Massacre missions have FAR too high kill requirements for what they're worth, necessitating a pretty extreme grind of combat zones over several hours which would be FAR better spent in a RES site.
This would have been fine if it was still possible to stack massacre missions, except you now have to get several hundred kills to complete a few average massacre missions.
At combat rank Dangerous, the majority of massacre missions offered to me are rank Elite, which have an enormous requirement of roughly 70-90 kills, for only about 1-3 million credits or a small amount of rank 4 materials.
The lowest kill requirement mission i've found is 20, which i would have found acceptable on the medium-low range, except it only rewarded me cargo worth about 30k credits.
This was also from an independent faction fighting the Federation, which i found was regularly dispatching their own corvettes and gunships, often stacking the combat zones in their favour.
Looking at the few Wing massacre missions also gives me a headache, as while some of them have an incredibly large requirement of 162, (even assuming a very ideal and unlikely 4-wing, that's 40 kills per player) some of them are virtually identical to existing solo missions, with the same kill counts and rewards, but being able to complete in a wing.
TL;DR Kill counts approaching 100 are acceptable for high end wing missions, but absolutely NOT okay solo, at any rank.
Kill counts required in massacre missions vary, but increase by an extreme amount above the Novice/Competent rank, with very poorly fitting rewards.
Major drop in massacre mission kill counts is required, as right now they are an incredibly long and poorly paying grind in the vast majority of cases.
This would have been fine if it was still possible to stack massacre missions, except you now have to get several hundred kills to complete a few average massacre missions.
At combat rank Dangerous, the majority of massacre missions offered to me are rank Elite, which have an enormous requirement of roughly 70-90 kills, for only about 1-3 million credits or a small amount of rank 4 materials.
The lowest kill requirement mission i've found is 20, which i would have found acceptable on the medium-low range, except it only rewarded me cargo worth about 30k credits.
This was also from an independent faction fighting the Federation, which i found was regularly dispatching their own corvettes and gunships, often stacking the combat zones in their favour.
Looking at the few Wing massacre missions also gives me a headache, as while some of them have an incredibly large requirement of 162, (even assuming a very ideal and unlikely 4-wing, that's 40 kills per player) some of them are virtually identical to existing solo missions, with the same kill counts and rewards, but being able to complete in a wing.
TL;DR Kill counts approaching 100 are acceptable for high end wing missions, but absolutely NOT okay solo, at any rank.
Kill counts required in massacre missions vary, but increase by an extreme amount above the Novice/Competent rank, with very poorly fitting rewards.
Major drop in massacre mission kill counts is required, as right now they are an incredibly long and poorly paying grind in the vast majority of cases.