I have happened upon Stations doing Palladium/Gold delivery missions raging from 80 tons up to 180 tons. I have figured out that this occurs in Extraction systems that are in boom. But this info alone is not enough for me to find them more often. Bacause there are lots of systems with these 2 traits all the time. I was wondering if anyone knew of more information to better locate these systems when they are offering these lucrative delivery missions? Or if anyone knows of any that are happening right now.
Palladium/Gold Runs
- Thread starter Sloth Peralta
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Population size is probably a factor.
You need to pray to RNG and the mission board.
Hope that RNG shines down on you to get one. Hope that the mission board doesn't spam the exact same - wrong - mission type.
There might be aspects of the game that might make it possible to find such missions, but the overall brokenness of the mission board just covers all with a thick layer of broken RNG.
Build your rep up with the factions in the station - the really juicy missions are more often offered when you are in good standing with a faction.
Not a significant one, if so - I know of some very low population systems that have lots of these missions.
What the economies are of the nearby systems is important, though.
^listen to this guy.
Extraction + Boom are good basics. Add in how many other extraction sites are nearby, how many refineries, industrial, etc.
It does sometimes take a bit of looking around for the right conditions, but once you find them, bookmark them.
I have a mid-bubble base in a region with a dozen extraction sites and loads of refineries. It's alright, but there are too many clustered together - I use it more as a central base of operations for PP, CGs, etc. My T-9 is parked out on the edge where I found a large-pad extraction base with one nearby large-pad refinery and it seems to pay 5-11mcr / 88-180t even when not in boom (this is new post 3.3), so when I need/want credits, I head out there for 30mcr runs. Similarly, my Python is (was, I seem to have lost it) parked near a pair of outposts that give similar payouts. I tried using the GalMap filters to move around and keep finding potential setups, but then you need to keep repping up all over the place.