For everyone who can't read description of the video. THIS IS A BUG WHICH COULD BE FIXED IN THE NEAR FUTURE (and I agree, that FDev should fix it ASAP). MERITS ACQUIRED USING THIS METHOD IS LIKELY TO BE ROLLED BACK TO THE POINT WHERE IT WAS. FDev Issue Tracker already have this bug report, which was acknowledged link - issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/67329
To say that this is 30k per hour, is like making a guide to landing at colonia in 1 minute. sure, the landing part takes a minute, but the preparation, the ship building, the skill and the way back part have to be kind of included in that calculation...
if you outfit a silent plasma pistol with fast handling, you dont need the shotgun inside a building. The pistol fires fast and takes one shot to kill shields (and stun them) and second shot to kill the target.
Did some number crunching, you're getting like 20-25k merits per hour if everything goes correctly but all that isn't taking into account clearing the base and traveling time Also storage space needed for the data
According to math you're getting 90 merits per 10 seconds, 540 per 1 minute, and slightly over 32k per hour, these numbers are made without taking travel time, base clearing and other stuff into account, yes. According to my friends screenshot he did get 36k merits in 1.5 hours, which makes this method possible to achieve 27k per hour
Great guide and good catch with the data ports, when you went to hand in did you encounter the "out of range" msg on your data? No matter where i go i cant hand in all the data
As I mentioned in this video you have to hand it in stations that are within 30 ly from yours power system. But slight remark here, I guess it needs to be in 30 ly from "Fortified" systems, as expansion could be done only if system is in 30 ly range from nearest fortified system.
@@SweetyKek Yeah doing alot of reading, sound like to hand data in has to be within the "strategic view" distance, which is 20ly for Fortified and 30ly for Strongholds. Where i got my data from is right in between about 4 of there bubble but not in any, i think a fortified system is about to become a stronghold so hopping this is correct and can hand in there.
It depends. If your power is already in control (reinforcing) of the system, then the alarm does not get triggered. However, if your power is NOT in control of the system (undermining, acquisition), then downloading the data WILL set off an alarm.
I would rather sit in front of a busy port in my power and scan ships... I could even automate that by triggering cycle target button every few seconds by script and go to sleep.
Depends, 90 Merits for Political / Classified, and 135 Units for Industrial / Research / Association Data PER turn-in. So fill up each with 300 or whatever the maximum is, and you have a nice Payday.
@@KubaxKristallmond The max is 1000 stored if you have no other data. Max you can turn in at once is like 853 or some odd number I think. At least that’s what the power contact shows. Maybe that number is 1000-my current amount of other data
Hope you don't relog in Settlements, because then the whole Instance is cleared of all Loot, including Data. Have to leave the Instance and come back in to have everything reset.
right, i got into it like a month ago and realized if i kept playing and wanted the cool stuff legit i’d have 1000+ hours on ED, they just milk the fan base they have left, especially with the mandalay i thought it was a new ship not a pay to play ship like tf, there’s barely ships and the new one i gotta pay to bug test it??? stupid. it was worth 10$ tho it’s still a nice space sim, just not a fun game lol
@@andrewarmijo6211 Its an arx purchase for early access. all ships are and will be available for credits. There are currently 40 ships in the game, you dont need to play over 1000+ hours to unlock your engineers and farm up your materials they reduced the engineering loop considerably. Large quantities of most of the materials are available via the mission board now for on foot and ship engineering.
Only if you have massive skill issue. Today I earned 6k in hour just defending megaship against pirates. What's mean that after 100h of enjoyable combat I would be pretty close to all interesting unlocks. And it even isnt the best, cause fights around carriers are few times better. PP is about changing political landscape of bubble for months, years. It's marathon, not sprint for ADHD timmies, which need all 12 "special" (majority of them arent worthy any attention) weapons. But people like you will always cry about years of grind.
Yep Power Play 2 is gonna fail. Not because of FDev though. They did a good job. It's because of the players that just want to grind rank and are missing the galactic scale game of cap and hold. Folks are just gonna grind the rabks and then yell it's boring when they get to the end. The ranks and perks are meant to be reward for the continued effort to have your power dominate the map. Folks seem to be playing with little regard to the actual power struggle. I can tell by the ad hacking that they thought people would role play and take pride in their affiliation. I don't know how this game attracted the unimaginative player base that it has. I guess there's some generational aspect to it as well.
