Hello fellow ED players! I was wondering if someone could give me a breakdown of each of the Powerplay standing based on alignments (Lawful Good, Chaotic Neutral, etc). I'm trying to decide on which Powerplay I want to pledge to but I want to make my decision based on their alignments. I would want to be with someone that is Lawful Good/Neutral Good. From their descriptions it seems that Fecilia Winters would be the best choice for me. I was going to choose Aisling Duval until I read the "media manipulation" part, lol. Any help is much appreciated.
Powerplay: Moral alignment of each Power play standings?
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They are all Lawful Evil.
No exceptions.
No exceptions.
Frankly ? A filthy pirate, a mad sect leader, a bunch of corrupted fed politicians, a bunch of corrupted slavers... Couldn't find any good guy there (to be fair, it is pretty realistic if you look at our current politicians on Earth). I was disappointed when I realized that at first, then I learned how much PP activities were boring as hell (unless you PVP) and I lost interest altogether.
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[Federation] (USA 2.0 in space, democracy and freedom)
Felicia Winters: Economy focused vice president, always a helpful hand for the Federation. Some well organized people group up there and achieve goals.
Zachary Hudson: Presdient of the Federation, military focused. He decides what is going on and has some decent combat pilots but some of them lack loyality.
[Alliance] Economy focused superpower, alternative to Empire vs Federation cold war
Edmund Mahon: Profit based boy with well organized people and strategically experienced leaders. Been on #1 for a long time.
[Empire] Slave nation, though not in the traditional sense. Apple in space, looks good but is totally *beep*.
Aisling Duval: The little princess some nerdies dream of at night. She is against slavery but for the Empire and peace with the Federation (Don't quote me on that last part).
A. L. Duval: Emperor, yes a female. Balanced, no focus. Strongest empire group of all supports slavery and is a traditional follower.
Zemina Torval: Miss Granny, children should behave ... and she achieves that via undercover acts .. mainly 5th C but noone has evidence ... rumors!
Denton Patreus: Empire military, 'nuff said.
[Independent]
Archon Delaine: Pirate factions, if you have some beer and support total freedom (anarchy), go there. Pirates are awesome.
Mister Packhound aka chines guy or a character I can't remember the name: Representant of the Sirius corp, extremely economy focused. Basically a giant shopping center for ships and modules.
Pranav Antal: Peace be among you. While I personally have nothing against him, I certainly think he is stoned 24/7. His agents, however, are not. Totally not harmful and rarely gets attention.
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I would make the following corrections:
The Alliance is more of a Social-Democracy kind of place. Freedom, Equality, and Profits as well as Strong Together could be there key words. They are basically a group of minor factions that decided to reject the Empire and Federation when they were tired of war.
Also, "China guy" is Li-Yong Rui.
Thanks for the quick response guys! I know it's not necessary to try to compare tell power standings to a D&D style alignment, I just think it's good to know for flavor and for personal roleplaying. I like Crimson's description on each standing. I guess now I'm stuck between Felicia and Edmund xD. Thanks again for the help!
I thin you woudl be better looking at them from a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and other strangenss RPG personality description thingy (far more cleverer than DunD)
Nine reasons not to join the Alliance:
1) You're a Pirate - well arrrre you? no brainer - Archon Delaine / Kumo crew.
2) You're a selfish min / maxer: Easy ALD or Hudson - "I vote Ronald Reagan because I'm worth it"
3) You're a narcissist: Aisling Duval.
4) You're a two faced liar: Winters. (*under new management)
5) You're nice but really quite odd: Antal.
6) You're into inscruitable businessmen: Sirius
7) You're a cryptofascit (shiny boots haircuts and slaves): Patraeus
8) You're a GILF Hunter: Torval
9) You're Russian (uh you actually need to read and write Russian pretty well): Yuri Grom
Otherwise, join the Alliance, but whatever you choose - don't go it alone:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...list-(AKA-where-are-the-leaders-and-experts-)
1) You're a Pirate - well arrrre you? no brainer - Archon Delaine / Kumo crew.
2) You're a selfish min / maxer: Easy ALD or Hudson - "I vote Ronald Reagan because I'm worth it"
3) You're a narcissist: Aisling Duval.
4) You're a two faced liar: Winters. (*under new management)
5) You're nice but really quite odd: Antal.
6) You're into inscruitable businessmen: Sirius
7) You're a cryptofascit (shiny boots haircuts and slaves): Patraeus
8) You're a GILF Hunter: Torval
9) You're Russian (uh you actually need to read and write Russian pretty well): Yuri Grom
Otherwise, join the Alliance, but whatever you choose - don't go it alone:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...list-(AKA-where-are-the-leaders-and-experts-)
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Archon is not a pirate he's more a mobster and slave trader. I dont think any of his power play activities actually involve piracy at all, especially now that they removed it from the way independent power work. I dont know why folk keep calling him a pirate. There's all sort of crooked about him but very little piracy. Loads of black mail, loads of bribery, loads of slavery but not much if any piracy. Even his PP ships are not even slightly piratey. Cirme lord possibly, pirate not really.
