Engineers What happened to missions?

Vikestart

Vikestart
Prior to 2.1 I would ways find some missions awarding a million credits, or two, or more. They weren't everywhere, but they were frequent enough.

Now, it's hard to find missions that reward even more than 10k credits. The best I find give a few hundred thousand credits. Missions are not worth doing, at least not if you're past the beginner stage and are looking for the big money.

Seems the only really profitable activity in this game now is commodity trading. Everything else is extremely subpar. [where is it]

Missions need a serious buff (more credits), bounty hunting needs a serious buff too (higher bounties) and don't get me started on exploration.....

All activities in the game need to be attractive, and that's far from reality.
 
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h347h

h347h
Vikestart said:
Prior to 2.1 I would ways find some missions awarding a million credits, or two, or more. They weren't everywhere, but they were frequent enough.

Now, it's hard to find missions that reward even more than 10k credits. The best I find give a few hundred thousand credits. Missions are not worth doing, at least not if you're past the beginner stage and are looking for the big money.

Seems the only really profitable activity in this game now is commodity trading. Everything else is extremely subar.

Missions need a serious buff (more credits), bounty hunting needs a serious buff too (higher bounties) and don't get me started on exploration.....


Oh and.... What's the point of showing NPCs that do not offer any missions at all?

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Mission pay outs are now tied to rep with the minor factions. The faction you have selected shows you have a low standing with them.
 

777Driver

777Driver
As far as I'm aware the mission givers are not random, they work at the station and you build a relationship with them. Sometimes they will have missions, sometimes they won't.

As far as payouts go, you probably need to check more than a few missions boards. I am seeing missions ranging from 10 million credits in CEOS, 3/5 million credits at Darnielle's project (Yesterday)

Local missions ranging up to a few million for cargo & kill missions.
 
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Iskariot

Iskariot
Vikestart said:
Prior to 2.1 I would ways find some missions awarding a million credits, or two, or more. They weren't everywhere, but they were frequent enough.

Now, it's hard to find missions that reward even more than 10k credits. The best I find give a few hundred thousand credits. Missions are not worth doing, at least not if you're past the beginner stage and are looking for the big money.
Seems the only really profitable activity in this game now is commodity trading. Everything else is extremely subpar. [where is it]
Missions need a serious buff (more credits), bounty hunting needs a serious buff too (higher bounties) and don't get me started on exploration.....
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I have seen some very rewarding missions (1.5 mil up to 3.5 mil), but I only paid attention to bounty hunt missions and assassination mission.
And I am maximally allied to the factions that offer those high paying missions.
They are very polite and always very happy to see me and grateful for the opportunity to make use of my services. Which they should be :).

Oh and.... What's the point of showing NPCs that do not offer any missions at all?
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The mission board simply shows all the people that are your contacts. They are still in their office, even if they do not want to give you missions :).

MadDogMurdock said:
That's if there's even a Mission Board to look at - grrr!
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So far I never encountered a station without a mission board.
Report it as a bug.
 
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Vikestart

Vikestart
777Driver said:
As far as payouts go, you probably need to check more than a few missions boards. I am seeing missions ranging from 10 million credits in CEOS, 3/5 million credits at Darnielle's project (Yesterday)

Local missions ranging up to a few million for cargo & kill missions.
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I've checked many bulletin boards. All missions are crap. >_>

If this is the case, then the RNG is way too.... random. It's not really profitable in the long run to search for good missions for hours.
 
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Vikestart

Vikestart
fuub said:
Rng is way to random in everything in ed, which translates into horrible gameplay and wasted time
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That.

Maybe there are awesome missions out there, but not everyone is lucky enough to find them. RNG needs to be tweaked towards a more stable middle point.
 
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777Driver

777Driver
Vikestart said:
I've checked many bulletin boards. All missions are crap. >_>

If this is the case, then the RNG is way too.... random. It's not really profitable in the long run to search for good missions for hours.
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It's not completely random, this is why I can't take a lot of the complainers like Fuub seriously, he doesn't seem to have a clue about what's going on.

I'm not searching for hours, just flying around as normal. What is the system state of the areas you are visiting? Make sure you are filtering the gal map and going to Boom states for the high paying cargo stuff, Anarchy for high paying smuggling stuff, systems that are at war etc etc.

System states are important, if you don't pay attention you'll find only random luck will get you high paying missions.
 
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Iskariot

Iskariot
fuub said:
Rng is way to random in everything in ed, which translates into horrible gameplay and wasted time
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Nonsense.
First try to work your way up the ladder and the pay outs will increase and the missions will become harder.
If not, move to a different system.
 

fuub

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777Driver said:
It's not completely random, this is why I can't take a lot of the complainers like Fuub seriously, he doesn't seem to have a clue about what's going on.

I'm not searching for hours, just flying around as normal. What is the system state of the areas you are visiting? Make sure you are filtering the gal map and going to Boom states for the high paying cargo stuff, Anarchy for high paying smuggling stuff, systems that are at war etc etc.

System states are important, if you don't pay attention you'll find only random luck will get you high paying missions.
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Allied in a boom system:
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Your theory is wrong
 

Achilles7

Banned
Achilles7
Iskariot said:
Nonsense.
First try to work your way up the ladder and the pay outs will increase and the missions will become harder.
If not, move to a different system.
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I haven't even looked at the pay outs - been too busy looking for missions with the right materials..but I'll log on & have a quick look now

edit: first one I looked at..deliver 54 tons of consumer tech 14 ly - pay out: 538k plus 4 CMM composite commodities
 
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Lord Adi

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I done some " Buy and deliver commodity " missions ... And I have a problem with the update mission system !! It's OK for NPC targets ..I was announced that I have some enemies as secondary targets and they will attack .. and they are :) But after that the destination is changed, during the return fly, and some of them were at Outposts and I was in Cutter !!! :mad: I took those missions only for materials offered as reward and no reward if commodities are not delivered to the new locations !! I had to buy a Phyton to solve the problem, because of amount of my Cargo, but it is not fair and possible for all players !!!
 
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