95% of combat missions are wing missions?

[Punchdrunk1973]

I've finally found what I thought was a good new base, Compromised nav beacon and space station very close to the star so I can do a lot of bounty hunting easily.
Next I worked on getting my rep up with the local factions so I could do some missions for variety. I've got Allied with 2 and friendly with 3 others.

Every damn time I check the combat mission board, it's 95% Wing missions. This almost always ends up as an elite FDL with 3 or 4 elite vulture escorts. Now I'm not the greatest pilot, I can just about do this in my engineered corvette, but I don't WANT to fly that all the time, I want to play in my shiny new Cobra mk V.
I can handle any ship solo, a pair, or trio in a haz-rez, fine. But I can't do the difficulty 8 wing missions.

Why are these the ONLY missions I'm offered, that or "Kill 87 pirates".
Where are all the difficulty 6,7,8 NON wing missions?

Is there something about the system state? the factions? It's making me want to quit again which is doubly annoying as I only came back to the game a month ago, and bought odyssey and this new ship. Feeling like I made a mistake now

 

[Neilski]

Every damn time I check the combat mission board, it's 95% Wing missions. This almost always ends up as an elite FDL with 3 or 4 elite vulture escorts. Now I'm not the greatest pilot, I can just about do this in my engineered corvette, but I don't WANT to fly that all the time, I want to play in my shiny new Cobra mk V.

I know what you mean. One tactic I sometimes try is to just take the "industry needs X..." missions with threat 8 because they usually involve 4 Anacondas, one at a time, which I can just about take on in a small ship (I'm really not the greatest pilot!).

 

[aRJay]

With a convenient CNB and a good rep so you can get missions for a change of pace why are you bothering with combat missions rather than just shooting anything you fancy?

 

[Punchdrunk1973]

The cnb provides an endless supply of lower level ships, very little challenge.

And as I said above the missions are almost exclusively lvl8 wing missions, that was literally the point of my post....

 

[DemiserofD]

I've finally found what I thought was a good new base, Compromised nav beacon and space station very close to the star so I can do a lot of bounty hunting easily.
Next I worked on getting my rep up with the local factions so I could do some missions for variety. I've got Allied with 2 and friendly with 3 others.

Every damn time I check the combat mission board, it's 95% Wing missions. This almost always ends up as an elite FDL with 3 or 4 elite vulture escorts. Now I'm not the greatest pilot, I can just about do this in my engineered corvette, but I don't WANT to fly that all the time, I want to play in my shiny new Cobra mk V.
I can handle any ship solo, a pair, or trio in a haz-rez, fine. But I can't do the difficulty 8 wing missions.

Why are these the ONLY missions I'm offered, that or "Kill 87 pirates".
Where are all the difficulty 6,7,8 NON wing missions?

Is there something about the system state? the factions? It's making me want to quit again which is doubly annoying as I only came back to the game a month ago, and bought odyssey and this new ship. Feeling like I made a mistake now

I'm not sure if this is just confirmation bias, but it seems to me that if you do a certain type of mission, more missions of that type will appear. For example, I had one mission to kill a terrorist, and the next day I had a dozen of them. I did a few of those wing bounty hunting missions, and the next day I had nothing but them. So I stopped doing them and started focusing on the ordinary bounty hunting missions instead, and it seemed like I got more of those.

So my suggestion would be to just ignore them and focus on missions you like doing.

Honestly, I find those missions more silly than anything. With the crazy Firepower of the support ships, it is almost always faster and more effective to just Ram the Target to death than to actually fight it. I am halfway considering building a clipper designed specifically for that purpose, with a Class 7 biweave to let me regenerate fast enough to ram constantly.

 

[aRJay]

The cnb provides an endless supply of lower level ships, very little challenge.

And as I said above the missions are almost exclusively lvl8 wing missions, that was literally the point of my post....

My bad I assumed when you said missions for variety you meant missions as a change from combat.

I believe there are pirate based USS that can be found and based on threat level provide a fight,this is just hearsay as I haven’t bothered with them myself.

 

[Jmanis]

Wing missions just shouldn't be a thing. Instead, it should just be missions which cover the gamut of the current "solo" missions through to "wing" missions, and they just reward suitably and are split when in a wing regardless of the type.

But to do that, FD probably need to fix the bug where a mission rewarding more than 50m doesn't ruin the servers...

 

[William J Smith]

I do those sort of missions for a hobby.
Thats not to say I dont go prepared.
Take a gunship, armor it to the max, then add the best shields you can.
Then stir in enough torpedo launchers so you can lob 6 cascade torps, add seeker missile launchers with drag mod, and a packhound launcher. and top it off with a pair of over charged multis.
Now you're ready.
Target the FDL (always the target of your mission) with missiles and torps, he'll come in close to scan you.. at about 1.2 km let him have the first barrage... the drag muntions stop him from boosting away and you've landed 2 torps reducing his shields to 50%, hit reverse to gain distance and wait for him to swing around and come back towards you... fire another torp and some packhounds, wait for him to swing around again and come at you, and fire another torp/packhound . if you're lucky now his shield generator will be at 0% and its time for stage 2. Target the drives and use seekers and packhounds to destroy them.
No shield No drive so use the multis to remove the power plant.
Mission success.... of course his buddies now become enraged... which is why you needed shields and armor to make your escape and claim your reward.(or even share it)

Bill

<<laying on the floor outside the bar at Chris and Sylvia's paradise hideout

 

[Reggit]

Every damn time I check the combat mission board, it's 95% Wing missions. This almost always ends up as an elite FDL with 3 or 4 elite vulture escorts. Now I'm not the greatest pilot, I can just about do this in my engineered corvette, but I don't WANT to fly that all the time, I want to play in my shiny new Cobra mk V.

Take a gunship, armor it to the max, then add the best shields you can.

I've been doing a 2-3 of them back-to-back, using a frag-Python Mk2 (recharging shields between fights)
Give it a try! It's nice little challenge!

(Although I have to admit - I don't know what happened to all the regular combat missions - the choice would be nice)

Merry Christmas everyone! o7