Power play is live! Anyone can pledge and use power benefits and perks now, but pick your power carefully.

In Powerplay beta 2 new ships Diamondback Scout and Imperial Courier were introduced but after several days a third one dropped in called Diamondback Explorer. Let's take a closer look at both Diamondback ships and compare them.

June 3, 2015

Powerplay represents the machinations of powerful individuals and organizations as they strive to control inhabited space for their own agendas. At its heart, powerplay is a battle for territory. Each power attempts to expand into systems, extracting resources from them in order to pay for continued expansion and protect systems already being exploited. As a commander of a star ship you can pledge your support to a power, carrying out tasks for them in return for rewards and prestige.

Power play beta is out and this is huge update, even if you do not care about power play or new missions you should read changelog because there are so much to know!

What this change would mean is that if you work hard to become allied with a minor faction, even the over-time decay of the major faction reputation would not be enough to drop this down to friendly (obviously, actively working against a major faction would be enough to drive down the minor faction rep).

There's been a lot of intense debate over modules offered by the various powers, a lot of opinions and suggestions raised, which is always great (as long as it's conducted politely).

We will soon have a choice to make - which power to join, each power will have own rewards and power specific modules - from weapons to shields. Here are all 10 power pledge offers with detailed information from the game screen.

The Vulture space superiority fighter sacrifices hardpoint flexibility for manoeuvrability. Advanced manufacturing techniques have allowed the Vulture to integrate large hardpoints into its relatively small frame, offsetting the ship's limited weapon count, but its nimble flight characteristics make it equally devastating against smaller targets. A limited cargo and passenger capability has not stopped it becoming a preferred personal transport for those who like to project a certain attitude in their dealings.

We are several days away from power play update beta, two new ships are coming, completely rehauled mission system (sadly no passenger missions yet and that's still a huge YET considering when we were given Orca and Imperial Clipper).