Let us set our ships to automatically fill up with whatever powerplay macguffin, even while afk and even when we are logged out! Powerplay would totally be fun and good if it was something that casual players that could maybe only do one run a day could engage in to get a steady income from their focused efforts.
Small Powerplay idea that would make it more fun and good for casual schlubs
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Powerplay is designed to stop players doing that - that is why fast tracking costs money & you have to press the button. The best way to make it more appealing imho would be to provide alternatives to hauling Power Commodities for Fortification & provide cosmetic rewards such as medals for commanders reaching certain milestones.
1. That's fine if they designed it that way. I think that was a bad decision.
2. It probably had more to do with technical expediency than a focused design decision regardless of what the community managers said publicly about it.
3. Fast tracking would still amplify a player's ability to affect the game state because it would give a single dedicated commander the ability to truck more goods faster.
As a stopgap measure to make this sane for someone who wants to do some Powerplay but who doesn't work from home, I guess I'll just have to set up a remote desktop share so that I can ping the button remotely from my phone, but that's quite a lot of metagame effort to achieve a goal that should be relatively simple.
Maybe to balance, make it a choice where we can set an option "fill my ship up with powerplay goods plx", and that will prevent undocking as your ship is slowly loaded up, something analogous to ship/module transfer...
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