Time

Ahoy Crew!

Time passes and doesn't come back (well, maybe in some other game did, but not in this one lol)... and once again we want to point out that some activities for PowerPlay 2.0 are still in "limbo" without having been restored and/or rebalanced. Furthermore, problems and bugs continue to be reported on the PP CZs (or PCZs) and the impossibility of completing the weeklies in some cases.

Well, complaint moment over... let's get to the important stuff: with the last Titan eliminated, the battles between Imperial (and friends) and Federal forces for control of Sol and other neighboring systems are continuing. Last week intense clashes occurred at Alpha Centauri... but the new president Archer must also defend against ongoing takeover attempts by other Powers in other systems such as Duamta, Barnard's Star, Wolf 359, Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti.

We remain of the opinion that FDEV has not delivered a nice gift (given the holiday period) to the Federation... very likely not very well considering the fallout from the Thargoid elimination, and we are also disappointed by the fact that there is no news/updates on GalNet.

Returning for a moment to our opening "complaints", it seems increasingly clear to us that FDEV has realized that the new PowerPlay is broken and plagued by numerous/too many problems, and at this point it is only trying to ignore it. Or maybe they hope that at some point the players will move away and raise their interest in something else (Colonization anyone?).

Anyway... the last Cycle for Archon Delaine closed overall well, as we successfully completed a strategic acquisition (out of a total of +4) and pushed successfully on reinforcements (+2 strongholds). Some objectives are still to be completed for the new Cycle and therefore we leave them in the post, while we have already worked new OpSec strategies for the remainder.

For the Cycle 499 (8) targets of opportunity see below:

REINFORCEMENT: Front-line systems (Adenates, Dhak, HIP 105359, 15 Pegasi)
UNDERMINING: OpSec
AQUISITION: OpSec

FOR THE ARCHON!!!

1-HOW/WHERE TO CONTACT (AND JOIN) US

The Kumo Crew only supports the LIVE MODE of Elite Dangerous.

You can either join our Discord Server and/or our one and only official KUMO CREW [KUMO] Squadron (INARA KUMO CREW).

1a - WHY SHOULD YOU DO IT?

Easy said: reduced (to 0 at rank 100) bounties for Archon Delaine pledged CMDRs and most importantly it's fun to be the bad guys (and we are quite the lovely guys to, if you are not too savoury). Anyway, if you don't want to shoot/pillage stuff with us...

2-RUNNIN' A DELAINE'S PLEDGED / PIRACY SQUADRON?

Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to be part of the biggest "criminal cartel" in the Galaxy... we can share the best trade routes where to rob haulers, systems where to commit crimes, support in case of need [cops are tackling ya?] and so on... you'd be enjoying the fun of winging up with other criminals like you aARRRRRRR!!!

FSDEM ET THARGOIDES

Ahoy Crew!

It is no case to recall the ancient Romans, they had already understood it thousands of years ago: to keep the population at bay (players' base) just give them some bread (rewards) and circus games (the battle at Sol against the last Titan). We don't want to sound too cynical, but this is exactly what's happening: as already mentioned last week, the serious balance and gameplay problems that afflict the new Powerplay 2.0 have not yet been resolved. Last but not least, the same happens for the severe bugs affecting the Fleet Carriers (i.e. bartender and cargo transfer)...

And it does seem to us that to "divert attention" comes a CG that offers as a juicy reward the SCO version of the FSD with double engineering (increased range and fast boot), capable of offering the greatest jump distance for each module size.

[BTW, as we write, the servers will soon (again**) go under maintenance to fix some other things.]

At least the new Cobra Mk5 has arrived on the shipyards (for ARX) and from the first tests carried out it seems that this new little ship is a very interesting beast. We have always been big fans of the Cobra Mk3, not that much for the Mk4 lol, and this Mk5 has all the numbers to climb to the top of our favourites.

Regarding the Archon Delaine's Powerplay, the last Cycle was in some ways disappointing, in others satisfying. We lost some marginal systems (-5 on our bottom line total), but we fortified more in order to strengthen the front-lines. One of our acquisitions (Fincien) was plagued by the well know CZs bug. Anyway, the Grombears' invisible horde of AFK ships was unable to prevail, not even with the support of some simps belonging to other Zyada+K Powers who tried (in vain) to disrupt the Crew (in open-play game mode). Strategies that could prove to be effective on some occasions, but of such a low level that they would probably cringe even their Powers' leaders if they could only speak up.

