PowerPlay 2.0 Guide

Overview

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Getting Started

Merits

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Merits are essentially "reward points" that are earned through various in-game actions and affect a power's standing in the system they were earned in. As a CMDR earns merits, they will gain ranks---called "ratings"---once they complete an initial 5 missions for their power, with each rating granting the CMDR a combination of new/incrementally enhanced bonuses ^{[citation needed]}. In sharp contrast to PowerPlay v1, merits in PowerPlay v2 are earned (1) immediately and (2) do not have a "half-life". The only way to lose your merits is to defect to another power, in which case you lose all your merits. It is not known whether or not merits can be lost by performing hostile actions against either your own power or friendly powers.^{[citation needed]}.

Power Benefits

Universal Benefits

• Up to a 100% reduction in rebuy costs when killed by an opposing power.
• Up o a 100% reduction in rebuy when killed in your power's territory.
• Rank decals.

Imperial

Aisling Duval

• +100% Increase in minor faction reputation gain in your Power's Territory
• +200% Increased Search and Rescue Payout in your Power's Territory.
• Module unlock order:

Module	Rating unlocked at
Prismatic Shield Generator	???
Imperial Hammer	???
Advanced Plasma Accelerator	???
Mining Lance	???
Retributor	???
Concord cannon	???
Pack-Hound Missile Rack	???
Enforcer Cannon	???
Containment Missile	???
Pulse Disruptor	???[citation needed]
Pacifier Frag-Cannon	???[citation needed]
Cytoscrambler	???[citation needed]

Alliance

Edmund Mahon

• +100% Increase in minor faction reputation gain in your Power's Territory
• +50% Awarded Trade Bond for Rare Goods sales in your Power's Territory.
• +25% Awarded Trade Bond on sales in your Power's Territory.
• Module unlock order:

Power's Influence on BGS

It is not known at this time what impact---if any---a power's presence in a system will have on that system's BGS. Most likely, there will no longer be a direct BGS impact caused by a Power's presence in the system. Whether certain traits of a power's presence in a system as found in PowerPlay 1.0 will continue in PowerPlay 2.0 is not yet known. It is known that a system's controlling faction's government type no longer influences a power's hold on a system or their overall rating. For example, a dictatorship controlling a system held by Jerome Archer or Arissa-Lavigny Duval no longer makes a system easier to undermine. Conversely, a Patronage or Feudal government controlling a system held by one of these two powers no longer makes the system harder to undermine.

Earning Merits by Ethos

Finance

• Hauling power-specific "forts"^{[citation needed]}

Social

• Hauling power-specific "preps" (ex. Corruption reports, Propaganda Campaigns, etc.)

Supporting Media

• File:Elite Dangerous - Frontier Unlocked March - Powerplay 2.0
• File:Elite Dangerous - Frontier Unlocked April - Powerplay 2.0
• File:Elite Dangerous - Powerplay 2.0 Questions & Answers