True since day update come I got rank 5 only and I was just try make my power better by helping with system from trade to combat to ground mission fighting our enimes and I was happy I made it rank 5 then Boom ppl already rank 100.. I was like wtf... This not elite but they do same thing in all games then they wonder why games aren't fun anymore
@ricobrzenska14 EXACTLY!!! I was just saying to myself the other day I really don't see why people play any games anymore. They don't play them for enjoyment at all. I played like you. I got into the idea of helping my power. I hated seeing somebody else's ad on one of our stations and went and hacked some of my own. 🤣
I'm at rank 6 after a week of trying a little bit of all the different power gameplay, enjoying the journey. I wonder how long the people already at rank 100+ will bother to play it before complaining it's 'boring' and there's nothing new to do?
Module shoppers will disappear in few weeks. People which enjoyed even much less diversity of pp1, and people doing bgs (since new pp provide much more acitvities) will stay.
Im pretty sure there is at least a Power which will exploit that. The same old power. Need to name him? This need to be fixed asap, and rolled back. Shame to those cmdrs who use this dirty trick (although they are shameless).
@Alfien_A keeping it to my self tell I hit 100lv and there's a chance it might drop before then. im not the original one to find it so I won't take credit
You are literally telling your userbase to exploit a clear, obvious exploit that is directly affecting a PVP game mechanic. Don't be surprised when your merits and all your users are revoked when they fix this.
@CMDRArsenCross Frontier has no idea what it's doing. Delivering two years worth of exploration and exobiology data is not an exploit. Now it was nuked generally. 460 million in exploration data gave me 6120 merits. Exobiology is still completely DISABLED. Meanwhile some traders are at 700k+ merits.
@@voidseekersarchive Didn't say that was an exploit. I'm saying they've already punished *others* who have used exploits. No I won't disclose any of them. The method outline in this video is clearly an exploit. It's not a intended game loop. Sure users can do what they want but they should expect to get those merits removed. Maybe Frontier won't remove them, but if they do - users following this guide will be upset/sad. Honestly that's the worst part about this - is it's absolutely mind numbing. People who follow this process and grind out tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of merits only to potentially get that mind-numbingly ridiculous grind nuked when the bug is fixed are going to hate themselves for sitting at terminals doing this over and over again.
@CMDRArsenCross Probably. But Frontier punished explorers as well, for not using any exploits at all, just for playing their game. If everything they do is arbitrary, then nothing matters.
For everyone who can't read description of the video.
THIS IS A BUG WHICH COULD BE FIXED IN THE NEAR FUTURE (and I agree, that FDev should fix it ASAP). MERITS ACQUIRED USING THIS METHOD IS LIKELY TO BE ROLLED BACK TO THE POINT WHERE IT WAS.
FDev Issue Tracker already have this bug report, which was acknowledged
link - issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/67329
Still works
@@paniczkernel Still does
To say that this is 30k per hour, is like making a guide to landing at colonia in 1 minute. sure, the landing part takes a minute, but the preparation, the ship building, the skill and the way back part have to be kind of included in that calculation...
As a heads up, expect all settlement alarms to be in that room 3:23 when you have the layout for the CMD Building it's got.
Even as a bug, it's not that much merits compared to rare goods trading.
The supply of rare goods has tanked, so without a fleet carrier this is far better
imagine having the patience for rare goods
Image having an alergy of stucking in hyperspace jumps...
@@kyrofromgahool2009 what has this to do with the topic of merits farming ?
@@PinkPopcornVR Time bro time... Are you a fan of sitting in hyperspace waiting until it loads ?
if you outfit a silent plasma pistol with fast handling, you dont need the shotgun inside a building. The pistol fires fast and takes one shot to kill shields (and stun them) and second shot to kill the target.
Thanks for reminding me to do some ody content, I need to do at least silencers for tormentor, also some suit upgrades.
Did some number crunching, you're getting like 20-25k merits per hour if everything goes correctly but all that isn't taking into account clearing the base and traveling time
Also storage space needed for the data
According to math you're getting 90 merits per 10 seconds, 540 per 1 minute, and slightly over 32k per hour, these numbers are made without taking travel time, base clearing and other stuff into account, yes. According to my friends screenshot he did get 36k merits in 1.5 hours, which makes this method possible to achieve 27k per hour
@SweetChaosElite no, my dear, this is not how it works.
