for me there was a time when powerplay was fun, thats i think 2 years back now.
we had a serious reward under hudson and ALD, that made it rewarding and fun.. it was fun, because allot of other players were doing the same, and not just dumping their fortifycation stuff at groombridge..
after they had nerfed that bonus, it became worthless and not rewarding. getting that rank 5 was hard work!
i tried it again a month back, and trying to get rank 5 by doing the undermining galore.. the amount of merits i gained was pityfull, and didnt enjoy the play session at all.
now im just pledged for RP..
also the one who thought it was a good idea to buy the fortifycation commodities depending on their rank is not playing it theirselfs!
who wouldnt make a macro for that?!?!?!
PS... this should be in dangerous discussion.. nobody visits the powerplay section of the forum anymore... its DEAD!
we had a serious reward under hudson and ALD, that made it rewarding and fun.. it was fun, because allot of other players were doing the same, and not just dumping their fortifycation stuff at groombridge..
after they had nerfed that bonus, it became worthless and not rewarding. getting that rank 5 was hard work!
i tried it again a month back, and trying to get rank 5 by doing the undermining galore.. the amount of merits i gained was pityfull, and didnt enjoy the play session at all.
now im just pledged for RP..
also the one who thought it was a good idea to buy the fortifycation commodities depending on their rank is not playing it theirselfs!
who wouldnt make a macro for that?!?!?!
PS... this should be in dangerous discussion.. nobody visits the powerplay section of the forum anymore... its DEAD!
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It was. It got mod-moved here to die alone.
I gather from your comments you are pledged to Hudson. There is still an active playerbase, albeit not as big as it once was, we have just moved to discord. I can maintain my rank 5 in 4 hours a week, of course ymmv. If you'd like to join the rest of us. Here is your invite link. https://discord.gg/tjcTmWn
Hilarious! 5:30 onward:
"and we are left here to deal with it, like some unpayed intern in EA - or a slave - witchever is worse..."
powerplay... and the funny thing is, while I agree with not everything in the vid - but many things - it's still the best part of the game for me...
is this sad? am i a pervert?
I start to wonder.
"and we are left here to deal with it, like some unpayed intern in EA - or a slave - witchever is worse..."
powerplay... and the funny thing is, while I agree with not everything in the vid - but many things - it's still the best part of the game for me...
is this sad? am i a pervert?
I start to wonder.
Well like any other sort of pervert: you're hardly alone.
Be it merit activities, or ancillaries like PvP or Power-related BGS, there's still quite a lot of people involved in Powerplay. Just extrapolating from my Power I guess I'd wager a couple hundred in the organized portions of each of the 4 largest. No idea for the "random/silent" portion.
The people assuming it's genuinely dead either a) require very high numbers to consider something alive at all, or b) are taking the emptiness of this subforum - which never was remotely busy compared to the outside PP community (because it didn't exist for the first four months) - as evidence.
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Power Play used to be really enjoyable. There was always conflict and suspense. I think that's gone now because too many powers are playing patty-cake and much of the community doesn't seem to be interested in it all besides getting weapons and ships. There has to be a greater purpose than weapons and ships because after you get them, then what?
I didn't mind the fortification/undermining grind when there was a joint player cause larger than myself. Now it seems like everybody is largely all about "Self," except the Alliance and that's why they are always in the lead.
I think it's going to take those aliens to finally appear and start wrecking ships and systems or everybody to finally realize what the Alliance is about to bring some life back to it all.
Me and my group have decided to retire to a life of honest labor until these things happen. I'm a billionaire and if it where possible like in X2, I'd start my own company.
So to all you groups we fought off in and around the Savi system, it's all yours after this cycle ends. If you support Democracy, the ground work is just there for you to take up. If you want to establish and speed Anarchy, I suggest influencing Lao Yano first and spreading.
If you want to catch me, I'll likely be mining somewhere or completely out of this game enjoying the Spring and Summer months.
I didn't mind the fortification/undermining grind when there was a joint player cause larger than myself. Now it seems like everybody is largely all about "Self," except the Alliance and that's why they are always in the lead.
I think it's going to take those aliens to finally appear and start wrecking ships and systems or everybody to finally realize what the Alliance is about to bring some life back to it all.
Me and my group have decided to retire to a life of honest labor until these things happen. I'm a billionaire and if it where possible like in X2, I'd start my own company.
