Co-operative play leads to 50M CR payout!

[ArithonUK]

Since PowerPlay was launched I haven't really enjoyed interacting  with that aspect of the game.

I tried when 1.3 was first released; we all  pledged allegiance to Edmund Mahon, because his faction primarily  awarded people who traded. But with poor trade routes in the Alliance and little other benefit (and plenty of penalty - being hostile everywhere).

So,  after a quick defection and a brief stint with Aisling Duvall where I attained rank three, so  that I could purchase Prismatic Shields, I have abstained from PowerPlay  until now...

On Monday I went into the Mobius group team speak server and chatting  with some of the friendly commanders there, I was advised that if I was  pledged to Arissa Lavigny-Duval I could attain 10,000 merit points in  one week and gain rank five easily. With her faction not only would rank  five come with a 50 million credit weekly pay cheque, but it would also  give me 100% additional bounties when bounty hunting!

Sounds impossible. A bit like  saying "go to the moon it's only a two day drive" (gloss over the hard part). So can it be done? Well, PowerPlay cycles on Thursday, so I  had Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday evening to attain 10,000 PowerPlay points from scratch. Now I'm in full-time work, so only have 3 to 4 hours in an evening to play Elite.

Challenge Accepted!

How does it work? Well, I signed up with Ms Duval’s faction, I then  flew to one of the two systems in expansion from the Galactic Powers  interface and found a contact in the system named “Crime Sweep”, which  is like a combat zone, but the opposing side is always the local system  defence who you are there to suppress on behalf of Ms Duval. You just  fly around and kill every ship that's red on your radar - don't hit the  green ones! Once you've finished in the zone, jump to a Controlled or  Exploited system and hand in the combat merits to convert to PowerPlay  points. You also get paid at this point, but the reward is 100CR per  merit (I think) so it only covers ammo costs really.

One of the key elements to my success was being able to wing up with various commanders in the Mobius Group who helped me take down ships at a very rapid  pace - this is where co-operative play in Wings excels. Each ship you kill, regardless of size or difficulty, awards you  10 PowerPlay merits and playing as a group gives 10 to all the commanders in the Wing that hit the target, regardless of who gets the kill. It is therefore easy to wrack up between 1,000 and  2,000 merits per hour which meant that on my first day - Monday between  7pm and 10pm I gained 3,100 merits. By 11pm on Tuesday I had 6,910  merits and a little after 12pm last night I had managed to attain 10,030  merits!

This meant I would have rank five today when PowerPlay does its  weekly cycle; now I stand to gain a 50 million credit pay out at the  end of the cycle! Not to mention of course double bounties in the coming  week!!!

 Can it be done? YES! Was it hard? NO. How long did it take you? A  little over nine hours. Was it worth it? In my ‘Conda I can make  millions per night trading, but not 50M in three days and on top of that  I have the bounties I’ll make in the coming week doubled, so YES!

Even a player in a fairly basic Viper could have joined in over the  last three days and be looking at a Python-sized payout by the end of  the cycle. Now that’s cool.

Obviously PowerPlay is a weekly cycle, so I jumped in on the wagon four days late, so my three days were intense. Had I done this over seven days, an hour a day would've got me there. Since I only need 5,000 per week to keep my new rank, three hours a week for 50M CR + 100% extra bounty seems like a non-grindy way to have fun and roll in money!

[Ranualf]

Great stuff WELCOME TO ALD.

You missed the bit where the pay cheque is a week in arrears.
Thus you will get your pay next week.. I however will receive mine.. just as soon as i finish downloading Elite (and many other games) onto the new rig.
Additionally you will gain substantial points into your combat prowess rank, as the ships in the Crime sweeps are quite hard (don't jump in alone, unless brave or foolish..).

There is usually at least 3 or 4 fellow commanders wanting to wing up at any time during the week for merit grind or RES hunting, which makes for nice play.
Its the same for trading, always some one willing to wing up and do the slave run. An easy 100k bonus per trip for anyone in your wing, and it soon ads up with the 1 jump mass haulers (Anaconda skinny build). And the credits quickly rack up.
We even do AFK cash farming (so long as you don't take the pee) to help our new commanders out a lot. As each player will drop 62k+ for 1 jump. Meaning the new guy is going to get 186k every 10 mins for doing nothing, or even just tailing us and "guarding" the cargo (you will need a 19ly jump to keep up).

There has been quite a few fellow commanders join in the last few weeks. And like i posted then, anyone is more than welcome to join us (we dont bite... much) and have a good lark about..

Fly safe and earn 50 million CR in a few hours .. bring your cobra.

[albert]

A lot to take in but very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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[Ranualf]

A lot to take in but very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Not really complex Albert.

Just the usual sign up for a power play faction.
Go to the expansion tab, click the system on map button (on the bottom).
Plot your nav to get there, and travel to said destination)
Once there look for Crime Sweep on the contact menu (sub nav).

You can go in to the Crime Sweep solo or as a group (recommended). A wing of 4 players can quickly decimate the enemy, Eagles and the F63 condor just melt- easy money!
Each ship is worth 10 merits- big/small they are all worth the same.
Spend a few hours slaying the enemy (recommend cashing in at 2k merits, at a CONTROLLED system). And watch your merits climb up. The more you do, the bigher the reward- it is very easy to get 1000+ merits per hour, easily placing you into rank on tick over (remember you will need to wait a week for your pay).
During this week of slack time, do more killing and earn more rank.
At rank 5 you're pay will be 50 million CR per week- all you need to do to maintain it is grind 5000 merits (you will also be paid 5 million CR for this also) meaning if you did nothing else you would earn 55 million per week!

As for the Mobius group, it is the largest (i think) PvE player group out there with 10,000+ members.
No they are not all on-line at the same time. The same is for TS, as there is usually 20 or so at any time, but it goes down to about 10 in the wee hours of the day, due to international time differences, etc.

See you out in the void, fly safe and make easy cash.

Once PL happens, i suspect a lot of the power play may drop off the radar, unless it is integrated somehow. But we can only sit by and wait to see what happens, also the new ships- of which we received a sneak peak of this week.. more to come!