It seems a recommended way to rank up with the major powers is to do donation missions. However, some people say that donation missions are worse since Horizons came out. Some say the nerf applied to everyone, but donation missions are still worth the money. Others (and the wiki) say this nerf only applied to Horizons owners. Either way, I can't seem to find a definitive answer to whether the donation nerf only applied to Horizon owners or not.
Horizons Are Donation Missions Worse for Horizon DLC Owners?
- Thread starter Professor_Pickle
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I am pretty sure it is applied to everyone. Donation missions now require much more credits. It used to be you could donate 10,000 or 20,000 credits. Now some donation missions go as high as 1,000,000 credits
They start at 25k. There seems to be no difference in how much rank you get between 25k and 1 million so always look for 25k ones.
You can also do a trick.
Get 19 missions.
Take a 25k (or any number) donation mission as your 20th mission.
Take one more mission. You'll get the "Too many missions" message.
Turn in your donation mission.
Try taking another mission (any). It will say that the data is inconsistent or something and reload the missions.
The 25k donation mission is now back.
Take the mission again and repeat until broke. Actually, the donation mission will vanish after a while when the missions reload server side. Depending on lag ("STAND BY"), you can do quite a few before it vanishes naturally.
I thought this was an exploit but its been reported and we've been told its OK and by design, otherwise I would not have said anything about it here =)
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/269503-Infinite-donation-missions
Going from neutral to Duke with Empire costs about 80 million doing this, but mixed in a few 50 and 100k donation missions as well. Thats about 3-4 long range hauling missions so quite cheap anyway.
Plus, its boring as hell.
You can also do a trick.
Get 19 missions.
Take a 25k (or any number) donation mission as your 20th mission.
Take one more mission. You'll get the "Too many missions" message.
Turn in your donation mission.
Try taking another mission (any). It will say that the data is inconsistent or something and reload the missions.
The 25k donation mission is now back.
Take the mission again and repeat until broke. Actually, the donation mission will vanish after a while when the missions reload server side. Depending on lag ("STAND BY"), you can do quite a few before it vanishes naturally.
I thought this was an exploit but its been reported and we've been told its OK and by design, otherwise I would not have said anything about it here =)
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/269503-Infinite-donation-missions
Going from neutral to Duke with Empire costs about 80 million doing this, but mixed in a few 50 and 100k donation missions as well. Thats about 3-4 long range hauling missions so quite cheap anyway.
Plus, its boring as hell.
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The value of donation missions is relative to your current standing, when given a mission the total asked for is random, but will fall within a specific range for that level. As you increase standing, the average cost to increase it further also increases. This was not always the case, previously it was possible to game the mission terminal and abuse donation missions to grind standing from 0 to max in a few hours.
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