my mission board is basically dead

Alodia

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current state of play on any mission board at any station i go to:

* no mining (removed)
* no skimmers (removed)
* low paying planet scans with inevitable bounties attached
* very low paying data delivery missions, even when i have maxed out bars with factions (we're talking 10 to 25k per mission tops)
* zero solo cargo missions.
* wing missions everywhere, maybe 70 to 80% of the board, and they all pay a fraction of what solo cargo missions would pay except now with 4 or 5 trips attached.
* pirate hunts that give about 2 million for killing up to *two hundred and something* ships in 24 hours.

i'm currently left doing passenger missions, which i find dull as anything, but they at least pay a reasonable amount for time spent playing.

is everyone's board like this? i realise we won't have skimmers or mining back yet, but wow, the rest of the board seems a total mess since beyond dropped.
 

MDHansen

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-Mining - back upcoming week.
-Skimmers - Back upcoming week.
-Planet scans usually give me 1.2-2.0mill per mission.
-Data delivery has never given me more than 100k, usually 25-75k roughly, boom maybe 150+ every blue moon.
-Usually have a handfull or two of solo cargo missions (fetch and delivery).
-Wing missions are a plenty, usually around 50% of the board. I don't complain, since I do the cargo and assassination missions solo, MEF heaven.
-non CZ massacre missions are a joke indeed. 2-5mill for killing over 200 targets within 24hrs is just plain stupid, and I'm being nice here.

All in all, this is RNG at its best. Some will have lots of something, others not...

Mads
 

playfuldreamer

playfuldreamer
Mads Duus Hansen said:
-Mining - back upcoming week.
-Skimmers - Back upcoming week.
-Planet scans usually give me 1.2-2.0mill per mission.
-Data delivery has never given me more than 100k, usually 25-75k roughly, boom maybe 150+ every blue moon.
-Usually have a handfull or two of solo cargo missions (fetch and delivery).
-Wing missions are a plenty, usually around 50% of the board. I don't complain, since I do the cargo and assassination missions solo, MEF heaven.
-non CZ massacre missions are a joke indeed. 2-5mill for killing over 200 targets within 24hrs is just plain stupid, and I'm being nice here.

All in all, this is RNG at its best. Some will have lots of something, others not...

Mads
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And is that acceptable to you? That other players, simply as a matter of luck, are having a less enjoyable experience than you?
 

zombieapocalypse

zombieapocalypse
shadragon said:
OP - I can see why you are frustrated. 15,000+ stations and the one you are at isn't giving you what you need.

If only you had some sort of spaceship to travel elsewhere, you might have better luck instead of board hopping. Let's hope they add this at some point.
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Screw space legs, I want a space ship!
 

GG7

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Have you ever considered MOVING to another system?

My home system and those nearby are all brimming with many of the mission types you are not seeing where you are.
 
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Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Alodia said:
current state of play on any mission board at any station i go to:

* no mining (removed)
* no skimmers (removed)
* low paying planet scans with inevitable bounties attached
* very low paying data delivery missions, even when i have maxed out bars with factions (we're talking 10 to 25k per mission tops)
* zero solo cargo missions.
* wing missions everywhere, maybe 70 to 80% of the board, and they all pay a fraction of what solo cargo missions would pay except now with 4 or 5 trips attached.
* pirate hunts that give about 2 million for killing up to *two hundred and something* ships in 24 hours.

i'm currently left doing passenger missions, which i find dull as anything, but they at least pay a reasonable amount for time spent playing.

is everyone's board like this?
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They're mostly fine where I am. Definitely seeing solo cargo missions (about 50:50 with wing missions in the long run, though some systems are definitely biased to one or the other)

Planet scans pay a few million each (or 5 top-quality materials) for me ... data missions 70k-150k (plus the same again from early delivery bonuses on about half of them)
(Those are both exploration-track missions, so maybe you have a lower exploration rank than I have?)

The 200-ship pirate hunts are an issue everywhere, though.

Where I am at the moment (Valac), there's 35 non-passenger missions total (3 wing, 32 solo)
- mostly cargo donation (Theocracies tend to generate a lot of those) and data delivery
- two solo source cargo
- one solo transport cargo
- two wing pirate hunts (at a relatively low 32 and 80 targets, though, so not so bad)
- one wing assassination (can be done solo in a proper combat ship, though)
- a couple of black-ops solo combat
- a mid-pay planetary scan mission (just over 1 million)
which doesn't seem too bad a board in general.

There's definitely a lot of luck as to whether a particular board works for you or not, though.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
GG7 said:
Have you ever considered MOVING to another system?
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Have you ever considered WHY there's a sudden, massive, change in the missions that are available?

Elite was always classified as a "Space trading game".
It's getting to the point where ED has almost eradicated the trading element of the franchise.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
shadragon said:
If only you had some sort of spaceship to travel elsewhere, you might have better luck instead of board hopping. Let's hope they add this at some point.
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The slightly annoying thing, though, is that a lot of boards give the good missions only when you have a decent number of Allied statuses with the local factions.

If you keep moving on, you never [1] get that ... and you have to invest a fair bit of time sometimes seeing if they will give good missions once you are Allied before discovering that they don't.

