Today was phase 1 track 2 of rank 5 for PP.
Logged in and had 95,000,000.
Picked up my rank 4 pay of 5,000,000
Did fortification shuttle runs for 3,000 merits. Being really cheap and having a ton of time on my hands. I started off with the 1st 50 for free, then did house work and waited for the 30 minutes so the first 200 tons was free. Then settled down to make deliveries and by the time I would get back the timer reset. So I did 14 more runs and only paid to speed the timer on 150 tons per run and that came to 21,000,000.
Then I went to HIP 20524, the Haz Rez spot there and knocked off 44 million worth of bounties.
So 123 million in hand and all set to finish off the balance of my rank 5 requirements for this cycle.
Next step is to do 5000 more merits killing transports.
It seems the % boost to bounties is cumulative. I get 20% base + 100% for Rank 5. L. Duval is in ranking 4 this cycle.
If people that run fortifications would fortify systems that need it instead of hitting the few systems that are close, she would rank up and we'd make even more money. To me, a system that had no undermining at all and has 790% fortifications is just super double dumb asses going the easy route to complete their rank and not seeing how much money they are losing! If they took their finger out of there ass and worked at it, she'd rank into the top 3. Think about it. If she is in rank 1, we get 50% bounty boost + the 100% for Rank 5. ( 40% for rank 2 and 30% for rank 3)