Powerplay Weekly Tasks

[Greasetrap42]

Is There Any Point To Completing Powerplay Weekly Tasks?

The weekly tasks are definitely useful for learning the types of activities a cmdr can do for helping the power they pledged and gaining merits.

But once the cmdr has tried a bunch of the weekly tasks and learned which activities are fun, profitable, or best to ignore... there doesn't seem to be any point to doing the weekly tasks. In my 2-week experience it seems like it will be best to ignore the weekly tasks and do the powerplay activities directly.

 

[Neestar]

Is There Any Point To Completing Powerplay Weekly Tasks?

See this related reply---> https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/weekly-pp-activities-list-is-empty.629492/post-10476662 ...from another similar topic thread in this same section.

 

[Greasetrap42]

See this related reply---> https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/weekly-pp-activities-list-is-empty.629492/post-10476662 ...from another similar topic thread in this same section.

I rather create a new thread than follow your off-topic post from another thread.
I get that you were replying to someone's question, but it was off topic to the thread.

After that, it's just more for guidance "homework" type list , to keep things a bit more structured or interesting or whatever. ( plus bonus merits for completing them )

The weekly tasks are clearly implemented to be more than introductory learning quests, like the engineering or guardian unlocks. The weekly tasks have been given a specific section in our Navigation->Transactions menu. And the task list is persistent. Clearly placed for long term regular use. Always giving the impression there are tasks to be completed. It looks to me Frontier is hoping to have them like WoW dailies... tasks that players do regularly.

While overall I like Powerplay 2.0, I can't imagine a large percentage of cmdrs doing PP weekly tasks 6 months from now. Certainly the bugs and confusing nature of some tasks will get sorted and cleaned up. But unless there is a compelling reason to do the weekly tasks, I don't see them being very popular.

It is just so much easier to ignore the weekly task list and focus on the PP activities you enjoy or find most fun or 'profitable'... whatever that may be.


Edit: replaced daily tasks with weekly tasks.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

I think it probably depends how many merits you're going to earn in a week, and how much you're into Powerplay for the actual winning or losing of systems.
- if you only earn 2-5k merits a week, then the ~1k extra for completing all five weekly tasks is actually quite significant.
- if you're playing more than that then it's an irrelevance, and you'll probably do the ones which are easy or you were going to do anyway and ignore the rest
- if you care about which systems change hands then the location-specific ones might well not be where you want to fight anyway

If they paid 1000-2000 merits a time (or as suggested elsewhere had a big bonus for doing all five) rather than 100-200 merits a time then at that point it'd probably be worth doing most of them even if the activity itself wasn't quite as good. As it is, I think they're really only for people who are in the introductory phase (which might be a longer-term thing for more casual players - log in for the first time in two months, wondering what to do to get back into it, there's some handy suggestions).

 

[Greasetrap42]

- if you only earn 2-5k merits a week, then the ~1k extra for completing all five weekly tasks is actually quite significant.

Maybe my first 2 weeks were a bad example... but the merits I got from the weekly tasks were very small and took much more time compared to what I got from doing PP activities directly in less time.

Partly because the weekly tasks had me go to specific far-away systems. When I can do the exact same activities nearby.
And I rather focus on systems I'm interested in, rather than whatever weekly generated systems I don't care about.

If they paid 1000-2000 merits a time (or as suggested elsewhere had a big bonus for doing all five) rather than 100-200 merits a time then at that point it'd probably be worth doing most of them

Yes, absolutely.

 

[Ghststlkr051]

I think it probably depends how many merits you're going to earn in a week, and how much you're into Powerplay for the actual winning or losing of systems.
- if you only earn 2-5k merits a week, then the ~1k extra for completing all five weekly tasks is actually quite significant.
- if you're playing more than that then it's an irrelevance, and you'll probably do the ones which are easy or you were going to do anyway and ignore the rest
- if you care about which systems change hands then the location-specific ones might well not be where you want to fight anyway

If they paid 1000-2000 merits a time (or as suggested elsewhere had a big bonus for doing all five) rather than 100-200 merits a time then at that point it'd probably be worth doing most of them even if the activity itself wasn't quite as good. As it is, I think they're really only for people who are in the introductory phase (which might be a longer-term thing for more casual players - log in for the first time in two months, wondering what to do to get back into it, there's some handy suggestions).

The weekly assignments are completely pointless.

I can go kill 1-3 ships and make more merits than the weekly provides.

I agree that the weekly assignment merit rewards need to be multiplied by at least 10x. So that measly 150 merits will become 1500. IMHO, they need to be multiplied by 50-100x…

Fdev didn’t want people grinding to rank 100 to fast, despite there are many commanders who did in 1 week.

