Mystler’s End Of Powerplay 1.0 Statistics

Numbers for Nerds

Powerplay as we know it is coming to an end, huh? Well, in that case, it is probably time to look at some statistics that may or may not be of interest to people in and outside of Powerplay.

I will go into various metrics, from system numbers to economic statistics, demographics, distances, and even space volume. Are you curious to see who “won” Powerplay 1.0? This post will not answer that question, but it will allow you to pick your own favorite metrics and see how various powers are doing. Interested? Does this seem like the nerdy stuff you may enjoy? In that case, brace for impact, this post is gonna be massive.

Preamble and Disclaimer

Before I dive into the actual stats, I need to address some disclaimers.

I am an Elite Dangerous player who has been pledged to Aisling Duval without interruption since 2018. I am also in the ADC Powerplay coordination team. Regardless of that and whether you want to call it a bias or not, I have no intentions of creating any narratives or taking any side with this post.

In fact, I am writing this post out of a passion for the game that I would assume dedicated Powerplayers across all Powers share. It is my goal to present some numbers that may be interesting as this game mode is about to end in favor of something new. I hope to present an entertaining read with statistics that go beyond what the in-game UI shows - or even misleads people into thinking. I endeavor to do this with love and respect. While I may make a comment here or there, I am not here to judge powers for better or worse numbers.

Powerplay is an old system at this point that has had many flaws for many years. It has also created “lore”, factions, debates, and occasional controversies between community groups and members. While topics like design issues, bugs, 5c, bots, open-only philosophy, or PvP may be something you are interested in discussing - this post is not supposed to be the place for it. I just wanna share some fun numbers based on the cards we were dealt. Powerplay 2.0 will come and, hopefully, it will bring a fresh wind with less flawed mechanics.

The data in this post will be mostly about the status quo of the Live galaxy Powerplay. If people want to chime in with some cool historical achievements in the comments, that could be fun. Otherwise, I do not have enough clear historical data on hand to include that in here when it probably deserves its own post by people that have been at it for longer. Likewise, I will not be talking about Legacy. While my sympathies go out to console players and how the split was handled, Live is the supported main game and state of the galaxy. As such, Live will be the sole focus of this post.

My stats are based on a snapshot from the start of Cycle 487, on September 26. Why this particular date? This was the cycle tick right after the last Fronter Unlocked livestream that answered some Powerplay 2.0 questions, including the confirmation that there is not going to be any reset and Powers will carry their territory into the new version by means of a snapshot. Since the few remaining weeks from that point onward and the removal of a CC economy in 2.0 makes any moves have almost no bad consequences because of simple time constraints, it seems reasonable to me to call 1.0 over. Any moves after this will just be pregaming that would not have been taken under the 1.0 ruleset.

With all of that said, let me jump into my data!

Basic Power Stats

Galactic Standing

I need to address this elephant in the room: Galactic Standing is nonsense.

Way too often, I still see people ask about it - and, unfortunately, Frontier’s UI design is encouraging to do so. The reality, however, is that the Galactic Standing is a fundamentally flawed statistic. While it scales with the number of control systems a Power owns, it has no actual use in telling how good a power is doing.

Galactic Standing gets a boost for any action. If your power is preparing or expanding a system that is a terrible lossmaker for your economy, it will still give you a boost. If your power is in a turmoil that is wanted in order to get rid of a lossmaker - something that is a highly respected feat to accomplish - you will see a negative impact.

This metric swings wildly on a weekly basis and, aside from size maybe, does not really respect strategic value and planning.

Ignore it.

Number of Control Systems

The most obvious stat to start the post with. Every power has a number of control systems that in turn exploit systems in a 15 Ly radius.

For now, let’s have a simple look at how many systems the powers control. These are the systems that players worked to acquire and defend and that are the main focus of where Powerplay is happening.

The Alliance takes the number one spot here, having led this metric for a very long time. At his peak, Edmund Mahon has held over 130 control systems. A massive turmoil a few years ago reduced him to his current size but he still thrones at the top of this metric even after losing almost as many systems in one turmoil as the smallest powers have in total.

Number of Exploited Systems

While at it, we can also look at how many exploited systems these translate into. Please note that I count the control systems as exploited systems as well for this and later metrics, since they provide population and CC all the same. I do not count contested systems though.

Economy

Before I go into spatial statistics later on, I want to have a look at economical stats.

Powerplay is revolving around one main number: Command Capital, short CC.

