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How do you see where to donate charity?
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How do you see where to donate charity?
On the Mission Board, choose "Support" - the icon with a hand supporting a First Aid cross. In there you'll find all the "Donate X of Y" type missions.
Oh, the normal Support - like when trying to obtain permit 'n such - but now it also counts as a good deed for the Power owning the station/system?
Doing a bit more research into System Strength Penalty (SSP) and Beyond Frontline Penalty (BFP)
- SSP seems to be higher in systems with higher population, and higher in Fortified/Stronghold systems, though that doesn't quite explain all the variation
- BFP seems to depend entirely on distance from your space
- both are Standard/Moderate/High/Very High scales but they seem to have invisible subdivisions as usual
- neither seems to have any effect on Reinforcement (though BFP is always Standard in your own space anyway?)
- both affect Undermining by reducing the amount of merits you get for the same action - for Standard-Standard a holohack gave me 112 merits, at High-Standard it gave 88 merits, at Standard-High just 68 merits, and for Very High-High it gave only 48 merits (those are the personal totals, the system totals were both a quarter of that as expected). BFP seems worse than SSP for the same adjective.
Neither indicator shows up on Acquisition systems (which again, presumably don't have any BFP problems anyway) but I'll think about whether a hidden SSP would be detectable somehow.
So:
- BFP appears to be an encouragement to attack nearby systems (and Powers) rather than getting into fights on the other side of the bubble.
- SSP appears to be an extra protection for "valuable" systems to make them harder to lose, perhaps to make it a bit harder to take out a Fortified system and therefore its entire sphere, rather than attacking its Exploited ones first. It's not that severe, but the 25% extra actions needed for High-Standard might be important in a close fight.
It would be interesting to confirm if BFP and SSP change with Power (my guess is BFP yes, SSP no) - here's some samples from my experiments tonight
- SSP seems to be higher in systems with higher population, and higher in Fortified/Stronghold systems, though that doesn't quite explain all the variation
- BFP seems to depend entirely on distance from your space
- both are Standard/Moderate/High/Very High scales but they seem to have invisible subdivisions as usual
- neither seems to have any effect on Reinforcement (though BFP is always Standard in your own space anyway?)
- both affect Undermining by reducing the amount of merits you get for the same action - for Standard-Standard a holohack gave me 112 merits, at High-Standard it gave 88 merits, at Standard-High just 68 merits, and for Very High-High it gave only 48 merits (those are the personal totals, the system totals were both a quarter of that as expected). BFP seems worse than SSP for the same adjective.
Neither indicator shows up on Acquisition systems (which again, presumably don't have any BFP problems anyway) but I'll think about whether a hidden SSP would be detectable somehow.
So:
- BFP appears to be an encouragement to attack nearby systems (and Powers) rather than getting into fights on the other side of the bubble.
- SSP appears to be an extra protection for "valuable" systems to make them harder to lose, perhaps to make it a bit harder to take out a Fortified system and therefore its entire sphere, rather than attacking its Exploited ones first. It's not that severe, but the 25% extra actions needed for High-Standard might be important in a close fight.
It would be interesting to confirm if BFP and SSP change with Power (my guess is BFP yes, SSP no) - here's some samples from my experiments tonight
System | Power | SSP | BFP |
Arek | Mahon | High | Standard |
HIP 76768 | Mahon | Moderate | Standard |
Haoki | Mahon | Standard | Standard |
Wu Ku | Mahon | Standard | Standard |
HIP 81294 | Grom | Standard | Standard |
Mile | Grom | Standard | Moderate |
Comana | Grom | Standard | Moderate |
V595 Lyrae | Grom | Standard | High |
Adeo | Grom | Very High | High |
Jaunera | Kaine | Standard | Standard |
Barann | Kaine | Moderate | Standard |
Hreintania | Kaine | High | Standard |
Lagay | Kaine | High | Standard |
Deiva | Kaine | Very High | Standard |
hey @Ian Doncaster , sorry to bother but if you ( or anyone ) can shed some light here please: Today i have a Weekly Assignment mission for "scanning megaships" ( in Reinforcement system ) . In the past, before PP2.0 , i would always very easily just goto pretty much any EMPIRE space-station and goto Mission Board 'Operations' tab and get tons of scan megaship missions at will. However, tonite i have checked 3 stations now ( all in Reinforcement systems ) and haven't found ANY scan megaship missions within that same Operations tab of Mission Board.
How/where then am i supposed to find the megaships to scan?
How/where then am i supposed to find the megaships to scan?
Jump from system to system, check the left panel. They show up by default so you don't even need to FSS/Nav Beacon the system.
If you've kept the scan messages from previous weeks, see where those megaships were going next and if that's still one of your systems.
I'd say about half of systems have one at any time (with some occasionally having two) so they're not that hard to just stumble across.
Hi! What, though?
Sorry, should have been specific
Scanning a megaship data link is now worth 900 merits per scan. Great for undermining, I think .
Will test this myself, a bonus could have been added.
Should have been specific
Scanning a megaship data link is now worth 900 merits per scan. Great for undermining, I think .
Yeah, it seems fair given megaships can be a bit "wonky" and only scannable once (iirc, maybe something refreshes that though.)
I'm only including general (yes merits or no merits) info in the initial post anyhow, because it'd be a nightmare to keep up with all changes and it's cluttered enough as is.
Yeah, only scannable once a week IIRC
900 personal, but still only 225 towards the system itself, plus you can only do it once per player.
It's worth doing if you spot one, certainly, but not something you're generally going to be able to build a strategy around unless you have a very large and active group.
(And that, from my testing last night, assumes Standard+Standard difficulty. I was down to 344 personal (<100 system) at Very High+High, not that it's really worth trying to undermine those in the first place)
Just to add to the above regarding mega ships; yes, they’re only scannable once per week (per Cmdr) once the Thursday update goes through you can scan them again….wherever they may be.
Hum, what am I doing wrong here? LYR wants me to deliver Sirius Franchise packages. But when I go to an Expansion system they don't seem to want the stuff. I can't see why not. An Expansion system is an Acquisition system, isn't it? The stuff is most definitely in my hold. Screenshots...
Try the next tab down on the left. That is what I did and that option let me do one of my weekly tasks for my powers propaganda
Thanks, but the next tab down is for picking up the goods isn't it? At least, I used it when I picked them up in the Stronghold carrier.
For my powers stuff, I had to go to a stronghold sys to pick up and then deliver to a reinforcement system. For acquisitions I think you might need to be within a certain ly range of the pickup location, either 20ly or 30ly, I have not done that type yet, so not 100% sure
It'll be the range limit - Acquisitions can only be supported by a Stronghold within 30 LY or a Fortified within 20 LY [1], and Lembava probably has none close enough to do that
If you dump those and pick up some new ones from a system more on the fringes, you should be able to do it.
For Nangura, according to the Strategic View in game, your supporting system choices are Hoff, HR 1254 or Zibal.
[1] This rule applies to a lot of Acquisition actions, some of which are better documented in-game than others. Assume it does unless you know it doesn't for anything involving A-B transportation.