I recently started to grind rep to King from Marquis and instead of spamming donation missions (seems to be the only logical way let me explain why) and do some light cargo missions in-between and earn a little credit. I pick up 3 of them and as soon as I jump to the next system I am constantly interdicted by Psychos to the point where it would take me 5-6 hours to reach one station since if I submit and boost away another one would be waiting. If i turn and kill them... another one would be waiting. Sometimes I would get unlucky and turn and fight only to be confronted by 3-4 Pythons in my Trading Python. Seems to me that the ONLY way to gain rep at this point is Assassinations, Kill x things here and there, or donation spam.
I have some speculation on why it is this way instead of just applying the annoying nonstop interdiction/nonsense spam to Shadow Deliveries (why people fuss about how people play their game is beyond me). They just applied it to anything involving mission cargo. Now I could be doing it not as intended by stacking light cargo to maximize my cargo hold (around 275 cargo) and just need to take one at a time to make this bearable. I could just be unlucky but I doubt it. If you do not believe me try it yourself and prove me wrong (would be nice to hear something works properly). It is just kind of funny to take a non-illegal mission and be hounded nonstop by Psychos. My bet I would still have the same experience taking one mission. Will try again after work.
Frontier REALLY needs to rework how Naval Ranks work but I am sure that is very low on their list. If they want people to do Trade (that is not smuggling since smuggling is supposed to be hard and from what I hear a lot of people like the difficulty of it) make it reasonable and not make Psychos respawn or interdict nonstop and raise the naval progression for all missions to make it less of a grind. So this leaves finding a system with donation missions galore and spamming the hell out of them.
TL
R I sense Frontier Borked trade missions.
I have some speculation on why it is this way instead of just applying the annoying nonstop interdiction/nonsense spam to Shadow Deliveries (why people fuss about how people play their game is beyond me). They just applied it to anything involving mission cargo. Now I could be doing it not as intended by stacking light cargo to maximize my cargo hold (around 275 cargo) and just need to take one at a time to make this bearable. I could just be unlucky but I doubt it. If you do not believe me try it yourself and prove me wrong (would be nice to hear something works properly). It is just kind of funny to take a non-illegal mission and be hounded nonstop by Psychos. My bet I would still have the same experience taking one mission. Will try again after work.
Frontier REALLY needs to rework how Naval Ranks work but I am sure that is very low on their list. If they want people to do Trade (that is not smuggling since smuggling is supposed to be hard and from what I hear a lot of people like the difficulty of it) make it reasonable and not make Psychos respawn or interdict nonstop and raise the naval progression for all missions to make it less of a grind. So this leaves finding a system with donation missions galore and spamming the hell out of them.
TL
R I sense Frontier Borked trade missions.
