Why are there so few missions in the bulletins????

Kancro Vantas · Feb 4, 2015

Trying to work my permit to Sol, but every single station I have been hitting for the last couple of days seems to have 1 or 2 missions at most to complete! And some of them are not good -kill Darth Vader for 190k and such-//

I don't see anyone else calling it, so, am I doing something wrong or this has been discussed somewhere else???

I want my permit to Sol, and I need to do missions for it.. thats all...

Thanks.

notorious · Feb 4, 2015

I have noticed the same thing and mission are only a few 1k pay out

kelticfury · Feb 4, 2015

I rarely find missions that I want to do, but there are usually quite a few of them in systems I have good rep with. is it perhaps your rep with the system you are in?

Kancro Vantas · Feb 4, 2015

Im neutral! What I'm saying is that there have been a steep decline in overall missions available!

It used to be at least 8-10 missions to chose from. Now I only get to see 2-3 at most.

My next goal is to get the freaking Sol permit and I have been actively searching missions since sunday. I'm running the two that I find and then nothing.

notorious · Feb 5, 2015

my rep is allied in the systems i'm

Jarek Storm · Feb 5, 2015

I have no idea why they launched without mission content, because back in Beta 2 missions were pretty amazing.

There were tons of missions then, and they paid really well. There were plenty of 50-150k delivery missions then. You could even stack several missions to the same location, or have 3-4 separate "kill ships in combat zone" missions at the same time. The combat missions paid 15-25k each.

There was loads of content on the boards and always something to do. Why they chose to remove all that is really baffling to me.

Twelvefield · Feb 5, 2015

You get the Sol permit through rank progression, but you probably knew that. The Sol mission that comes with the permit is...

worthless at this point

. If you somehow fail to get a permission, the next rank level you achieve, you will automatically gain the permits below that which were missed.

Vasious · Feb 5, 2015

Yeah; I am not in Sol but I am surprise/Frustated when you fibd the BB has three missions total or none from the Faction you are wanting to work for.

Courier Missions should be far more common and availabe ie ones open to new arrivals

RedeyeJedi · Feb 5, 2015

Noticed similar myself, more do appear once you have rep with a faction though they are still not as numerous as they were in beta1.

Darth Ender · Feb 5, 2015

I see missions come and go. Sometimes full of available missions, sometimes none. That's to be expected. Either way, I haven't seen a mission I cared to take since roughly the second day playing. They require too much wasted time hunting things in up to 4-5 systems where you're not guaranteed to find anything (which is why they give you like 40 hours to complete them). On top of that, they usually require me to do something illegal in the system I'm in.

Where are the federation missions at federation stations that have you doing combat against enemies of the federation? Seems like every combat mission I see in federation stations is some kind of corporate, political, mob type shady business mission. I'm currently allied with federation and a Recruit, but i haven't seen any federation navy missions in a long time, and bounty hunting in federation space is no longer increasing my standing with federation so I guess allied is as high as it goes.

Thalios Abraxas · Feb 5, 2015

I've grinded my way up to 'baron' in order to get that lovely imperial clipper so i can tell you this about the BB's: When you're neutral there's usually only a couple of missions available, but by the time you reach the status of 'allied' it's quite full, at least 8 - 10 missions. Or so it was in my experience anyway. And overall it seemed to me the type of missions were quite random, but usually there's always a mix of different ones.

That being said, unless you're starting the game or grinding titles, i see no use of those BB missions, they just don't give enough reward to be interesting. Anything else you can imagine will give you more credits than that. Apart perhaps from the smuggling missions, if you can find several of them and don't mind risking your neck at every docking ^.^

Garik · Feb 5, 2015

Also trying to work for the Sol permit..........even this task is a grind.

Kancro Vantas · Feb 5, 2015

Thank you all....again, trust me when I say I couldn't care less about the missions per se, I am just hunting for them because I need them to gain rep and hopefuly the permit to Sol.(Because I hope that's the way to do it right?)

That's all...and yes, I used to bundle 3,4, 6 missions in "my home" system. So I know what is to have a full BB. I just haven't seen any since I started to visti the Fed ones.

Thalios Abraxas · Feb 5, 2015

Ah, I see. Well then, just one more thing : once you reached allied status, the rep' gain from that faction will be minimal, so my advice is to change station / faction every time you hit allied status.

And lastly, if you're in the reading mood, here's a very comprehensive thread on how to gain ranks / titles etc. Good luck ^.^

pippo · Feb 5, 2015

Jarek Storm said:
I have no idea why they launched without mission content, because back in Beta 2 missions were pretty amazing.

There were tons of missions then, and they paid really well. There were plenty of 50-150k delivery missions then. You could even stack several missions to the same location, or have 3-4 separate "kill ships in combat zone" missions at the same time. The combat missions paid 15-25k each.

There was loads of content on the boards and always something to do. Why they chose to remove all that is really baffling to me.

Maybe it was so good in beta because FD wanted you to test related features. It's like saying beta was so much better because the Cobra only cost 40.000 and it is 300.000 now.

That being said I didn't notice a shortage of missions myself, but Ive been out exploring so what do I know

clivewil · Feb 5, 2015

Thalios Abraxas said:
by the time you reach the status of 'allied' it's quite full, at least 8 - 10 missions.

i'm allied and i noticed yesterday that as soon as i took one mission (a courier job) then all of the other missions disappeared except an assassination mission, and an 'unavailable' mission EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE ONE I ALREADY TOOK claiming 'this faction doesn't trust you enough' - is this a joke? same destination, same faction, same kind of job. i only took the first job because there were two available, and couriers get paid pittance. i ticketed it.

Thalios Abraxas · Feb 5, 2015

clivewil said:
i'm allied and i noticed yesterday that as soon as i took one mission (a courier job) then all of the other missions disappeared except an assassination mission, and an 'unavailable' mission EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE ONE I ALREADY TOOK claiming 'this faction doesn't trust you enough' - is this a joke? same destination, same faction, same kind of job. i only took the first job because there were two available, and couriers get paid pittance. i ticketed it.

I 've seen missions disappear too, but i'm not sure if it was because i took one or because of the 'refresh process' of the bulletin board. But i do find odd that you'd get an unavailable mission if you have an allied status in that station, that shouldn't be happening...

clivewil · Feb 5, 2015

because of the 'refresh process' of the bulletin board

yeah i wondered about that too, so i spent quite a while watching it, leaving the screen to go to outfitters or contacts and returning again - in 15 mins or so it never changed, but before that it was updating much more quickly. so now we are limited to one mission at a time, it seems.

gazzareth · Feb 5, 2015

There still needs to be a lot of work on the BB missions, from when I have looked at it everything is still very localised. Need some long distance stuff there as well, thinking haulage or exploration, but sure there could be others things as well. How about defending NPC traders / miners from pirates? Be good if missions were seperated into tabs for trade/ combat / exploration as well and have more of them...

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