Transport Power Commodities: What Did I Do Incorrectly?

[CMDR Magitek Angel]

Ok Commanders, I'm new at Powerplay so I've been reading everything twice before I act, but I'm a little befuddled here.

I'm pledged to Aisling Duval, and one of my weeklies asks me to transport 11 units of Aisling Programme Materials from Bunda to LFT 926. I also have a weekly to deliver 10 units of Aisling Sealed Contracts to any Reinforcement system, so I figured I'd do both at once. I docked at Bunda, picked up 30 each of Programme Materials and Sealed Contracts from the Power Contact, and trucked them off to Meredith City in LFT 926.

I handed in the Programme Materials to the Power Contact (making sure I didn't get it backwards and hand in the Sealed Contracts), and... nothing. The mission didn't clear, I didn't get the reward merits, and I didn't even get the small amount of per-item merits for the programme materials. The Sealed Contracts are still in my hold, the Programme Materials are not. Does anybody know what my error was?

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

Ok Commanders, I'm new at Powerplay so I've been reading everything twice before I act, but I'm a little befuddled here.

I'm pledged to Aisling Duval, and one of my weeklies asks me to transport 11 units of Aisling Programme Materials from Bunda to LFT 926. I also have a weekly to deliver 10 units of Aisling Sealed Contracts to any Reinforcement system, so I figured I'd do both at once. I docked at Bunda, picked up 30 each of Programme Materials and Sealed Contracts from the Power Contact, and trucked them off to Meredith City in LFT 926.

I handed in the Programme Materials to the Power Contact (making sure I didn't get it backwards and hand in the Sealed Contracts), and... nothing. The mission didn't clear, I didn't get the reward merits, and I didn't even get the small amount of per-item merits for the programme materials. The Sealed Contracts are still in my hold, the Programme Materials are not. Does anybody know what my error was?

Not sure why your location specific mission items didn't work. Did you try a relog? Also, a bug is always possible.

Regarding the Sealed Contracts, LFT 926 isn't a reinforcement system for AD. It is controlled by Yuri and undermined by the smurf, so you can't hand in those commodities there, if I am not mistaken and Inara is correct about the PP status.

 

[CMDR Magitek Angel]

Thanks for the reply. I was able to confirm that the contact in LFT 926 will not accept the Sealed Contracts, you are correct. I delivered those to a reinforcement system for Aisling and recieved the rewards and mission completion as expected. I then relogged (closed the Elite Dangerous application altogether) but the LFT 926 mission still did not clear. I returned to Bunda, picked up exactly 11 Programme Materials this time, as the mission requests, and returned to LFT 926 to turn them in. Again, no mission completion, no per-item merits. For the moment I seem to be stuck!

 

[CMDR Magitek Angel]

Small update: I have now tried delivering Programme Materials to one of the planetary installations with a power contact--same problem: no mission completion, no per-item merits. Bugged or am I missing something obvious? It's the only weekly mission I have yet to complete.

Update 2: turning in Aisling Programme Materials to a Power Contact in a different Grom-controlled Undermining system (Nuenets) also did not yield any per-item merits.

Update 3: I was able to register merits in Nuenets by delivering one Programme (no merits), another one Programme (no merits), and then the rest of my hold (received merits for my remaining Programmes). I had hoped this would solve my problem, but this behavior was not reproducible at LFT 926. I am a little irritated from running hundreds of power commodities back and forth all day trying to solve this problem for almost no reward.

 

[CMDR Magitek Angel]

Alright after reading around a bit it sounds like location-specific PP tasks have been frequently bugged for a number of players, huh?

 

[Weps]

Out of curiosity I tried the same just now from my (different) power and experienced the same outcome. No merits when transferring commodities, even though the interface says I would get 4 merits / ton.

Then I then went to CD-33 8748 and was able to offload there for merits.

I thought maybe it has something to do with the system strength penalty... but it shouldn't round down to 0, should it?

At this moment I can only cry bug. Maybe it's something caused by the recent decay mechanic, which is supposed to be non-linear. Maybe at high values there's a calculation error and it eats into players' control points...?

 

[Ian Doncaster]

The ones reported with either general or intermittent problems are Strongholds, the ones reporting working normally are not.

Could it be something related to that?