With the CG in Sol underway (where our GGI's scoundrels continue to reap hundreds of kabooms), we therefore expect even less participation this week, therefore priority is given to reinforcements and patrolling the front-lines.

For the Cycle 497 targets of opportunity see below:

REINFORCEMENT: Front-line systems (Adenates, Caspi, Dhak, Huichi)
UNDERMINING: OpSec
AQUISITION: OpSec

FOR THE ARCHON!!!

1-HOW/WHERE TO CONTACT (AND JOIN) US

The Kumo Crew only supports the LIVE MODE of Elite Dangerous.

You can either join our Discord Server and/or our one and only official KUMO CREW [KUMO] Squadron (INARA KUMO CREW).

1a - WHY SHOULD YOU DO IT?

Easy said: reduced (to 0 at rank 100) bounties for Archon Delaine pledged CMDRs and most importantly it's fun to be the bad guys (and we are quite the lovely guys to, if you are not too savoury). Anyway, if you don't want to shoot/pillage stuff with us...

2-RUNNIN' A DELAINE'S PLEDGED / PIRACY SQUADRON?

Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to be part of the biggest "criminal cartel" in the Galaxy... we can share the best trade routes where to rob haulers, systems where to commit crimes, support in case of need [cops are tackling ya?] and so on... you'd be enjoying the fun of winging up with other criminals like you aARRRRRRR!!!

Bugs & PP2

Ahoy Crew!

The Galaxy political and territorial disputes have remained entirely in the background in the last week. Unless you have been on holiday somewhere, you should know by now that the center of events is in Sol. The attack of the Thargoids has materialized in all its destructive force, hitting numerous systems and is moving towards the final phase with the arrival of the last Titan (Cocijo). We don't know if all this devastation and the billions of human victims will change the future of the Bubble, but for the moment the appeals of the Pilots' Federation and the AXI forces have not fallen on deaf ears. For those who have followed the entire Xeno epic, this is [perhaps] the final chapter... for those who have recently returned to the game, this is [hopefully] the opportunity to enjoy the battle against the last of the Titans.

Unfortunately, we have some concerns: we honestly didn't expect the Xeno narrative to move forward so quickly, roughly a month after the release of PP2 without many of the latter's problems and bugs having been resolved. The much vaunted "rebalancing of merits" (personal merits, specifically) is only a palliative: some activities are still broken "suspended" (we would have preferred a haircut to the merits, rather than having them dunked at zero) and annoying bugs remain on the PPCZs (for contested systems) and on weekly tasks. Somewhere at FDEV there should be a schedule to respect (and the new ship, the Cobra Mk5, will also arrive in a few days) but it is rather frustrating to see the days pass without the expected rebalancing and needed fixes arriving.

As already happened in the last Cycle, the impossibility of using certain resources has clearly slowed down the activity (expansions in particular) of all the Powers. It was also for Archon Delaine... the numbers speak for themselves: only +1 new system this week. On the positive side, our front-lines have stabilized and the number of enemy engagements has consequently also been reduced. The situation seems to be different elsewhere as some points of contact between other Powers (e.g. Asetsi and Deciat) have been more active.

Anyway we took this moment to make some further changes in our organisation and "rules"; then we did some PvP training for the new arrivals (so called "murderhobo wannabees"), while some others had fun in Sol as well as dabbled in piracy and smuggling. Most of our strategic objectives have already been disclosed in our Discord.

For other Cycle 496 targets of opportunity see below:

REINFORCEMENT: Devata Baru
UNDERMINING: OpSec
AQUISITION: OpSec

FOR THE ARCHON!!!

1-HOW/WHERE TO CONTACT (AND JOIN) US

The Kumo Crew only supports the LIVE MODE of Elite Dangerous.

You can either join our Discord Server and/or our one and only official KUMO CREW [KUMO] Squadron (INARA KUMO CREW).

1a - WHY SHOULD YOU DO IT?

