PP and money

[babelfisch]

FDEV, please give us money for PP actions. I don't have the time to rank up to lvl 5. I can't even kill 100 anacondas in crime sweeps to get to lvl 2. 100 credits per merit is just not enough. Please give those corrupted authority vessels a bounty or combat bonds. I can't play PP if there is neither progress (because I just don't have the time) nor reward.

Please make PP enjoyable for casual gamers. Giving us money sounds simple enough.

 

[lilikin]

Elite:Basement Dweller?

 

[specialsymbol]

You can fasttrack. Of course you'll lose money by doing so. You need to put 150.000.000 credits upfront and end up losing 50.000.000 in the first three weeks (you get 100.000.000 in return as rewards, if you stick through it to week 3). These are definitely gone.

From then on it's leveling out to an additional 3.300.000 loss per week, from around 6.000.000 downwards.

 

[babelfisch]

You can fasttrack. Of course you'll lose money by doing so. You need to put 150.000.000 credits upfront and end up losing 50.000.000 in the first three weeks. These are definitely gone.

From then on it's leveling out to an additional 3.300.000 loss per week, from around 6.000.000 downwards.

When I said I have no time, I actually meant just that. There is no way I grind to 150.000.000 credits. But thanks for the advice

 

[Evil]

FDEV, please give us money for PP actions. I don't have the time to rank up to lvl 5. I can't even kill 100 anacondas in crime sweeps to get to lvl 2. 100 credits per merit is just not enough. Please give those corrupted authority vessels a bounty or combat bonds. I can't play PP if there is neither progress (because I just don't have the time) nor reward.

Please make PP enjoyable for casual gamers. Giving us money sounds simple enough.

Do something else that makes CR ? Plenty of other things than PP to make CR.

 

[SpitTheDog]

Pick someone that give you a bonus that you like such as a % increase in bounty payouts. Some give up to 50% even for level 1 and then make the most of that.

 

[babelfisch]

Do something else that makes CR ? Plenty of other things than PP to make CR.

This is funny. I am literally the only person on this forum who actually likes the concept of power play and you suggest I should do something else

Being part of a power and working for them is something I enjoy more than grinding the same RES over and over again. But since I don't belong to the rich kids/don't have the time to grind all day for rank 2 I see no way how I could profit from PP.

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Pick someone that give you a bonus that you like such as a % increase in bounty payouts. Some give up to 50% even for level 1 and then make the most of that.

AFAIK you don't get bounties for killing your powers enemies, so I don't see how this would help me.

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

Undermine.

15 merits per kill.
At 1500 merits you get to rank 4 with 5millions weekly reward.
Getting/Remaining there is not that difficult (I will not explain how the merit decay works here, plenty of existing threads).
It's also pretty fun if you work in wing or/and face a hostile wing (commanders I mean) while undermining.

My advice: don't use a big fat ship, it would make things unchallenging and you may need to flee the system if you get outnumbered by a hostile wing. I use a fast Cobra which makes NPCs some doghfights challenging, allow me to boost away from any commanders, and I even take the luxury to tease them (that guy in his FdL tried to interdict you? Boost away, then you interdict him 2/3 times in a row!)

Oh BTW, I hope you guys understand that 50millions at rank 5 is not a reward, but a financial compensation for the credits you invest into fast-tacking, right?

 

[SpitTheDog]

AFAIK you don't get bounties for killing your powers enemies, so I don't see how this would help me.

No, I mean CZ or normal wanted criminals. You get % bonus credits based on the faction you are aligned with. You want credits, just get to lvl1 or 2 and go farm some credits via RES or CZ. This way you benefit from PP in the way you ask. Credits.

Sure it's not the same as getting FD to make PP pay more directly, but at least you get a benefit from it.

I got myself to lvl 5 using about 90% paid for PP credits. I've more than paid for the whole thing through the 100% bounty bonus it pays me. Easily covers the 50mil cost to maintain it each week even if I didn't bother to do any PP activities.

 

[babelfisch]

Undermine.

15 merits per kill.
At 1500 merits you get to rank 4 with 5millions weekly reward.
Getting/Remaining there is not that difficult (I will not explain how the merit decay works here, plenty of existing threads).
It's also pretty fun if you work in wing or/and face a hostile wing (commanders I mean) while undermining.

My advice: don't use a big fat ship, it would make things unchallenging and you may need to flee the system if you get outnumbered by a hostile wing. I use a fast Cobra which makes NPCs some doghfights challenging, allow me to boost away from any commanders, and I even take the luxury to tease them (that guy in his FdL tried to interdict you? Boost away, then you interdict him 2/3 times in a row!)

Oh BTW, I hope you guys understand that 50millions at rank 5 is not a reward, but a financial compensation for the credits you invest into fast-tacking, right?

The ranks are no option for me. I often can't play for 1-3 weeks. But thanks for your efforts.

 

[Ben Ryder]

When I said I have no time, I actually meant just that. There is no way I grind to 150.000.000 credits. But thanks for the advice

It would make power play far more accessible if they did away with Merits and just made it credits and kept track of your rank in a similar way to your Elite Rankings.

 

[Evil]

This is funny. I am literally the only person on this forum who actually likes the concept of power play and you suggest I should do something else

Being part of a power and working for them is something I enjoy more than grinding the same RES over and over again. But since I don't belong to the rich kids/don't have the time to grind all day for rank 2 I see no way how I could profit from PP.

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AFAIK you don't get bounties for killing your powers enemies, so I don't see how this would help me.

I think PP was designed as endgame stuff, and wasn't built for making good profits, it's generally for the people that have accumulated huge wealth, and haven't got much to do in game.

 

[babelfisch]

I think PP was designed as endgame stuff, and wasn't built for making good profits, it's generally for the people that have accumulated huge wealth, and haven't got much to do in game.

This is exactly what I would like to see changed, hence this thread.

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

PP was clearly not meant to earn credits. Also there are plenty of easy or/and fast ways to earn credits in the game.

Now I strongly agree that you should get more credits per earned merit. Every time I submit my PP vouchers or PP commodities, the amount of credits earned showed on screen looks like a silly joke.

 

[babelfisch]

PP was clearly not meant to earn credits. Also there are plenty of easy or/and fast ways to earn credits in the game.

Now I strongly agree that you should get more credits per earned merit. Every time I submit my PP vouchers or PP commodities, the amount of credits earned showed on screen looks like a silly joke.

I don't think that earning credits in PP needs to be on par with the other professions. But it would be nice if I could at least afford ammunition after killing a corrupt authority vessel. As said above I am locked out of power play because I don't have the time to play on a daily basis. It's fine that the hardcore players get stuff like weapons, nominations, ranks and so on. At least give me enough money to repair my ship.