You can speak for me. I may not confirm anything you say though.
Lummy. Someone who can confirm something. FD need to employ you asap.
You can speak for me. I may not confirm anything you say though.
I love PP too! Let's have a drink for that!I love PP. (someone has to say it.)
Common misconceptions here:
I made rank 4/5 but only got 1000CR: This is because you were rank 1 during the cycle.
I kept 100% of my merits not 50%: Of course, you will lose 50% of them next time whilst keeping 100% of those you earn this time.
The actual update seems to be working as intended.
At the end of every cycle you are given a credit bonus in the form of a voucher, the value of which depends on your current rating.
Merits earned from previous cycles still count towards your rating at diminishing rates.
Your merit total from the previous cycle is halved then added to your current cycle value. After two cycles, its value is halved again before being added. After three cycles, the value is halved once more. After four cycles the value is no longer added.
Yes, fair enough.
Re-reading my post it seems a little combative which wasn't my intent, I was just trying to be informative.
I'm just a little fed-up that I spent considerable time finding and raising bug reports in the Beta which have not been resolved.
This is a pretty major issue with PowerPlay, IMHO, and I think it is pretty poor they didn't take the time to fix this properly before releasing.
is at power contactI'm confused too.
It says we must earn enough merits to unlock the same ranking next week, yet we carry all merits over each cycle?
Also, where's the cash? I earned by rank 3 but my balance hasn't increased by the promised 500K cr?
You are NOW rank 3, when the cycle ended you were rank 1. You will get your rank 3 wages at the end of the cycle in which you were rank 3 (this one) and in the same way merit decay happens at the end of the cycle they were registered in.I'm confused too.
It says we must earn enough merits to unlock the same ranking next week, yet we carry all merits over each cycle?
Also, where's the cash? I earned by rank 3 but my balance hasn't increased by the promised 500K cr?
I think the merit decay is applied to the value you had at the begining of the previous cycle,
similar to the payout thing in fact.
Which is zero for everybody for the first one.
If you start at Rating 1 and 0 merits and will pay for the reallocation of the actions, you will spend ~90-100M Cr to get 10000 merits. As you are Rating 1 you will get only 1000 Cr during the first cycle only of course.
Then 1/2 of your merits carries over to the next cycle, meaning that you will have 5000 merits carried over and will have to earn 5000 merits. You will pay around ~40M Cr for that and you will get 50M Cr at the next Cycle switch.
During the third Cycle you will have 1/2 of the merits carried over from the Cycle 2 and 1/4 from Cycle 1, i.e. you will have 7500 merits, and you will be lacking 2500 merits to maintain rating 5. This is going to cost you around ~20M Cr and you will earn 50M Cr.
During the fourth Cycle you will have 1/2 of the merits carried over from Cycle 3, 1/4 from Cycle 2 and 1/8 from Cycle 1, i.e. you will have 8750 merits, with 1250 merits lacking to maintain rating 5.
This means that if my understanding of merit decay is correct, starting with Cycle 6 you will be making ~40 Cr per cycle.
C1 = 10k Merits, 95M Cr spent;
C2 = 1/2 x C1 = 5k merits, you need to get 5k merits to maintain 10k merits; 41M Cr spent, 1000 Cr earned;
C3 = 1/2 x C2 + 1/4 x C1 = 5k + 2.5 k, 2.5k merits are required, 20M Cr spent, 50M Cr earned;
C4 = 1/2 x C3 + 1/4 x C2 + 1/8 x C1 = 8.75k merits, 1.25k additional merits are required, 10M Cr spent, 50M Cr earned;
C5 = 1/2 x C4 + 1/4 x C3 + 1/8 x C2 + 0 x C1 = 8.75k merits, 1.25k additional merits are required, 10M Cr spent, 50M Cr earned.
Math from Aleksej during a discussion with a user about the costs of paying for the merits.
only maybe is missing that each rank gives more merits(on prep thingie) i expect them to have lost some from that![]()
Math from Aleksej during a discussion with a user about the costs of paying for the merits.
Week | Amount Spend | Rewards | Net Gain/Loss | Accumulate Gain/Loss | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 | C6 |
1 | 100,000,000 | (100,000,000) | (100,000,000) | 10,000 | ||||||
2 | 50,000,000 | 1,000 | (49,999,000) | (149,999,000) | 5,000 | 5,000 | ||||
3 | 50,000,000 | 50,000,000 | - | (149,999,000) | 2,500 | 2,500 | 5,000 | |||
4 | 62,500,000 | 50,000,000 | (12,500,000) | (162,499,000) | 1,250 | 2,500 | 6,250 | |||
5 | 56,250,000 | 50,000,000 | (6,250,000) | (168,749,000) | 1,250 | 3,125 | 5,625 | |||
6 | 56,250,000 | 50,000,000 | (6,250,000) | (174,999,000) | 1,563 | 2,813 | 5,625 |