Massacre Missions: one of my favorite things to do in game, no longer worth doing....

[MrSleepin]

https://imgur.com/UxdaKMO

a mission like this used to pay out a hefty 8m-23m... AND that was back when you could stack massacre missions. i understand that stacking missions was considered a somewhat broken mechanic... but the nerf of stackable missions was supposed to be compensated by increasing payouts of missions.

the opposite is what seems to have happened.

My combat rank is Elite... i want to see Elite sized payouts again.

 

[Schlack]

With the new mechanic of ships from other systems pirate massacre missions with high ship targets ake so long to complete they are useless from a bgs perspective. Thats on top of the bug where the correct faction appears and isnt a bloody mission target.

 

[Jmanis]

At the very least, they need to break them up into more manageable chunks. I'm lucky to get more than 20-30 kills in a single session.

 

[MrSleepin]

At the very least, they need to break them up into more manageable chunks. I'm lucky to get more than 20-30 kills in a single session.

yeah, 5-10 kills for 2.5m seems fair.. it can be a lot more risk than your typical 2.5m Pirate assassination mission.

With the new mechanic of ships from other systems pirate massacre missions with high ship targets ake so long to complete they are useless from a bgs perspective. Thats on top of the bug where the correct faction appears and isnt a bloody mission target.

i always avoided those pirate massacre missions. unless there is a ringed planet, it takes forever to track down all the mission targets in sc

 

[howmanymexicans]

I also agree that there should be more of a scale of missions on the bulletin board.
I recently had an idea regarding follow on quests that I think you would agree with, I'll put the link below

but the basic idea was that players had to work up towards the best quests over a chain of four or five missions, each mission was more difficult than the last but with a greater reward.
the last quest would be especially hard, aimed at higher level players with pimp ships but would also give out rarer and more valuable rewards than usual.
see what you think,

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/416246-follow-on-or-chain-quests?p=6537270#post6537270

 

[Ganjanoof]

unless there is a ringed planet, it takes forever to track down all the mission targets in sc

It's even worse. Since 3.0 not every ship from the target faction is designated as 'mission target'.
In a wing there is always only one. I gave a CNB a chance and after having shot my first mission target, all others were shown as non mission targets. I suppose it is the same with haz res.
Buggy buggy...

 

[Jaylem]

Agreed, was one of my favourite pastimes, when wing missions were announced I though "Hell yeah! kill 200+ targets Solo for the big $$$"...I couldn't of been more wrong... the wing missions are WAAAY worse.

No more 108 kills for 23M (Elite requirements)..... RIP my beloved

 

[Mogdatix]

I had to abandon a 16 ship massacre mission today out of sheer frustration, because in 3 hours I had seen 9 mission targets. The local pirates (Mapotepa purple in this case) were outnumbered by ones from a a neighbouring system; hell, they were outnumbered by bloody Patreus Sentinels. Also saw a number of factions that I'd never even seen before - have spent weeks in this area so know it well.

I was really enjoying 3.0.2 ; 3.0.3 is bloody awful in that it is making me not want to play.

 

[E-L-Y-S-I-U-M]

I always thought that the more I killed and the more missions that I completed, the higher the next paying mission would be and so I also enjoyed the nice 20+ mil rewards for 108 kills... Also good for the faction wanting to win the war.

Please don't RIP... Please be a huge bug in the code with the only fix to rise from the dead and return to my mission board once again [smile]

 

[WorldsGreatestForumDad]

https://imgur.com/UxdaKMO

a mission like this used to pay out a hefty 8m-23m... AND that was back when you could stack massacre missions. i understand that stacking missions was considered a somewhat broken mechanic... but the nerf of stackable missions was supposed to be compensated by increasing payouts of missions.

the opposite is what seems to have happened.

My combat rank is Elite... i want to see Elite sized payouts again.

Yes sir, they buffed +++++ missions. But the not credit payouts. Seemed pretty odd to me.