Many of Elite: Dangerous’ players have been digging in to the newly updated powerplay mechancs, and now that a few weeks have passed by, Frontier Developments is ready to make a few tweaks to the system now that there’s some data to act on.
The recent patch has applied what the studio calls significant reductions to the time and effort required to increase ranks and unlock early modules, as well as closing an exploit, fixing certain commodities and features for specific faction leaders, and making a couple of tiny bug fixes in general. FDev promises to continue monitoring powerplay 2.0, so these updates are likely just the first of many to come.
Meanwhile the control of the galaxy by powerplay’s factions is beginning to take shape as FDev has listed the top five political factions in terms of held systems: Edmund Mahon and Aisling Duval (aka Space Husbando and Space Waifu) hold the top with 1,355 and 1,296 systems respectively, while Bald Science Man Pranav Antal sits at just over 600 systems. We will continue to refer to these leaders by their pet names because it’s more fun.
