Change in number of missions?

Blackbird

B
Sitting deep in the Empire, Allied with local dominant faction and friendly to the Empire. Since last patch today, only a handful of missions. Very few trade or aid - maybe 1 of the 4 only. Wait a bit and it might go down to 1 mission only.

Same station earlier in the week offered a dozen or so all the time.

Anyone else seen a change or am I just on the end of a strange run from the RNG :)
 

Blackbird

B
Station and 10 million - not large but not tiny. The difference from earlier in the week is very marked. Out of interest, parked there for 90 mins while on other stuff and regularly refreshing never gave me more than 4 missions.
 

Dynamo

D
Not going to happen, but I would like to see a 10+ fold increase in missions available. Allow us to pick and choose what we want to do, not scrape around the slim pickings. Surely a station with millions of people are going to have more than 3-4 people posting on a bulletin board.
 

Innigo

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Dynamo said:
Not going to happen, but I would like to see a 10+ fold increase in missions available. Allow us to pick and choose what we want to do, not scrape around the slim pickings. Surely a station with millions of people are going to have more than 3-4 people posting on a bulletin board.
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Agreed. It's especially problematical when you're trying to become friendly with X faction which rules out doing missions for Y faction. Imho there should never be a shortage of missions. A shortage of GOOD missions is fine, but a shortage of missions is a royal pain in the proverbial. The best fun I've had is when I'm juggling a half dozen live missions and trying to work out a reasonably efficient plan.

The bottom line is; an absence of missions is zero fun, and so shouldn't happen, certainly not in well populated systems.
 

DidierDrbois

DidierDrbois
Blackbird said:
Sitting deep in the Empire, Allied with local dominant faction and friendly to the Empire. Since last patch today, only a handful of missions. Very few trade or aid - maybe 1 of the 4 only. Wait a bit and it might go down to 1 mission only.

Same station earlier in the week offered a dozen or so all the time.

Anyone else seen a change or am I just on the end of a strange run from the RNG :)
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Same. Just updated and what was a board overflowing with mission is a couple of measly not-woth-the-fuel-cost whatnots (I refuse to call those "missions"). Moved over to a hugely populated starport, no missions at all.

Too much stuff seems to be going south since 1.03. What gives?

CMDR Drbois
 

prophet1

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Innigo said:
Agreed. It's especially problematical when you're trying to become friendly with X faction which rules out doing missions for Y faction. Imho there should never be a shortage of missions. A shortage of GOOD missions is fine, but a shortage of missions is a royal pain in the proverbial. The best fun I've had is when I'm juggling a half dozen live missions and trying to work out a reasonably efficient plan.

The bottom line is; an absence of missions is zero fun, and so shouldn't happen, certainly not in well populated systems.
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I remember in First Encounters you could easily have several screens worth of missions at each station/port. Would also love to see that in ED eventually, but to be fair some of those types of missions are still not implemented in ED (looking for person, passenger rides, hiring crew for the ship, etc.) and having that many missions is pointless if they're all same-old "deliver that thing over there" or "kill those guys over here". More mission variety is badly needed.
 

Emissary

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I was going to post about this, I'm struggling to find missions that are offered by the controlling faction of a station also.

I had four or five offers but only from the minority party, and all low value, even though I'm allied with the local faction they offer me nothing.

As a side note I also just ran a trade from a system with high supply imperial slaves to Cemiess, where demand for Slaves was high... And was making a 2000 credit loss per ton! How does that work for supply and demand? It's new since today.
 

Blackbird

B
Getting really hard to raise rep ... in 2 hours got 4 trade missions and only one rep. Think I'll have to decamp and find somewhere else - a waste of time as I really wanted to stick here for a while.

If devs change stuff like this, a bit of a hint would be good. I know it comes under "balancing" but a heads up would prevent frustrations (though raise more flames I know ..)
 

KillaWabbit

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The missions were already very limited and boring. Now there aren't any anywhere. I have been going all over looking and still only find like two missions and alot of them aren't even paying missions. It is almost impossible to run missions right now much less work on station rep.
 

_Dastardly_

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I'm also having the same problem in federation stations. Was getting 6+ missions including a variety, now just 1 repeating for the non-controlling faction.
 

Perjoss

Perjoss
Has there been any acknowledgements from FD about this? are they aware of this problem or is this simply an intended change to missions.
 

ollobrains

Banned
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travelling around the galaxy there are less, especially terraforming planets. And places like pand which is 44ly from nearest system so no neighbouring systems to invade or trade with.

I was unfriendly, have done a few donation missions but its 60 LY for an agricultural planet ( hoping the terraforming candidate is soon setled hehe) but yeah back to neutral will soon be allied and well see if that increases the mission types, only other ones are pirate bounty hunter and relic recovery missions. The experiement we are runnig here is midneful of that though. But yes less missions

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And yes much less missions on the fringe systems but that is to be expected ore hunting and haulage of straight up trading.
 

_Dastardly_

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No missions yesterday or this morning, this afternoon start trading with a federation station and suddenly LOTS of missions. Dont know if they fixed something in the background or it's just this station or the trading 'fixed' me.

Edit: Spoke too soon. After 30 minutes of Station displaying lots of missions it's back to only displaying one again.
 
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Blackbird

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Yup - really odd stuff going on.

In Federation space, ranked Lieutenant, large port with huge population, Tech, Allied with Feds and local faction, 3 hours of only 1-2 missions.

Was it my after shave?
 
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