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Tifu

Tifu
Got some more new data for you guys. Turned these in a Mahon reinforcement system and got :

(1) Black Box - 252 Merits
(1) Wreckage - 72 Merits
(1) Escape Pod - 0 Merits
(1) Damaged Escape Pod - 0 Merits

25 tons of PP reinforcement material - 148 Merits
23 tons of Goods (Profit > 40%) - 24 Merits

Black Boxes were definitely boosted , Wreckage too. Nothing for Escape Pods :(

PP reinforcement material boosted while trade goods zilch.

Personal impression, it's much easier now for me to gain merit with the boosts in ship scans and the boosted stuff above. I was hoping to make a kill in a Power confrontation zone but the Kaine Anaconda ran - from my Imperial Eagle. The universe no longer makes sense :confused:

Seriously though, small ships are much more viable now which is a good thing for PP newbies who are ED newcomers.
 
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Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
There seems to be some indication in other threads that there's been a general 4x multiplier in personal merits earned, which doesn't apply to system progress.

1/4 merit per tonne for high-profit trade (not using 1t sell exploit) would have been fairly normal before, so that's probably boosted too.

The rest look like roughly 4x too, from memory, noting that escape pods and rares are still disabled.
 

Unknown Zombie

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Tifu

Tifu
Ian Doncaster said:
There seems to be some indication in other threads that there's been a general 4x multiplier in personal merits earned, which doesn't apply to system progress.
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I forgot to mention that when I turned in my PP reinforcement material, the message "100 merits will apply to system progress" showed up. Which may mean that the 148 merits is for my personal progress.
 

Nowski

Nowski
Testing rare sales.. I'm confused. I sold a couple of tons of Lavian Brandy at Kaine reinforcement systems around 130 LY from Lave, maybe 12-13k profit/ton: nothing. Demand was zero, one was boom state, one bust.

Headed off to acquisition system, 155LY from Lave, ~16k profit/ton, state none, decided to offload 10 tons, earned 180 merits (iirc). 12 tons left in hold, might as well sell them too.. no further merits (at least as far as the merits popup goes).

So merits are being awarded for some rares trading, but under what conditions I have no idea. Maybe FD tried to solve the 1 ton trading problem by only recognising the first trade in a system for merits purposes?
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
They've not said that rares are re-enabled. I guess it's not completely impossible that they only disabled them for Reinforcement but not Acquisition? (I can't think of a possible exploit that would only apply to Reinforcement, but I guess it's possible?)

Did the 1t thing apply to rares in the first place? I thought it was solely the high-profit trade (and no other cargo) that it worked for.

Tifu said:
the message "100 merits will apply to system progress" showed up
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True, though before the patch it would always say an amount and then give you 50% extra because that calculation didn't include that it was a favourable activity (for everyone)
 

CMDR Kraag

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Tifu said:
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.
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Confirmed at Nav Beacon in Allied Reinforcement system of Arissa Lavigny-Duval's that ship scans are now worth 20 Merits each.
 

CMDR Kraag

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Can confirm Merits for destroying "WANTED" criminals in an Arissa Lavigny-Duval controlled system have been increased ~4x. Prior to patch it was roughly 1 Merit per ~10,000 credits of bounty. Now it's 1 Merit per ~2,500 credits of bounty. Aaaaah, yeah....:cool:(y)
 

Zombi3

Zombi3
Regarding this, under Reinforcement:
  • Transport Powerplay commodities - deliver Reinforcement Commodity to PC in RS, obtained from from PC in a Fortified or Stronghold system (but not the RS) (EM A ALD YG PA DP NK JA LYR D FW ZT)
I could only collect them in Strongholds, not Fortified.
 

CMDR Kraag

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Nowski

Nowski
Have limpets always counted as "low value goods"? I'm getting 24 merits for turning in 24 imported limpets to the advanced maintenence menu in an undermining system.

Anyway, another trip to a different acquisition system, around 160LY from Lave, to sell 24t Lavian Brandy yielded 0 merits, checked in the Powerplay UI after a relog to make sure.

I swear I got 180 merits for that one 10t lot I mentioned earlier. Thus ends my contribution to rares merit testing for today: inconclusively.

Edit: Yeah, I'm dumb. The rares merits were for completing one of the assignments that I hadn't noticed I had.
 
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