as soon as you pledge you have every other faction after you. Yes, there's advantages with powerplay but the grind to keep them is just too much at the moment.

Dangerous so far and it'll be a long time for me to reach Deadly without some renewed enthusiasm. Yes I can make more credits doing other things besides PowerPlay but all seem highly influenced by my free time and how many in Wing whereas PowerPlay is not.Ĭlick to expand.I found combat to get old very quickly. Since getting into PowerPlay I make 20 mil/month guaranteed which is not something I do in any other form of gameplay in Elite: Dangerous. It's never a constant so it's not something I rely on for steady income.

I've gone in and made 1 million/hour but have also managed over 3 mil/hour twice now. by drop I mean each time you drop into a Hazardous Res. The main reason that I prefer PowerPlay overall is simply because I can maintain a 5 mil credit balance/week guaranteed where Hazardous Res' fluctuate for me. I did it last week and it definitely is not fun as it feels like grinding. Getting top rank in PowerPlay is doable but takes about 10 hours by my estimate. There is also the time to kill ratio which in PowerPlay is far less simply because you're typically killing Haulers, Type 7's, 9's, etc. In Wing you split the bounty in a Hazardous Res but do not split Merits in Powerplay. Powerplay is like a game of Risk within Elite.except you're the little plastic piece on the board rather than the player moving the pieces.I say it takes less time to maintain the PowerPlay income simply because most of the time I play in Wing ranging from 2 to 4 players.

You will not be able to guy any more, but you will retain access to the modules you have and can rebuy them if your ship is destroyed. If you want those wait till you're rich, join the faction and do nothing for 3 weeks.then right before the 4th tick, to buy enough merits to access the modules, wait for the tick, buy a bunch of modules in the various sizes you want and quit. Powerplay factions give you aceess to things like Prismatic Shields, Packhound missiles,advanced plasma accelerators. Powerplay factions are allied with superpowers but are NOT superpowers. You can do either or both at the same time without pledging to anyone and gain access to all the ships. When you gain Fed or Imp rank running missions, you're not participating in powerplay. there is a difference between factions and superpowers. There are specific rewards in PP but I think (not sure) its a measured choice between those rewards and freedom of movement.Īlso is anaconda ship available to anyone, or is it a faction access So if you want more freedom to fly where you like then dont? seems to be what your saying.

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