Everyone else commenting about the bug and here I am wondering how you changed the UI colors between red/yellow/green based on capacity
Its a client mod called EDHM (Elite Dangerous HUD Mod), where you can change all kind of colors, also colors of rings separately.
if it is on foot in the data port then the colors are from ED material helper app
Works fine so far :)
Great guide and good catch with the data ports, when you went to hand in did you encounter the "out of range" msg on your data? No matter where i go i cant hand in all the data
As I mentioned in this video you have to hand it in stations that are within 30 ly from yours power system. But slight remark here, I guess it needs to be in 30 ly from "Fortified" systems, as expansion could be done only if system is in 30 ly range from nearest fortified system.
@@SweetyKek Yeah doing alot of reading, sound like to hand data in has to be within the "strategic view" distance, which is 20ly for Fortified and 30ly for Strongholds. Where i got my data from is right in between about 4 of there bubble but not in any, i think a fortified system is about to become a stronghold so hopping this is correct and can hand in there.
They paused merits gained this way, i fully expect a crippling nerf soon. Unfortunatley :(
Oh here come the "hope you dont get reported " people😂
So you need Odyssey as well to do this type of mission.
How did you change the color of the shield indicator and pips?
EDHM, it can change them separately
Tl;dw?
Whcih part was the bug?
downloading the powerplay data does not trigger alarms, so you can sneak in and sneak out without ever killing anyone
As far as icon have "bell" near it - it will trigger it
It depends.
If your power is already in control (reinforcing) of the system, then the alarm does not get triggered. However, if your power is NOT in control of the system (undermining, acquisition), then downloading the data WILL set off an alarm.
I would rather sit in front of a busy port in my power and scan ships... I could even automate that by triggering cycle target button every few seconds by script and go to sleep.
I don't think FDev will care about all that work for 200 merits.
Pay attention to the earned in the bottom right, they got over 3500
Depends, 90 Merits for Political / Classified, and 135 Units for Industrial / Research / Association Data PER turn-in. So fill up each with 300 or whatever the maximum is, and you have a nice Payday.
@@KubaxKristallmond The max is 1000 stored if you have no other data. Max you can turn in at once is like 853 or some odd number I think. At least that’s what the power contact shows. Maybe that number is 1000-my current amount of other data
ty CMDR o7
Tried all the dataports, never found any data for download. Which system should it be?
Hope you don't relog in Settlements, because then the whole Instance is cleared of all Loot, including Data. Have to leave the Instance and come back in to have everything reset.
one good route of rare goods gives similar or little more merit...
when the supply is actually good yes, now that there is no stations at boom and you get like 1/4th of the supply i doubt it
How about also taking hacking devices from same friendly stattion, how much merits it give then?
It would work, but it uploads for 60 seconds, which is not a fast way though
Thank god this $hitty exploit is being removed.
FDev learn nothing I see. Here we go agoin where to achieve somehting ingame you need exploits, or else it will take YEARS of grind.
Ppl will find way to do everything in one day no matter what
@@ricobrzenska14for Aisling Duval for the first week of pp2 the first place already had a trillion merits.
right, i got into it like a month ago and realized if i kept playing and wanted the cool stuff legit i’d have 1000+ hours on ED, they just milk the fan base they have left, especially with the mandalay i thought it was a new ship not a pay to play ship like tf, there’s barely ships and the new one i gotta pay to bug test it??? stupid. it was worth 10$ tho it’s still a nice space sim, just not a fun game lol
@@andrewarmijo6211 Its an arx purchase for early access. all ships are and will be available for credits. There are currently 40 ships in the game, you dont need to play over 1000+ hours to unlock your engineers and farm up your materials they reduced the engineering loop considerably. Large quantities of most of the materials are available via the mission board now for on foot and ship engineering.
Only if you have massive skill issue.
Today I earned 6k in hour just defending megaship against pirates. What's mean that after 100h of enjoyable combat I would be pretty close to all interesting unlocks.
And it even isnt the best, cause fights around carriers are few times better.
PP is about changing political landscape of bubble for months, years. It's marathon, not sprint for ADHD timmies, which need all 12 "special" (majority of them arent worthy any attention) weapons.
