Legacy_LuckyLuke
Banned
Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb here...
This may be an unpopular view, and is solely my own, but after playing the new mission system extensively for the past week, I think they are working better for me than in 1.4.
Initially, after installing 1.5, I wondered where all the missions had gone - and was disappointed to see the kill x pirate missions were reduced as these were the ones I liked doing the most. But after the initial shock of change, now that I've been flying around a few different stations in a few different systems, I've noticed I'm getting a steady stream of interesting missions in different flavours. A few assassinations, couple of militia contracts, some charity missions, couple of kill pirates... and I've just been picking off a few of these (missions) whilst I do other things in the game.
Perhaps if missions were my sole focus I would be peeved, but as I tend to do them as the mood strikes (i.e. whenever I spot one that's interesting enough), the new system seems to be working fine for that. And in the past couple of days I moved my federal rank by nearly 30% just nitpicking missions.
And now I quite like that only a handful of missions display each time, rather than the 20 or so in the previous release. It feels a little more realistic and generates a little more interest and excitement whenever I see one that takes my fancy.
Now, there are still some issues: Missions generating that I can't complete for instance, because I am currently playing on a Mac laptop with no access to planetary landings. But I wonder if this is because my commander has also played in Horizons (as that is what I have installed on the PC at home)? So perhaps somewhere in my account Horizons access is recorded. And there are still some awful bugs (a 'deserter' that I was meant to terminate suddenly became a 'pirate lord' in the mission alternative and then wouldn't complete).
I'd still like to see missions pay out a little more too. But now I see them as supplementary to other activities rather than being my sole activity in the game.
This may be an unpopular view, and is solely my own, but after playing the new mission system extensively for the past week, I think they are working better for me than in 1.4.
Initially, after installing 1.5, I wondered where all the missions had gone - and was disappointed to see the kill x pirate missions were reduced as these were the ones I liked doing the most. But after the initial shock of change, now that I've been flying around a few different stations in a few different systems, I've noticed I'm getting a steady stream of interesting missions in different flavours. A few assassinations, couple of militia contracts, some charity missions, couple of kill pirates... and I've just been picking off a few of these (missions) whilst I do other things in the game.
Perhaps if missions were my sole focus I would be peeved, but as I tend to do them as the mood strikes (i.e. whenever I spot one that's interesting enough), the new system seems to be working fine for that. And in the past couple of days I moved my federal rank by nearly 30% just nitpicking missions.
And now I quite like that only a handful of missions display each time, rather than the 20 or so in the previous release. It feels a little more realistic and generates a little more interest and excitement whenever I see one that takes my fancy.
Now, there are still some issues: Missions generating that I can't complete for instance, because I am currently playing on a Mac laptop with no access to planetary landings. But I wonder if this is because my commander has also played in Horizons (as that is what I have installed on the PC at home)? So perhaps somewhere in my account Horizons access is recorded. And there are still some awful bugs (a 'deserter' that I was meant to terminate suddenly became a 'pirate lord' in the mission alternative and then wouldn't complete).
I'd still like to see missions pay out a little more too. But now I see them as supplementary to other activities rather than being my sole activity in the game.
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