Who's your favorite leader to support?

[Baxtorian]

Just curious who you like to pledge to and support.

[Johny_Geth]

I never saw detailed info on these ppl and what they are actually about. But that federation blonde looks nice, though.

[Some Idiot]

Li Yong-Rui. His stations give everyone a 15% discount on ships and modules regardless of allegiance, so I figure working to expand his network benefits all players.

There are quick audio biographies of the power play leaders in the codex. They're great to listen to while farming mats in the SRV.

[Agony_Aunt]

I don't, because i don't find Powerplay engaging.

However, I've always preferred the Alliance over Fed or Empire, so given the choice it would be Mahon.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Enzo The Baker:

Just curious who you like to pledge to and support.

A person I admire, respect, and deeply love. Me. ;)

[Heimdall313]

One superpower is America in space, a hellscape deserved by no one. Rival leaders of space america include the butch liberal woman in a pantsuit spreading liberalism via money and definitely is not Hillary Clinton competing with her military warhawk half in the form of Hudson. The galaxy does not deserve this punishment.

Another superpower is the Anglo empire larping as decadent Romans, complete with legalized and regulated slavery. Someone has to polish the Cutters, and those people probably have more rights, protections, and better living standards than your average American. Royal family drama is familiar to Brits but the American base has celebrity worship which is far more bizarre of a culture. Senatorial power struggles, like Patreus, is the Roman half of the LARP. They deserve nothing but to be plundered into extinction by space Huns.

Another superpower is a cobbled collective defense larp that is held together purely by the tension of the other superpowers. Yugoslavia held off the USSR, EU, NATO, and America - until they didn't. Its the EU and its designed to fail after imposing its ideology on its vassal territories whether they like it or not. You have Lakon making military vessels. Lakon. The budget workhorse maker that can't weld straight. The ASP Scout and Type 7 makers. Imagine Peterbilt making jet fighters.

Li Yong Rui is at least honest and forthright about being a corporatist and your rights being no different than a Terms of Service agreement that can be changed without notice at any time with no avenue of recourse for the consumer. Just unsubscribe from corporate overlord if you don't like it, build your own multi-trillion dollar interstellar megacorp that isn't Shinra corp.

Antal is a shameless cultist, but at the end of the things he's promising are no more absurd than your average federal or imperial advert. Your average hamster wheel conspiracy alternative to the multipolar hamster wheel mainstream. Will probably have a fantastic execution one day.

Nobody cares about Grom, they only do mandatory service to get Grom Bomb like a Swiss man getting his government issued firearm lol.

Archon is your typical despotic warlord straight out of central Africa or northern Afghanistan, buuut because the devs are brits they'd be imprisoned if he wasn't pale as styrofoam because Britain is all about human rights and liberalism and freedom and equality right. He's the best hope for dude weed bro gang, but also bundled with slavery advocacy in the logical conclusion of a room temperature IQ drug addled Might is Right believer in between hangovers. Single generation warlord empires are always fun to watch during the two weeks after the boss dies. Am cheering for him to go full Attila and plunder the disgusting and gaudy Imperial opulence, no one else really has the stones to do it.

Overall, Li Yong Rui is probably best, he makes no ideological impositions whatsoever and you actually can unsubscribe from product. You can actually use the discounts. The shipyards actually stock good ships. Pack Hounds are also very fun product. Non ideological corporatism is a bizarre thing to see in [current year].

[Wolff]

Wow, really well written and I enjoyed reading your post.

[RiftHunter4]

Aisling is the closing thing Elite has to an Anime girl with a K-pop fanbase, so I will shamelessly pick her.

[Johny_Geth]

Originally posted by Wolff:

Wow, really well written and I enjoyed reading your post.

But conclusion is kinda weird. "They are all sht, so ill take blue one" But you still eat sht, whats the point?

Originally posted by RiftHunter4:

Aisling is the closing thing Elite has to an Anime girl with a K-pop fanbase, so I will shamelessly pick her.

But according to ppl, its Li Yong.

[Wolff]

Originally posted by Johny_Geth:

Originally posted by Wolff:

Wow, really well written and I enjoyed reading your post.

But conclusion is kinda weird. "They are all sht, so ill take blue one" But you still eat sht, whats the point?

Originally posted by RiftHunter4:

Aisling is the closing thing Elite has to an Anime girl with a K-pop fanbase, so I will shamelessly pick her.

But according to ppl, its Li Yong.

Yes the savings alone is a huge plus with discounts on ship cost, weapons or outfitting anything on your ship. This is why I'm supporting Li Yong-Rui. When your looking at 265 mil just for an armour upgrade doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure how much you save at 15% off.

What ships do you fly?

[Wolff]

Commanders, the great thing about choosing a faction is that you can get a special Powerplay module and as your rating increases your returns each week make up for the credits you spent on increasing your rank.

I just reached rating 3 so, after this Thursday I can get the packhounds and will receive 20 powerplay commodities every half hr. This I can use to increase towards my next rank. After each week you lose out on half of your merits, which is easy to get back with a few runs using the merits you gain each half hr, get the picture. When your rating is at 5 you will receive 50 mil credits each week and with a type 9 you can rebuild your merits that you lost each week easily. Little bit of work for your faction and you can fool around with voting for changing political actions towards a system you think will benefit your faction. Great fun with just one thing that is part of the Elite Dangerous universe.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2615356321
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2615357019

[Some Idiot]

Originally posted by Heimdall313:

One superpower is America in space, a hellscape deserved by no one.

No kidding. I've heard people are piled up at the border and hanging onto planes trying to get out of that dump.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by Wolff:

Commanders, the great thing about choosing a faction is that you can get a special Powerplay module

We know. That's the main reason most people do Powerplay. Module shopping. They don't actually care about the power though.

[Wolff]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Originally posted by Wolff:

Commanders, the great thing about choosing a faction is that you can get a special Powerplay module

We know. That's the main reason most people do Powerplay. Module shopping. They don't actually care about the power though.

You might know more geared for new players.

[<Caeris↝]

None of them.

Most people only join a superpower to get their special weapons and leave after that.

[JL::Jose-Juan Kenobi]

I support whoever is next in my Powerplay module shopping list :-)