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Could you give an example of why you think that? Maybe I missed something on her description xD.
Has anyone explained why the Sirius faction, which is a purely neutral economic faction that manufactures nearly all FSDs and powerplants in the galaxy, has a reward item of a missile launcher? Shouldn't it have been something FSD or powerplant related?
What the in-game character descriptions are like; and what the Player Groups that support each Power are like - are related but different.
The snarks I've made about each group are biased, and contentious - but that's kinda the point of PowerPlay.
To give us some friction and drama to go with the competition.
The main thing to take away is: "don't go it alone"
PowerPlay is a confusing obtuse grind, unless you are part of a group working together.
You will need to get involved in the group for whichever power you want to work for.
As an lone CMDR you can actually do damage to your power if you aren't working towards the same strategic goals, so it's really important that you become part of the team, whichever you decide.
The PowerPlay Groups mostly organise out on Reddit, and the links to each groups are here in this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/189656-The-Powerplay-Reddit-list-%28AKA-where-are-the-leaders-and-experts-%29
If you really want a D&D style Alignments chart, There is this thing which relates to a number of the older Player Groups.
Some of the player groups are aligned to a power, but not all of them, and there are more than a hundred and thirty player groups, these are just some of the older, well established groups. In fact this chart is so old, it's missing some really big groups, and features some groups that are pretty much irrelevant now.
It was put together by CMDR Sole Hunter who is SDC or Code or Diamond Frogs or something like that (he moves around a bit and has, uh "had a presence" in a number of groups) - so it's biased that way.
Enjoy:
(edit) - Uh went and found it, and only just got to reading it again.
Lot's of "Attitude" here - Needs a second Spoiler tag.
Lot's of "Attitude" here - Needs a second Spoiler tag.
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The cynicism is strong here.
Just go Lawful Good with the Federation.
You'll sleep better at night.
Just go Lawful Good with the Federation.
You'll sleep better at night.
The Federation is hardly Lawful Good. They are not evil, but they are not good either. They are more Lawful Neutral.
Federation is a post scarcity society with a lot of welfare programs. Winters wants to extend those programs, Hudson wants to turn the useless eaters into cannon fodder.
It is odd that a future society with that many megacorporations hasn't fallen into the standard dystopia. On the other hand what is a society supposed to do when all manual and service industry labor has long since been replaced by robots and automation? Federation's solution is lifetime welfare, Imperium is slavery and manual labor, no word on what it's like in Alliance space.
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If they are post scarcity, why did the Newsletter saythat Federal Society is based on the "Haves" and the "Have nots", there is a lot of poverty about as well as the extravagantly wealthly.
You don't have a have nots and a lot of poverty in a post scarcity society.
Because the "Haves" can buy entire star systems while the "have nots" have to make due with lobster thermadore printed by autochefs instead of being able to buy the real thing. "Poverty" means living in a huge 3d printed condo with every possible amenity (that can be printed) and thinking how much life would be better if they could get a Beluga class starship to fly around in. Hudson's entire platform is that the average federation citizen has never held a job by the age of 40 because they never have to nor ever need or want to.
Heck, even the Wall-E human passengers had have nots and haves and their society was about as post scarcity as one can get. They live in a stratified society where economy class passengers having to deal with with ads on every surface of their area vs first class passengers who had large staterooms facing the ship's pool. Yeah, those economy class passengers live in poverty by their society's standards but you can't say they're living in what we'd call poverty.
Give me an auto-fabricator and a food printer "chef" and I'd probably quit my job too.
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Zachary Hudson - Lawful Neutral
Felicia Winters - Lawful Neutal
Arissa Lavigny-Duval - Lawful Neutral
Zemina Torval - Lawful Evil
Denton Patreus - Lawful Evil
Edmund Mahon - Chaotic Neutral
Pranav Antal - Neutral Good
Aisling Duval - Chaotic Good
Li Yong-Rui - True Neutral
Archon Delaine - Chaotic Evil
Felicia Winters - Lawful Neutal
Arissa Lavigny-Duval - Lawful Neutral
Zemina Torval - Lawful Evil
Denton Patreus - Lawful Evil
Edmund Mahon - Chaotic Neutral
Pranav Antal - Neutral Good
Aisling Duval - Chaotic Good
Li Yong-Rui - True Neutral
Archon Delaine - Chaotic Evil
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