How to do massacre missions with 80+ targets

grantcurell

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I've started to engineer my vett and have subsequently become far more lethal - I really underestimated how necessary engineering is. That said, it's not clear to me how you're supposed to do these missions where you have to take out 80+ targets and it not take forever.

Is there a faster way to do these massacre missions? Best I've figured out is going to a conflict zone, but a lot of times these large scale missions don't even have you killing pirates so not only do you have to kill 80 targets, but they aren't wanted so you aren't even collecting bounty so it hardly seems worth it.

Is there a better way?
 

grantcurell

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Danieros said:
The ones with 80+ targets are wing missions, no? They're supposed to be done in a wing.
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Kekkonshiki

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grantcurell said:
I've started to engineer my vett and have subsequently become far more lethal - I really underestimated how necessary engineering is. That said, it's not clear to me how you're supposed to do these missions where you have to take out 80+ targets and it not take forever.

Is there a faster way to do these massacre missions? Best I've figured out is going to a conflict zone, but a lot of times these large scale missions don't even have you killing pirates so not only do you have to kill 80 targets, but they aren't wanted so you aren't even collecting bounty so it hardly seems worth it.

Is there a better way?
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CZs are wars between factions. Unless you're interested in manipulating the BGS for one or the other competing factions you don't really want to be there (unless you're just trying to increase Pilots' Federation rank.) If you've taken a pirate massacre mission none of the kills in a CZ count as no-one in there is a pirate.

You need to target Resource Extraction Sites. HazRESs are best if you're confident you can survive as you don't run the risk of accidentally shooting a cop.
 

Ydiss

Ydiss
I'd give up trying mercenary massacres. Waste of effort.

Find a system with a hazres or compromised nav (the latter is preferable) that has a mission system nearby that offers massacre pirate missions. You can often stack quite a few of the same type (from different factions so one kill counts for all missions).

Much easier fights most of the time, much less faff (don't need to reset the instance because it never ends) and way better money per kill (you cannot stack concurrent CZ missions, it's always one faction only). Loads better.
 

grantcurell

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Ydiss said:
I'd give up trying mercenary massacres. Waste of effort.

Find a system with a hazres or compromised nav (the latter is preferable) that has a mission system nearby that offers massacre pirate missions. You can often stack quite a few of the same type (from different factions so one kill counts for all missions).

Much easier fights most of the time, much less faff (don't need to reset the instance because it never ends) and way better money per kill (you cannot stack concurrent CZ missions, it's always one faction only). Loads better.
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This was my assessment. In the medium conflict zone that I went to in order to work on the mission not only was everyone like master+ which means you aren't exactly tearing through them, but you also end up getting gang banged. 80 targets would take an eternity to rack up - though the combat is obviously more interesting.
 

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To add insult to injury, doing the non-wing missions actually pays worse while having to achieve the same if not more kills. I ignore those and focus on wing ones if I want to work a CZ. I don't bother at all with pirate missions as I always seem to be unlucky with the target systems not having any RES sites or CNBs at least. Waste of time given the credits involved.
 

grantcurell

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ObiW said:
To add insult to injury, doing the non-wing missions actually pays worse while having to achieve the same if not more kills. I ignore those and focus on wing ones if I want to work a CZ. I don't bother at all with pirate missions as I always seem to be unlucky with the target systems not having any RES sites or CNBs at least. Waste of time given the credits involved.
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They've patched it. Now you don't have to go randomly find pirates - once you warp into the system you'll have a target marker and the pirates will be traveling in a big group. As long as you don't have valuable cargo they won't attack you and you can kill them one by one. There's typically 7 per group.
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
Massacre missions = conflict zones, or wars in other words.

Pirate kill missions = whacking pirates in res sites, nav beacon sites, or via finding mission target signals in supercruise.

I can't remember for certain, but I think as a rule of thumb - if the mission is for the system you're in, it'll be a war CZ one; if it's a neighbor system, it's a kill pirates one. I expect there will be exceptions to this, but it's a place to start. Good luck OP.
 

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grantcurell said:
They've patched it. Now you don't have to go randomly find pirates - once you warp into the system you'll have a target marker and the pirates will be traveling in a big group. As long as you don't have valuable cargo they won't attack you and you can kill them one by one. There's typically 7 per group.
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I think it's like that for a while, the problem with those is if the SC distances of those USS's are very far you'll be spending ages just looking at the SC timer to count down. I'm not sure if they spawn in Piracy USSs, that would be sweet - though those are triggered by system state so relatively rare.
 

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ObiW said:
I think it's like that for a while, the problem with those is if the SC distances of those USS's are very far you'll be spending ages just looking at the SC timer to count down. I'm not sure if they spawn in Piracy USSs, that would be sweet - though those are triggered by system state so relatively rare.
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Not familiar with any of those acronyms, but for the massacre pirate missions I've done this week it was:

1) Warp in
2) Fly to mission area ~1000Ls away
3) Murder 7 pirates
4) Repeat
 
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