Easy said: reduced (to 0 at rank 100) bounties for Archon Delaine pledged CMDRs and most importantly it's fun to be the bad guys (and we are quite the lovely guys to, if you are not too savoury). Anyway, if you don't want to shoot/pillage stuff with us...

2-RUNNIN' A DELAINE'S PLEDGED / PIRACY SQUADRON?

Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to be part of the biggest "criminal cartel" in the Galaxy... we can share the best trade routes where to rob haulers, systems where to commit crimes, support in case of need [cops are tackling ya?] and so on... you'd be enjoying the fun of winging up with other criminals like you aARRRRRRR!!!

Venegana

Ahoy Crew!

Let's start immediately with the important news (maybe you all already know it but it's better to double check): the last remaining Titan (Cocijo, ancient name of a deity of lightning, thunder and rain) has moved and arrived in Sol, the heart of mankind... AXI forces and their allies immediately issued a call to repel the Xeno threat (no, it's not a CG). Definitely a nice twist, or rather, a grand finale (if it ever comes to an end) that FDEV wanted to prepare for this may be last battle.

But the week's news isn't over: just yesterday the last Frontier Unlocked of the year was broadcast [no link for the replay], where (after the usual very long roundup of things that don't concern Elite Dangerous) further details were disclosed about the new ship arriving on Dec-10 (for ARX only): the Cobra Mk5. For numbers maniacs, watch this video by CMDR Alswulf, as far as we are concerned we don't know (yet) if this new toy will be able to replace the Cobra Mk3 in the top rank of small piracy ships. To be honest the C4 thrusters seem a little small (vs. the internals) to make it boosting to 600m/s, in any case we'll see. At least on paper it seems better than the very rare and almost useless Cobra Mk4.

In the FDEV stream, the first details of the new "Colonization" feature were also given (there is not yet an expected release date), on how and which stations can be built, and how these can interact with the system's economy. Considering that even in the Bubble there are many uninhabited systems, this feature will allow new conquests and the opening of new routes, with the possible/potential interaction with Powerplay.

And so we come to the point about PP: in today's update (19.02) we don't believe any annoying bugs have been resolved (e.g. that of the Power CZs which are empty), nor have the merits been restored through rare commodities trading and salvage retrieval. Awww...

In the Cycle just concluded, we continued the operations to contain and restore the damage caused by those who, unfortunately, had abused the data port bug against our systems. After inevitably losing some, a great job was done on the others and we successfully avoided further dents in the front-lines.

Then there was the battle in Venegana, a system along the line of contact with territories controlled by the jelly Patreus. What was initially a position of disadvantage for us (approximately -40k CPs) turned towards the end with almost +600k CPs of advantage, with a total (considering ours and those collected by the opposition) of almost 3 million CPs in the system.

So many points, undoubtedly, but for which the "number" alone does not say everything: the reason is very simple, on one side we at Archon Delaine (the Crew and all our fellow scallywags), on the other the whole Empire forces, as to allow Patreus pledges to collect as much merit as possible, they threw PvPers and combat wings at us in epic engagements. We therefore had to earn our merits for four days under constant engagements with enemy ships, some times suffering (fortunately few) losses [also thanks to the very bad instancing].

We have no doubt that the result is proof that ours is a Community that is not only extraordinarily committed but also very (VERY) well organised. Well done to everyone and GGs to those who participated, hopefully having fun, in the (countless) pews. YARRRR!!!

trategies for Cycle 496 (Cycle 5):

REINFORCEMENT: Devata Baru
UNDERMINING: OpSec
AQUISITION: OpSec

FOR THE ARCHON!!!

1-HOW/WHERE TO CONTACT (AND JOIN) US

The Kumo Crew only supports the LIVE MODE of Elite Dangerous.

You can either join our Discord Server and/or our one and only official KUMO CREW [KUMO] Squadron (INARA KUMO CREW).

1a - WHY SHOULD YOU DO IT?

Easy said: reduced (to 0 at rank 100) bounties for Archon Delaine pledged CMDRs and most importantly it's fun to be the bad guys (and we are quite the lovely guys to, if you are not too savoury). Anyway, if you don't want to shoot/pillage stuff with us...

2-RUNNIN' A DELAINE'S PLEDGED / PIRACY SQUADRON?

Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to be part of the biggest "criminal cartel" in the Galaxy... we can share the best trade routes where to rob haulers, systems where to commit crimes, support in case of need [cops are tackling ya?] and so on... you'd be enjoying the fun of winging up with other criminals like you aARRRRRRR!!!

The Day After Balance

Ahoy Crew!

Let's keep the torch of hope ablaze! Aye, because while we are writing this debriefing for the last Cycle, the servers have been just updated... we know that FDEV made changes to the merit system (after excluding some activities from the contribution) to the progression in the ranks and to the unlocks for the modules as many powerplayers complained about slow progression and too low merit payouts for certain activities (here is a good recap).

Hence Ascendancy v1(.1) has been released, with patch notes are available here and merit changes here.

During the last Cycle, for all Powers, the effects produced by the data ports bug worsened and further spread (we don't know if they will be ever reversed in some way). We said that some form of (re)balancing was expected... this doesn't just happen in Elite Dangerous, as such was shared with many other sandbox games.

Is everything done up to now lost? Certainly not, but from today some activities will very likely lose relevance, while others will gain: balance, indeed. Anyway on behalf of Archon Delaine's Grand Fleet, we have appreciated and will continue to appreciate the fair play and the commitment of all our pledged CMDRs.

In the last Cycle our beloved scallywags never let go things and we are sure that our "enemies" have noticed it. Our front lines continue to be very dynamic and requires a lot of flexibility in the deployment of our wings (combat/hauling where needed, ground Ops and so on). The prompt response of the Murderhobo Cannibals is to be appreciated as well, always ready not only to attack, but also to give cover where necessary and support to the rest of the Crew. The killboard has been filled with kabooms and our losses were pretty much contained. Bottom line: the fun of these organic fights far outweighed the disappointments related to the balance and exploits issues.

For the territories, we lost some exploited systems in the area under Harma, fortunately not very relevant for the maintenance of the front line given that it had been appropriately covered with back stops. The strategy of bringing up the systems from fortified into strongholds will also continue for the next cycles, just as we do not intend to forget that soon or later we'd have to take care of Pegasi Sector. We closed this Cycle 3 gaining +17 new systems, adding +5 fortified and +3 strongholds (the best PP 2.0 Cycle so far… and considering we had to counter the infamous data port bug, it’s been a great one!).

Don't forget to stop by Harma to say hello, buy some Silver Rum... and we'll take care of the welcome!

Strategies for Cycle 495 (Cycle 4):

REINFORCEMENT: Markab
UNDERMINING: OpSec
AQUISITION: OpSec

FOR THE ARCHON!!!

1-HOW/WHERE TO CONTACT (AND JOIN) US

The Kumo Crew only supports the LIVE MODE of Elite Dangerous.

You can either join our Discord Server and/or our one and only official KUMO CREW [KUMO] Squadron (INARA KUMO CREW).

1a - WHY SHOULD YOU DO IT?

Easy said: reduced (to 0 at rank 100) bounties for Archon Delaine pledged CMDRs and most importantly it's fun to be the bad guys (and we are quite the lovely guys to, if you are not too savoury). Anyway, if you don't want to shoot/pillage stuff with us...

2-RUNNIN' A DELAINE'S PLEDGED / PIRACY SQUADRON?

Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to be part of the biggest "criminal cartel" in the Galaxy... we can share the best trade routes where to rob haulers, systems where to commit crimes, support in case of need [cops are tackling ya?] and so on... you'd be enjoying the fun of winging up with other criminals like you aARRRRRRR!!!

Bugs Eatin' Our Burgers

Ahoy Crew!

Powerplay P 2.0 (or Elite Dangerous: Ascendancy) continues its running-in Cycles... if, on the one hand, the testing activities on the new mechanics proceed quickly, on the other the obvious unbalanced situations (e.g. combat merits that are too low), bugs (weekly tasks impossible to conclude) combined with exploits like this one, which needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Precisely with regard to the latter, we at Kumo Crew, following our statement, have done and are doing everything possible to avoid use and report abuse, also collaborating with other Powers (Sirius, Utopia, Winters) to identify and intervene quickly where necessary.

