(cross post from https://www.reddit.com/r/AislingDuval/comments/3rymz2/the_act_of_fortifying_systems_is_a_joke/ )
I've mentioned this in multiple posts, but both Fortifying and Preparing is a huge money pit, and is an inefficient way to make merits, which is quite annoying. Perhaps if you didn't need to spend either countless hours waiting for the freebees, or countless millions fast tracking, perhaps would get more fortified. To get to my point: If I could fast track the materials AND still make a profit, perhaps I would Fortify more. But for now, I'm only going to fortify 400 merits a week to maintain rank 3. So stop bickering over last weeks war, the PP system itself is a joke.
The problem is, you are basically making money on the SIDE for the benefit of your LEADER that pays you LESS than what it would take to move all of her materials to where they need to go. Its like saying I own my own Semi and I work for a company and are contracted out to move truck loads of stuff. Well, it actually costs me more to move the stuff than what I'm getting paid to move it, so I have to take side jobs hauling other people's stuff just to make enough money to keep hauling the stuff I'm under contract to move. Or to use another analogy, if I'm in the military under orders to move something from A to B, I shouldn't have to PAY for whatever I'm moving, it's not mine to pay for, I just get paid to move it. Power Materials should be Free, and the payout you get for them should be tied to the demand on the other end. If a system is 0% fortified, i get a lot per material, and when a system is over 100% fortified, I should get next to nothing.
I've mentioned this in multiple posts, but both Fortifying and Preparing is a huge money pit, and is an inefficient way to make merits, which is quite annoying. Perhaps if you didn't need to spend either countless hours waiting for the freebees, or countless millions fast tracking, perhaps would get more fortified. To get to my point: If I could fast track the materials AND still make a profit, perhaps I would Fortify more. But for now, I'm only going to fortify 400 merits a week to maintain rank 3. So stop bickering over last weeks war, the PP system itself is a joke.
The problem is, you are basically making money on the SIDE for the benefit of your LEADER that pays you LESS than what it would take to move all of her materials to where they need to go. Its like saying I own my own Semi and I work for a company and are contracted out to move truck loads of stuff. Well, it actually costs me more to move the stuff than what I'm getting paid to move it, so I have to take side jobs hauling other people's stuff just to make enough money to keep hauling the stuff I'm under contract to move. Or to use another analogy, if I'm in the military under orders to move something from A to B, I shouldn't have to PAY for whatever I'm moving, it's not mine to pay for, I just get paid to move it. Power Materials should be Free, and the payout you get for them should be tied to the demand on the other end. If a system is 0% fortified, i get a lot per material, and when a system is over 100% fortified, I should get next to nothing.
