Should you decide to spend a part of your rank 5 salary on fast tracking fortifications you take the most comfortable rout to maintain rank 5. It is nothing wrong with this, but please try to fortificate only systems that have not met the trigger for succesful fortification yet - else your efforts would be wasted for your power - and this would be a shame, wouldn't it?
You also can decide to ship your fortifications only to the nearest controlsystem, regardless if the trigger is met or not and grind the fastest possibel way to earn your cash. But dont be offended if you will be called a useless grinder then.
You also can scout the powerplay map for the most profitabel systems your power could expand to - mind though that you have to substract the overhead count from the shown CC profit on the map and also on the side-tab. This means that actually many systems that show positive CC-values actually are lossmaking systems. If you chose to prepare a system you can apply the same fast-track system as with fortifications.
If you like fighting, you can try to undermine - but best try it only in anarchy systems until you are shure you know what you do - or shoot your way through expansions or oppose enemy expansions. But mind that for many powers (mostly the combat oriented ones) expansions are bugged and as much fun as shooting sitting ducks.
And if you would like to commit yourself to a powerplay community - dont hesitate and look into the according reddit page of your faction and see if there are still some active members there.
Take care and always remember: great power also brings with it great responsibility!
You also can decide to ship your fortifications only to the nearest controlsystem, regardless if the trigger is met or not and grind the fastest possibel way to earn your cash. But dont be offended if you will be called a useless grinder then.
You also can scout the powerplay map for the most profitabel systems your power could expand to - mind though that you have to substract the overhead count from the shown CC profit on the map and also on the side-tab. This means that actually many systems that show positive CC-values actually are lossmaking systems. If you chose to prepare a system you can apply the same fast-track system as with fortifications.
If you like fighting, you can try to undermine - but best try it only in anarchy systems until you are shure you know what you do - or shoot your way through expansions or oppose enemy expansions. But mind that for many powers (mostly the combat oriented ones) expansions are bugged and as much fun as shooting sitting ducks.
And if you would like to commit yourself to a powerplay community - dont hesitate and look into the according reddit page of your faction and see if there are still some active members there.
Take care and always remember: great power also brings with it great responsibility!
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If you have a Cutter, I think 50 million and 8 trips will see you sorted for maintenance. Of course, you won't get the 50 million salary until the week after you're Rating 5, so next week you'll either have to front it yourself, or push 5334 merits another way.
Thanks! Crime sweeps are pp conflict zones that appear in ald expansion systems
Ahh, in which case you are riding the current bug for Hudson/ALD expansions where the AI can't be bothered to fight back. Since 2.1 hit, any Hudson/ALD expansion cannot be opposed due to this bug, and any Hudson/ALD pledge with a ship full of turrets can get their weekly merits whilst reading a book.
Enjoy it while it lasts (probably a fair amount of time, based on the current rate of bug-fixes for Powerplay).
Enjoy it while it lasts (probably a fair amount of time, based on the current rate of bug-fixes for Powerplay).
500k for 50t. I usually do 8 or 9 fort/prep runs in a 450t T9 which costs me 30 - 35m depending on how many free batches I can be bothered to wait for while I do something else. So I make 15 - 20m profit at the end of the week. I top that off with a couple of hours undermining to ensure I'm over 10k and help a mate maintain his rank 4.
If you do a lot of bounty hunting then the rank 5 bonus pays much more than the weekly salary.
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Not true. You can still oppose a Hudson/Delaine/ALD expansion by fighting in the crime sweep (or equivalent site) yourself, where the bug will work in your favour too, or by undermining. Whether you can muster enough pilots to defeat the expansion is your issue and nothing to do with this bug.
Good to know. I was not aware that the bug went both ways (been too busy forting and sniping to even look at going to any combat expansions).