Every exploited system in Powerplay generates these, depending on its population. CC then functions as the main currency. Every control sphere has income, upkeep, and overheads. In order for a control system to actually be profitable for a power’s economy it needs to have an income that is higher than the sum of its Upkeep, which is a CC number based on the distance to the headquarter system, and its Overheads, which scales with the overall size of a power. At 55 control systems, the Overheads per system cap out at 62.1 CC - something I will refer to as Full-Size Power.

Income

For the sake of completeness, here is the list of all powers total income from their respective control spheres.

This list is not too different from the number of control systems. It also does not really say much about how well the economy of a power is looking since it does not say anything about the costs it is paying. There is a better metric to look at.

Net Economy

To judge how well the economy of a power is doing, we can look at the net economy and subtract the Upkeep and Overheads from the Incomes.

Whoa, what happened there? Suddenly the list looks different. In fact Denton Patreus wins the prize for having the best net economy. Without fortification or undermining, he has almost a thousand CC to work with. This gives him a stable position that is easier to defend and, if opportunities arose, to acquire new systems.

Something that is very much worth noting though is that at 48 control systems, Patreus only has a per-system upkeep of 47.3 CC - much less than the maximum of 62.1CC for a Full-Size Power. Patreus is still in what I like to call “Overhead Hell” and for every new system he could gain, his cost for every single control system he already has would increase as well until reaching that magical 55 system threshold.

Only four powers are full-sized while the others could expect increasing costs when expanding further.

Normalized Net Economy

In order to factor in (or rather factor out) “Overhead Hell”, we can look at what I call the normalized net economy. Once again, the idea is Income - Upkeep - Overheads, but in this case we assume the same 62.1 CC Overheads per system that Full-Size Powers are paying for everyone.

Congratulations to Uncle Yuri for winning this one. With this list, we end up with only four powers having economies that - in a full size situation - are not running on a negative balance. This means that the powers below 0 have more CC lost to lossmakers than they have profitables to generate positive income. While the reasons for this can be manifold and not always strictly negative - like intentional weaponization against other powers by contesting their CC - running a negative net balance can be dangerous because it means in a blanket cancel situation of everything being fortified and undermined, you WILL lose systems and affecting the result is out of your own hands.

Profitable Systems

As we dive deeper into the economic structure of the Powers, let’s look at profitable spheres.

Number of Profitable Control Systems

This is a simple list of how many control systems each power has that are profitable at maximum Overheads. It is not an unexpected correlation that Mahon, having the most control systems, also has the most profitables.

Percentage of Profitable Control Systems

To set things into relation to the number of control systems, let’s look at percentages.

Grom takes the lead here, right above Aisling and Patreus, both of which have shown with great net economies as well. Five out of eleven powers have at least half of their control spheres being profitable.

Profitable Profit Sum

Another metric to look at is the sum of the economy (income - upkeep - max overheads) of all profitable systems.

Due to size, Mahon beats this table. A funny observation is that Mahon has almost ten times the amount of CC in profitable systems that Torval has.

Percentage of Flipped Profitable Spheres

This one is dedicated to all the people doing Powerplay BGS.

For those that aren’t aware of the relationship between Powerplay and BGS. Every Power has an Ethos that determines which types of minor faction governments are favorable or unfavorable for it. Having a ot of favorable faction in charge of exploited systems will reduce the trigger for how much fortification needs to be done. Unfavorable factions increase it.

A sphere with mostly favorable factions having only half of the base fortification trigger is considered “flipped”. So, let’s have a look at how many of the profitable spheres each power’s BGS people have flipped.

Utopian Mastermind Pranav Antal and Pirate Lord Archon Delaine are winning this one. Kudos for having a whopping 100% of his profitable spheres flipped. For Antal, I should add a side note that that extends even to lossmakers. Aside from one system that is a lossmaker, Antal has every single other sphere flipped favorably.

One noteworthy mention, at this point, is that the Ethos and flipping spheres are not always fair and easy. While Mahon or Winters have Corporate factions favorable - the most common type of government in the game, Aisling Duval requires factions that cannot be Imperial, and Zachary Hudson requires factions that cannot be Federal. It is a very unintuitively designed part of Powerplay. As an Aisling pilot, it makes me happy to see her have over 80% which follows years of work as well as diplomacy and compromises with Imperial factions that meant well but, alas, weren’t always helpful.

Best System

Before moving on, I will also have a look at the best system each power has, based on its profit at max overheads.

