Powerplay Question for dev! 2.4 Power-play reset.

[Sneake Llama]

Sorry if there is another thread out there about this but I couldbn't find it.

I saw this Steam post recently: http://steamcommunity.com/games/elitedangerous/announcements/detail/2694698722687900954

This quote is making me nervous: "Any Commander with zero merits at this time will be un-pledged. If you wish to remain pledged, all you have to do is earn a single merit by this date."


My question is, what exactly does "earning 1 merit" mean? If you earned, say, 500 merits last week but none this week, are you safe from being un-pledged?

Or is it you have to have merits either in your possession or turned in THIS week.


I am asking because I have earned merits this week, however, I am afraid if I turn them in, that would give me zero merits in my possession, meaning I would be subject to reset. Not sure if the turned in merits count towards "merits earned" to prevent the pledge reset.


I am thinking if you have EVER earned a merit at any point, you would be safe. But seeing as I am trying to gain a module, and if I get reset... i'm going to be extremely upset.

 

[Arkadi]

edit:
ok there is no rating zero. I thinkt Sandro meant if you have one merit it's good. To be on the save side better cash that merit in at your next control system so it counts.

 

[d8veh]

You guys know how to make something simple into something complicated. The only thing that's changed is that if you have zero merits in your account, you'll be automatically unpledged, which is logical because zero merits would mean that you're not active in PP. There's no cost or other penalty to unpledging when you have zero merits, so it makes absolutely no difference to you. if you want to stay pledged with zero merits, you have to do it at the start of each cycle, though i can't think of a reason why anybody would want to do that, as there is no advantage to be pledged without merits.

My guess is that they've done that to protect guys that forgot to unpledge because FD are working on bringing more activity into PP, and it needs to fit the new crime and punishment system. It'll stop all the moaning minnies complaining that they got blown up for nothing when all they did was fly around with a big target on their ship that said "shoot me".