Powerplay 2.0 for casual

But it's amazing that Frontier keep making exclusionary game systems though isn't it?
Every game that's more than a throwaway clicker mobile game excludes certain kinds of "casual" players for all sorts of reasons. Elite is a career game, and you need to be able to put in at least some time to get ahead - the term "casual" means different things in different games. You can't expect it to be a sophisticated game and at the same time be able to participate in it by playing it 30 minutes per month. With certain games, that doesn't really work.
 
Anyone know how to do a 'recover classified data from the XXX system' mission? Help would be appreciated, It seems like a Settlement infiltration type mission but i have never done anything like that before.
 
Sure, Elite Dangerous has an optional career game loop. That can eat all of your waking hours and rob some of your sleeping hours too if you let it.

But it also STILL HAS a polished version of the original sandbox game too; and if for example you play the Explorer playstyle you've been playing that sandbox for a decade and it's been fun and you've essentially never dealt with BGS or PP 1.0.

I don't really understand what the noise generally about "missing out on PP 2.0" is: long-standing players didn't have it in October and yet they were still here playing the game. What changed, for an Explorer? Or even a Miner? Nothing, really.
 
Speaking from my own experience; I'm principally a trader in the periphery of the Bubble. BGS and PP1.0 went largely unnoticed.
The Thargoids invasion of the periphery of the Bubble has obligated me to spend the last two years fending off the invertebrates.
Through this I the political status of the systems I was interacting with remained rather irrelevant and I didn't take notice of it.
Since Ascendency dropped the stations have been draped in Aisling and Arissa decorations (near Cocijo) which certainly makes it obvious who claims the place. (Even if the Imperial dressing feels somewhat juxtaposed with the industrial feel of the stations)
 
Anyone know how to do a 'recover classified data from the XXX system' mission? Help would be appreciated, It seems like a Settlement infiltration type mission but i have never done anything like that before.
Yes, broadly.

The data will be in the data ports at the Odyssey settlements in the system (there are various Powerplay data types, so not every port will specifically contain "classified data", but take all of it as you can hand the rest in for merits). You have three basic options for recovering the data:
1) If the settlement is offline, either get a mission to bring it back online, or find a power regulator some other way, power it back up, steal the data while you're there
2) If the settlement is online, sneak around very carefully, disable the alarms, sneak up to the data point, take the data, sneak out again
3) Either as the actual plan or for when option 2 goes wrong, kill everyone and then steal the data. Also steal the power regulator on the way out to make option 1 easier some other time

I'm not particularly good at FPS stuff myself so I tend to stick to option 1, but there are various walkthrough videos online from better players of how to do 2 or 3.

It's troll post guys, the OP hasn't responded since after the original post.
It's been less than 24 hours and a casual player might not read the forums quite as much as we do either!

And they are entirely right that if the intro missions reset every Thursday, that's silly and it should keep your progress. Sure, they're all pretty quick if you know what you're doing, but they're the missions you're supposed to do to learn what you're supposed to be doing, so not everyone is in that position.
 
Yes, broadly.

The data will be in the data ports at the Odyssey settlements in the system (there are various Powerplay data types, so not every port will specifically contain "classified data", but take all of it as you can hand the rest in for merits). You have three basic options for recovering the data:
1) If the settlement is offline, either get a mission to bring it back online, or find a power regulator some other way, power it back up, steal the data while you're there
2) If the settlement is online, sneak around very carefully, disable the alarms, sneak up to the data point, take the data, sneak out again
3) Either as the actual plan or for when option 2 goes wrong, kill everyone and then steal the data. Also steal the power regulator on the way out to make option 1 easier some other time

I'm not particularly good at FPS stuff myself so I tend to stick to option 1, but there are various walkthrough videos online from better players of how to do 2 or 3.


It's been less than 24 hours and a casual player might not read the forums quite as much as we do either!

And they are entirely right that if the intro missions reset every Thursday, that's silly and it should keep your progress. Sure, they're all pretty quick if you know what you're doing, but they're the missions you're supposed to do to learn what you're supposed to be doing, so not everyone is in that position.
Thank you very much for your assistance, much appreciated.
 
Stay mate, play cool and easy and up to the measure you like.

This PP is not obligatory. You can freely ignore it exist for years, even forever.

Take it easy and slowly, enjoy the space. You fly the freakin' spaceship, hey! Isn't that enough for starters?
Hi, yes we do this.
but with PP we can get more item (shield, weapon...)
but if we take all the time to do all 5 quests, it'll be boring...
 
