Powerplay 2.0 - Search and Rescue guide
- Thread starter Mako Kai
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Profitable in credits or merits?
For merits, then there's plenty of "Power Wreckage" and similar signal sources in most PP systems, which you can get plenty of S&R and salvage out of. Very nice for either fortifying or undermining. The "Amatheon" class megaships have an escape hatch which can be hacked to release escape pods. But they're rare, of course. There are I think a bunch of old plot-related POIs which have a lot of escape pods in - though I can't remember where now.
For credits it's a bit hard to see what might replace Titan pods, since none of the rest is particularly good in terms of credits/tonne.
For merits, then there's plenty of "Power Wreckage" and similar signal sources in most PP systems, which you can get plenty of S&R and salvage out of. Very nice for either fortifying or undermining. The "Amatheon" class megaships have an escape hatch which can be hacked to release escape pods. But they're rare, of course. There are I think a bunch of old plot-related POIs which have a lot of escape pods in - though I can't remember where now.
For credits it's a bit hard to see what might replace Titan pods, since none of the rest is particularly good in terms of credits/tonne.
For credits. Yea that’s what I was wondering. Asling’s 200% is awesome IF S&R is something you can make credits on. Otherwise it’s not a great perk.
You can get huge amount of pods from Visitors Beacon. And theoretically you can earn +70,000 Merits per hour at 100 AD Rank. Actually, Searching Visitors Beacon is one of priority goals in many Powerplay Communites now.
- Find Visitors Beacon in Tourism system. Anarchy System is best.
- Check that system has "Collect Escape Pods" activity or not. It depends on your Power. (eg. Miromi system for AD or Nakato, you can see ridiculous Merits points on Power info menu.)
- Enter to Visitors Beacon in that system and find Beluga
- Destroy innocent Beluga and collect shiny Escape pods
- Re-enter or relog instance
- Turn that in your Stronghold system or same system. It depends on your Power.
For Credits it's not best activity, even if you can get +600 pod per hour. But we may find some chance about Thargoid Bio-storage Capsule, when last Titan enters final stage of meltdown few weeks later.
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100 rank, +200% Search and Rescue Bonus perk is insane. I'm rank 61, and +120% bonus is still good.
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And there will be big needs for Merits always, as long as we are playing deep contents of Powerplay 2.0.
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1. You still need merits to move your power's progress bar.
2. You get care packages for every level after 100. Not sure what's inside, probably just more credits & mats than mini care packages.