Major faction reputation expires quite quickly over the course of a month, and to maintain ranks in powerplay you must rake in more and more merits each week by running fetchquests that don't even have much of a quest? Why do you hate people who have other interests beside this game? There's that distinct smell of microtransactions in the air: "keep your rank for only 100 Lave Coins!"
Why the hate for people who don't play all the time?
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The rewards at the higher tiers of powerplay are huge, and only the most dedicated players should be receiving them. if we gave everyone 50m a week for participating long enough, we would need more than a 10% module sell penalty to counteract all that income.
And then all of those people who didn't participate in powerplay would be out of luck with all the money sinks and everyone else getting their anaconda after a month.
And then all of those people who didn't participate in powerplay would be out of luck with all the money sinks and everyone else getting their anaconda after a month.
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No, it's very obviously about punishing people who don't. If they wanted to reward people, they'd give them something like a "thanks for doing 20 missions" bonus. A reward is a "repayment for some service". If you take stuff away that you have awarded previously, that's a punishment; might as well send a message to affected players stating that, since they were so lazy and obviously fat, the time they put in was so meaningless that they would please not bother anymore.
Where is that relevant? The point is that someone who doesn't play a lot each week, every week, just won't progress at all. Go on vacation and you can kiss your Powerplay rating goodbye. Be bored of the game for a month and you might as well never have grinded all that tasty major faction reputation. That way, I can't even work towards a goal because most of my work is going away come Friday! That's microtransaction moneysink behaviour with an added mafia don looking at you going "that's a nice heap of merits right there, would be a shame if anything happened to it", but FD don't even have that option open (yet). All I'd get from signing up for a faction right now is additional aggro from overenthusiastic AI ships.