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Hootman 12 Nov @ 7:15pm
My first Powerplay grinding gripe...
Ok...power weekly mission....scan Megaships in Reinforcement systems. First I had to figure out that it was Exploited-Reinforcement systems. Fortified-Reinforcement systems appear to be a no-go...still learning, no problem.

So since I'm not interested in randomly jumping into the Exploited-Reinforcement systems for a crap shoot finding Megaships, I used Inara to locate the Megaships list, and used Inara again to locate my power systems and their state (Exploited-Reinforcing), bounced the first list (Megaship location) starting with the closest Megaship system against the second list (Power systems-Exploited), and once I found a match, bounce that against the Power tab in right panel on they power system map. If they jive, look at the system to verify it's Exploited-Reinforcement.

So head to the system, honk first, then hit the Nav Beacon. Unfortunately, no joy. So had to go to the FSS, and this was a system with 20 bodies. Took me about 5-10 minutes, and finally found the Megaship, proceeded there, scanned the ship, and scanned the two ship log links, for a total of 2 out of the 8 required.

I've never been one to complain about grinding, and I don't mind doing this. I get the scenario, they want to know who's in that system and what they're up to, to build a database and track these potential neer do wells.

But it appears I'm going to have to do that process 4 times to get 8 scans. Of course, I could search and dig a little deeper and find a system that has 2 Megaships or more to lighten the workload.

But is it just me, or does maybe that needs to be cut down to 4 (2 ships x 2 logs each).

I want to get in the habit of completing the weekly grind, but not sure if even I have the patience to repeat this process 4 times.

I'm trying to "spread out the grind" like I do with other grinds / find a way to make it less of a grind, but this one is REALLY going to annoy me, I think.

Is there a better way of doing this? I understand sometimes you luck out and get the Megaship with the Nav Beacon scan, but that's going to be hit and miss, no?
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"courage" 19 Dec @ 5:51am 
Got my first megaship scan weekly today.

The only system Inara gave me was Munshin and it was in the Fortified-Reinforcement state. Got my first out of eleven scans just now, scanned the ship and it's log uplink with data scanner. Exploited, Fortified and Stronghold states = Reinforcement state. They are different levels of reinforcement achieved by a power in a system.

I guess it's exploration casino time for me now. eh?

UPD: yep, it's exploration casino. Thanks for sharing how to do this
Last edited by "courage"; 19 Dec @ 6:07am
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Sighman 19 Dec @ 7:09am 
I use Inara, jump into suitable systems, hit up the nav beacon. If a megaship doesn't reveal itself I jump to the next system.

I've scanned maybe 50 megaships as part of my weeklies since PP began.
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"courage" 19 Dec @ 8:33am 
I just hit a system with 10 High grade emissions it it.

I think I've won the casino. This weekly is dope.
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Sighman 19 Dec @ 8:36am 
Originally posted by "courage":
I just hit a system with 10 High grade emissions it it.

I think I've won the casino. This weekly is dope.

Yep and they spawn over 200 G5 materials each.
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ZenZone1 19 Dec @ 11:57am 
In the previous PP daily tasks, i completed the megaships scans last and boy was it really last; completed the last scan by the last minute before the server maintenance. I was running out of time, thought i couldn't make it but persevered tenaciously till the very last minute with no time to dock - just exit to the main menu next to the megaship.

https://youtu.be/joEsPOMI5Hc?si=M6lSjO9GaRHdcI2Z

The above song played in my mind when i was vacillating between giving up and giving it all.

It took me so long because i changed ships from Sidewinder to Eagle and finally the Viper Mk III. Never did megaship missions before PP 2.0 except a few times from the mission boards along time ago. It was dangerous; got attacked after the scans. I thought this was going to dangerous too, that's why i started in the Sidewinder. I thought a smaller ships can avoid detection better. Turns out it wasn't necessary this time and my ships weren't running sufficiently cold to avoid detection. They were running only below 30% heat; not very good i suppose.

I found only 1 megaship at the first 5 systems because i was looking for low security ones. Yeah that took a lot of time looking for them in the galaxy map and flying to each system. A few have no megaship in them. Finally i look into medium security ones. In 1 system there was 2 but i needed 3 more and time was running out. So i decided to go for the big ones; high security with high populations - in the Viper. I got lucky found one with 3 mega.

Got to work real fast, fly right, no mistakes. Actually made 1 mistake and crashed into the comm array. Luckily it wasn't so bad; didn't deplete my shields and didn't bounce too much. Scanned and boost to the next and the next. Made it with only seconds to spare. In my mind i thought there should be an achievement for 'completion by a hair'.
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