We hope that FDEV reads our reports and those of other Power Communities, to prioritize solving these problems.

Coming back to us, last week marked important developments on the Archon Delaine's Community side. Our organization has been refined and different levels of activity have been created, so that all our Powerplayers have the opportunity to choose what to do best and based on their playing style. We are very happy and satisfied to see a notable level of commitment and engagement. Among the next/soon steps we will start organizing internal events and, for those who want to participate, external events with obvious pirate/criminal style flavour. YARRRR!!!

The last Cycle ended positively with +15 systems added to our territories: we have +4 new strongholds and +8 fortified (thanks to our Master of All Numbers CMDR Bard Voronwe for keeping track of all this lol). And kudos to all scoundrels, buccaneers, scallywags, smugglers and murderers who contributed to these successes and congratulations to those who made it to the Leaderboard of the week.

Fun engagements with the enemies happened in our area of operations, i.e. in the combat zones (Ngati, Cao Yankir, San Neb Xoc) so again "dear enemies", for more fun try to convince as many people as possible to play in open! This is a historic moment for numbers in the game, the battles to be told are those with hollow squares, the rest that nobody cares about are just pixels (we will never tire of repeating it). Robberies by the hook of our pirates and The Code continued in the Leesti/Orrere/Lave rare commodities trading routes.

Fly safe, haulers!

Don't forget to stop by Harma to say hello, buy some Silver Rum... and we'll take care of the welcome!

Strategies for Cycle 494 (Cycle 3):

REINFORCEMENT: Daramo
UNDERMINING: Ugrashtrim
AQUISITION: Undines

FOR THE ARCHON!!!

1-HOW/WHERE TO CONTACT (AND JOIN) US

The Kumo Crew only supports the LIVE MODE of Elite Dangerous.

You can either join our Discord Server and/or our one and only official KUMO CREW [KUMO] Squadron (INARA KUMO CREW).

1a - WHY SHOULD YOU DO IT?

Easy said: reduced (to 0 at rank 100) bounties for Archon Delaine pledged CMDRs and most importantly it's fun to be the bad guys (and we are quite the lovely guys to, if you are not too savoury). Anyway, if you don't want to shoot/pillage stuff with us...

2-RUNNIN' A DELAINE'S PLEDGED / PIRACY SQUADRON?

Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to be part of the biggest "criminal cartel" in the Galaxy... we can share the best trade routes where to rob haulers, systems where to commit crimes, support in case of need [cops are tackling ya?] and so on... you'd be enjoying the fun of winging up with other criminals like you aARRRRRRR!!!

Ahoy!

We've already talked about this abundantly in our discord server sections, but we didn't make a statement about the infamous Power Data Port Bug yet.

The Archon Delaine Powerplay group has never and most importantly will never condonde any bug/exploit abuse in game.

If we will have proof that some of the players in here are still currently exploiting that bug, even against groups that are actively doing the same with us or any other groups, they will be banned from our servers without mercy and immediately.

We might be pirates, scoundrels, gankers, killers, whatever you think about yourself in game, but we will never ever be cheaters. We're better than our enemies, always have been, always will be.

Thanks for the comprehension.

Ahoy! Today we celebrate another new Squadron joining the Archon Delaine Grand Fleet!

The AIRLOCK HUNTERS are now part of our gang, we hope to have fun togther and make Archon Delaine's Pirate Kingdom as great and solid we can.

If you are interested in joining our Grand Fleet as a Squadron, or as a independent CMDR or simply to hang around with a group of actually pretty chill scoundrels you can click here to join the one and only KUMO CREW official Discord Server.

Kumo Crew

Ahoy Crew!

The first Cycle (we're still keeping the old "nomenclature" but it might be dropped) of the new Powerplay 2.0 has concluded. There would be many things to say (and to do), but there will be time to talk about it in detail. For the moment, we have decided to summarize our (first) impressions of the new PP 2.0 framework in very simple pros & cons.

PROs:

• CMDRs can (finally) do many activities and the gameplay is very diversified;
• legs stuff can make their contribution;
• there are the leaderboards (on which we will make a separate post);
• organization is important, but individuals (and therefore also squadrons) also have freedom of action;
• we like the new UI, although there are improvements to be made;
• the confrontation with enemy Powers is constant and the effects are visible in almost real time;
• many players have returned, attracted by the new framework (we hope they stay);
• the Powerplay has become mainstream, the BGS has lost (hurrah!) most of its relevance.