Congrats to space Elon for being the power with the most profitable sphere. As an additional fun fact, HIP 20935 is also a sphere that lost a good amount of CC to the Thargoid War. While the Thargoids in the area have been defeated and most CC were returned, it used to be even more profitable. It should gross 239 CC income but he only gets 221 in reality. Furthermore, it exploits a system that would be even better and is the highest income sphere in the game: HIP 20719 with a radius value of a staggering 315 CC.

Grom is in second place and his most profitable system is actually his headquarters. Uncle Yuri definitely benefits from having gotten a little push to his home population when inserted into Powerplay after the other powers.

Lossmakers and Contests

After looking at profitables, let’s also have a look at the opposite end of the spectrum.

Lossmaking Systems and CC

I will group these up to save some space. This table shows each Power’s sum of the “negative profit” (again assuming max overheads) of its lossmakers.

Li Yong-Rui ends up losing the most CC to lossmakers. Unfortunately for him, he loses a lot of CC in his core through self-contesting system overlaps around his headquarters. This is something that most powers struggle with to some extend. For some powers, a high total of losses is not only from self-contested systems but also the effect of a lot of contests with other powers. We will look at that in a bit.

Self-Contested CC

For now, let us have a look at the actual self-contested CC, and by that term I am referring to CC from exploited systems that are in the 15 Ly radius of at least two control systems. Since those systems only provide their CC to one of the overlapping spheres, the other overlapping spheres are reduced in value. Most powers have self-contests due to unwanted or uninformed expansions around the core in the earlier days of Powerplay, when people were still figuring out how it all works.

Emperor Arissa is dealing with the worst case of having self-contests. Within 50 Ly from her headquarters in Kamadhenu, she barely has a handful of systems that provide their full income without any overlapped self-contests. Winters ends up totaling the fewest self-contested CC, which may correlate to her smaller number of systems but still puts her in a much better position.

Contested CC

Instead of looking at overlaps between own systems, let us have a look at contested systems that are being overlapped by control spheres of multiple powers - thus denying the CC so that none of them gets it.

Hudson, Torval, and Winters lead this table with the most contested CC. They all have a fair number of weapon systems that were taken for the purpose of hurting spheres of other powers and/or lowering their own balance for scrapping purposes. Let me follow up with a table showing the actual distribution of these contested CCs.

The most outstanding number in this is the 587 CC caught up in weapons between Zachary Hudson and Yuri Grom. Hudson and Mahon contest another 264 CC.

The biggest Federation vs Empire clash is between Winters and Torval with 376 CC followed by Winters and Aisling with 156 CC.

The worst “friendly fire” incidents are 8 CC between Winters and Hudson, as well as 223 CC between Patreus and Torval.

Worst System

Analogous to the best system for profitables, let me also list each power’s worst lossmakers.

Missing CC

Be it due to bugs and quirks of PP playing out in practice, or population changes in systems with the release of the Odyssey expansion; all powers are having less CC in their net economy than they should have. I do not want to go into much detail on these but I thought I should at least mention them. These “Missing CC” are what each power is having less than what they should have if Powerplay was fully recalculated for every sphere.

Mystler’s Power Potential Index (MPPI)

While the normalized net economy is a decent way of telling how good the economy of a power is looking, it is a purely “financial” number that does not say anything about how well a power did compared to the playing field it was given. Just like ethos can be a source of imbalance for Powerplay BGS, so can Powerplay itself suffer from an imbalanced bubble of systems. Since every power has a different headquarter system from which distances to control systems determine the upkeep, and since CC income is based on the population of exploited systems, there are areas of higher and lower profit that favor those closer to it.

To illustrate this, I want to show an older graph AD CMDR OceanLightwave made in 2018:

This plots the average value of spheres by distance from each power’s headquarters and shows how different starting placements can have an impact on Powerplay. Since all powers are competing over the same bubble, some have an easier time of getting many CC closer to their core.

Translating this over into my own data: Let us assume for a second that Powerplay was a completely clean slate, meaning no control systems have been taken by any power. In that case, there is only a finite number of profitable systems a power could expand to in order - again completely disregarding other powers. This gives the power a maximum number of net CC to gain until all profitable expansions are completely exhausted (including self-contesting profitables).

