mission stacking - the game basically wants you do it
- Thread starter Lily from anim.o.v.e
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the war never existed accoridng to the board the faction isn't even in war. I was only in that system because I was on a delivery mission.
try "Laifangyi" I was doing massacre missiosn there and occosionally take some delivery mission if they offer soemhwat ok payment + some refined focus crystals or cracked firmware payments on top. yesterday the combat zone in there even had a capital class ship.
What is strange si the crom boys which can grant access to crom are the other ones with war there too, but they do not seem to spawn any massacre missions.
is it? because honestly, all that mode swithcign does is rerolling the very bad mission generator which pends between 0 missions and even legit stacking.
because that is fair? that one guy with lucky rolls gets 50m and another probably just 2m? that is just very bad game design based on gambling in my opinion.
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To the OP. that's actually a really good yield of missions for the neutral status.
Take as many missions as you can, fight, hand the back in and repeat, you'll be allied in a few hours then you start getting the big bucks. (18mill plus) can only suspect that 18mill will be raised come 2.3
Take as many missions as you can, fight, hand the back in and repeat, you'll be allied in a few hours then you start getting the big bucks. (18mill plus) can only suspect that 18mill will be raised come 2.3
One can wait for the Mission Board to change every 10 minutes 7-10 times until the player can acquire enough good missions. A player can also Mission Log 7-10 times to do the same thing. There is no monetary gain difference in either method thus no exploit. There is only time invested with say 1.5 hrs versus 20 minutes. I'd prefer a Board Reset button in the game for convenience. Making credits and rankings is tedious enough as is without adding more time doing nothing to it.
As a player's rankings increase they have access to higher paying missions. But if the RNG only offers lower paying ones then it's not worth the time and effort to take them especially if one is trying to feed a multi-million credit ship. Add some balance to the missions generated for players at all levels would be a solution but probably would conflict with the BGS. I don't mind padding the mission stack with lower paying ones as long as there are some appropriate to my rating.
Exploit is a very overused word many use just because they don't agree with an issue. One could say that faster than the speed of light travel in ED is an exploit since it is not possible but dropping all ships to sublight speeds in the game wouldn't go over very well.
As a player's rankings increase they have access to higher paying missions. But if the RNG only offers lower paying ones then it's not worth the time and effort to take them especially if one is trying to feed a multi-million credit ship. Add some balance to the missions generated for players at all levels would be a solution but probably would conflict with the BGS. I don't mind padding the mission stack with lower paying ones as long as there are some appropriate to my rating.
Exploit is a very overused word many use just because they don't agree with an issue. One could say that faster than the speed of light travel in ED is an exploit since it is not possible but dropping all ships to sublight speeds in the game wouldn't go over very well.
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Technically, an exploit is using a feature unintended to gain an advantage. Since modes are intended as a means to play solo, with friends or in Open, but not as a means to reroll the universe, it's an exploit.
My subjective take on it it's bad, bad gameplay as well. I don't like this universe, let me just log out and in again to end up in another universe. The mission board is the environment we have to deal with. That's the PvE part of gameplay. When you can alter the E in PvE at will, that's just oddballs. As an explorer I wouldn't want to honk a system, think "meh, that's not very interesting", and reload the system. Nope, the system is crap, deal with it, move on. The missions on the mission board are crap at this moment, deal with it, move on.
The only reason I use it is because it applies.
Now the negative connotations that are linked to the word, that is something that people add themselves. Exploit does not mean Cheating.
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One could say that but, in doing so, one would only be demonstrating a failure to understand the difference between a planned feature and an unforeseen circumstance.
Either that or one would be deliberately attempting to justify something purely because it is beneficial to one.
I take missions from the board, I do missions, I fly home. I don't mode switch.
If a data point is going to stay active after scanning it, I'm going to scan it again. No exploits here. Ever
Easily, you can also get 20mil from the planetary scan missions doing the same.
accepting the same missions is now an exploit? okay.