Cargo Missions for Type 9 Heavys?

[Canoe]

They don't pay that well, or didn't. I made more credits just taking single delivery missions.

Exactly this. The solo transport missions pay more than Wing Missions for the distance and volume being hauled.

 

[777Driver]

I, almost exclusively, fly a T-9 trader. I have never seen the missions you are describing.

Nothing to see here, just 90 million credits worth of missions. If you are in a place that sucks for trucking missions, move on. My only issue is 700+ tonne capacity is not enough

 

[Bill Clement]

I have a Type 9 Heavy, outfitted for maximum cargo capacity, and yet, there's not a single mission that really takes advantage of the volume of cargo the Type-9 can carry. You're either blocked by the ship being too large, or more joyously offered paltry sums for wing missions that actually pay less than a solo transport mission.

Between removing mission types and killing off any chance for players to make enough money to actually expand their fleet and actually engage in content that will often involve high-level ships and their associated rebuys and insurance, is there any chance someone could competently fix mission payouts instead of the utter insanity of randomly generating sums. The schizophrenic mission board design of Elite Dangerous is frustrating at best and mind-numbingly tedious at worst. FDEV, make up your mind as to what you want Elite to be, and please just stick to it.

Mate, there's more to Elite than missions. A Type, any Type, can earn decent credits just mooching around, seeing what's up. If you insist on making lots of credits every single trip then check out EDDB before you jump, otherwise go somewhere that looks interesting, then use the in game trading app.

If that's not your style, then Stealthie and Indigo have interesting alternatives, worth repeating for their obvious appeal:

On that note, I've seen a few wing-missions to transport gold which looked half-decent.
The quantities seem quite a bit less than other cargo so you're getting missions to shift, say, 1,200t of gold 20Ly for Cr10m.
Not bad for 2 trips in a Cutter or T9... providing nothing unexpected happens.

If you've the patience and the lobes for it, take a T-9 out for a nice, big, loopy trip around to fill it to capacity with Rare goods from all over the galaxy, then off to somewhere farthest from where you picked up the last item and sell the entire lot.

It's great money, you'll get to see a lot of interesting places along the way, and make a whole bunch of friends who've come a long way for what's in your hold.

And don't listen to that 777Driver, his sort are always interrupting a damn good moan with facts and evidence! Pah, youth of today...

 

[mtt9999 [Parabolus]]

Nothing to see here, just 90 million credits worth of missions. If you are in a place that sucks for trucking missions, move on. My only issue is 700+ tonne capacity is not enough

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Agreed! I've been in Jaroua transporting biowaste to Cartoi. About 7 million per trip, which isn't much, but it's easy to stack and I just ranked up 8 ranks to Duke in 5 days. If you do it well you can get a return trip wing delivery mission which adds to the glory and fun!

 

[mtt9999 [Parabolus]]

Was running without shields to maximum run potential. Until I got curb stomped by a conda pirate while trying to high wake! Either way I made about 25 runs without problems beforehand so it was with it

 

[Hasaf]

Then you are obviously not looking very hard or you have been extremely unlucky. Any Extraction that's in 'Boom' will have Palladium going somewhere and Imperial systems will often have source missions for imperial slaves which really pay well.

At this point I have sent a few days at an extraction economy that is in boom. I have become allied with most of the factions. The missions you described are not here.