From there wait until Sunday (or the remaining days to hit 4 week of being pledged) and then get your shields before the next power play cycle Thursday reset hits on Thursday.ġ. But on the next Thursday you will be rank 3 when the cycle resets. Technically you can even start the Thursday evening of week 2 in that case. When you hit the 3rd Sunday being pledged, sometime between Sunday and Wednesday, get 750 merits. Then wait the remaining x days of your pledge until you hit week 4 and before the next cycle get the shields. Once the cycle resets you will be at rank 3. Before the cycle resets during that third week make sure you get to 750 merits. So to get the rating 4 you need to be at week 3 of your pledge. If you made 750 merits last cycle you will be rank 3. You will carry over half of the merits you had into the new cycle. When it resets you will be the rank based on the total merits you had from the previous cycle Power Play Weekly Cycle resets every thursday at around 7am GMT. Power Play: to gain merits for rating- Aisling Duval Prismatic Shieldsġ:05 Part 1: When to begin the process of getting merits/killing Instant death.***This is not a comprehensive guide on power play but solely to gain merits - rating.specifically with Aisling Duval but should work for others. I do speed but almost exclusively when no other players are around, even then I'm all over the radar ensuring there are no surprises.īonus video, here's what happens when the station ramming is done correctly: And even in solo it's possible to accidentally boost into an NPC sidewinder and kill them. In other words, players in this game can be 'male chickens'. If I had been speeding I'd be marked as wanted and would start taking fire from the station. As I speed up still well within the safety zone towards the end of the vid you see the shield impact and you hear a muted 'boom' as he flashes up on the radar and I target him for just a second before '1 contact lost'. I get bored and decide to head out safely under 100m/s. He realises I'm stationary and tracking him. You see him go silent running, then he tries to get out of my visual sight. Actually spoke to the guy on reddit a few days after and discussed a few things like how my Conda was running so cold

This was one of my experiences with an imperial Eagle on 9%. In popular systems with real players (community goals etc) there are some people that deliberately fly cheap ships on 1-5% hull and try to hit other speeding vessels so the station attacks them.

Nope, he's saying if you hit a small unshielded ship (or a small ship hits you) and you destroy it then you get a bounty and the huge and insanely powerful station weapons will take exception and flatten you in about 2.5 seconds.

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