I'm about to drop down...follow my wake and we can talk.

DanTheMan

DanTheMan
Oh Please....

FD, this is so lame it is risible.
Can't you come up with better dialogue and better incentives to depart from contracted BB goals?

When I take a contract to kill 35 murderous Pirates for 1.5M Cr and the background sim offers me 7.5K it makes me want to barf/larf at the stupidity.

Similarly, a single Pirate in a Sidey/Viper/Courier taking on a Python for cargo that he Python does not want to hand over...really?

Not really likely is it?

It is a beatiful game, but lacks in the credibility department in some areas.
 

Four Muffins

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I've been thinking of making this thread for a while. Is there actually any benefit to these things? I've stopped a half dozen times, all pointless. After taking the tiny job, do we get a massive rep change for defecting or something?

(Also, "You fight a good fight!" etc. I like writing, I'm fairly good at it, I'll happily contribute to some more interesting, contextual taunts. =])
 
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SpitTheDog

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Even better is when 6 of the guys say exactly the same thing at exactly the same time because you took on 6 missions of the same type.
 

Deleted member 38366

D
Hmm....
I've seen a Mod state that he saw occasions where the Alternative Mission offer supposedly offered a ~50% boost to the original Mission value.

However, every single one I actually followed to check out the Alternative Mission yielded some pathetic and insulting super-low offer as well.
To date, I haven't seen a single offer of these "You're a hard one to track down - but we find you even in the outer rim!" spammy NPCs that would make any sense.

Basically, I entirely ignore them, just like I ignore Signal Sources out of sheer principle (unless I have to drop into some for Missions).

If it was legal, I'd drop into the low wake and kill every single one of these NPCs - just for spamming me and insulting me with those bizarre "are you kidding me?!"-type of offers.
 
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Riverside

Riverside
I sometimes wonder if the paltry offer is a bug & the actual payout would make the counteroffer worthwhile. Never bothered to test the theory though, I would always honour a mission 'contract'.
 

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
FalconFly said:
If it was legal, I'd drop into the low wake and kill every single one of these NPCs - just for spamming me and insulting me with those bizarre "are you kidding me?!"-type of offers.
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If it made a difference, I think most CMDRs would be killing these stalkers regardless of legality. But they respawn even from the dead - but then so do we.
 

Four Muffins

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FalconFly said:
If it was legal, I'd drop into the low wake and kill every single one of these NPCs - just for spamming me and insulting me with those bizarre "are you kidding me?!"-type of offers.
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If you ever find yourself killing Federation sheeple in the name of the God-Emperor, they make nice, close targets. They do, however, respawn second later with the same name. Which is a bit weird.
 

fennster

fennster
SpitTheDog said:
Even better is when 6 of the guys say exactly the same thing at exactly the same time because you took on 6 missions of the same type.
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When I was doing the lucrative Sothis smuggling missions, this would happen. Start getting a collection of ships following me.

Finally get pulled by a security ship and I'd drop down into an instance with 8 other ships there, 3 of them offering money to bail on the mission, 3 of them wanting to pirate me for my cargo and 2 others scanning me for being suspected of smuggling.


All of this is happening in one system 300 ly outside of the main bubble.
 

Achilles7

Banned
Achilles7
I thought this had been fixed when I dropped down to 'chat' about 4 successive assassination missions, where the amount on the table was generally 3 times the original mission eg 220k to kill x..counter-offer was 680k to kill y. However, my last few have been the comical offers similar to OP - I no longer bother with this laborious, time-wasting exercise.
 

xondk

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bitstorm said:
Taking a trip to MAIA in my Anaconda built for big jump range, I had a Viper following me, every single system the same message.

Where can I get a 34LY Viper please?
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Did you have any missions on you unrelated to the one you were doing? asking because 'alternative goal' mission npc's seem to ignore jump ranges and such, where those that hunt you to get your cargo can be lost on a high wake jump, or at least that is my experience.
 
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Four Muffins

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They don't jump, they actually spawn just behind you. I noticed it yesterday, after killing civvies around Alit, I noticed when I shifted up about thirty ships all spawned right behind me, in deep space. I see it every time now, it's quite distracting. That's what Freelancer did, and something I loved X3+ for not doing.
 
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bitstorm

bitstorm
xondk said:
Did you have any missions on you unrelated to the one you were doing? asking because 'alternative goal' mission npc's seem to ignore jump ranges and such, where those that hunt you to get your cargo can be lost on a high wake jump, or at least that is my experience.
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I wasn't doing any mission, just gong out to Maia to have a look at the new Obsidian Orbital. I had no missions in progress and no cargo (besides 10 limpets).

After about 3-4 jumps I stopped out of curiosity and it was some delivery mission the NPC wanted me to do on her behalf for ~17,000 credits.

It looked like a mission in it's own right rather than a counter mission of any sort.

Since we were away from the bubble and in lawless I just denied the mission, destroyed the viper and went on my way.
 
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xondk

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bitstorm said:
I wasn't doing any mission, just gong out to Maia to have a look at the new Obsidian Orbital. I had no missions in progress and no cargo (besides 10 limpets).

After about 3-4 jumps I stopped out of curiosity and it was some delivery mission the NPC wanted me to do on her behalf for ~17,000 credits.

It looked like a mission in it's own right rather than a counter mission of any sort.

Since we were away from the bubble and in lawless I just denied the mission, destroyed the viper and went on my way.
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Hrm, seems like they forgot to add the limit that other npc's have to npc's that give missions, bug it :)
 

Noddie

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I've changed my plans once when I realised I was working for the mob, whilst courting the feds. I figured it the best way to maintain my rep.

Generally, though, the offers are derisory and I don't know why you'd take them.
 

Hagledesperado

Hagledesperado
FalconFly said:
If it was legal, I'd drop into the low wake and kill every single one of these NPCs - just for spamming me and insulting me with those bizarre "are you kidding me?!"-type of offers.
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Somebody should make a poll. "What would you do if messagers were lawless?" I predict the result would be something like this:

* Kill them all for spamming, insulting and annoying me. (97%)
* Continue to ignore them. (3%)
* Do as they suggest. (0%)
 
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