Impact on game: Severe
Frequency: NA
Time and date of issue: This week
Commander name: Elysa Noise
Description:
During cycle 34 we’ve seen activity from a group of players that decided to undermine us from the inside by preparing a system that was bad for our power.
This was not just some small annoyance like a few casual players trying to make a buck and not really understand powerplay, it was a coordinated effort of multiple players with possibly large amounts of credits available to them.
Here are screenshots with timestamp provided by CMDR Silverst showing exactly how big this action was :
https://imgur.com/a/xYtTI
You probably have logs that will tell you more about it.
Here are some screenshots of another action we believe to be linked to the player group responsible to the preparation of Kuki An :
http://imgur.com/a/F6AUT
And they were doing it from private or solo, which meant no way for our power to stop them for acting this way. I have personally (CMDR Elysa Noise) been on a stakeout in the system they were preparing, waiting during the hours when they were the most active and have no seen a single soul except for a lone player that was preparing that system as well because he had no idea how powerplay worked and probably saw it in the top list and thought this was as good a place as any to prepare.
The actions of the previously mentioned group is clearly an example of a game mechanic being abused, Powerplay in its current state is broken.
Furthermore the interaction I had with that player just serves to reinforce one thing, Powerplay needs some big changes, the first and most obvious one is a proper explanation of its mechanics in the game as well as changes to the UI.
Powerplay is also by nature a Multiplayer aspect of the game and as such I believe it should be restricted to open. As it currently stand, there is absolutely nothing we can do against those players who decide to undermine us from inside and do it from private/open.
I might be wrong but you have shown in the past that you have the possibility to have granularity over different aspect of the game (ie planetary landings only available with horizons) so this should be easily feasible and the easiest way to solve (part of) the problem.
We should probably also have access to reports in the systems where preparations are made with the name of those CMDR and the participation they had.
We should be able to put CMDR responsible for those types of actions on trial and label them as traitor to the power. They should not be able to rejoin that specific power for a time (more than 5 days as this would solve absolutely nothing) and be considered KoS when in that Power space.
I believe this could be achieved with the supervision of FDev in order to avoid abuse of the system.
I have nothing against someone deciding to play spy against a powerplay faction in ED and giving secrets to another faction, this type of behaviour however is not this at all.
I also believe that the merit and ranking system is broken as currently, all it takes to get to a higher rating very quickly is a ton of money and in one week you can be rank 5. Rating should probably be also linked to time served with the faction.
I believe as well that the “physical” rewards such as shields and weapons should be removed from Powerplay and instead given to NPC Engineers that you have planned.
This would make it less likely to people to join a faction only for those and have detrimental effect on that faction.
It would also make more sense as currently, it is possible to buy those equipment in any system which does not really make sense in the first place.
The most important step you have to take I believe is to have meetings with the major player factions leaders about the state of Powerplay and the changes that need to be made.
The game would benefit a lot from this.
Regards,
CMDR Elysa Noise
Frequency: NA
Time and date of issue: This week
Commander name: Elysa Noise
Description:
During cycle 34 we’ve seen activity from a group of players that decided to undermine us from the inside by preparing a system that was bad for our power.
This was not just some small annoyance like a few casual players trying to make a buck and not really understand powerplay, it was a coordinated effort of multiple players with possibly large amounts of credits available to them.
Here are screenshots with timestamp provided by CMDR Silverst showing exactly how big this action was :
https://imgur.com/a/xYtTI
You probably have logs that will tell you more about it.
Here are some screenshots of another action we believe to be linked to the player group responsible to the preparation of Kuki An :
http://imgur.com/a/F6AUT
And they were doing it from private or solo, which meant no way for our power to stop them for acting this way. I have personally (CMDR Elysa Noise) been on a stakeout in the system they were preparing, waiting during the hours when they were the most active and have no seen a single soul except for a lone player that was preparing that system as well because he had no idea how powerplay worked and probably saw it in the top list and thought this was as good a place as any to prepare.
The actions of the previously mentioned group is clearly an example of a game mechanic being abused, Powerplay in its current state is broken.
Furthermore the interaction I had with that player just serves to reinforce one thing, Powerplay needs some big changes, the first and most obvious one is a proper explanation of its mechanics in the game as well as changes to the UI.
Powerplay is also by nature a Multiplayer aspect of the game and as such I believe it should be restricted to open. As it currently stand, there is absolutely nothing we can do against those players who decide to undermine us from inside and do it from private/open.
I might be wrong but you have shown in the past that you have the possibility to have granularity over different aspect of the game (ie planetary landings only available with horizons) so this should be easily feasible and the easiest way to solve (part of) the problem.
We should probably also have access to reports in the systems where preparations are made with the name of those CMDR and the participation they had.
We should be able to put CMDR responsible for those types of actions on trial and label them as traitor to the power. They should not be able to rejoin that specific power for a time (more than 5 days as this would solve absolutely nothing) and be considered KoS when in that Power space.
I believe this could be achieved with the supervision of FDev in order to avoid abuse of the system.
I have nothing against someone deciding to play spy against a powerplay faction in ED and giving secrets to another faction, this type of behaviour however is not this at all.
I also believe that the merit and ranking system is broken as currently, all it takes to get to a higher rating very quickly is a ton of money and in one week you can be rank 5. Rating should probably be also linked to time served with the faction.
I believe as well that the “physical” rewards such as shields and weapons should be removed from Powerplay and instead given to NPC Engineers that you have planned.
This would make it less likely to people to join a faction only for those and have detrimental effect on that faction.
It would also make more sense as currently, it is possible to buy those equipment in any system which does not really make sense in the first place.
The most important step you have to take I believe is to have meetings with the major player factions leaders about the state of Powerplay and the changes that need to be made.
The game would benefit a lot from this.
Regards,
CMDR Elysa Noise
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