More precisely, if a power took every most profitable system (with L pads) available in order, the following table is what it would end up with:

This table lists the number of profitable systems each power would have and the total net economy from them. It shows that Torval, Hudson, and Grom would have a maximum of over 20,000 CC available in 680 systems whereas Aisling Duval comes at the bottom end with under 10,000 CC in 379. In case of the blue-haired princess, her headquarters in Cubeo are pretty far towards the end of the bubble with less populous systems around her. Systems that are profitable for other powers are just not worth it for her because of the distance. As an example, the Dongkum system is one that was fought over a lot in recent years and Aisling Duval is the only power for which that system is not profitable.

Knowing these “caps”, what we can do is establish a ratio of how many of those maximum profitable expansion CCs a power actually got with their profitable systems.

Enter what I call “Mystler’s Power Potential Index”: Take only the power’s profitable spheres (i.e. disregard lossmakers) and sum up their CC (as done earlier in this post), then compare that to the CC capacity above.

Aisling and Mahon win this one for playing their hands quite well, having an MPPI of over 10% of their potential. Winters and Torval have so many CC locked up in contested systems that there aren’t many profitable spheres contributing to this stat.

Either way, in case these percentages seem low to you at first sight, do not forget that this number relates to the full playing field that all powers compete about. The profitable spheres in this metric will usually be, but do not necessarily have to, be fought over by many powers. Given, furthermore, that an entirely profitable power is not practically feasible, having powers sum up to 100% in this metric is impossible.

Still, I hope this is an interesting metric and one potential way to think about it when wanting to put some number to how powers played the hands they were dealt.

With that, let me finish the section on economy and look at some other stats.

Demographics

There is probably much more that could be done for this section than what I am going to go into but I at least want to have a look at some stats about the population of each power’s space. Even though CC and economy are based on exploited system population numbers, I believe it is interesting to look at the number of people every power is affecting in the galaxy.

Total Population

If we sum up the population of all exploited systems of all powers, we get the following:

While this isn’t a super surprising list and correlates to number of systems, it does put some number of virtual humans behind each power.

Population “Density”

To set the total population in relation to the number of exploited systems, we can just divide them and get the “average” amount of people per exploited system.

Most Populous System

Next up we can look at the exploited system that each power has with the most people living in it.

I was quite surprised to see that Torval actually holds the most populous system. Other interesting mentions are Mahon having the classic old world of Lave, which happens to have exactly 25 billion people on the dot. Hudson’s most populous system turns out to be the origin of humanity Sol.

Least Populous System

While not a very interesting metric; if I show the most populous systems, I should have the opposite end as well.

I do think it is an entertaining coincidence that Torval has both the most and the least populous system.

Most Common Allegiance

For this metric, I have summed up the population of all exploited systems by the allegiance of the controlling faction. At the time of writing, this yields the following data:

Most Common Government Type

We can also have a look at how many people are controlled by the different government types. I have picked the highest one for each power as well:

There certainly is a correlation here to what each power’s ethos and thus favored government type for fortification is.

Note, however, that these are the sums of people. This does not mean the data is equal to the number of systems under the same government type. High-population systems will carry this metric with a higher impact.

Sizes and Distances

Next up, let’s have a look at some simple power geometry.

Power Distance Scaling

Let’s start with a chart.

On this one, I plotted the system count going up on the X-Axis and the distance of the control systems on the Y-Axis. In other words, it shows how quickly a power gains distance - for whatever that is worth.

On the extreme ends it shows Torval gaining distance very quickly with the systems she has in her “second bubble” in Winters space, as well as ALD and Mahon with their absolutely massive cores around their home systems.

It is also interesting to see that most powers end up around 150 Ly, except Aisling going over another 100 further.

Furthest System from HQ

Let me also print out the furthest system distances for each power.

This obviously matches the tips of the lines in the chart above. However, before I move on to the next category. I need to give an honorable mention here: Both Pranav Antal and Li Yong-Rui actually used to hold Maia in the Pleiades for a bit. For Antal, that is further away at 316 Ly from Polevnic. So, unless I miss other historical data, Antal should win the prize for the furthest temporarily held control system.

Another mention is that Mahon, in order to consume his prep CC for his last successful scrap in 2023, prepared the 2MASS J03291977+3124572 system, 1121.12 Ly away from Gateway. An incredibly entertaining move that should net him the award for the furthest preparation.

Longest Distance between two Control Systems

While distances from the HQ are fun, let us also have a look at the longest distances through each power’s space. Based on a pairwise comparison of all control systems, these are the two for each power that are furthest away from each other.

The numbers are much closer again when drawing lines through the entire spaces.

Winters used to be leading on this chart thanks to her lossmaking Matipu expansion that is sitting lonely at quite a distance, likely taken to open up scrap options but never having really served its purpose. Just recently Aisling passed into the number one position when she took Bero just to block it.

