Not all powers gain merits from standard commodities trading for acquisitions (rare commodities trading work instead)... all powers can reinforce with standard commodity trading (profit has to be >40%).
Powerplay 2.0 Activities
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Screen said it should. "Sell for large profits"
IIRC you can use 40% profit trading for reinforcements, but if it's acquisition it has to come from the supporting forts/strongholds that allows the acquisition (20 or 30 ly away). You can't use stuff bought just anywhere.
For acquisition? The trade good must be sourced from a system in range of the target. So 20ly of a Fort, 30ly of a stronghold.
Are you 100% sure? It doesn't say that in game from what I can see. I know thats the case for mining. Not sure why it would have both a 40% profit and be forced to be within 20/30 ly. These activities are so limiting if so.
Mining and rares both specify limits but selling just says 40% profit.
The in-game information for PP2.0 is deficient in many respects. For example, (EDIT: the following is no longer true, presuimably fixed 22/7/25 with the Panther Clipper release!)
Regards the system origin of Large Profits goods, the initial post in this thread has:
('Supporting System' implies the range restriction). In the notes:
From the linked comment:
Which is referencing:
Ian's handy Activities Reference Card, a great source of info with a lot of testing and cross-checking behind it, also notes the "undocumented" Large Profits goods source requirement.
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Sigh... I've just been to two contested systems now (Allovana and Crucis Sector S0-R A4-0) where no ships spawn in the Power Conflict Zones. Reading around I found some talk about a bug where a conflict between local factions can break power conflicts which could explain the former system but not the latter. This is pretty much the only good way I've found to grind merrits outside the weekly chores so I'm a little irritated.