Powerplay 2.0 Activities
- Thread starter Nowski
- Start date
Disagree, 2400 per hour isn't really 'competitive', as much as it's painfully mediocre just like the majority of tasks
Heck, it's not even competitive with other players reporting their own results from HazRES hunting. Where I frequently see estimates of 4k-6k.
That sounds quite high for HazRes, maybe it depends on how willing you are to keep relogging to get a big ship, high rank NPC instance. Or maybe those people already have the +100% bounty bonus?
So far for me BH averages out at ~3.6k merits. CZs at ~5.5k.
I'd like to know what the hell these are too. The ratings went up to Very High in at least one system I'm watching.
System Strength Penalty I really haven't seen much pattern to, other than:
- Exploited seem to be Standard or Moderate
- Fortified seem to be Moderate or High
- Stronghold seem to be High or Very High
- HQs are "Unassailable" as a special case
(but there are exceptions, and I can't see an obvious cause for those)
Beyond Frontline Penalty seems to only apply to Undermining - I couldn't find a friendly system that wasn't Standard, but that may be because Kaine is very compact compared with other powers - and be related to its distance from your systems (whether from your HQ or from any of your own systems, I'm not sure - the name implies the latter)
It would be interesting to see if players on different sides see the same SSP for different systems, since I'm fairly sure we won't for the BFP measure.
I'm planning to do some experiments using credit donation missions as an easily standardised action this week.
- Exploited seem to be Standard or Moderate
- Fortified seem to be Moderate or High
- Stronghold seem to be High or Very High
- HQs are "Unassailable" as a special case
(but there are exceptions, and I can't see an obvious cause for those)
Beyond Frontline Penalty seems to only apply to Undermining - I couldn't find a friendly system that wasn't Standard, but that may be because Kaine is very compact compared with other powers - and be related to its distance from your systems (whether from your HQ or from any of your own systems, I'm not sure - the name implies the latter)
It would be interesting to see if players on different sides see the same SSP for different systems, since I'm fairly sure we won't for the BFP measure.
I'm planning to do some experiments using credit donation missions as an easily standardised action this week.
Its this sort of thing that I wish FD just told us in the UI what it was.
Shocking I know!
They
If they put it in the Codex it would be wrong in the Codex. One thing we've seen over the years is that even fdev don't know how the game works (e.g. when they explained how missions spawned and we had to point out they didn't spawn that way).
Better to work it out for ourselves and 'ask' why it is that way. Which is essentially what all the recent nerfs were about
Better to work it out for ourselves and 'ask' why it is that way. Which is essentially what all the recent nerfs were about
If they plan to update penalties and merit awards adaptively, putting them in the codex would just mean they had to incorrect any accidentally correct ones after each adjustment.
Confirmed, ship scans now worth 12 merits each now which is 4x more than the old reward (3 merits). Dropped by a navigation beacon and each ship scanned (regardless of size) gave me that much. If the stronghold SLF's are valued at 14 merits each still in this patch then it's definitely not worth your while - hang out at your navigation beacon or orbital station instead.
whistles Ship scans under Kaine give 5 x 4 = 20 merits per scan now.
forums.frontier.co.uk
Elite Dangerous | Ascendancy Update 1 - Thursday 21st November
Only if every other established games developer releases perfect products and updates every time... Egosoft can manage it ... to name one company. Hello Games can do it for No Man's Sky Mojang can do it for Minecraft And that's just the main games I play. I am sure there's lots of other...
Depends if anything else has also been increased by a similar amount. If most things which were slower methods pre-patch have gone up 4x ... well, sure, you could but it'd be very dull and not all that effective. If it's just scans which have gone up that's really strange.
I read in the update thread that PP stuff deliveries were also merit boosted. But the game kicked me out before I could test it
TIL I misunderstood the whole thing about ethos.
Is there a spreadsheet that lists down which activities get 50% bonus merits if it aligns with the specific ethos?
Like Kaine gets 5 (20 now) merits for scanning ships in controlled space because her ethos for reinforcing is covert. Other powers get only 3 (12 now) merits.
So that means ship scanning is a covert activity.
Is there a spreadsheet that lists down which activities get 50% bonus merits if it aligns with the specific ethos?
Like Kaine gets 5 (20 now) merits for scanning ships in controlled space because her ethos for reinforcing is covert. Other powers get only 3 (12 now) merits.
So that means ship scanning is a covert activity.
It's not a spreadsheet, but that was the point of the initial post in this thread
Maybe I should just bow to the inevitable and try putting it in a table structure.. scary thought!
Oh, wait, you mean under categories like "covert" and so on. Nevermind then.
It might not be that simple - looking at the list on the front page, Combat Reinforcement ethos also seems to get it listed as a preferred activity.
On the other side, Delaine, ALD and Archer are all Combat Acquisition powers, if I remember rightly, but don't all have the same listed activities.
Kaine is Social for Undermining and Acquisition, and Covert for Reinforcement - but gets Escape Pods listed as a recommended activity for Reinforcement and Undermining, but not Acquisition.
FD still forgetting about rewarding crime.
Meanwhile I have PP ships worth nearly 300 merits a go not firing back as I blow them up. The only danger is that they jump out faster than I can kill them.
I can literally drop in and out of SC and autogenerate 3 or more NPCs and repeat.
Meanwhile I have PP ships worth nearly 300 merits a go not firing back as I blow them up. The only danger is that they jump out faster than I can kill them.
I can literally drop in and out of SC and autogenerate 3 or more NPCs and repeat.
Ugh, never mind then. I'll put that aside for now.