Massacre missions

[Freelancer Knux]

So lets have a nice talk bout these great missions.

Back in the day these paid peanuts for doing almost no work it seemed fair and they just didn't seem worth doing.
Then all missions got that shot in the arm they needed to make payouts acceptable. Which resulted in being able to stack 20 massacre missions and make a killing, of course though all good things come to an end and even though effort was involved for making money the missions were put down.
Then mission stacking was dealt with which meant it took longer to bring in the credits since you were doing one mission at a time rather than all 20.
Now however it has gone to a new extreme paying semi decent amounts for ridiculously high amounts of effort 8mil credits to kill 148 ships... how is that remotely logical while at the same station on the same mission board you can haul 88 consumer electronics to a station not 6lys away to pull in 4mil credits.
I like getting paid a fair amount for the job I'm taking if im hauling goods with almost no risk i should make average money, if however im in a combat zone fighting for a faction to have more control and clearly risking my neck I should be paid fairly.

So what do people believe you should realistically be earning for massacre missions?

 

[GunnerBill]

So lets have a nice talk bout these great missions.

Back in the day these paid peanuts for doing almost no work it seemed fair and they just didn't seem worth doing.
Then all missions got that shot in the arm they needed to make payouts acceptable. Which resulted in being able to stack 20 massacre missions and make a killing, of course though all good things come to an end and even though effort was involved for making money the missions were put down.
Then mission stacking was dealt with which meant it took longer to bring in the credits since you were doing one mission at a time rather than all 20.
Now however it has gone to a new extreme paying semi decent amounts for ridiculously high amounts of effort 8mil credits to kill 148 ships... how is that remotely logical while at the same station on the same mission board you can haul 88 consumer electronics to a station not 6lys away to pull in 4mil credits.
I like getting paid a fair amount for the job I'm taking if im hauling goods with almost no risk i should make average money, if however im in a combat zone fighting for a faction to have more control and clearly risking my neck I should be paid fairly.

So what do people believe you should realistically be earning for massacre missions?

If it's a wing mission you can divide that total kills by the number of wingmen. If you have four in the wing your example would be 37 kills each to claim the full payout - EACH.

And 37 kills ain't really a thing in a well engineered combat ship + 1/2 decent pilot

 

[RamirezKurita]

To be honest, I'd prefer it if they removed credit rewards for massacre missions and simply made combat bonds themselves worth getting. Currently it is impossible to balance, as either CZs are useful without the missions and broken with them, or CZs are useless without them and reasonable with them.