stash, why not?
2) Wake up, turn on ED, receive your 50 tons of stuff. Go have a shower, have breakfast. Get another 50. Do some more stuff, notice 30 minutes have ticked by. Get another 50. Keep doing this, not shipping them, just building them up, with ED just on in the background while you go about your daily chores, getting 50 tons of merits every half hour. Once you've filled your cargo bay, ship them all in one go.
I read the story in the OP link, and I just have to say: the one thing that really stood out to me was the fact that apparently it's OK to fall asleep in front of a computer in an Internet Cafe and everyone's good with that. 
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