OMG! You can make 20+Mil Cr per Hour, if you didn't realise.

[Jerakeen]

Finally there's a point to doing smuggling missions. I've had more excitement doing these smuggling missions than I have playing the rest of the game for weeks.
RES farming becomes humdrum after a while and with the interdiction changes there's no point in doing PP anymore so this has injected a new element of fun into the game.

For those who say that you don't need loads of credits I guess for some people that's true. I know a guy who has been playing since beta, he has virtually no combat rank, he's a trailblazer in exploration and quite low on trade as well but he loves the game. He even goes home at lunchtime to play it. He enjoys his game just as much as I enjoy mine.

I have different priorities. Credits for me isn't a way of keeping score. I don't care how big your bank balance is, nor how you came by it and you shouldn't care about mine. This isn't a competitive game in that way.

I want the credits for the choices they give me. I have a Python kitted out for battle, an Anaconda trader, a Diamondback Explorer fully kitted but I didn't have anything suitable for these long range missions. The money stashed away in the bank allowed me to buy and fully kit out an Asp on a whim. If I'd had to save up for a week I probably wouldn't have bothered heading over to Sothis but I had the resources to choose to take part immediately so I did and I've had a whale of a time. I've lost one Asp to an Elite Cobra and topped up my bank account. A few more evenings and my Conda will get some nice trinkets.
Does that affect your game? No, I don't think it does so please stop demanding that this be nerfed.

 

[Buglet]

damn, there goes about 7 of my missions. unhappy.

Is it really a good idea getting unhappy at people who can make the entire galaxy just disappear for 2 hours?

 

[B1ll Adama]

Hope they dont patch it, been a lot more fun than Trading... most fun i have ever had in ED.

 

[ExRex]

Hope they dont patch it, been a lot more fun than Trading... most fun i have ever had in ED.

They should just nerf it a little and then figure out how this will affect PvP piracy. It's currently ruining the piracy aspect of the game because there's no way to interdict the smugglers.

 

[ocflyer]

Yes, but I've a feeling it'll be patched when the servers wake up

I don't believe for an instant that FD would do something as petty as downgrade the missions. There are many bugs that plague 1.4 to keep them busy (e.g. long hyperspace times, long BB load times, etc).

- - - Updated - - -

Servers appear to be up.

 

[nosscar]

Just waiting to log on this morning for another sothis run, very enjoyable aspect of the game now, so hope they don't nerf it, come on, please tell me the missions are still there before i bother logging on.

 

[Buglet]

SERVERS UP

can someone pls confirm you can still get the Sothis missions?

 

[Valok]

Heading to Sothis now, will come back with an answer in 10min.

EDIT: Still working it seems.

 

[Spiridon]

I've had more excitement doing these smuggling missions than I have playing the rest of the game for weeks.
Does that affect your game? No, I don't think it does so please stop demanding that this be nerfed.

Hope they dont patch it, been a lot more fun than Trading... most fun i have ever had in ED.

Again, normal reasoning for this to stay. We are enjoying the game again!

 

[CmdrZaratan]

SERVERS UP

can someone pls confirm you can still get the Sothis missions?

I just accepted a 4 mill and 3 mill smuggling mission from Sothis, so it looks the same.

 

[Buglet]

I just accepted a 4 mill and 3 mill smuggling mission from Sothis, so it looks the same.

Excellent

 

[Alien]

Makes me laugh and cry at the same time, that people see nothing wrong with posting about these missions on the forum, then post that they hope Frontier don't patch them.

I am in-game at a station offering these missions and I can confirm the station I am at is still offering them. I am sure Frontier will patch it sooner or later.

 

[two quiet suns]

pratchets disk still has them too

 

[embryo]

This is totally unscientific, but anecdotally I am seeming more individuals saying that this is the most fun that the game has been for a long time. Everyone can still play the game how hey wish, eg slow and steady RPing in whatever mode (Solo etc) or going for credits fast.

Earlier in the year I grinded trading and got to an Anaconda, it is nice to have but I fly other smaller ships more. Credits allow options in this game, these missions give people the chance to have fun, something that in my opinion has been lacking unless you are a simulation fanatic.

At the end of the day, how I play my game does not directly influence yours, you play your way, I will play mine.

Please do not patch these missions FD.

 

[Eme]

Makes me laugh and cry at the same time, that people see nothing wrong with posting about these missions on the forum, then post that they hope Frontier don't patch them.

I am in-game at a station offering these missions and I can confirm the station I am at is still offering them. I am sure Frontier will patch it sooner or later.

this view only encourages combat logging

 

[Kzak]

I predict that FDev will fix the 'problem' with these missions by allowing the mission list in the bulletin board to update every 10 minutes, regardless of logging in or out of the instance, solo or Open.

 

[two quiet suns]

changing instances did not update the list for me just now

 

[Pilot Mark]

I am sure Frontier will patch it sooner or later.

Presumably based on the assumption that FD's sole purpose is to drain any remaining enjoyment that exists in this game.

 

[racer1]

If it's about enjoyment then surely if they reduce the amount it won't change your enjoyment?

Reduce the time the missions have to be completed in I say to less than 1 hour, will signifcantly reduce stacking and the ability to wait/mode swicth for new missions.

 

[Alien]

Makes me laugh and cry at the same time, that people see nothing wrong with posting about these missions on the forum, then post that they hope Frontier don't patch them.

I am in-game at a station offering these missions and I can confirm the station I am at is still offering them. I am sure Frontier will patch it sooner or later.

this view only encourages combat logging

No it doesn't. Maybe you'd like to explain why you think it does?

Presumably based on the assumption that FD's sole purpose is to drain any remaining enjoyment that exists in this game.

No, but because these missions are obviously not how the game is intended to work, and that people post "I hope Frontier don't patch it" shows people know that these missions shouldn't be paying this much.

Now, there is a debate as to whether Frontier should have missions in the game that pay this much, and whether Frontier will see comments like "this is the most fun I've had for a while" (paraphrasing) and adjust the game accordingly.

Frontier don't want to make a game so tediously mind-numbingly boring that no-one wants to play, so any assumption they do, is wrong. Frontier also don't want to make a game that's too easy. They are better than we are at knowing where the right balance is.