No longer earning merits?

[SirGusto]

The rare goods run i've been doing to acquire a system just stopped giving merits? Worked fine last night. Hop on today, and see the rare goods I was trading switched to a lower amount. I'm like ok, time for something else. So I picked up another high quantity good and went to the same system I've been working and got nothing for it, except money of course. Cartography merits have never worked for me no matter if it says it in the system or not. Scans weren't either. Have I been blocked or something?

[Sighman]

Greetings Commanders,

We have identified an issue where certain actions are being excessively used for Powerplay gains.

In order to investigate and resolve this issue we are temporarily suspending Powerplay gains via the following methods:

Rare Goods Trading
Settlement Data Delivery
Escape Pods

Once we have resolved this issue these options will be enabled again.

Thank you for your continued reports and feedback on Powerplay 2.0.


https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-powerplay-2-0-update.630423/

[XOLiD]

Meanwhile power conflict zones still don't work in open.

[jimbalayajones]

I suppose it is a good thing I will not be doing PP 2.0 till mid next year...Hopefully everything will be turned back on by then...

[Sighman]

Originally posted by jimbalayajones:

I suppose it is a good thing I will not be doing PP 2.0 till mid next year...Hopefully everything will be turned back on by then...

I just want all activities more or less balanced, without one or two activities completely dominating. Otherwise everyone is forced into those two activities to counter the other side.

[jimbalayajones]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Originally posted by jimbalayajones:

I suppose it is a good thing I will not be doing PP 2.0 till mid next year...Hopefully everything will be turned back on by then...

I just want all activities more or less balanced, without one or two activities completely dominating. Otherwise everyone is forced into those two activities to counter the other side.

It should not be too hard to do...Just cap the merits for any one activity per cycle or as a whole...I suppose they want to run the numbers and see what seems fair to them...There will always be farm exploits...Players are just that savvy...I don't view anyone less for exploiting a farming opportunity...On the contrary, I usually wish I had gotten in on it before the developers killed it...

[spam]

Bah. At least I only have about 3K of rare goods in my carrier, would have been a lot more if I hadn't had connection issues last night. They are not wrong though, farming rare goods is pretty boring. My intent was to gather as much as I could stand, turn everything in before the server reset, and then mostly ignore PP for a while.

[☪Konstantiniyee]

Rare Goods Trading
Settlement Data Delivery
Escape Pods
all above are disable and about to be nerfed

[jimbalayajones]

Originally posted by ☪Konstantiniyee:

Rare Goods Trading
Settlement Data Delivery
Escape Pods
all above are disable and about to be nerfed

I suppose exploration and exobiology data are still disabled...

[SirGusto]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Greetings Commanders,

We have identified an issue where certain actions are being excessively used for Powerplay gains.

In order to investigate and resolve this issue we are temporarily suspending Powerplay gains via the following methods:

Rare Goods Trading
Settlement Data Delivery
Escape Pods

Once we have resolved this issue these options will be enabled again.

Thank you for your continued reports and feedback on Powerplay 2.0.


https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-powerplay-2-0-update.630423/

What? Why do they need to punish space truckers for doing exactly what the game intended us to do. It takes time to run around gathering rare goods. It's not like we're playing dirty like those blowing up passenger ships for escape pods.

[spam]

After reading the thread, two weeks seems excessive to allow a game breaking glitch (settlement data) , when there are people who actually care about PP (not me) rather than just getting loot. And, after seeing an escape pods farming video, I can see fixing that issue, but I'm puzzled about the rare goods trading.

I must have been inefficiently farming, I figured I was probably only going to generate 6K/hour of merits; hardly the stuff of legends.

Edit: Clarification

[ruthless4645]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Originally posted by jimbalayajones:

I suppose it is a good thing I will not be doing PP 2.0 till mid next year...Hopefully everything will be turned back on by then...

I just want all activities more or less balanced, without one or two activities completely dominating. Otherwise everyone is forced into those two activities to counter the other side.

I'm betting the next exploit to be "suspended" will be the kill spamming of SLF's at the Stronghold carriers.

[GeneXRT]

Everything then will need rebalance soon - some people with find ways to earn merits faster with non blocked methods until we get bigger updates.

[笛野めのん]

That's what I was thinking when I thought the merit acquisition looked strange! Glad it wasn't a new glitch.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by jimbalayajones:

Originally posted by ☪Konstantiniyee:

Rare Goods Trading
Settlement Data Delivery
Escape Pods
all above are disable and about to be nerfed

I suppose exploration and exobiology data are still disabled...

No, they reenabled those after adjustments, and only allowing merits for data earned after powerplay 2 update was released.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by ruthless4645:

Originally posted by Sighman:

I just want all activities more or less balanced, without one or two activities completely dominating. Otherwise everyone is forced into those two activities to counter the other side.

I'm betting the next exploit to be "suspended" will be the kill spamming of SLF's at the Stronghold carriers.

Of course, and why not?

All they have to do is watch youtube for the latest 'how to farm 100,000 merits an hour' video and then nerf that too.