Hello everyone,
A quick update on the status of Wing Delivery Missions: we are going to be reducing the units of cargo that these missions can require to 320 – 6120. In addition, we’ll also be increasing the payouts of these missions slightly.
Thank you for your feedback and we’ll continue to observe and balance missions if required.
I don't mean to be rude, but these very minor changes seem to be woefully out of touch with the reality of what CMDRs are doing to earn credits.
Here, let me explain my reasoning using
this post as an example - since it's the same CMDR in the same system comparing a wing mission from the same faction to the same destination. Rank and rep can therefore be ignored in this since they are the same. It's not an isolated incident though,
here's the very next thread I read after the 'balance' pass.
Wing mission (best-case scenario):
7,200 units, 6.9M reward, 4-man wing, everyone using 720T cargo unshielded iCutters means 10 trips, so 3 trips as a wing of 4.
6,900,000 / 7,200 * (1 mission / 3 trips) = 320 credits normalised by unit per trip.
Wing mission (more likely scenario):
7,200 units, 6.9M reward, 2-man wing, both using 292T Pythons because it's an outpost so 13 trips
6,900,000 / 7,200 * (1 mission / 13 trips) = 74 credits normalised by unit per trip.
Single mission:
120 units, 2.1M reward, iCutter can stack six of these missions in its 720T cargo configuration
2,100,000 / 120 * (6 missions /1 trip) = 105,000 credits normalised by unit per trip - that's around 330x more than the best-case scenario for the wing-mission.
Wing missions require more effort and coordination;
Why are payouts for normal missions 330x higher?!!
Somebody please check my maths or explain my understanding failure. If I'm not being dumb then
FDev are instead. The 25% drop from 8100 to 6120 and a payout increase of maybe 40% in no way scales up enough to offset the fact that you need to make 330 trips in a wing mission to match the earnings of a single stacked-mission trip in a large ship.
I kind of figure that I'm being dumb but a quick sanity check confirms there's a huge multiple-orders-of-magnitude disconnect here:
Maximum size solo delivery mission = 180 units.
Maximum size wing delivery mission = 6120 units.
Wing delivery missions require 6120/180 = up to 34x more cargo to be moved
4x more people need to do 34x more work (8x more work per person)
You cannot stack multiple wing missions in one trip, robbing you of the potential to stack 20 missions at once.
Those last two statements combined multiply into a phenomenally ridiculous disparity that needs to be addressed. Obviously you're not going to find 20 missions small enough to fit in one iCutter, but you will find
at least 4 and probably more like 6-8 if you take the 96-180T missions.
