Horizons Has the very high pay smuggling ended?

[tony123]

I am around the sothis, Robingo area but cant see any of the very high paying missions i.e 5 slaves for 5 mill 415ly. The missions im seeing now is i.e 90 landmines 2.4mill 450ly.
Atm there is still a lucrative deals to make in the local system engaging in the war, pay out is high so is the kill count, i.e 4.5mill for 60 kills, I have had 3 of these stacked up also some smaller payout ones, the total time was aprox 2 hrs grind for aprox 15mill payout. local trading is ok, I can stack missions with a guide of 50k per mission courier run, also some silver and gold to local system.

my local rep is allied to all factions around Sothis but not getting any large payout missions, any one else getting good deals?

 

[StiTch]

Smuggling is pretty much dead in terms of both profit and fun per hour.

Skimmer missions for highest cr I am aware of atm.

 

[tony123]

thanks, I have done a few skimmer missions and yep a better payout

 

[Misty_Dark]

You also have the stacking of Massacre missions, like you have already tried a little of, if you stack 20 of those then the efficiency and money you make increases alot, since each kill updates every mission. and halway through, you probably need top reaload anyway, so go back hand in and get new missions...

Quite booring in the end, but so is the skimmer stacking, but the payout can be as high upto 100 Million per hour, but you need be doing this a few hours to reach those levels. So you might spend 1 hour to just collect 20 missions, and then 2-3 hours to kill 100+ ships. The biggest hurld is to find new wars to keep doing this in... there have been a few Youtube videos going over this and aswell some threads in the forum.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

I used to go to another place and it doesn't offer any smuggle missions either. So yes, it dead. They weren't really bad missions - I found them kinda immersive. I mostly resort to planetary attack missions: skimmers, depots, reactors, hacking - all the like. Sometimes from ship, sometimes with buggy. I've been enjoying that gameplay more than the ship stuff lately.