Me too. I did use the plunger though. My computer room is too hot to play Elite, the fans are already doing my head in browsing the internets.
Powerplay The great un-pledged...
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Me too. I did use the plunger though. My computer room is too hot to play Elite, the fans are already doing my head in browsing the internets.
Have I pledged? No, and most likely never will.
Why? There are several reasons, none of which are unique to me. I don't care about the politics of the galaxy or who controls what space, I don't care to be a cog in their machine, and I really don't care to be hostile to the other 90% of inhabited space.
Have I changed where I base myself? Yes, although I was looking for a new home before Powerplay was released. Powerplay just added another criteria to my search: be in uncontrolled space.
Are there benefits to being unpledged? I can take advantage of all the passive bonuses like discounted outfitting, but otherwise continue playing the game as I did before Powerplay was released.
Why? There are several reasons, none of which are unique to me. I don't care about the politics of the galaxy or who controls what space, I don't care to be a cog in their machine, and I really don't care to be hostile to the other 90% of inhabited space.
Have I changed where I base myself? Yes, although I was looking for a new home before Powerplay was released. Powerplay just added another criteria to my search: be in uncontrolled space.
Are there benefits to being unpledged? I can take advantage of all the passive bonuses like discounted outfitting, but otherwise continue playing the game as I did before Powerplay was released.
I was pledged to Hudson in hopes to earn some credits (or actually ANYTHING valueable) from him. Great, immense, huge disappointment. 1 merit for killing a conda or a sidey ... not worth my time, attention, not even worth me touching the ED button on my screen.
After waiting for combat oppotunities to earn merits in a acceptable way or at a acceptable rate, nothing happened. Left Hudson and now I shoot ships in combat zones. good money. Around 1 mio/hour when farming in a relaxed way. No it is not shooting ships to help the federation take control over systems, it is grinding and farming credits, ship by ship, over and over again, 30 minutes a day and I get bored. After that I am looking for missions and if no worthy missions are available, I log off and take a look later.
Repeat this every day so I can combat fit my FDL somewhen. When I archieve this is up to FD.
After waiting for combat oppotunities to earn merits in a acceptable way or at a acceptable rate, nothing happened. Left Hudson and now I shoot ships in combat zones. good money. Around 1 mio/hour when farming in a relaxed way. No it is not shooting ships to help the federation take control over systems, it is grinding and farming credits, ship by ship, over and over again, 30 minutes a day and I get bored. After that I am looking for missions and if no worthy missions are available, I log off and take a look later.
Repeat this every day so I can combat fit my FDL somewhen. When I archieve this is up to FD.
Last time I checked the powers were mere names on paper. No personality, no values that I could relate myself with.
Not pledged - I don't get to play for long enough to warrant getting to grips with the PP mechanics - it feels like a totally separate sub-game bolted on. Like someone tacked a table-top war game on to a space trading and combat game.
Even if I had more time to play I haven't much interest in the politics or 'control' aspects of PP - it just doesn't interest me. I just don't care who controls certain systems etc. I'd be way more interested in all-out war between the Empire and Federation for example. Or a Thargoid invasion (coming, I'm sure).
Elite, to me, is about Combat, Exploration and Trade - PP seems like a needless distraction to those core game elements, designed purely to make the game feel more MMO-like.
The sad thing is that the fuss Frontier make about PP makes me feel less attached to the game overall, coupled with the endless bugs since it was introduced - I'd been really enjoying it until the 1.3 update. I've not played as much since.
Even if I had more time to play I haven't much interest in the politics or 'control' aspects of PP - it just doesn't interest me. I just don't care who controls certain systems etc. I'd be way more interested in all-out war between the Empire and Federation for example. Or a Thargoid invasion (coming, I'm sure).
Elite, to me, is about Combat, Exploration and Trade - PP seems like a needless distraction to those core game elements, designed purely to make the game feel more MMO-like.
The sad thing is that the fuss Frontier make about PP makes me feel less attached to the game overall, coupled with the endless bugs since it was introduced - I'd been really enjoying it until the 1.3 update. I've not played as much since.
I was away on business when PP was in late beta and when it launched, came back a couple of days after it went live in fact, so after reading up on the concept on my off-hours I signed up with Li Yong-Rui. It felt right at the time. Then it started to dawn on me just how much I would have to bend over backwards to get the 200% bonus to exploration data, and how it would be useless if I didn't take some risks by flying around with it.
