bring back combat missions!

IIzDaFury · Jan 10, 2016

Recently i've found it so damn hard to find missions which offer you money and influence with an allience to kill priates in systems and protect trade routs,

I really enjoyed doing these but recently i just cannot find any anymore... what happened?! All i can do now are rubish good transports and charity missions, i don't find these fun i enjoy combat!

please bring the number of combat missions back up :L

coca_fr · Jan 11, 2016

Indeed they like disapeared.

But you know if you want to kill some pirates, just go to any Ressource Extraction Site (RES) on planet ring and you'll have plenty of them.

The thing with kill pirates mission is that you loose a lot of time to found pirates, for a reward that is really low compared to what you can make at RES (1/2M cr per hour)

DragoonKnight · Jan 12, 2016

coca_fr said:
Indeed they like disapeared.

But you know if you want to kill some pirates, just go to any Ressource Extraction Site (RES) on planet ring and you'll have plenty of them.

The thing with kill pirates mission is that you loose a lot of time to found pirates, for a reward that is really low compared to what you can make at RES (1/2M cr per hour)

That is why you take kill pirate missions for systems that have a HAZ Res site and kill two birds with one stone. Or actually its more like 6 birds with 2 Multicannons and 3 Pulse Lasers, but you get the idea.
Kill Pirates missions were a fun way to gain Federal Navy and Empire Rank. Assassination missions were fun, even if they did not pay that well for time spent. Now it is all gone and the game is worse off for it.

coca_fr · Jan 12, 2016

oh ok i didn't knew that. So some pirates from kill pirate mission are located on Hazardous Ressource Extraction Site ?
How do you know when it's the case ?

Will you get more Navy mission after doing Pirates missions ?

Limoncello Lizard · Jan 12, 2016

I actually got a Pirate Kill mission last night. First one I've seen this season.

X-Terminator · Jan 12, 2016

Can I just please use Windows System Restore and play offline to have back the game I paid for !

DragoonKnight · Jan 12, 2016

coca_fr said:
oh ok i didn't knew that. So some pirates from kill pirate mission are located on Hazardous Ressource Extraction Site ?
How do you know when it's the case ?

Will you get more Navy mission after doing Pirates missions ?

As long as you kill the pirates in the system specified in the mission then that is all that counts. Does not matter if you interdict them, find them at nav beacons, RES or somewhere else.

Limoncello Lizard · Jan 13, 2016

Take some cargo and the pirates will interdict you. Other missions (haulage, mining) make this even more likely.

jmp470 · Jan 13, 2016

OP, from my experience and I went from 1% Viscous to 62% Marquis in a few days by doing many of these missions. I would do the larger places for the charity missions and when bored I would launch out. I got probably 40-60 % of my XP thru assassination mission. But, I found that I needed to be at smaller built up areas.

Altmer45 · Jan 14, 2016

Agreed. Pirate hunting missions were some of my favorite if only for the roleplay aspect. It may not be optimal, but if a player wants to play this kind of mission or earn their rank by fighting pirates, why not let them?

Universal Evil · Jan 14, 2016

I must admit there are not a lot of those "kill pirat missions" but they must still be in the game 'cause I did two of them a couple of weeks ago although they were much larger numbers(one were kill 50 the other only 25) of pirates to be killed and not all of them counted towards the mission, often if I found an 8wing group of eagles and sidewinders only 1 or two of the wing counted towards the mission the rest only gave bountys bonus, so it took a while for me to kill the 50 pirates needed... Luckiely those who counted as pirats counted for both missions...

Starwolfe · Jan 14, 2016

Universal Evil said:
I must admit there are not a lot of those "kill pirat missions" but they must still be in the game 'cause I did two of them a couple of weeks ago although they were much larger numbers(one were kill 50 the other only 25) of pirates to be killed and not all of them counted towards the mission, often if I found an 8wing group of eagles and sidewinders only 1 or two of the wing counted towards the mission the rest only gave bountys bonus, so it took a while for me to kill the 50 pirates needed... Luckiely those who counted as pirats counted for both missions...

That double-counting is one of the reasons they cut out so many of the hunting missions.

There were times you'd be able to pick up several contracts, log between Open and Single to pick up a 2nd batch of them and go and kill barely a dozen pirates for a dozen missions almost. Get paid more than the bounties that way.

The result was a near-game-breaking issue of making FAR too much off so little work.

I can understand the cut back, but as the poster stated they are too few now. I scarcely see one or two of them over the course of a dozen or more stations.

Limoncello Lizard · Jan 15, 2016

Trying to get a permit, but last night I was so starved of missions that I took a Kill Traders mission. So I went to the target system and interupted a funeral. I suppose that I saved them some time and money on the next two funerals.