Powerplay 2.0 Weeklys are Broken

[Nimx]

No credit for collecting pods in Acquisition systems. No credit for selling rare goods in Reinforcement systems. Unavailable to accept requested allocated commodities in Acquisition system.

I came back to game to play the new 2.0, for last 2 weeks its only been constant frustration with ingame systems. All information has to come from non official websites and youtubers. Galaxy map info that tells you what can be credited in a specific system is wrong. Only function that seems to work in bounty hunting.

Time to make an AFK Type 10 in low resource site just to advance faction which would be boring as hell. Not worth the engineering grind.

[spam]

FDev explicitly turned off merits for rare goods sales and pods a few weeks ago but did not bother to make that apparent in-game (social media announcements only). Ostensibly because it was temporary, but here we are weeks later...

That being said, I've gotten merit credits for task completion for both those things when they were in my weekly tasks (just not merits for the items themselves).

[Un1k0rn]

Originally posted by spam:

FDev explicitly turned off merits for rare goods sales and pods a few weeks ago but did not bother to make that apparent in-game (social media announcements only). Ostensibly because it was temporary, but here we are weeks later...

That being said, I've gotten merit credits for task completion for both those things when they were in my weekly tasks (just not merits for the items themselves).

There's no defending the lack of posts on their own website here.

I do understand why anything that's marketing might be posted on the socials first: Generally speaking your new customers are not yet in the door so to speak. It still should really get posted on the forum at the same time, however.

Updates, patch delays, and other such things however? Yeah, really needs to be on their own forums first.

They've not bothered posting at all about the Cobra Mk V delay on there. That's something that would take all of thirty seconds to do for their staff. Baffles me why they don't bother.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by spam:

FDev explicitly turned off merits for rare goods sales and pods a few weeks ago

Not for weekly missions. They still work for those.

Turning in escape pods sometimes has odd requirements - e.g. some count for the mission the second you pick them up, some have to be turned in at a Stronghold after.

[Nimx]

New week. New broken. Weekly quest Exploration data to Hip 100449, need >400000 and sold over 1 million no credit.

[Erei]

Originally posted by Nimx:

New week. New broken. Weekly quest Exploration data to Hip 100449, need >400000 and sold over 1 million no credit.

First time didn't wxork for me, second did. I'm not sure if it's either you need above a certain reward, or minmum range ?
As usual with Elite nothing is explained and you are left guessing.

[Big Red McCaw]

sell exploration data weekly task < could not complete

Wreckage task weekly < could not complete

sell power data from settlements < cannot sell half of what I collected

powerplay 2.0 is pretty broken In my opinion .

BUT you can earn merits from mining and bounty hunting and a few other things like selling settlement data .

SO , not completely broken , BUT broken enough to make it noticable and A LITTLE annoying .

If you can deal with the annoying stuff and find some activities that earn you merits that you enjoy , then Powerplay is fine .

just be prepared to deal with some stuff that FDEV should probly fix , BUT dont hold your breath on that :)

[Agony_Aunt]

I haven't had problems with most of them, although i've not had an exploration one.

One i had issues with was those where it says to kill enemy PP ships in reinforcement systems, where enemy PP ships are very difficult to find... i mean, those would probably work if i could find the targets.

The collection of escape pods or other things have worked just fine for me. Same with delivering rares.

I haven't religiously done all of them every week though, so maybe i've dodged some bullets of the problematic ones. I tend to focus on the easy to achieve quickly ones.

[ZenZone1]

I had some problems selling rare goods. Made the mistake of selling a whole bunch of them before realising i got no merits. Went for another round selling one at a time and waiting for response. Once confirmed i sold all of it.

I think the problem might be distance. I saw a YT video mentioning it may need at least 100 LY from the point of origin.

Some in-game info is wrong. Example Interstellar factors. I had to verify all the station in each system; what a time waster because sometimes searching all reveals none there.

[razor]

Im level 102 and all i did was completing the weeklys once and then i mined platinum in a plat hotspot and sold it in the same system.
And yeah i also got frustrated by pp2