Greetings Commanders,

A new update has been released for Elite Dangerous featuring Powerplay improvements.

Features of Note

• New Community Goal type. Future Community goals may require Commanders to destroy specific power-aligned ships within Power Conflict Zones, these will take place across multiple systems and may help to shape the galaxy.

• Further changes have been made to Powerplay, in order to encourage more aggressive play and create more vulnerability and therefore fluidity in Power territory.

  • Control Scores will now decay on each weekly turn.

    • Decay will not affect, or take a system to, below 25% of the current system state.  

      • For example, a system at 100% Stronghold would decay over time, until settling at 25% of the purple Stronghold status bar. 

      • Therefore, Systems cannot change their state via decay alone.

    • The actual amount systems decay is non linear and is dependent on the current control score of the system.

      • Systems closer to the maximum score threshold of their current state will decay more each week than those closer to the 25% decay limit.

  • Merits gained for reinforcing a system will now operate on a sliding scale, in addition to the recently introduced flat defensive multiplier.

    • Depending on how much undermining effort a system has been subjected to in the past 24 hours, merits gained for reinforcement actions will adjust in a range between -20% and +30%.

      • For example, reinforcing a system which has not been undermined at all in the past 24 hours would result in -20% merits gained.

  • Merit gain bonuses have been adjusted as follows:

    • Offensive activity - undermining another power's system: +15% (up from +5%)

    • Offensive activity - acquiring an unoccupied system: 0% (down from +5%)

    • Defensive activity - unchanged

Fixes

• Fix for Power Conflict Zones not starting due to missing faction information.

• Colonisation - Fixed additional causes of systems not displaying flags for initial port locations and not being claimable via System Colonisation.

• Fixed additional causes of console accounts failing to transfer from Legacy to Live.

Please note that system score and merit gain from the on-foot transfer power data activity remains disabled at this time. The team is actively working on a general solution to prevent future exploitation of mechanics such as this to the state of Powerplay. Once implemented, the intent remains to re-enable this activity.