All FD had to do to fix Robigo runs was fix the selling back to the black market exploit, and the "insta-dictions" where you'd exit a jump and immediately be interdicted and crash out.
Instead, they just messed up the entire mission template. Lol
I loved stacking 10-15 350ly missions to 10-15 different stations, and seeing how many I could do without being scanned, in my trusty Asp or Python.
Now these days with engineering, they'd be a lot easier (longer jumps, faster ships), so I'd happily take a 30~% pay cut on the mission payouts, or increased risk, such as a bounty for carrying illicit cargo, instead of a fine, which means security would attack you.
But the risk was really high, you could fail all your missions from a botched escape. And the reward was high to match. It was all or nothing. A full on white knuckle ride all the way.
The single most fun thing ever in ED.
And because you stacked missions, you could basically control the difficulty by stacking more or less missions.
Buuuuuut the fun police got to it.
Now you can no longer stack loads of missions, because the cargo requirements are larger.
You don't get Interdictions hardly at all, and if you do, being scanned doesn't really matter.
And the payouts are so low, that it's not even worth it anyway.
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
