Thank you for responding, I'm basing what I said on the information in game which shows the 3 ethos which is also confirmed by this inara page: https://inara.cz/elite/power/4/.All the ethos bonuses are based on looking at the galaxy map while signed up to the Power in question, and noting down what's listed as local activities in the various system types. These are the ones which are favoured by the Power and grant bonuses in that system (except that in undermining systems additional activities are listed depending on the occupying Power; these are listed under Vulnerabilities.)
So at some point I signed up to ALD, visited an acquisition system in the galmap and saw the bounties activity listed as a local activity.
I'll check next time I'm in game in case I mistook something.
As to why this fits "social", I guess you could consider that hunting down criminals enforces the social order and helps NPCs feel safe and sleep at night (unless they're pirate NPCs). The most anti-social Power (Delaine) is the only one to have bounty hunting as a vulnerability, which should tell us something, perhaps.
Sorry if this has been covered, but the Ethos for ALD for Acquisition is Social. Why is she marked here as getting this bonus as it's combat? Maybe I misunderstand how Ethos works. Thanks for putting this together!
Sorry, one more thing. There may be a correction for ALD in Acquisition then:All the ethos bonuses are based on looking at the galaxy map while signed up to the Power in question, and noting down what's listed as local activities in the various system types. These are the ones which are favoured by the Power and grant bonuses in that system (except that in undermining systems additional activities are listed depending on the occupying Power; these are listed under Vulnerabilities.)
So at some point I signed up to ALD, visited an acquisition system in the galmap and saw the bounties activity listed as a local activity.
I'll check next time I'm in game in case I mistook something.
As to why this fits "social", I guess you could consider that hunting down criminals enforces the social order and helps NPCs feel safe and sleep at night (unless they're pirate NPCs). The most anti-social Power (Delaine) is the only one to have bounty hunting as a vulnerability, which should tell us something, perhaps.
Seems Power Kills do count for ALD in Acquisition (at least conflict)
Will do, thanks for keeping this up to date!That's interesting - Power Kills is a Patreus vulnerability, so my guess would be vulnerabiities are also applicable to acquisitions with conflict against the particular power with the vulnerability. I'll update the post to reflect that. Thanks for finding it!
Edit: Updated. If you find Power Kills are an ALD bonus activity in any shade of acquisition where it's not a vulnerability of the opposing power let me know!
Cartographic data, exo & escape pod can now give merit ?
Take a look at the thread linked for that in the notes. The tl;dr is you need to map valuable worlds like ELW, WW, terraformable HMC, etc. and sell that. People have absolutely had problems getting merits for it, and in the end it's not that lucrative even if you do succeed, but it's worked for me (I got about 10 or 12 ranks (iirc) out of a month's exploration data on a trip to Sag A* not so long ago.)Ok, I tried to sell my cartographic and exo data several times in several systems that ask for it last month, but I never got any merit ... I'll try again.
One more anomaly, hopefully you find this helpful and not annoyingThat's interesting - Power Kills is a Patreus vulnerability, so my guess would be vulnerabiities are also applicable to acquisitions with conflict against the particular power with the vulnerability. I'll update the post to reflect that. Thanks for finding it!
Edit: Updated. If you find Power Kills are an ALD bonus activity in any shade of acquisition where it's not a vulnerability of the opposing power let me know!
Holo Hacking is listed here, but LYR doesn't have that as a vulnerability and ALD doesn't have that listed as an ethos for undermining.
I'm getting frustrated with the number of activities which don't work or are disabled "temporarily". Rare goods and escape pods are obvious ones. In recent weeks I've had tasks to deliver exploration data, exobiology data and rescue escape pods; merits not received even though I was careful to do exactly what the task text asked for.
I'll give up on PowerPlay as soon as I've got a stock of Prismatic shields unless this improves.
Getting the same issue scanning megaships in Kaine reinforced systems. Seems to crash when megaships is targeted and then weapons deploy and scan starts. My weapons are set to auto-deploy off the fire triggerFollowing the update...crashing when triggering a data link scan on a megaship in Reinforcement systems (LYR). Able to do a scan in Acquisition systems.
Didn't go out to test others.
One more anomaly, hopefully you find this helpful and not annoying
Holo Hacking is listed here, but LYR doesn't have that as a vulnerability and ALD doesn't have that listed as an ethos for undermining.
Well actually, checking the thread title, I think my comment is relevant. If some PP2 tasks are beset by random bugs as it seems to me they are, that information is important when deciding which ones to attempt, and sharing experiences about frustrations we've encountered provides that information.Hi, please can we use this thread for sharing information, as opposed to random venting? Thanks.
There's a different thread for info on exo/carto merits. It definitely works sometimes, but some players can't seem to succeed with it, for sure.
Unless this is definitively balanced and resolved.[...] unless thisimproves.
The earlier workaround provided worked for me.Getting the same issue scanning megaships in Kaine reinforced systems. Seems to crash when megaships is targeted and then weapons deploy and scan starts. My weapons are set to auto-deploy off the fire trigger
- target Megaship
- start scan (which deploys weapons)
- game crash
I found a workaround method:
- do not target mega ship (or untarget if already targeted)
- deploy weapons with trigger
- now target megaship
- scan megaship