News Skimmer Massacre Mission - Alteration

Will Flanagan · May 24, 2018

Hello Commanders,

For mission balancing reasons, we have made a change to the Massacre Skimmer mission type: Commanders will now only be able to take up five of these missions types at a time.

This may be something we change in a future update and if it does, we will let you know.

Thanks for your understanding!

Rob At Work · May 24, 2018

Will Flanagan said:
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Thanks for your understanding!

I might be alone in this but "I don't understand though!" do ya get me?

Genar-Hofoen · May 24, 2018

ROFL.

Frontier sure are mining galactic sized heaps of salt today XD

operant · May 24, 2018

I thought they killed off skimmer missions a while back.
Darn what did I miss. I used to enjoy them before the nerf to the nerf to the nerf. Now another nerf to a dead horse (sorry yammiks).
What am I meant to be 'understanding'?
Were some players having fun?

Qohen Leth · May 24, 2018

operant said:
I thought they killed off skimmer missions a while back.
Darn what did I miss. I used to enjoy them before the nerf to the nerf to the nerf. Now another nerf to a dead horse (sorry yammiks).
What am I meant to be 'understanding'?
Were some players having fun?

Yes, they had come back about 10 days ago or so.

iFred · May 24, 2018

Will Flanagan said:
Hello Commanders,

For mission balancing reasons, we have made a change to the Massacre Skimmer mission type: Commanders will now only be able to take up five of these missions types at a time.

This may be something we change in a future update and if it does, we will let you know.

Thanks for your understanding!

Just want to complete the post for you: "For more than 5 missions you will find lootboxes soon in the shop, right behind the colorful lasers"

Sorry, guys. Do whatever you want, but dont design computer games - its simply ridiculous.

Afterglow [SecB] · May 24, 2018

do you have nothing better to do, or should that be the promised content?

Rhino Hammer · May 24, 2018

Are the skimmer missions going to be Open mode only? These days you have to ask.

Barking_Mad · May 24, 2018

Some posters need to get out more. Either that or just be civil.

Andovar · May 24, 2018

Whether it's good news or bad news, someone is going to give you grief for it. All for something you had no hand in deciding.
...community manager is a thankless position.

andrak · May 24, 2018

Roughly translated "People were having too much fun, so we needed to take action"

Give us a shout when you actually add something to the game instead of taking it away.

Marshall... · May 24, 2018

I wish you lovely people were as quick at fixing other bugs as you are at closing money making exploits.

Herbrand · May 24, 2018

andrak said:
Roughly translated "People were having too much fun, so we needed to take action"

Give us a shout when you actually add something to the game instead of taking it away.

Oh come on, stop whining already - 200M / hour was REALLY on the unreasonable side.

BDelacroix · May 24, 2018

Here is a bit of exploratory speculation.

Space (and air) superiority is a thing. Artificially disallowing it seems bizarre at best.

There are ways around this. Imagine for a moment you and up to three friends are going to take on a base. This base is either:

1) Covered by lots of point defense to shoot down rockets/missiles/bombs/ships. If you've ever seen the scene in Flash Gordon where Sky Rocket Ajax is on its way to the imperial palace, that is what I'm talking about. Lots of gun fire everywhere.

2) Covered by a planetary defense shield, so you have an explanation of why SRVs are required to get in besides "reasons". Perhaps you can have an SRV get in, shoot the generator then let your pals do the bombing run.

3) Lots of fighter cover. Either SLFs or regular ships.

It might be that the game engine just can't handle that level of stuff flying about, though.

Cmdr. Numa · May 24, 2018

Herbrand said:
Oh come on, stop whining already - 200M / hour was REALLY on the unreasonable side.

For this content it sure was. But it's not unreasonable for something more dangerous, requiring more skill, like smuggling. But that has been cut out years ago. Sothis/Robigo, you will be fondly remembered. Mad dashes to the landing pad, up to 3 other ships dropping into the wake of a single interdiction, and one scan and it's over, missions failed and massive fine.

lokvette · May 24, 2018

Andovar said:
Whether it's good news or bad news, someone is going to give you grief for it. All for something you had no hand in deciding.
...community manager is a thankless position.

CM posts more good news on the forum, then they normally do this

[video=youtube;sKbP-M8vVtw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKbP-M8vVtw[/video]

shustas · May 24, 2018

Muahahahahahahahahahaha epic fail once again

MightyBOB · May 24, 2018

While I get that the credit farming was pretty powerful with skimmers, somehow I can't help but feel that this course of action is just digging FDev deeper into a hole. I can't quite put my finger on why I feel this way. Maybe because it is a band-aid rather than addressing a core issue with the way the entire mission system works and pays out?

Cheese Helmet · May 24, 2018

Hey i get that this was super important, but regular massacre missions gave been bugged for ages so maybe some quick response on that front too?

CMDR_Brantford of FLC · May 24, 2018

Will Flanagan said:
Hello Commanders,

For mission balancing reasons, we have made a change to the Massacre Skimmer mission type: Commanders will now only be able to take up five of these missions types at a time.

This may be something we change in a future update and if it does, we will let you know.

Thanks for your understanding!

Wish you guys were as quick at taking such exploits out like AFK turretboat farming (and other things) as you are when your folks feel people are making too much money/hr.