having problems finding massacre missions

khm

K
i keep reading in various places that you can make good money doing massacre missions, but i'm having problems finding them. i go to a war state system, get about 2 or 3 of them then go to a combat zone and kill enough ships to become friendly with one or both of the factions and then sit around the port for a few hours and never see another massacre mission. i don't know what i'm doing wrong [blah]

at this point it feels like i've tried this with almost every war state system in the bubble.
 

khm

K
GilliganTX said:
Cycle the game modes to generate new mission board spawns.

It's not great, but it is the best advice.
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ya, i suppose i should have probably mentioned that the few hours that i'm sitting there for, i'm continuously switching between open and solo to do just that
 
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GilliganTX

GilliganTX
Try some private groups as well.


You might have just picked a bad system. I don't have any data, but I believe that a faction's type strongly influences whether or not it will generate any massacre missions.

I believe "Coorporation," faction types are very bad for generating massacre missions, while a "Dictatorship" will offer a great many number of them.
 

[VR] Enexemander

[VR] Enexemander
You aren't really doing anything wrong, sadly. It's just a random game mechanic. Some factions all but ignore their war status and will happily continue giving missions for whatever state they just left. It's really flippin annoying for a combat pilot, let me tell you.
 

Necronaught

Necronaught
There is a video explaining how to pick systems that produce the massacre missions and I can't find it. I think the faction that has control of the system has to be at war. If there are multiple factions and the controlling faction is at peace then the missions may not be so profitable or regular. I can't remember.
 

khm

K
Necronaught said:
There is a video explaining how to pick systems that produce the massacre missions and I can't find it. I think the faction that has control of the system has to be at war. If there are multiple factions and the controlling faction is at peace then the missions may not be so profitable or regular. I can't remember.
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i've seen one made by dr. kaii on the subject in which he says go to systems that have military as their primary export and has the warring factions within 3% of influence with each other, no luck there either. also i'm fairly sure i've tried systems where the controlling faction was the one at war as well as systems where they weren't.
 

House0fDerp

H
Question to those in the know:

Are there any aspects other than military economy or war state that one might look for regarding massacres? Had the same issue as op which led to me dropping the activity for rank gain purposes.
 

GilliganTX

GilliganTX
House0fDerp said:
Question to those in the know:

Are there any aspects other than military economy or war state that one might look for regarding massacres? Had the same issue as op which led to me dropping the activity for rank gain purposes.
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Government type.

Corporation = Bad
Dictatorship = Good
 

rrobes

R
I've noticed that military installations planetside give out pirate massacre missions, haven't tried them.

The high paying ones are quite random. They are mostly available (to me) if you are allied with the warring factions. I picked up over 70 mill cr in my home system in a civil war couple of weeks ago. They were 108 x2+.

They are definitely not as available as before and mode switching isn't as effective as well. My opinion is that they got toned down when missions payouts got scaled down.
 

fus roh potato

fus roh potato
I wish they would just take the missions out and crank up the bond values. A smart, quick, and easy way to really improve the combat experience. Flipping boards is just complete garbage.
 

sb413197

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My home system of Wu Guinagi usually has a bunch of good massacres. The other day I was there and the board was offering an 18 million one and 3 other 10+ million ones. And I'm only dangerous rated in combat!

Quince usually has them too.
 

Stigbob

Stigbob
Try a CZ close to a rearming station and fit some seekers, you'll be at the station more often and pick up more missions.

The downside is you'll never get the CZ to the easy point where the enemy are all dead and spawn one doomed wing at a time.
 

khm

K
alright, thought i'd give an update, went to quince and it had a good number of massacre missions jsut as i was hoping, but after i took them and went out to a cz a ceasefire had been called. so quince won't be good for massacre missions again until the next war is declared.
 

Demascus

Demascus
Had this issues as well. Traveled to 7 or 8 different systems in a state of war, civil war or both. Could barely find a single massacre mission even after mode switching. Plenty of the cookie cutter missions relabled for "war time", but no massacre. Either FD tweaked some things or the RNG hates me.
 

GilliganTX

GilliganTX
Demascus said:
Had this issues as well. Traveled to 7 or 8 different systems in a state of war, civil war or both. Could barely find a single massacre mission even after mode switching. Plenty of the cookie cutter missions relabled for "war time", but no massacre. Either FD tweaked some things or the RNG hates me.
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They were good missions that the game's community relied on heavily for a period of a few months to generate credits and rank. They were fun, and an efficient way to beat the grind, thus, they've been absolutely nerfed into oblivion just like every mission type before it that the community favored (Shadow Delivery).
 
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