So I took the half day cooldown with stride and went with Arissa Lavigny-Duval and fiddled around with what you could do within the PP framework, which also gave me a good vibe. However after struggling a bit with why my motivation to sign in during the weekend for an extended session was dwindling, I came to the conclusion that PP simply wasn't my cup of tea. It didn't taste of Oolong, at all. So I unpledged.
I have not relocated more than I usually do when in colonized space, as I tend to wander around quite a bit. But I am avoiding Zemina Torval's area of influence, the miner in me carries a grudge against her passive, unless I'm just misunderstanding that particular effect.
Not noting any particular benefits, but no drawbacks either to be honest. Of course, you can purchase ships and components cheaper in some places, but other than that it feels like a status quo.
An update launched, there were new ships, a few bugfixes and a few bugs, some new feature was added and I just carried on carrying on. I suppose community goals that end with ship discounts have gone through the Cambrian Ordovician extinction-event though, with the now permanent passive discounts. But that's just speculation on my part.
Fly safe.
So I took the half day cooldown with stride and went with Arissa Lavigny-Duval and fiddled around with what you could do within the PP framework, which also gave me a good vibe. However after struggling a bit with why my motivation to sign in during the weekend for an extended session was dwindling, I came to the conclusion that PP simply wasn't my cup of tea. It didn't taste of Oolong, at all. So I unpledged.
I have not relocated more than I usually do when in colonized space, as I tend to wander around quite a bit. But I am avoiding Zemina Torval's area of influence, the miner in me carries a grudge against her passive, unless I'm just misunderstanding that particular effect.
Not noting any particular benefits, but no drawbacks either to be honest. Of course, you can purchase ships and components cheaper in some places, but other than that it feels like a status quo.
An update launched, there were new ships, a few bugfixes and a few bugs, some new feature was added and I just carried on carrying on. I suppose community goals that end with ship discounts have gone through the Cambrian Ordovician extinction-event though, with the now permanent passive discounts. But that's just speculation on my part.
Fly safe.
Not pledged, not going to pledge, I find the whole idea completely insane, why would I pledge a power only to be locked off from 9/10ths of the rest of space. And for what a grind? I don't think so.
And from a RP reason it's odd, it's like the powers are technically at open war but not really. The whole thing is an absolute mess.
And from a RP reason it's odd, it's like the powers are technically at open war but not really. The whole thing is an absolute mess.
Thanks once again for ALL your answers.
The detailed ones which answer the full 3 questions are particularly useful in determining what CMDRs are actually thinking about PP and how you are all negotiating The Elite Universe while remaining un-pledged.
J
The detailed ones which answer the full 3 questions are particularly useful in determining what CMDRs are actually thinking about PP and how you are all negotiating The Elite Universe while remaining un-pledged.
J
In that case...
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I have not changed where I am based
I pretty much pledged at random because I have no idea who the Powers are had little interest in finding out. I didn't enjoy my experience and instead of unpledging I went one better and uninstalled the game (which I suppose could be considered unpledging).
As other have said, I get more pleasure from reading the forums these days.
As other have said, I get more pleasure from reading the forums these days.
Here's hoping, you don't feel in any way that Elite has made a monkey out of you CMDR!
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Check out my suggestion for curing this issue:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=162852
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Pledged. Ground a few missions. Realised I had painted a large target on my head. Unpledged.
I'm more Han Solo than Pizza boy.
I'm more Han Solo than Pizza boy.
So, maybe wait and see how it develops, I get the feeling a few CMDRs are feeling that way.
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you dont get locked out of anything where did you hear that i just spent most of the day in another factions space no problems maybe if you understood what PP is about you would play it you dont get restricted where you can go
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PP is the great Un-Asked-For, Un-wanted addition to ED so I have steered clear of the nonsense.
Tried it in Beta, thought it was an ill-conceived waste of time & effort (and development resources (IMHO)).
Waiting for the stuff that they show in the adverts, capital ship battles, people walking around in space stations, planetary landings.
PP is politics in a game...hardly inspiring...YAWN.
Happily grinding my credits without 90% of other folks after me.
Tried it in Beta, thought it was an ill-conceived waste of time & effort (and development resources (IMHO)).
Waiting for the stuff that they show in the adverts, capital ship battles, people walking around in space stations, planetary landings.
PP is politics in a game...hardly inspiring...YAWN.
Happily grinding my credits without 90% of other folks after me.
this is a fact an honest one you dont get intercepted anymore than you do trading and its 99% npc which is easy to deal with another player that has missed the concept completely your lost i will be using my new weapons tomorow please dont cry if i disrupt your ship with my new meduim weapons
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Brrrrrrr, he's using his new medium weapons tomorrow, make way guys!
Give up son, you're making a fool out of yourself.
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