Ratings

When you pledge to a Power, there is a separate ranking system in place. These are called "Ratings".

There are 5 ratings. Rating 1 being the Rating when you pledge allegiance to a Power. You have to unlock the next few Ratings through supporting your Power, or undermining a different Power. This also varies per Power, based on its Ethos.

By participating in Preparation, Expansion, and Control efforts of your Power, you gain Merits. All Powers will

Merits are needed to unlock the Ratings. They get progressively harder to obtain, with the final rating requiring 10,000 merits. Merits are also carried over from prior weeks, rewarding active participation, and preventing pilots from obtaining the last Rating and then not longer bother with Powerplay. With each Rating, you will get a weekly salary, and a specific bonus. The salaries and neccesary merits to unlock a Rating are the same for each Power.

Ratings are not automatically updated upon having the required merits. Your rating will increase upon the Powerplay weekly cycle, which happens on Thursday.

Each Rating also allows for a higher commodity allocation per 30 minutes. This is needed for the Preparation attempts of all Powers. You can accellerate commodity allocation by paying 100,000 credits.

Rating benefits

Rating	Merits	Salary/week	Allocation / 30 mins	Preparation Nominations
1	0	1000	10 tons	0
2	100	50,000	15 tons	2
3	750	500,000	20 tons	5
4	1500	5,000,000	25 tons	10
5	10,000	50,000,000	50 tons	25

(to be expanded further with Power specific details)