If you’re going to quit just because you have to spend one gaming session unlocking PP, I suggest this game isn’t for you.

There’s plenty of other things to do in game. There no requirement to do PP, and very little new content added with it.

As a casual gamer you’re not going to have much opportunity to influence anything - there’s people who spend more time in ED every day than I spend in a week! - so essentially you’re just slowly chipping away at your personal rank and maybe helping others in their plans for the power.

And once you’ve done the first weeks missions, you can do whatever you like.

PvPers seem to put a lot of stock in the modules, but as a casual gamer you’re never going to be good enough at PvP to maximise the benefits of those modules.

This game requires a lot of time. You don’t need to be playing 18hrs a day, but as casual players we have to accept that things are going to take time.
I understand after unlocking all 5 quests, we don't have to rush all 5 each week ? if it's that, it's nice... and Thank you to answer what the game don't say.

We are French and much text are out of screen (docking, and a "Détecteur D" ... without forum was never able to understand that)
All mission sometimes have text that can't be found IG.
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Yes, broadly.

The data will be in the data ports at the Odyssey settlements in the system (there are various Powerplay data types, so not every port will specifically contain "classified data", but take all of it as you can hand the rest in for merits). You have three basic options for recovering the data:
1) If the settlement is offline, either get a mission to bring it back online, or find a power regulator some other way, power it back up, steal the data while you're there
2) If the settlement is online, sneak around very carefully, disable the alarms, sneak up to the data point, take the data, sneak out again
3) Either as the actual plan or for when option 2 goes wrong, kill everyone and then steal the data. Also steal the power regulator on the way out to make option 1 easier some other time

I've just had this mission, so I'll add how I did it.

Found a small settlement with low pop/security in the target system. With luck it had 3 power data ports.

Landed ship and hacked an outdoor terminal to check how many staff and location of alarms and data ports.

First run: sneak around, kill everyone. Learn the layout of the base for optimal approach and plan the best route to get all the data.

Hand in data, leave client running, do other stuff while notoriety times out so i can clear the bounty.

Second and third run (took me 3 runs to get enough data): Now i know the best route, look for someone outside with clearance level 1. Kill them, with zapper, clone their ID. Jump across buildings to the building with the alarms. Disable alarms. Game on! Now just run to each power data port shooting anyone who gets in the way with my silenced shotgun.

Rinse and repeat.

As for getting power regulators, a long time ago i went to a system i didn't care about with lots of odyssey planetary stations that was in infrastructure failure. Took as many missions as i could to reactivate them, getting regulators to do the job. Abandon missions. Wait for mission board refresh, grab another batch. Got a ton of stolen power regulators now. Those factions probably still hate me. :D
 
It can be worth doing them each week but sometimes there’s missions that can’t be completed (hopefully this will be fixed) and sometimes there’s ones that are too much bother.

^^^
This.

My weekly missions this cycle have been almost entirely ones I'd just rather skip. Two were in the same system, but unfortunately during the hour I was willing to spend in that system, I only completed one. The second required Power Wreckage USSs, and those refused to spawn. :(
 
On the whole I'm enjoying the Powerplay 2.0, however I'm interested to understand how some players are getting weekly merits in the 100's of thousands. I'm maybe getting 50 or 60K of merits in a week with some hard play, but how are some players achieving such high levels of merits?
 
True. But with PowerPlay 2.0, you can participate in PowerPlay alongside all that other gameplay... except perhaps the Thargoid stuff.

Not yet, that is 🤞 Been monitoring the AXI Discord channels and like quite a few people on the forums, they're expecting Fdev to pull surprise or plot twist after the Cocijo CG concludes.

Whether or not it's PP 2.0 related we'll see after this Thursday.
 
On the whole I'm enjoying the Powerplay 2.0, however I'm interested to understand how some players are getting weekly merits in the 100's of thousands. I'm maybe getting 50 or 60K of merits in a week with some hard play, but how are some players achieving such high levels of merits?
Probably a lot of it at the really high end is mining. If you can find a system which both has a decent ring system and some Refinery/Tourism stations in Boom+Civil Liberty then you can get a lot of merits very quickly with core mining. (Platinum laser mining in a system which supports that can be even better, but those are much rarer)

The other thing will be "playing a lot of hours" - there are quite a few ways to earn merits in the 10-15k/hour range, so if you happen to like doing one of those and have a lot of spare time, you can stack up the merits very quickly.
 
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