[1] One of the advantages of the Colonia region: it's small enough that it doesn't take that long to become Allied with basically everyone, and then almost every system gets a pretty decent mission set.
 

dunnykin

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Data deliveries commonly have additional timed delivery bonuses of ~80 to 140k per mission that are easy to get. Actually not so bad, but not stellar, if you can stack to single destination.

Planet scans can have a couple of million or g5 engineer mats and aren't as annoying now you can use the ship data link scanner, no need for srv. Annoying bounty but easily paid off in anarchy/low.

Wing missions I like, 3 runs look for a decent return trade and the rewards solo compare well with an equivalent trade route without the hassle of finding a good route that will depend on state.

Mining and skimmers need to wait for changes before I can comment.

Gave up on pirate ones, never seem to get the right faction ships showing up, maybe just bad luck.
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
Ian Doncaster said:
The slightly annoying thing, though, is that a lot of boards give the good missions only when you have a decent number of Allied statuses with the local factions.
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I've noticed that bounties, when handed in, now give rep with the faction that issued them, not the faction where you hand them in. After a few sessions I was gaining rep with quite a few factions from nearby systems. :) As for the mission board, apart from the stuff that will be back in a few days, and stuff people just need to learn (how the BGS influences the mission board), I feel the wing missions should be on a separate tab. Now its eating too much into the solo missions. Also, wing assassinations seem to dominate solo assassination missions regardless of where I go. I finally am seeing some 'kill 5 ships' missions instead of 'kill a billion ships', but the latter still really need the timer to be extended. 24 hours basically means 'one session' for people with other stuff to do like sleeping and working, and killing 200+ ships in one session is way too brutal even in a wing.
 
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verminstar

Banned
verminstar
Even flipping the boards just refreshes the majority of wing missions...in solo.

Flying around from station to station...same old story in every station in the system...an allied to all of them but the mission choice really doesn’t reflect this.

So that’s the exploity way and the old skool method which takes 5 times more actual time...exact same result as flipping the boards. Nothing but wing missions and low paying peanuts jobs.

It’s becoming very tiresome indeed. Strongly advise gaining rep some way or another cos it’s currently easy to gain rep...which means that will get nerfed too soon enough ^
 

Alodia

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shadragon said:
OP - I can see why you are frustrated. 15,000+ stations and the one you are at isn't giving you what you need.

If only you had some sort of spaceship to travel elsewhere, you might have better luck instead of board hopping. Let's hope they add this at some point.
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If only you hasn't missed the part where I said "any station I go to" in the mad dash to score some sarcasm points.

I've been across the bubble engineering, crunching out rep with 2 of the main factions (maxed with both), and am currently wondering why 4 of the closest systems with factions where I have full bars are still offering terrible payouts in comparison with pre beyond rates.

But yeah please do tell me about the fact the game has spaceships in it that can fly around or I'd have missed the part where I not long returned from sag a. Where did I even mention board hopping?

/ edit - good lord at the additional "have you considered moving'" posts. The whole point of me asking was specifically because I *am* moving and seeing no difference.
 
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Codger

Codger
Yeah, the mission boards are in pretty poor shape. I'm still finding some good stuff, but it's few and far between lately.

And way too many wing missions, especially in Solo. And no filter for them, either.

Hopefully this will improve with the next patch.
 

DaylightM

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my player groups home system has no missions as well as some of the other systems we have influence in
we have submitted bug reports... was kinda hoping 3.0 would fix but it seems to have carried over
 

ShimEnki

ShimEnki
Bomba Luigi said:
I know its bad and all but I do sometimes wonder if nobody knows anymore how to play without missions.
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This is indeed a good point, yet was that the intention at the dev round table?

Maybe, it surely was when play your own way became ---please try our mining and etc then play your own way.

I have gained quite a few additional role playing angles and skills through the self oriented workarounds arising from aspects of the game that seemed to have rotted through the floor and the arrival of eng oriented pushy gameplay philosophy
 
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Han Zulu

Han Zulu
Alodia said:
current state of play on any mission board at any station i go to:

* no mining (removed)
* no skimmers (removed)
* low paying planet scans with inevitable bounties attached
* very low paying data delivery missions, even when i have maxed out bars with factions (we're talking 10 to 25k per mission tops)
* zero solo cargo missions.
* wing missions everywhere, maybe 70 to 80% of the board, and they all pay a fraction of what solo cargo missions would pay except now with 4 or 5 trips attached.
* pirate hunts that give about 2 million for killing up to *two hundred and something* ships in 24 hours.

i'm currently left doing passenger missions, which i find dull as anything, but they at least pay a reasonable amount for time spent playing.

is everyone's board like this? i realise we won't have skimmers or mining back yet, but wow, the rest of the board seems a total mess since beyond dropped.
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Sometimes the missions are dictated by the state of the system, like bounty hunting missions and others, so try another system, maybe one that's in a boom, and see if it's different.
 

verminstar

Banned
verminstar
Bomba Luigi said:
I know its bad and all but I do sometimes wonder if nobody knows anymore how to play without missions.
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It’s a primary source of income fer many...if there’s a viable non nerfed alternative then what is it?

While there is plenty other stuff to do, it’s not very profitable and anything that is won’t last much longer in the current climate ^
 
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