I'm a somewhat casual player, being at home maybe a day or two a week anyway. It used to be like this: I pick an assassination mission for about 100k-120k, go find my target, usually "Elite" in an Anaconda or Dropship, blow it up more or less easily depending on my ship, and go home.
I am aware that they now increased the NPC skills, which is totally okay for me. But now I go, take an 80k cr assassination mission, find my target (or rather, it finds me while fighting a group of pirates belonging to another mission!), an Elite in a Python, accompanied by an expert vulture and an expert Viper. Of course, they chew me up there and then, by targetting my power plant. I still managed to take out the Viper and the Vulture just to be left wondering while I'm still under attack from yet another vessel other than the Python. Of course, after shooting at the escorts, I gained a bounty and Security Forces come in. I don't want to shoot down security, so I bug out. Have my ship repaired in the system, and try find my target again - and there he is, with a new wing. I didn't even try and aborted the mission there and then. So I have a week's worth of "Wanted" in that system, 11900 cr bounty and nothing else gained.
So what was the "fun" again in those missions?
To me, those missions are no longer fair. They're probably aimed at players that show up in wings of two or four. But flying Solo, I don't stand a snowball's chance in hell anymore. I guess I'm now back to trading and regular bounty hunting. Is anybody else feeling like this?
I am aware that they now increased the NPC skills, which is totally okay for me. But now I go, take an 80k cr assassination mission, find my target (or rather, it finds me while fighting a group of pirates belonging to another mission!), an Elite in a Python, accompanied by an expert vulture and an expert Viper. Of course, they chew me up there and then, by targetting my power plant. I still managed to take out the Viper and the Vulture just to be left wondering while I'm still under attack from yet another vessel other than the Python. Of course, after shooting at the escorts, I gained a bounty and Security Forces come in. I don't want to shoot down security, so I bug out. Have my ship repaired in the system, and try find my target again - and there he is, with a new wing. I didn't even try and aborted the mission there and then. So I have a week's worth of "Wanted" in that system, 11900 cr bounty and nothing else gained.
So what was the "fun" again in those missions?
To me, those missions are no longer fair. They're probably aimed at players that show up in wings of two or four. But flying Solo, I don't stand a snowball's chance in hell anymore. I guess I'm now back to trading and regular bounty hunting. Is anybody else feeling like this?
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