I think the weekly assignments need to be worth 5k-15k each depending on what they need done. It will make it much less of a grind for those of us who have very limited play times or tend to do a little bit of everything.

 

[Neestar]

I rather create a new thread than follow your off-topic post from another thread.

Just in case you confused ( or perceived ) why i linked you to my other post: It wasn't because i was trying to "forum police" your new thread. All i was trying to do was give you the information for which you seem to be requesting. Perhaps i could've, or should've, just copy/pasted the info instead , but i figured maybe that link into the other thread might also be useful to you in case you eventually end up experiencing the same "missing" Weeklys bug ( lag ) delay as many other of us were experiencing.

I get that you were replying to someone's question, but it was off topic to the thread.

uhh, half the posts within these entire forums are off-topic in practically every thread LOL
By comparison, mine was very much topic-adjacent yeah.

The weekly tasks are clearly implemented to be more than introductory learning quests, like the engineering or guardian unlocks. The weekly tasks have been given a specific section in our Navigation->Transactions menu. And the task list is persistent. Clearly placed for long term regular use.

i sure hope you're right , because i always hope game developers have far loftier motivations & aspirations to their code than just mere glossier version of standard MMO hamster-wheel grindfest.

 

[Kratuu]

I like having them there. When I log into the game and ask myself "what shall I do today?" I can look at the task list for some suggestions and do whatever seems like fun. I don't care about the merits really.

 

[Rick Hofen]

If you don't complete each weekly activity list, you can't rank up despite the number of merits you have built up.
No ranking up, no access to better weapons...or so I think.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'd actually prefer to do PP activities for LYR and get merits that way especially as the week 2 activity "salvage cargo in Nandh" (a Zemina Torval system) isn't working for me. I've collected numerous Wreckage Components and Black Boxes from Power Wreckage and Power Weapons Fire signal sources and returned them to my Power Contact in Zandu, a LYR system. I get merits for them when turned in but the activity progress bar does not register collection or partical completion of the task when I get them onto my ship or after turning them in. Not sure if the activity is bugged or I'm doing something wrong.

 

[Kratuu]

I heard that not completing the weeklies stopped you ranking up in the first week. Don't know whether that's true or not, but in the second week I've already ranked up without having completed all my weekly tasks.

 

[Rick Hofen]

@Kratuu -
Thank you, good to know. I'm tired of obsessing over these salvage cargo missions (though if you have any insight on them, it would be appreciated).

 

[Neestar]

I'm tired of obsessing over these salvage cargo missions (though if you have any insight on them, it would be appreciated).

i'm not Kratuu , but intel from this post/quote within another somewhat related thread might be helpful to you---> https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mining-for-merits.629628/post-10477706

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Your first week's missions you have to complete to have rank enabled - though, any merits you earn during that time still count, so you can jump past several early ranks when you do complete them and get all the rewards at once.

After that there's no requirement at all to do them - you can still rank up as normal with outstanding tasks.

 

[Kratuu]

@Kratuu -
Thank you, good to know. I'm tired of obsessing over these salvage cargo missions (though if you have any insight on them, it would be appreciated).

I'm still scratching my head about a lot of this but if you've done exacty what the text in the weekly task asks and your progress bar hasn't advanced then that sounds ike a bug to me.

 

[Rick Hofen]

Thanks to @Neestar @Ian Doncaster @Kratuu

I am thinking a bug since the activity description indicates you will get merit points as soon as the appropriate cargo is in your hold. That's not happening whereas I do see a merit popup in response to delivering them to my home system's (LYR-exploited) Power Contact. I have filed a ticket. Hoping to get some direction from Customer Support. They've been great on the few past game issues I've had.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Thanks to @Neestar @Ian Doncaster @Kratuu

I am thinking a bug since the activity description indicates you will get merit points as soon as the appropriate cargo is in your hold. That's not happening whereas I do see a merit popup in response to delivering them to my home system's (LYR-exploited) Power Contact. I have filed a ticket. Hoping to get some direction from Customer Support. They've been great on the few past game issues I've had.

Yes - based on other's experiences, this is probably a documentation error in the game: all other cargo (except for Acquistion/Undermining supplies) also needs to be handed in to a friendly-system Power contact.

 

[Pinkishpunk]

Nakato has a scan 9 mega ships, each scan gives 225 , 2025 points and there some fighting around the megaship , those are fun .

 

[Rick Hofen]

Thanks again to all who replied. I can confirm weekly activity does not need to be completed for rank to be gained on the strength of merits earned from other (I.e., non-weekly) activities.