Feel my pain. So I decided to get Sirius permit...

[M. Volgrand]

...so I headed to procyon, a system controlled by Sirius corporation. I reached the system with my Python and in the first station I landed I found that Sirius was willing to give a lot of delivery missions (carry 150 tones of whatever here). I could refit (again) my Python for the job, but I was a bit lazy (and I love her the way she is!). So I checked in the shipyard... Type 9 available!

The Python is the biggest ship I have ever owned, so I said "What the hell! Let's do cargo missions in style, 5 at a time!". Bought it and outfitted it with what was available in the station (fine enough for my needs, focusing on shields and cargo to escape interdiction, because PG or Solo is for [add adjective here].... you know the drill).

That said, you'll be thinking "guess what, he was interdicted and killed by a griefer, back to be the proud owner of a Sidewinder". Sorry dear reader, but the truth is far less satisfying. When I headed back to the mission board, suddenly Sirius thought that delivering cargo was not a good business. Instead they changed to... "Assasinate pirate lord", "massacre ships", "planetary scan job", "liberate x cargo"....

Back to my python it is, with less than half of the money I had half an hour ago.

Frontier-damnit!

 

[Ian Skippy]

Ugh, that blows. missions being offered shouldnt be that random...

 

[Mrat13]

On the bright side, the type 9 isn't a bad trader, despite what some would say. Stick with it, and you'll have your money back in no time.

 

[Genus]

As an Open Player, you should have known better.

 

[M. Volgrand]

As an Open Player, you should have known better.

You do realize that the mode I was playing didn't have anything to do with this, right?

 

[Genus]

because PG or Solo is for [add adjective here].... you know the drill).

...

 

[M. Volgrand]

...

I still believe you didn't fully read the post. The problem is that the missions changed and now I don't have any use for the huge cargo capacity.

 

[EddyRockSteady]

Quickest way to get the Serious licence is to bounty-hunt. I forget the system but there is one or more with pretty good res sites that you can plunder.

 

[Yure]

Ugh, that blows. missions being offered shouldnt be that random...

To the OP: Heh, at least you didn't get allied with Sirius Catering...

On this comment: Actually, I'm starting to think missions aren't random per say. I've run into similar issues all the time (at least in previous patches) where I'd just hit the shipyard tab, switch my ship, come back to the boards and a few missions changed to be totally against the ship I have equipped.

I also think your cargo gets scanned when missions come up. If literally go to a famine system with cargo full of good or water. Thinking "great I'll just bring this here. Look at the boards, see what missions they have for these really needed supplies, and pick up and instantly turn in. ... Nope. Sorry sir I know we are starving, but we don't want your particular brand of nourishment, go get us this...

Same thing happens with mining. You'd think alright am gonna go break rocks, fill up my ship, go to a station that consumes this stuff and check out the mission boards... Literally find every other rock on the mission list except the one you have on board.

Then they wonder why people don't mine.

 

[Imgran]

Kinda nonsensical but I almost see the logic to it. You're supposed to go out and get things, not simply already have them stockpiled.

 

[Yure]

Well in a real crisis, you figured they'd take what they can get. It's the only way I'd see the use in hauling biowaste and water over the high end items.

 

[Koen]

Quickest way to get the Serious licence is to bounty-hunt.

Inning a couple of million credits of exploration data in a system where they are the controlling faction works fine too.

 

[CMDR Endincite]

Some of the problem will likely have been destination based. A whole slew of missions available to your Python may simply have been disqualified by the T9's large pad requirement.

As an example, a facility that produces medicines will often get missions - sometimes a lot of them - to ship medicines to a nearby faction in Outbreak. If the system that faction is in has only outposts, the missions would melt away the moment you switched to the T9.

There's every indication that mission availability is not actually random, just that not all the factors in mission availability will be known to any given player who isn't extremely familiar with the region they're in. Local ports, demands/economies and states all play their part afaik.

 

[ShadowWolf Kell]

Quickest way to get the Serious licence is to bounty-hunt. I forget the system but there is one or more with pretty good res sites that you can plunder.

Much quicker dropping exploration data, especially now days.

Failing that, Bruce Prospect in Avik is a great place for missions provided your'e in a Python or smaller. I guess Sothis works now days too with the data missions back and forth.

 

[SocraticMammal]

Much quicker dropping exploration data, especially now days.

Failing that, Bruce Prospect in Avik is a great place for missions provided your'e in a Python or smaller. I guess Sothis works now days too with the data missions back and forth.

Turn in the data from the 5k for Palin to Sirius and knock out two birds with one stone. Still have to get the modular terminals though.

 

[Snarfbuckle]

On the bright side, the type 9 isn't a bad trader, despite what some would say. Stick with it, and you'll have your money back in no time.

But it does need engineering to be good. The Orca, at 10 million more take less cargo but has twice the fuel and speed, not to mention a lot more jump range out of the box.