Hi,
Perhaps I need someone to convince me that PP is worthwhile sticking with, but I've done it for 7 weeks now and I don't really feel I want to carry on with it much more.
I reached rank 5 with Patreus by my 3rd week and I was determined to keep up the 10,000 merits to get the bonus to allow me to upgrade my ship. So by fast tracking at 500,000CR a pop then in the end you don't really get much profit from the bonus. So I've been logging in, getting the 50 unit on the 30 min cycle, logging out and waiting the time, logging back in getting 50 more units etc, which is way too time consuming and in the end you get hit with more than a 50% merit degrade and start again. I simply don't have the time or the patience to continue on with it knowing full well that I lose so much each Thursday cycle. On top of that, regardless of the enemy faction ship you defend yourself against only earns you 400CR in bounty and I tried a military strike and spent way too long there to earn really not as much in merits as I would have hoped. It would be been so much nicer if you earn merits that reflect the ship you take out rather than also having the same value no matter what the ship.
That and I don't personally see anything else that really benefits me as I can easily make 50 million credits trading quicker that trying to grind for the bonus.
Am I missing something somewhere?