But people like you will always cry about years of grind.
keep in mind that this is a bug and your account can be banned for this activity
Yep Power Play 2 is gonna fail. Not because of FDev though. They did a good job. It's because of the players that just want to grind rank and are missing the galactic scale game of cap and hold.
Folks are just gonna grind the rabks and then yell it's boring when they get to the end. The ranks and perks are meant to be reward for the continued effort to have your power dominate the map. Folks seem to be playing with little regard to the actual power struggle. I can tell by the ad hacking that they thought people would role play and take pride in their affiliation.
I don't know how this game attracted the unimaginative player base that it has. I guess there's some generational aspect to it as well.
True since day update come I got rank 5 only and I was just try make my power better by helping with system from trade to combat to ground mission fighting our enimes and I was happy I made it rank 5 then Boom ppl already rank 100.. I was like wtf...
This not elite but they do same thing in all games then they wonder why games aren't fun anymore
@ricobrzenska14 EXACTLY!!! I was just saying to myself the other day I really don't see why people play any games anymore. They don't play them for enjoyment at all.
I played like you. I got into the idea of helping my power. I hated seeing somebody else's ad on one of our stations and went and hacked some of my own. 🤣
I'm at rank 6 after a week of trying a little bit of all the different power gameplay, enjoying the journey. I wonder how long the people already at rank 100+ will bother to play it before complaining it's 'boring' and there's nothing new to do?
Module shoppers will disappear in few weeks.
People which enjoyed even much less diversity of pp1, and people doing bgs (since new pp provide much more acitvities) will stay.
Fdev will most definitely remove the ranking of these players .
No they won't 😂
@@briangueringer3673 they have done it before over a credit bug .
@@briangueringer3673 They're removing all the merits now.
They have this running for over 2 weeks now, and not one peep adressing the Problem. Despite a fully maxed out Ticket being out and acknowledged.
Aaaaaand it's dead
Power play is doomed until FDev makes the OPEN the only way to score merits ! It's such a shame... I spend hours fighting for ... nothing...
Dont abuse this bug. You may be gamesave wiped/banned.
Report it on the frontier tracker instead.
Im pretty sure there is at least a Power which will exploit that. The same old power. Need to name him?
This need to be fixed asap, and rolled back. Shame to those cmdrs who use this dirty trick (although they are shameless).
Yes, it's worth naming them. Now there are many newcomers to the power play, let them know their heroes.
It's being rolled back, from what I've heard.
@@Sighman negative, just asked my friend, he still have his merits.
Thats slow i know a strat for 76k an hour
We are interested 🤔
@Alfien_A keeping it to my self tell I hit 100lv and there's a chance it might drop before then. im not the original one to find it so I won't take credit
@@sodmadhaven Nah bollocks, spill. This system is painful and FDev done a fat goof. What is it an where?
Pray no one reports you to fdev
You are literally telling your userbase to exploit a clear, obvious exploit that is directly affecting a PVP game mechanic. Don't be surprised when your merits and all your users are revoked when they fix this.
You must be fun at parties.
@@voidseekersarchive Frontier has already nuked merit gains from similar exploits. Just saying don't be surprised if you do this and get nuked too.
@CMDRArsenCross Frontier has no idea what it's doing. Delivering two years worth of exploration and exobiology data is not an exploit. Now it was nuked generally. 460 million in exploration data gave me 6120 merits. Exobiology is still completely DISABLED. Meanwhile some traders are at 700k+ merits.
@@voidseekersarchive Didn't say that was an exploit. I'm saying they've already punished *others* who have used exploits. No I won't disclose any of them. The method outline in this video is clearly an exploit. It's not a intended game loop. Sure users can do what they want but they should expect to get those merits removed. Maybe Frontier won't remove them, but if they do - users following this guide will be upset/sad. Honestly that's the worst part about this - is it's absolutely mind numbing. People who follow this process and grind out tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of merits only to potentially get that mind-numbingly ridiculous grind nuked when the bug is fixed are going to hate themselves for sitting at terminals doing this over and over again.
@CMDRArsenCross Probably. But Frontier punished explorers as well, for not using any exploits at all, just for playing their game. If everything they do is arbitrary, then nothing matters.
It's not fun to watch this video. It contains very little information.
I know what I will do today
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