Delivery Missions Massacred

Canoe · Dec 9, 2020

So I had two follow-on missions I was due to complete that were left over from yesterday. I'm Elite in Trading and Exploration. The rewards have gone from reasonable, 600k approx, to this ;

How is this reasonable? It makes follow-on missions pointless in terms of payment. Balance payments according to rank as well as other activities.

Susanna · Dec 9, 2020

Wow! That sure is one way of making a game mechanic obsolete! I hope it gets adjusted! File a bug report... Not officially a bug but this is desperately bad enough to count as one!
Another oversight by FDev...

Jmanis · Dec 9, 2020

It's only 2t though?

I thought missions got balanced to favour quantity and distance... 2t going 9LY isn't that much, noting all chain missions are 2t.

Canoe · Dec 9, 2020

Jmanis said:
It's only 2t though?

I thought missions got balanced to favour quantity and distance... 2t going 9LY isn't that much, noting all chain missions are 2t.

They did, which is fine, but this is a follow-on, which based on the change, are now pointless. I don't need to be making 300million an hour. I'm happy just pootling around transporting goods. But this is laughable.

Mayan Fury · Dec 9, 2020

I have actually started playing again due to these luverly high paying cargo delivery missions, had a follow on one yester for 19 mill for two tonnes! yummy! logged in this morining to carry on trucking and the missions have been nerfed into the ground!!
was taking 120 tonnes of gold for 29 mill now back down to 4 mill for the same...

makes me sad.

goemon · Dec 9, 2020

also note, the reduction of inf+ down to reduction in payment.
i use those follow-up mission usually for the+inf option - most of them had a 4+ ot 5+ option until yesterday.

Florenus · Dec 9, 2020

But... reputation and influence are priceless!

Stormcrow77 · Dec 9, 2020

Taygeta was too much

Now its too little

It should be somewhere in between

Lightspeed · Dec 9, 2020

Canoe said:
So I had two follow-on missions I was due to complete that were left over from yesterday. I'm Elite in Trading and Exploration. The rewards have gone from reasonable, 600k approx, to this ;

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How is this reasonable? It makes follow-on missions pointless in terms of payment. Balance payments according to rank as well as other activities.

But I've been seeing that kind of reward since before this patch ... admittedly with my Epic Alt.

I hope my "fetch 10t of Palladium for mega millions" missions haven't gone

Scary Asp Explorer · Dec 9, 2020

cargo delivery missions should be ereased from game now.. after nerf yesterday some could 250-400k but today now 100-150k some are below 90k..

Danieros · Dec 9, 2020

Jmanis said:
It's only 2t though?

I thought missions got balanced to favour quantity and distance... 2t going 9LY isn't that much, noting all chain missions are 2t.

I think It's a hilarious oversight. Since they're changing delivery missions to be based on tonnage, those 2t chain missions will get horribly slaughetered in the process, so something will need to be done for them.

CaptainPugwash · Dec 9, 2020

Canoe said:
So I had two follow-on missions I was due to complete that were left over from yesterday. I'm Elite in Trading and Exploration. The rewards have gone from reasonable, 600k approx, to this ;

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How is this reasonable? It makes follow-on missions pointless in terms of payment. Balance payments according to rank as well as other activities.

It does smack of classic knee jerk reaction tbh

Bigmaec · Dec 9, 2020

I guess I won't follow them any more.

Drelthar · Dec 9, 2020

It seems like Frontier only have one variable for these missions - and everything is based off that - no nuance to their ability to balance them, just change the multiplier and that's it.

Rubbernuke · Dec 9, 2020

Bigmaec said:
I guess I won't follow them any more.

I wish FD would kind of view meeting NPCs or new types of things to do rather than a monetary reward all the time.

galahad2069 · Dec 9, 2020

Bigmaec said:
I guess I won't follow them any more.

These follow-up missions are not completely unlike the situations when your level 80 character, clad in some fancy dragon armor from head to toe, listens to the Jarl's steward saying something like "thank you for killing that dangerous giant, here, 100 gold pieces".

Bigmaec · Dec 9, 2020

galahad2069 said:
These follow-up missions are not completely unlike the situations when your level 80 character, clad in some fancy dragon armor from head to toe, listens to the Jarl's steward saying something like "thank you for killing that dangerous giant, here, 100 gold pieces".

As a former dungeon master in AD&D 2nd, my party tended to take the castle from the Jarl (and fireball the steward in that process) if something like that would've happened.

After three or four castles I tried to buff the reward a bit

Rubbernuke · Dec 9, 2020

Bigmaec said:
As a former dungeon master in AD&D 2nd, my party tended to take the castle from the Jarl (and fireball the steward in that process) if something like that would've happened.

After three or four castles I tried to buff the reward a bit

Take a leaf out of Princess Daisys rulebook: your reward is in another castle

With ED, your reward is at Raxxla.

Chaines · Dec 9, 2020

I mostly take those kind of mission when i'm doing some BGS and try to get some faction gain influence. And if I have already other missions going the same way.

Troopi · Dec 9, 2020

They are forgetting the risk involved in the transport. Doing a risky transport of 2t of gold for 10k doesn't even pay the repairs in case of pirate attack.
Honestly, this method of changing rewards that Frontier does, nerfing deliveries to the ground and boosting combat rewards to an hilarious point... this shows how unprofessional they are. I don't know who in their staff is responsible for these things, but that guy is high on cocaine 24/7.