Bounding Boxes

If we want to have a look at the size, or more precisely the volume, of a power’s space, the most naive approach would be to get the bounding box.

The following table simply shows the volume in cubic Light years of the box that contains all control systems of each power.

Aisling is back at the top when it comes to space cube size, Winters follows closely behind. However, the bounding box is heavily skewed by far out single systems, so let’s move to better metrics.

Full Power Volume

To get more accurate data, I decided to dig deeper. I imported all of the control systems with their 15 Ly radii into Blender and measured the volume of the union of those spheres. I did my best effort to get this data, but note that the numbers should not be seen as exact to the digit since they are subject to some inaccuracies from how my 3d models are implemented and measured.

This looks quite different, doesn’t it? It should properly account for overlaps of a power’s own spheres but otherwise correlate to number of systems, so it is no surprise Mahon is at the top in this metric.

What this still doesn’t account for is the space a power does not control because of contests.

Power Volume with Contests

Thus, I went one step further and cut out the spheres of all powers from the others, netting beautiful visualizations of some highly contested areas like these Mahon spheres around Sol.

With contests cut out, I could get a new list of power volumes.

As it turns out, the list doesn’t change too much. There are some noteworthy decreases in the powers with a lot of contested systems though. As they are usually the main contesters, it is not surprising to see Winters, Hudson, and Torval at the bottom.

Other Stats

Finally, I want to get into some numbers that do not match the previous categories. And I will start with looking at what kind of landing pads expansion and fortification haulers had to deal with for each power.

Number of Planetary Pad Control Systems

Not every control system expansion has Orbital stations with L Pads available. Determining whether a system is worth it can go beyond just its CC value. Haulers may have to be ready to do long cruises or planetary approaches.

Let’s see how many systems each power got where no orbital L pad was available, so they had to go to planetary starports instead.

Note that ALD, Archon, Grom, Antal, Hudson, and Patreus are all combat expansions. For these powers, the pad size only matters for fortifications.

Number of Medium Pad Systems

In rare cases, powers even decided to jump into their Pythons and grab expansions that only have M pads at an outpost.

The Hauling Princess also has the most M Pad systems. Two profitable M Pad expansion were achieved just recently, with Itelmens and Caneph in 2024. While Itelmens was done all in Pythons, the Type-8 Early Access was already available for Caneph.

Once again the note from above applies that pad size for combat expansion powers only matters when they fortify, it did not for the expansion mechanic itself.

Number of Long Cruise Systems

To have a look at cruise distances, I prepared two tables for systems with long supercruises. The measured distance is the closest L Pad, if available, otherwise the closest M Pad.

Here are the powers with supercruises over 10,000 light seconds:

Out of those, some even have systems with cruises over 100,000:

Kudos to all the amazing haulers that also fortified long distance systems, be that all manually, or with Fleet Carriers. As of this year, thankfully, Supercruise Overcharge is also a cool new thing that helps a lot to reduce the pain of long cruise systems.

Cycles Since Last Turmoil

One more thing to look at is how many cycles it has been for each power since the last Turmoil (whether intended or not).

Thanks to the Alliance Office of Statistics at r/EliteMahon for these numbers, as of the Cycle that I snapshot the data.

The Mystler Awards

Before I end, I wanna close with a section that is supposed to summarize some of the above and be some personal fun from my side by giving out a few “virtual awards”. Please don’t take these too seriously. I will start with all powers in alphabetical order.

Aisling Duval

The blue-haired Imperial Princess has arguably started in one of the most difficult positions but made the best of it. As “the hauling power” she has a variety of systems, including the furthest and smallest pads, and a very good economy.

Aisling Duval gets the award for:

The Strategist

Archon Delaine

Aside from having all profitable control systems flipped to favorable BGS, Kumo Crew Captain Archon Delaine isn’t in a position where he has super impressive stats in the things I looked at. However, Kumo pilots have made it clear that they are anything but dead. One of the only powers doing regular recaps at the end with a high presence on the official forums and a love for PvP Piracy videos. Kumo is, by all means, in character.

Archon Delaine gets the award for:

The Pirate

Arissa Lavigny-Duval

The Emperor is, befitting for her title, the largest Imperial power. She controls the highest Imperial population. While her number of control systems is big, she is also the power with the most self-contested CC. She has a negative economy because of a core with a lot of overlapping lossmakers. Despite this, she has been stable without a turmoil for years - 254 weeks.

