You missed out very VERY.
ANNOUNCEMENT Game Balancing Pt.2
- Thread starter Bruce G
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Here is the result of my test run. I killed an AspX and a Viper to net 1 million credits. I like it.
yes... i take the mission to kill a pirat for 2,3 mil... and i got 2,3 mil... so no change
Thoroughly welcome. I just wish they'd done this before or after the community goal that depends upon these values as it makes it easy for anyone joining the CG now to wipe out a lot of hard work that myself and other commanders put in to push themselves up the leader-board there.
I have never seen any NPC pirate with a bounty that high, are you confusing bounty with mission payment?
A 30 min in a Haz Rez run got me 11.6M Credits without a Kill Warrant Scanner. Nowhere near the levels of core mining, and still not a worthwhile money making option imo. (Using D2EA Cucumber Build and Most of my targets were Condas, Pythons, Clippers and Cutters.).
Even with a Kill Warrant Scanner, surely it wouldnt increase the Cr/h that much. Anyone else done timed runs with a KWS?
Still feels just too low for it to be a serious money maker tbh.
Even with a Kill Warrant Scanner, surely it wouldnt increase the Cr/h that much. Anyone else done timed runs with a KWS?
Still feels just too low for it to be a serious money maker tbh.
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This will make many people happy.
Even me. Those pesky "tasty cargo" people...
Even me. Those pesky "tasty cargo" people...
I'm looking forward to this but I'm going to keep suggesting this...
let us bring in wanted NPC pilots alive for a considerably large payout compared to normal combat.
Give wanted ships the ability to jettison an escape pod prior to their ship destruction. Then you would need to scoop up and bring to authority contact at a station ( or prison ship ) for a large credit bonus. If the escape pod gets destroyed, you would just get the normal payout for the kill.
This would be an exciting way to give players more choice, better reward combat risk, and in general make the combat loop more interesting.
let us bring in wanted NPC pilots alive for a considerably large payout compared to normal combat.
Give wanted ships the ability to jettison an escape pod prior to their ship destruction. Then you would need to scoop up and bring to authority contact at a station ( or prison ship ) for a large credit bonus. If the escape pod gets destroyed, you would just get the normal payout for the kill.
This would be an exciting way to give players more choice, better reward combat risk, and in general make the combat loop more interesting.
Balance pass for earnings, yes yes. Much approval.
Balance passes for ships, weapons, gear, and engineering incoming?
Balance passes for ships, weapons, gear, and engineering incoming?
30 minute run where?
HR 4734 Haz Rez
Seems perfectly logical to me. Since we're talking about NPCs, they are generated locally in your client, and the displayed number must be as well. Thus changing that number will require a client update, which they'd rather not do more often than they need to.I find this tidbit weird. So that means the number displayed on the HUD upon the kill is not just directly the sum of the target's bounty? There's probably a reason for this, but I don't get the logic behind it
No one here would happen to have guesses why it works this way by any chance?
The information in your transaction tab, on the other hand, comes from the transaction server. Frontier can adjust that any time they want by making changes server-side.
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@CMDR Xerix
I've been using a KWS on my 'vette for a few months now. I've found that I basically doubled my bounty earnings with it.
I plan on doing a substantial test after work today to see how much more I can make for a typical session now.
I've been using a KWS on my 'vette for a few months now. I've found that I basically doubled my bounty earnings with it.
I plan on doing a substantial test after work today to see how much more I can make for a typical session now.
Such great news! Now if only the NPC AI got a skill increase. You once implemented a fantastic enhanced AI and it was sad to see it get scrapped.
Or feed them to a Thargoid.
Yes... i talk about mission payment... that dasnt change ?
No, they never fixed the fact you could hand in Market goods for Mining missions. In fact someone at Fdev said its supposed to be that way I was told.
What has happend is that the increase to the average price of Metals and Minerals had a nock on effect of increasing Cargo Delivery and Mining Missions payouts into the Max pay bracket. That and being able to just buy the ore for the Mining missions makes it easy to get 1000t of bertranandite or whatever ore you need to buy, then hand it in for the Mining mission. add in the fact that in a wing you split the amount need by 4 and even deliveries of 1000t to small pads only need one trip each.
Where before you would have made 1 or 2 mil now you make 50mil per mission.
50mil per mission is fine I think, if you have to spend time mining for the ore. Though not fine if all you do is jump one system and buy it for 1-4mil and make 46-49Mil.
A sensible tweak is to make Mining Missions the same as Mining CGs. Only mined ore counts.
I havent done many Cargo Deliveries myself, since Balance pass #1, so cant say if they need a tweak or not.
Though mining missions certainly do.
And to be fair wings payouts need a look at some point. sharing a mission should mean sharing the reward not everyone gets 100% of the reward. If I share a Pizza, four new pizzas don't magically appear. I wish they did though
Trade dividend and Combat dividends, should come from the creator of the wing, as a share of his profits, not from a magical bank somewhere.
Never should an activity cause the activity counter of a mission to go down across all shared missions. Such as wing Massacre missions. killing one enemy ship should = 1 mission counted kill and not 4 counted kills for one mission. As well as Definitely not 1 counted across 4 missions. So too making a wing and then killing in separate instances should mean, if it doesn't already(im not sure), the kills you make only count to your mission.
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