I am fully aligned with mostly all the factions in my home system and have never had a problem with getting well paid missions whether deliveries or data courier. However since the last mini fix they have seriously decreased in number and payments. Is anyone else experiencing this?.
Are Missions Different Since the Last Fix?.
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I've been running plenty of missions recently and all seems to be normal. Whether that means there's no problem and you've had some bad luck or there is a problem and I've been lucky, I can't say.
Not really, everything I picked up last night was a sourcing mission. In one run visiting 3 stations in my Python there was easy over 10 million in rewards offered in total for that run.
I'm doing BGS stuff to support a specific faction, so someone looking for credits could potentially have made much more doing trade missions somewhere else.
Probably also true from my point of view. I might be very lucky with the right faction/economy/state that everything has lined up well for me.I work mainly for a single faction, but I'm beginning to think this bias is entirely personal.
I'm an unashamed white van man - fetch and carry are my bread and butter. I don't enjoy combat, so a board of nothing but assassination missions isn't my cup of tea. Just occasionally a cluster of deliveries makes a brief appearance, but mostly after a longish wait. I suspect there's an RNG element that includes bias towards violence to satisfy those that like shooting things (probably most players).
The BGS and state of your faction can have a dramatic effect on the missions on offer. You should be able to see the faction state in the mission tab and also the status panel on your right hand ship UI. If you are getting lots of combat missions could your faction be at war?
During boom periods I tend to get lots of high value transport missions, other states produce different mission spawns. Sometimes there is no state and no obvious explanation for the skew in mission types.
During boom periods I tend to get lots of high value transport missions, other states produce different mission spawns. Sometimes there is no state and no obvious explanation for the skew in mission types.
I think there are 9 factions at my home port and 3 orbitals plus 1 planetary and I am allied with all of them. Like Walter2 above I am a fetch and carry guy and in my 400t capacity Corvette I usually average between 15-30mcr on an average 2hr nightly game time. This was true right up until the last fix patch. The board would have several different missions and usually one or two factions would have a couple of deliveries of between 3.5 and 6.5mcr and one or more of the 2-3 ton deliveries for 2-3mcr paid for by the various donations I had made. If there were lesser deliveries when I started then the bigger payouts would be there on my return. Since the update however, 2.5mcr seems to be the max and there are a lot fewer missions available as a whole. I don't know how ED assigns these missions to the various cmdrs but I would only get these big money missions in my home system and lower payment missions even from the same allied factions in other nearby systems. I always put this down to that as it being my home base, storing my ships there etc but it seems now that I am only seeing the same jobs that a one time visitor sees. Not sure if that is how it works but it seems that way, just wondered if anyone else was seeing this?. Anyway no worries I guess it will all sort itself out in the wash, thanks for the replies.
Odd, OP, cos I've found the opposite?
But as an Imperial I run Imperial Slaves for allied factions and they can be haymakers!
But as an Imperial I run Imperial Slaves for allied factions and they can be haymakers!