I know. And I would gladly chose less money +15 Chemical Manipulators. But HN Shock mounts just annoy me.
Mission Rewards in 3.0.3 are Borked!
- Thread starter Daniel Cloudsifter
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I know. And I would gladly chose less money +15 Chemical Manipulators. But HN Shock mounts just annoy me.
I like the reward variety, but dropping half your cash reward and often all of it for a couple dozen tons of limpets is a bit on the tardo side. There is also zero correlation to the rewards and the value they seem to hold.
Example:
Ran a few of those wing missions with some friends to fetch commodities. One mission gave 15mil, or 12 mil and a half dozen MEF. Next mission gave 13 mil, or 2 mil and a half dozen MEF. Eh, what? Are those MEF even more modified than the others? Are they double modified? Is that like re-frying refried beans?
I was actually liking the rewards after the initial beyond patch, however they seem to be getting a little off kilter now...
verminstar
Banned
Ye they are borked...I got a non wing mission this morning to take 130 tons of cargo less than 8ly with only 500ls to the station...and got paid 4.2m fer what was essentially ten minutes worth. When I get on later, Ill see if its back again as several of these missions consistantly go to the same destination and hauling the exact same cargo.
Bugged? Probably but with the stranglehold on credits a very real threat? Farming time...bug reports maybe later ^
Bugged? Probably but with the stranglehold on credits a very real threat? Farming time...bug reports maybe later ^
Yeah, the mission reward choices in 3.0 were fun. Since 3.0.3 they are far less fun.
I mean, if I really wanted to complain, I could stomp my feet and say "Why is it that I could regularly get Planetary Scan missions in 2.4 that paid 3 million AND gave me 2 MEF, but now I have to choose to either take 3 million OR 800k credits and 5 MEF?!" But I'm not, because I think the 3 choices for rewards system is a better idea - especially since the less money/more rep options can let one rank up with local factions faster. So even though it has hurt my income, I prefer the choice system of 3.0.
The 3.0.3 modification of the reward system - probably due to fixes allowing super power rank grind to be too fast, the mission rewards > mining mission turn-in infinite loop exploit, etc. - may have fixed real problems, but they did so in a manner that hurt the rewards for everybody. Not good.
That doesn't sound like a bug. I could often get missions like that in 2.4 and 3.0. In 2.4 it was just based on the relative system states (e.g. boom state mission givers pay more). In 3.0, the code seems to take into account the cargo as well - so a boom state haulage mission for biowaste or hydrogen fuel might pay 1-2 million, but hauling the same amount of Palladium/Gold/Silver from a boom state refinery would pay 6 to 8 million.
Wing missions seemed to take this into account as well, but they're rewards are still being "adjusted" so not sure how that will pan out.
Go ahead and farm away. I don't think they'll disappear. Credit rewards are about the only thing that hasn't been borked (so far).
There is one good thing about the biowaste reward, CMDRs. Finally, no-one can say their time isn't worth sh..t.
The BioWaste and Limpets are obviously a bug.
But in terms of these commodities not showing up... You do pretty much need to be Allied with the issuing faction to ever get anything decent. I have always found that to be the case.
You might get lucky. But the best CR and other rewards are always offered to allies far more commonly than someone just passing through.
But in terms of these commodities not showing up... You do pretty much need to be Allied with the issuing faction to ever get anything decent. I have always found that to be the case.
You might get lucky. But the best CR and other rewards are always offered to allies far more commonly than someone just passing through.
Good advice, GG7, but I can assure you local standing is not the issue in regards to Neofabric Insulation, Microweave Cooling Hoses, and Articulation Motors. They currently do not exist in game.
I have 3 mission hubs I bounce between depending on states. 5-10 systems around Cubeo, Lave, and Lembava, all with boards I'm allied with top to bottom, over 20 hours of mission running while checking passenger boards as well, and never a reward for one of those 3 items.
I have 3 mission hubs I bounce between depending on states. 5-10 systems around Cubeo, Lave, and Lembava, all with boards I'm allied with top to bottom, over 20 hours of mission running while checking passenger boards as well, and never a reward for one of those 3 items.
Agreed. I also have entire "bubble" of systems where I'm allied with everyone but the Anarchy groups (and sometimes, even them) which covers the entire gamut of Economy types. These items are not spawning as rewards any more. I saw them prior to 3.0.3. I never see them now. And I spent a LOT of time/travel searching for them.
This is also why I've seen the full gamut of the junk commodities being offered. One of the stations - Facece system, Military economy - which sells non-lethal weapons was offering those as a mission reward. I think they may have also had the one mission I saw that offered 37 Imperial slaves.
As a side note: Fun fact, the engineering grade rewards are linked to reputation requirement of a mission. If you are allied, but see a mission offering G4 mats/data, that mission would unlock at Friendly. G3? Cordial. G5 are at Allied. Ah, the fun things you learn as you travel rapidly from station to station to station to check all the mission boards in a futile quest for a missing reward...
Lol. Wow, that is not only funny, it may also be pointing to a coding issue. It's possible that those systems might normally sell Imperial Slaves, but a filter is removing it from the commodities board because she is in control of that system. However, the filter isn't keeping the slaves from being pulled as a mission reward commodity. Lol. Oh, that is so funny... [haha]
Seriously, they should just remove commodities (that can be purchased at that station) as a reward choice. The results are getting more absurd the deeper we dive into this...
verminstar
Banned
Ive been offered slaves as rewards in both cemeiss and achenar systems and slaves arent sold anywhere in achenar and Im allied to every single faction there...allied or friendly to most in cemeiss. So the funny thing being yer being offered illegal commodities in a station where they are banned...its pure comedy gold stuff ^
Have you checked HIP 5623? (Aisling Duval Controlled System near Cubeo)
That is my home system, and those are very common commodity offerings there. I don't need them, so I always choose something else. But Cooling Hoses and Articulation Motors are definitely still in the game. I saw both as mission rewards last night at Gunter Port and D'Arrest Ring. Stross Installation is my actual HQ and it offers them as well, but it is currently on Lockdown. Temple Works is another planetary base worth checking.
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Right! I meant Gunter Station, not Port.
I can't tell you which faction was offering them, but if you are allied with the lot, it would be easy to run through the offerings. Just don't bother with Stross today. No missions on offer there obviously.
If I come across any other instances of these on offer, I will post the location/faction etc. in here.
Another system I have seen these in is "Pira". Both at the Outpost "Kuo Port" and the surface base "Kraft Depot". But last time I noticed any was several days ago.
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Numerous hours Thursday and 13 hours today and still not been able to locate Neofabric Insulators, today has been soul destroying with thousands of LY covered searching this is absolutely ridiculous. I am going to try for a little while tomorrow then I am going to do something my system as not known in months and that is play something else :-(