Arissa Lavigny-Duval gets the award for:

The Steadfast

Denton Patreus

Imperial Admiral of the Fleet Denton Patreus is not a large power but sports the best net economy of all powers. Even in a full-size situation he would still be in a great position. Honestly, the only thing holding him back is probably the size of the player base.

Denton Patreus gets the award for:

The Underrated

Edmund Mahon

The longest-ruling Prime Minister of the Alliance was the first that seemed to pick up how the heck this Powerplay system works and kept growing. He is the largest power by number of control systems and population, peaking over 130 systems historically, and he has a strong economy.

Edmund Mahon gets the award for:

The Expansionist

Felicia Winters

The new president-elect Felicia Winters’ economy is hit by a lot of contests - a lot of them with Torval - and her size is a lot smaller than it was many years ago. Despite that, she has never given up and kept going for profitable systems like Dongkum time and time again. I imagine it wasn’t an easy time to motivate the player base with so much opposition.

Felicia Winters gets the award for:

The Cagefighter

Li Yong-Rui

Sirius Corporation CEO Li Yong-Rui has some horrible lossmakers in his core that wear down his net economy. Without those his net economy would be doing much better. However, he is losing the least CC from contested systems. He also has the most profitable sphere of all powers. There were several attempts of sabotage to ruin him further but he managed to hold steady against them.

Li Yong-Rui gets the award for:

The Fortunate

Pranav Antal

Our Utopian Simguru is one of the only powers with 100% of its profitable systems flipped favorable. With Maia he had a prestigious control system over 300Ly away from his HQ for a while. Antal has always had a rather RP-heavy community that didn’t shy away from expansion regardless of strategic value. While I wasn’t always sure what game Antal is playing - he played his own and kept at it. That gets my respect.

Pranav Antal gets the award for:

The Idealist

Yuri Grom

Uncle Yuri Grom was inserted after the other powers and has a unique history - one that includes his original playerbase quitting Powerplay and having to rebuild from that. The Eyes of Leshak, a group of very dedicated players that are able to pull stunning work when they need to, were there to step in and make sure he remains a power to be reckoned with. Grom beats Mahon’s net economy by just a very small margin after recent successes and probably distributes the tastiest Grommy Bears in the galaxy.

Yuri Grom gets the award for:

The Specialist

Zachary Hudson

(Former?) President Zachary Hudson has what is arguably the most prestigious system in the galaxy: Sol. It is also one of the most profitable spheres in the bubble that he has, understandably, protected diligently. He used to be a lot bigger until stripped down by the Hudgement Day Turmoil. What remains is that he is the power contesting the most CC from other powers: over 1000.

Zachary Hudson gets the award for:

The Battle-Hardened Combatant

Zemina Torval

Senator Torval seems like a power of extremes, loving to appear at the top or bottom of several metrics. She has the lowest income and worst normalized net economy while also being among the highest contesters, having the most populous system, and the highest population density. As a small power, her actual net economy for her own size is still pretty good and she has somehow managed to find a balance of getting this stable position with a lot of her damaging weapons being further out (in her “second little bubble” in Winters space) and well calculated.

Zemina Torval gets the award for:

The Imperial Operative

The Loyal Human Players

It is not a secret that Powerplay over the entirety of its lifetime has had powers fight not just with each other but with sabotage from unwanted fifth column activities - be that by saboteurs with malicious intent or just random players falling for the pitfalls of a flawed ingame UI. Likewise both BGS and PP have seen some activity with - one could say - “robotic” consistency and output.

This award goes to every dedicated and loyal powerplayer out there that made the Powers what they are supposed to be: Communities engaging in a video game that is supposed to be fun.

This award goes to every participant in Powerplay activities that helped - maybe even just with a Consolidation vote - to stand against these unwanted and annoying activities.

Powerplay wouldn’t have worked without all of YOU.

All of YOU get the award for:

The Essential

Thank you!

The End

And that’s finally it. I am amazed if you have read everything, all the way until here. If you did, I thank you for doing so and hope you enjoyed all the stats I provided.

I do not want to say much more, other than this:

Being invested in Powerplay 1.0 could arguably be seen as Stockholm syndrome. It was a system of flaws but I loved it anyway. I look into the future with a mix of terror, because a lot will likely change, as well as excitement.

I hope Powerplay 2.0 will be something that engages more players and has fewer problems that make the game unbalanced or subject to sabotage from within powers.

See you on the other side CMDRs and

o7