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Zunymitshu 29 Jul, 2015 @ 7:13pm
best way to farm merrits / pp?
The main thing I want is to get the 50 mil credit a week dealio, I can get about 15 points every 7 min about by sitting in systems and farming ships, assuming you don't get ganged up on / I can keep this up indefinitely that's 8.5 merits an hour.

8.5 x 15 = 127 credits an hour.

now assuming I get to rank 5 / get the 50 mill bonus, every week I will lose 3k merrits.

so 3kmerits / 127 per hour =23 hours needed to farm the merrits.

now in a type 9 I can easily pull in 7 mil an hour , so if i spent those 23 hours trading instead of merrit farming

23 hours at 7 mill per hour = 161 mill. So i could make 3 times the mony by trading as i could by farming power play / waiting.


this brings me to my main question. what is the best way / is there a better way to farm merrits that makes it worthwhile?
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ArtificialQT 29 Jul, 2015 @ 8:35pm 
Originally posted by Zunymitshu:
this brings me to my main question. what is the best way / is there a better way to farm merrits that makes it worthwhile?

You're already doing it. FDev have said that the main point of Powerplay is to give you an option to get involved in the politics between factions, and not about making money.

You will never make much money, if at all, while doing Powerplay. Some Powers may give you bonuses when performing certain actions, but consider those to be, well, bonuses.
Last edited by ArtificialQT; 29 Jul, 2015 @ 8:36pm
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Zunymitshu 29 Jul, 2015 @ 8:47pm 
Originally posted by A.I.:
Originally posted by Zunymitshu:
this brings me to my main question. what is the best way / is there a better way to farm merrits that makes it worthwhile?

You're already doing it. FDev have said that the main point of Powerplay is to give you an option to get involved in the politics between factions, and not about making money.

You will never make much money, if at all, while doing Powerplay. Some Powers may give you bonuses when performing certain actions, but consider those to be, well, bonuses.

Is there a way to see what the community as a whole is doing w/ powerplay? who cares who runs what? i mean ya , you might get a small trade % boost / this or that w/ said alliance, but really the only thing that seems to be worthwhile is the rank 2 bounty trade in boost. and possibly the module / parts they give you access to. the politics of the game seems pointless, maybe I just don't understand them though.
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ArtificialQT 29 Jul, 2015 @ 8:49pm 
Roleplaying, mostly. The same reason why the Velites Squadron and the Fuel Rats (both are real player groups) do what they do.
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Zunymitshu 29 Jul, 2015 @ 8:53pm 
Originally posted by A.I.:
Roleplaying, mostly. The same reason why the Velites Squadron and the Fuel Rats (both are real player groups) do what they do.

any chance the fuel rats disable your thrusters / weapons and then steal your fuel? because that would make me smile if that ever happend to me.
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ArtificialQT 29 Jul, 2015 @ 8:57pm 
Originally posted by Zunymitshu:
any chance the fuel rats disable your thrusters / weapons and then steal your fuel? because that would make me smile if that ever happend to me.

No, The Fuel Rats are a group of players that decided to band together to set up a fuel rescue community service.

If you're ever stranded in the middle of no-where, out of fuel, and you're hauling precious cargo or exploration data, you can put a call out to them and they'll come to try to help you by transfering fuel to you. They do this out of their own pocket.

There was a write up about them on GalNet a short while ago. I think they usually help out explorers.
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Zunymitshu 29 Jul, 2015 @ 8:59pm 
Originally posted by A.I.:
Originally posted by Zunymitshu:
any chance the fuel rats disable your thrusters / weapons and then steal your fuel? because that would make me smile if that ever happend to me.

No, The Fuel Rats are a group of players that decided to band together to set up a fuel rescue community service.

If you're ever stranded in the middle of no-where, out of fuel, and you're hauling precious cargo or exploration data, you can put a call out to them and they'll come to try to help you by transfering fuel to you. They do this out of their own pocket.

There was a write up about them on GalNet a short while ago. I think they usually help out explorers.


:(
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Visper1an [RU] 30 Jul, 2015 @ 12:15am 
On of the best ways to get merits is to farm ships from another minor fractions.
For example: Im from Empire, so i need to go to any federation territory (maybe Hudson's)
Need to find any controllin systems, and i dat systems find ships, which are serve Hudson
From every ship you will gain 15 merits
Sorry for my bad english)
Last edited by Visper1an [RU]; 30 Jul, 2015 @ 12:15am
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Camel Tony 5 Jan @ 10:56am 
is this still a viable merit farm option ? :steammocking:
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whiterspon 5 Jan @ 11:01am 
Originally posted by ArtificialQT:
Originally posted by Zunymitshu:
any chance the fuel rats disable your thrusters / weapons and then steal your fuel? because that would make me smile if that ever happend to me.

No, The Fuel Rats are a group of players that decided to band together to set up a fuel rescue community service.

If you're ever stranded in the middle of no-where, out of fuel, and you're hauling precious cargo or exploration data, you can put a call out to them and they'll come to try to help you by transfering fuel to you. They do this out of their own pocket.

There was a write up about them on GalNet a short while ago. I think they usually help out explorers.
exactly Holo Commercials Says We Have Fuel You dont Any Problem?? :D
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razor 5 Jan @ 3:05pm 
plat mining. Im level 102
Last edited by razor; 5 Jan @ 3:05pm
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Zunymitshu 5 Jan @ 4:21pm 
since this got necro'd I'll just ask. is the game still pay to win? specifically can you be on the same tier as everyone else without buying dlc? When it came out you basically needed to buy the dlc to stay relevant, they even forced you to interact w/ npc ships that had dlc equipment / upgrades when you didn't purchase the dlc.
Last edited by Zunymitshu; 5 Jan @ 4:22pm
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razor 5 Jan @ 4:33pm 
still play to win? I was never pay to win.
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Zunymitshu 5 Jan @ 4:36pm 
Originally posted by razor:
still play to win? I was never pay to win.
if a game has dlc that isn't free and that payed dlc gives access to stat boost that you can't get without the dlc , and non payed dlc players are forced to interact with the dlc owners, then that's pay to win. or at the very least pay to stay competitive.

when the first dlc came out, if you took 2 players who are as close to equal as in terms of skill / their ships as you could possibly get and then gave one of those players access to the dlc with time to farm it then the player with access to the dlc will have a better ship and be able to more easily beat the non dlc player.
Last edited by Zunymitshu; 5 Jan @ 4:42pm
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Thumper 5 Jan @ 5:21pm 
Platinum mining in a control system worked the best for me.
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Malakyte 6 Jan @ 2:04am 
When you say 127 do you mean 127 or 127K because 127 merits for an hour of bounty hunting is really bad.

Go find a reinforcing system and run trade with over 40% profit or do some core mining. I was core mining last night for about 30 minutes and made 16k merits. Ive seen some people in my PP discord make about 60k core mining because they know how to find asteroids with cores quickly.
Last edited by Malakyte; 6 Jan @ 1:36pm
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