Powerplay Recover classified Data, the weekly doesn't make sense

[Fradyan]

I followed exactly what the weekly asked me to do, I collected power data from the data ports of a reinforced system of my power, but when I was about to turn in the data,
the contact told me I was "OUT-OF-RANGE". I tried to visit strongholds and fortified systems of my power to see where I could turn in, but I found everything OUT OF RANGE.
The quest specifies to turn in the data IN THE SAME SYSTEM I took the stuff from.
I made some research and I read that I can't fortify the systems of my own power by stealing data from their settlement -> https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/konfused-about-turning-in-pp-data.630090/post-10490461
It says the data I collected it's trash. It simply doesn't work, a whole hour of work wasted.

Eventually I managed to return a single data that I stole from "only-the-void-remembers" system, It just happened to be in my inventory and when I returned it I counted 1/10. It still doesn't make sense.
I don't understand if I have to stole stuff from reinforced system of MY powerplay or OTHERS, the assignment is not clear and anyway it doesn't work as it is written down.

 

[Straha Yeagar]

The Power data types are:

Power Association Data
Power Classified Data
Power Industrial Data
Power Political Data
Power Research Data

The mission specifies Obtain 10 units of Classified Data, so only Power Classified Data from data ports counts towards the mission. From the mission description, I would go to a system that is in Exploited, Fortified or Stronghold and hunt for Power Classified Data from data ports and then sell those to the Power Contact in the same system I found them in.

Also, mission specified objectives override normal merit activities, so if a mission directs a player to an activity that normally wouldn't count, it will still count for the mission.

 

[Fradyan]

The Power data types are:

Power Association Data
Power Classified Data
Power Industrial Data
Power Political Data
Power Research Data

The mission specifies Obtain 10 units of Classified Data, so only Power Classified Data from data ports counts towards the mission. From the mission description, I would go to a system that is in Exploited, Fortified or Stronghold and hunt for Power Classified Data from data ports and then sell those to the Power Contact in the same system I found them in.

Also, mission specified objectives override normal merit activities, so if a mission directs a player to an activity that normally wouldn't count, it will still count for the mission.

Ye, I specifically got two Power industrial data and 7 Power research data, but when I try to turn them in, in ANY system (strongold, fortified, or the same system I got them) the games always says "out-of-range". The system I got the data from was an exploited one from my own faction.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

t two Power industrial data and 7 Power research data

Yes - these are not Power Classified Data (rare, never found in HAB ports), and those two data types don't work for Reinforcement.

Unfortunately the message you get for those data types is "Out of Range" rather than "Can't be used to Reinforce", which is confusing. Sell those to the bartender - when you pick them up from Acquistion/Undermining systems then you can hand them in to the contact.

 

[Fradyan]

Yes - these are not Power Classified Data (rare, never found in HAB ports), and those two data types don't work for Reinforcement.

Unfortunately the message you get for those data types is "Out of Range" rather than "Can't be used to Reinforce", which is confusing. Sell those to the bartender - when you pick them up from Acquistion/Undermining systems then you can hand them in to the contact.

This is more clear, thanks. Again Frontier has missed some points in the developing list.
I hope to be more careful when these missions show up, their rewards don't worth the time.

 

[Rebel Yell]

Weeklies are like a spinning wheel of fortune... sometimes you get nice/feasible tasks, other times you get broken stuff.

 

[zimms]

Weeklies are like a spinning wheel of fortune... sometimes you get nice/feasible tasks, other times you get broken stuff.

They really are. It's very nice if you get good combos like scan ships, kill enemies and collect salvage. Easy 10k merits in a couple of minutes.

 

[Leadfoot]

Weeklies are like a spinning wheel of fortune... sometimes you get nice/feasible tasks, other times you get broken stuff.

Lately I've gotten a number of the "Destroy ships of enemy powers in $system_name" and when I get there, ready to do damage to the enemies of my power, there are no enemies to be found. And yes, a lot of times I will exit the game and start again and there's still no one interesting there.

 

[zimms]

Lately I've gotten a number of the "Destroy ships of enemy powers in $system_name" and when I get there, ready to do damage to the enemies of my power, there are no enemies to be found. And yes, a lot of times I will exit the game and start again and there's still no one interesting there.

Other than PP signal sources, did you try simply exiting super cruise? Usually either friendly or hostile PP ships will show up.

 

[Leadfoot]

Other than PP signal sources, did you try simply exiting super cruise? Usually either friendly or hostile PP ships will show up.

Actually, I didn't say so in my earlier post but yes I did also try that as well just to see if it would generate some sort instance with that sort of thing in it. No luck.

The usual solution is to exit the game either to the main menu or completely and then restart the game and hope you get a new instance all together.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Lately I've gotten a number of the "Destroy ships of enemy powers in $system_name" and when I get there, ready to do damage to the enemies of my power, there are no enemies to be found. And yes, a lot of times I will exit the game and start again and there's still no one interesting there.

That's definitely one of the most sensitive mission types to the map (the other being reinforcement holo-ads) - you only get enemy powers showing up relatively close to their own space, so systems a long way back from the front lines just don't get any ships you could attack.

 

[Rebel Yell]

Other than PP signal sources, did you try simply exiting super cruise? Usually either friendly or hostile PP ships will show up.

There's a bug, may be it has been reported / ticketed: in practice it seems to happen if you fly in any PP system (i.e. for uMMing) and then you exit back to main menu. When relogging, the whole map shows fully bars under the various controlling powers (or even for contested ones), when that happens, dropping into SC wakes doesn't spawn any PP ship (friendly or enemy) but only NPCs like security, wanted, haulers, etc

 

[zimms]

There's a bug, may be it has been reported / ticketed: in practice it seems to happen if you fly in any PP system (i.e. for uMMing) and then you exit back to main menu. When relogging, the whole map shows fully bars under the various controlling powers (or even for contested ones), when that happens, dropping into SC wakes doesn't spawn any PP ship (friendly or enemy) but only NPCs like security, wanted, haulers, etc

Oh, didn't know about that one. Luckily I haven't experienced (or realized) that one myself yet.

In addition to what Ian has said, it definitely pays off to think about where to log off on a Wednesday evening. "Border" systems are the way to go.

 

[Rebel Yell]

Oh, didn't know about that one. Luckily I haven't experienced (or realized) that one myself yet.

Since I play a lot on/off back to the menu... it happened to me almost immediately at day 1