CONs:

• balancing is still in progress, some activities give too many merits, others too few;
• there is (yet) no incentive to play in open and cope with the risk for combat activities;
• the effects of some activities are not clear (in addition to individual merits, the contributions for the sliders must also be displayed when they are obtained);
• high traffic +players exacerbated instancing/scenario issues (e.g. empty PCZs), long jump time, multiple Mauve Adders, infinite and de-instanced interdictions all resulting in disruption for the gameplay;
• the merit gain is linear, but the progression of the ranks is not

Obviously that's not all, but it's a starting point... and how did we at Archon Delaine start? Well, very good!

First of all, the community has grown A LOT.

Just look at the traffic on our Discord, where our Master Corsair/Admin/Captain-for-Life Bard Voronwe has given all his rum to create new roles, new channels, manage new entries and prevent everything from turning into a shapeless chaos. So THANK YOU and WELL DONE on behalf of the entire Kumo Crew and the rest of the scallywags gang.

We are going long... so, let's talk about things done: many systems have been fortified, especially on the "hot" border lines (mostly toward the bald hippie Antal and the bearded bear Grom), where the activity of our "invisible" (...) enemies has increased considerably. In these first steps of PP 2.0 "consolidate" (to use an old PP 1.0 term) and "fortify" to fill/close the gaps in the territories is the priority strategy in place (yes, we have new strongholds!). The biggest contribution (as everyone should know now) came from "rare commodity trading" as this is offering the highest payouts for both merits and controlling points... but thos juicy trading routes offered some nice piracy opportunities for the Crew! We heard that a huge quantity of stolen Orrerian Vicious Brew is being delivered in Harma by our fellow corsair CMDR Hairyhogg!

We have launched several offensives (OpSec) and more will be launched in the next Cycles. Our enemies will not stand there and watch, perhaps they will remain "invisible" (unfortunately), but they will do something... therefore, stay alert stay in open (no matter what) and have fun.

Strategies for Cycle 493 (Cycle 2):

REINFORCEMENT: Pandinus
UNDERMINING: Milcenu
AQUISITION: Taotienses

FOR THE ARCHON!!!

1-HOW/WHERE TO CONTACT (AND JOIN) US

The Kumo Crew only supports the LIVE MODE of Elite Dangerous.

You can either join our Discord Server and/or our one and only official KUMO CREW [KUMO] Squadron (INARA KUMO CREW).

1a - WHY SHOULD YOU DO IT?

Easy said: reduced (to 0 at rank 100) bounties for Archon Delaine pledged CMDRs and most importantly it's fun to be the bad guys (and we are quite the lovely guys to, if you are not too savoury). Anyway, if you don't want to shoot/pillage stuff with us...

2-RUNNIN' A DELAINE'S PLEDGED / PIRACY SQUADRON?

Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to be part of the biggest "criminal cartel" in the Galaxy... we can share the best trade routes where to rob haulers, systems where to commit crimes, support in case of need [cops are tackling ya?] and so on... you'd be enjoying the fun of winging up with other criminals like you aARRRRRRR!!!

Cursed Dubloon

Ahoy Crew!

The new Powerplay 2.0 brings the players' leaderboards in the game... for every Cycle the "Top 10 Agents" will be ranked and receive hefty payouts. They deserve also to be named here, for the record. But, it is the Top Agent (the player with highest merits earned during the Cycle) who receives the jackpot: 1.000.000.000 credits!

Well, Archon Delaine decided that credits are not enough, so he's gifting a Cursed Dubloon to the Top Agent.

CURSED DUBLOON: every Archon Delaine's scallywag can shoot the Top Agent's a$$ in HARMA (yes please, ONLY IN HARMA, as our Power needs committed agents anyway lol) to congratulate for the achievement, until the end of the winning Cycle. The Top Agent may eventually rename her/his ship as "Cursed Dubloon" for more RP.

Wing backstabbing is allowed, but all kabooms must be salt free.

