Lets say my bump power is 1000. My super bump increased thread's bump score by 100X and it went to top of page #1.
Max power is 364 or so (limited by max activity in a year).
So, my bump power went down by 15% and it is now 850, but, if I post something in thread, that thread will get 1% of my based bump power or score 10.
If I bump several threads within 30 days my bump power will go to 0, but I will still "give" 10 points to bump score for 1 post in thread every 7 days.
It will not go down to zero. It's reduced by 15% from the previous value, not by 15% from the original value, so something like this: 100% -> 85% -> 72% etc.
What will this 10 points do? If 10 accounts give 10 points, will thread go to top if all other threads have score bellow 100, or?
Those mini-bump points are exactly the same as the super-bump points so yes.
From what I can see the way this is set-up is open to a different type of abuse, a kind of out of the frying pan and in to the fire type of situation because the bump-power can be purchased as well as mini-bumping still going on directly from posting.
This new strategy does not exactly fill me with confidence - unless I am missing something from the OP
Only users who earned merits in the last year can bump and their bump power is proportional to the amount of earned merits and it's not unlimited. That's a HUGE difference from what we had before when any newbie could bump by posting any nonsense any number of times.