So to all you groups we fought off in and around the Savi system, it's all yours after this cycle ends. If you support Democracy, the ground work is just there for you to take up. If you want to establish and speed Anarchy, I suggest influencing Lao Yano first and spreading.
If you want to catch me, I'll likely be mining somewhere or completely out of this game enjoying the Spring and Summer months.
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I still have the dream that they will remake it completely due to the madness of the design.
- All factions are enemies even when their ETHOS work together (Hudson and Aisling Duval are both anti slavery since the federation makes it illegal by default)
- Imperial factions can fight Arissa Lavigny-Duval...is that not TREASON since she is the Empress?
- The EMPRESS, and the EMPIRE is a PP faction which means the EMPIRE literally invades system of other major factions to "liberate them" from corruption...Sorry, but should not realpolitik take effect here and have Major Faction warfare?
- Same for the Federation
- ALL factions are murderous fanatics and we get points for killing other factions, even when there is no POINT in the blatant hatred?
- ALL factions have the same simple mechanics
- Pirate warlord should be focused in controlling anarchy systems and influence and STEAL other neighbouring systems PP income
- Pirate warlord systems should be HIDDEN from non members since criminals work behind the scenes
- Should major faction leaders be allowed to be PP factions or does Major Factions no longer APPLY in the game.
I get the impression it would be better to REMOVE major factions and ONLY have PP factions to get the image of a divided humanity OR have PP factions NOT have major faction control to make it a LITTLE more realistic.
- And do not get me started on the continued secrecy and impossibility of no-one managing reverse engineering of faction weapons.
- All factions are enemies even when their ETHOS work together (Hudson and Aisling Duval are both anti slavery since the federation makes it illegal by default)
- Imperial factions can fight Arissa Lavigny-Duval...is that not TREASON since she is the Empress?
- The EMPRESS, and the EMPIRE is a PP faction which means the EMPIRE literally invades system of other major factions to "liberate them" from corruption...Sorry, but should not realpolitik take effect here and have Major Faction warfare?
- Same for the Federation
- ALL factions are murderous fanatics and we get points for killing other factions, even when there is no POINT in the blatant hatred?
- ALL factions have the same simple mechanics
- Pirate warlord should be focused in controlling anarchy systems and influence and STEAL other neighbouring systems PP income
- Pirate warlord systems should be HIDDEN from non members since criminals work behind the scenes
- Should major faction leaders be allowed to be PP factions or does Major Factions no longer APPLY in the game.
I get the impression it would be better to REMOVE major factions and ONLY have PP factions to get the image of a divided humanity OR have PP factions NOT have major faction control to make it a LITTLE more realistic.
- And do not get me started on the continued secrecy and impossibility of no-one managing reverse engineering of faction weapons.
I think Archon needs to have a megaship instead, so they fly about causing mayhem, or have several rival pirate clans with different megaships rather than have systems to control. So, each week the megaship parks up in a new random location and they have a CG to plunder as much as possible.
Maybe have a plunder CG between clans? Whoever plunders the most is Pirate Lord for the week
Maybe have a plunder CG between clans? Whoever plunders the most is Pirate Lord for the week
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We are working on removing all the patty-cakes
I think Archon needs to have a megaship instead, so they fly about causing mayhem, or have several rival pirate clans with different megaships rather than have systems to control. So, each week the megaship parks up in a new random location and they have a CG to plunder as much as possible.
Maybe have a plunder CG between clans? Whoever plunders the most is Pirate Lord for the week
I could live with this.
o7 In place of prepping systems, you could also prep destinations, so if you fancied popping into Achenar or Sol you could simply by prepping that system, or maybe have it so its inbound prep so its a pirate collecting data. With this idea Archon then becomes like the barbarians in the Civ games.
Thats a great idea, expands on optional PP work giving abilities that arent essential, but are unique & beneficial. Also, I havent played it for years, but I always disabled barbarians in civ games.. No metaphors here, nothing to see..
Another idea: instead of fortification, you have to fuel the megaship- so at some point you would need a CG to refuel them.
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The video was removed because of that one little comment? That's stupid, but whatever...
Anyway, Yamiks, I loved the video.
Seriously, powerplay is depressingly bad. That part about "you can literally feel the game killing you"... right on target.
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