Clipped kabooms are welcome, YARRR!!!

FOR THE ARCHON!!!

A New Dawn

Ahoy Crew!

Enough, end, stop! Waaagh! Goodbye Powerplay 1.0 and welcome Powerplay 2.0... we are a bit late with this Cycle debrief and aye the reason is that for the last 48 hours we have been deep down in the new stuff. An assessment is going on with the goal to outline the first steps of the Archon Delaine's community in this new framework. Here we have published a short guide to quickly complete the 5 weekly tasks that are necessary to unlock the so-called. "Powerplay Battle Pass".

There's a long road ahead (and a lot of grind) but hard doesn't mean impossible... on the other hand we are aware that, most likely, there will be future adjustments based on the players' feedback and how the new framework will develop. We are confident (for now) that FDEV's goal is to provide an optimized and balanced gameplay. We also hope that the various suggestions at the UI level (e.g. include a list of systems and alerts) and for the C&P (reintroduce the Powerplay bounties) will somehow be included in the next to-do list.

In our Discord we are starting to share some first drafts for the strategies, listed with the three main PP 2.0 actions: REINFORCEMENT, UNDERMINING and AQUISITION. The strategies will obviously take into account any community driven developments, which will therefore determine the dynamics of our Power.

Strategies for Cycle 492 (Cycle 1):

REINFORCEMENT: OpSec
UNDERMINING: OpSec
AQUISITION: OpSec

FOR THE ARCHON!!!

1-HOW/WHERE TO CONTACT (AND JOIN) US

The Kumo Crew only supports the LIVE MODE of Elite Dangerous.

You can either join our Discord Server and/or our one and only official KUMO CREW [KUMO] Squadron (INARA KUMO CREW).

1a - WHY SHOULD YOU DO IT?

Easy said: reduced (to 0 at rank 100) bounties for Archon Delaine pledged CMDRs and most importantly it's fun to be the bad guys (and we are quite the lovely guys to, if you are not too savoury). Anyway, if you don't want to shoot/pillage stuff with us...

2-RUNNIN' A DELAINE'S PLEDGED / PIRACY SQUADRON?

Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to be part of the biggest "criminal cartel" in the Galaxy... we can share the best trade routes where to rob haulers, systems where to commit crimes, support in case of need [cops are tackling ya?] and so on... you'd be enjoying the fun of winging up with other criminals like you aARRRRRRR!!!

Archon Delaine

Ahoy Crew!

Here it is a super-short guide on how to complete very quickly the 5 tasks required to unlock the "Powerplay 2.0 Battlepass" (credit to CMDR Geno Garon for such a good definition of the new 100-ranks merit grind). Credit to CMDR ShagohodRed for some hints... the following are not to be considered "PRIORITIES" and/or "OBJECTIVES", as it's just a quick ref guide on how to accomplish the tasks:

Scan ships and wakes, collect bounties and escape pods in "REINFORCEMENT SYSTEMS": these 3 tasks can be easily achieved in Lodhary where there's a CNB, bring a ship with collectors for the escape pods (occupied/damaged both work). Local wanted NPCs will open fire immediately upon scan and launch breakers in the CNB, so ECM/PDT are needed. Otherwise you can hunt pods from ships flying in supercruise (wanted is better to avoid bounties/notoriety). Update, thanks to CMDR Lex Fernetti: occupied/damaged pods can be obtained in "Power Wreckage" POIs in same system (instructions provided in game, scan signal sources to identify). You can redeem bounties and deliver escape pods at local L-pad coriolis (Lagrange Gateway).

Sell rare goods in "AQUISITION SYSTEMS": buy some Harma Silver Rum in Harma (Gabriel Enterprise) and sell them in one of the targeted acquisition systems nearby (i.e. HIP 115417 at Jendrassik Dock). Any "UNOCCUPIED" system within 20ly radius from a "FORTIFIED" one should be eligible as well.

Transport power commodities to "UNDERMINING SYSTEMS": buy some Marked Slaves from the Power Contact in a Stronghold system and bring them to the Power Contact into an enemy system. This is pretty much straightforward... if you are in Harma, pick up the slaves and bring them wherever you prefer (one is Maevelite for example, but any other enemy controlled system works).

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