Mission Testing

[M00ka]

I have been getting some decent missions pop up in my home station lately and began to wonder if it was just the station or the region. Just for clarification I am 100% allied with all the factions at my home station, yep I don't play favourites and will take anyone's credits

Anyhoo, decided to do a bit of a test. Jumping in my trusty mission machine, the glorious Phoenix Huey, my delivery truck masquerading as a Python with 264T cargo space and set myself some criteria (note for this exercise I was only looking at delivery missions as the deciding factor):

• Main mission had to exceed 2.5M Credits and have at least 120T cargo and could be completed in a single sortie.
• Any subsequent missions add must go to the same System/Station
• I could fill any remaining cargo space via the Market, but could only use the market tools and everything had to be sold once at the destination (no 3rd Party tools used).
• Missions had to be legal
• Only two jumps allowed to get to the destination system/station.

Finding that first mission was easy, I actually had several to pick from that met the criteria. Anyway, selected one, quick check of the mission board and found two courier missions to the same station, and filled up the remainder of the hold with whatever the trade tool gave me the best price on. Sealed the ship up, plotted the course and off I went. Handed in the missions, sold the cargo and started the process again using the same process until I hit a station that didn't have any missions that met the criteria. Once that happened I turned around and flew back to my home station.

After doing this for a few hours, the best I managed was 9 stations visited before having to head home. Surprisingly, probably half the journeys terminated at the first station, all there so back home.

It was an interesting exercise, ended up at a few systems and stations I have never visited before, made me think very carefully about which mission to take (sometimes the best paying wasn't the best for the test). I did find some good trade routes because of it that I revisited in the T9 (the lumbering Phoenix Phat-Boy), but to be honest mission running is far more profitable and to me at least, enjoyable than hauling from A to B to A to B time and time again.

 

[Icybow73]

Interesting way to earn credits. I was surprised at how many stations you hit with that filter

 

[ocflyer]

I found an Industrial (Military) system that needs gold and silver within 1 hop of an Agricultural (Refinery, Industrial) system that has gold and silver. I'm allied with Federation and Empire and allied with all local factions at the Industrial system and I fly a cutter. When the local factions are in Boom, I'm usually able to earn about 80-100M/hr from the gold and silver wing missions. And since I have a 2nd account in my wing, it earns 80-100M at the same time. I suppose if I got allied with the local factions at the Agricultural system, I could probably use your method to earn while waiting for the gold and silver missions to pop up.

 

[rekurzion]

welcome to understanding the BGS a bit more. each station has an operation range of about 20 LYs. and depending on the state of a faction will determine the available missions. have one of your home system factions in a boom and you will see one kind of mission. also have a few factions within that 20LY range in boom and you will start having more missions between those factions. faction economy also plays a role.

if you have the patience you can manipulate several factions to make your own personal trade loop.

 

[ocflyer]

welcome to understanding the BGS a bit more. each station has an operation range of about 20 LYs. and depending on the state of a faction will determine the available missions. have one of your home system factions in a boom and you will see one kind of mission. also have a few factions within that 20LY range in boom and you will start having more missions between those factions. faction economy also plays a role.

if you have the patience you can manipulate several factions to make your own personal trade loop.

This is exactly what I did - created my own trade loop. It took time over a few days to get allied with all local factions and get as many as I could into Boom. My method is to get a gold or silver wing mission and then complete it with one account while the other account in the wing sits at the station getting more wing missions. I earned about 450M on one account and 600M on the other account in a weekend with this trade loop.