Had to abandon Hutton Orbital Boom Data Delivery, really did not have 45 mins to sit in front of the screen, and watch the seconds slowly tic away. This has to be broken. I can travel Ly in seconds and Ls in hours, bit boring. I don't think missions like this will keep players engaged. Spent more time reading posts on here whilst feeling the need to switch off the game. Pity as i do love this game sometimes. ED Devs sort it out.
The journey time is actually around 1 hour 30 minutes. There's a reason the station is there and it's kind of steeped in the history of the game. But you did the right thing abandoning the mission if you didn't want to wait. Many people have made the trip however, and hundreds contributed to the community goal to add the second rare that the station has.
If you ever decide to head back why not pop on Hutton Orbital Radio and put your feet up whilst the ship does all the work
Fly safe commander o7
If you ever decide to head back why not pop on Hutton Orbital Radio and put your feet up whilst the ship does all the work
Fly safe commander o7
Which part of a single station in the 20,000 or so systems that make up the bubble being so distant is it that needs fixing? Is it the part where you didn't read and/or fully grasp the implications of the distance to the station before taking the mission?
Second what clivewil said. All missions are voluntary and FDev have somewhat balanced the rewards to distance in mission payouts. Currently working the Upsilon Aquarii to LTT 9390 passenger runs to an orbital 1.8 LYs in, with payouts between 20-30M per 10-20 economy passengers with my iCutter; on purpose! When running missions out of SOL I'll do the Hutton run when I want some Hutton Mugs to go with The Waters of Shintara, which I then take with me whenever I go get some engineering mods. Some rares, then some honks and a scan or two along the way, and the mission rewards get more than doubled. Guess it's true, time is money and if you plan what you do with your time, you can double your money. Just a thought; there are some missions I will not do for even 20M, like hi gravity planets -- 2.56G Jones Legacy/Upsilon Aquarii.
I just bought and A rated an anaconda, ready for engineering, with the credits I earned in a couple days going much farther than 10K Ls. It depends on what you're doing. One day I cooked dinner and the next I took a shower... while en route.
You sir! Are a brave pilot sir! Do you not worry about interdiction?
They aren't involving for *you*, but an entire player-community of the game embraced it and made it their 'thing', rather disproving the theory.
In a galaxy of a million stars, not every part of the game needs to be tailored around what a singular person's definition of what 'fun' is.
It would appear that this forum begs to differ.
Hang on...you took an Anaconda to Hutton?
Edit: no, you didn't. Apologies, the coffee hasn't kicked in yet...
I will point out with added times to destinations from drop point they have also increased payouts for longer travels.
So if you are credits/hour kinda guy, or love exploring signal sources along the way as I do, this is kinda good deal.
So if you are credits/hour kinda guy, or love exploring signal sources along the way as I do, this is kinda good deal.
It occurs to me that I've not done a Hutton run in a while. Think I'll have to rectify that soon. Load up on Snails (because I am *twirls moustache* The Snail Trader), haul'em out there, sell for $PROFIT, load up on mugs and gin, MOAR $PROFIT!
I've never been there, and I've been playing since release... the shame of it [redface]
One of those things I keep meaning to do, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
One of those things I keep meaning to do, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
well to be fair, it's not the most exciting of journeys - its main attraction involves finding something else to do for 60 - 90 minutesHangs head in shame ... me too
BUT 2 trips will remove all your paint down to 0%, and you can make up to 86 mil per run if you can be bothered building a nice mission stack before you go, so Hutton is a very useful curiosity
Interesting! I recently made Trader Elite, and I found in the last couple of weeks I was getting the best return on time/distance by taking the higher paying missions that went out to stations in the 10,000ls to 50,000ls bracket. Often there were several missions to the same station so I was stacking but NOT board hopping (not my style). The time taken to do 50,000ls was not much more than 10,000 to 20,000ls so I just got on with it. Got me that last few percent to Elite, anyway!
