Missions for big ships

[Bortas]

Not sure, if this has been mentions before, so I give it a try...

Unfortunately, once you reach a certain point in the game, usually once you get your Lakon Type 7/Imperial Clipper, there are almost no more worthwhile missions.

When I was flying a smaller ship, like a Cobra or Type 6, I always checked the bulletin board, when I docked at a station, to look if something interesting was there to get some distraction from the boring trade runs. Not anymore... because I know there is nothing there for me.

It would be nice, if the standard "bring X tons of Y from A to B" would scale higher, for example "bring 200-500 tons of Y from A to B for 500-1500k Cr", to begin with, to give players with big ships the occasional opportunity to do a mission which is actually worth considering.

 

[Skip Intro]

Painting yourself into a corner by just owning a big cargo box and asking for more missions to ship bigger cargo from A to B seems to me to be self defeating. You're already schlepping large amounts of cargo from A to B, so what's the difference?

 

[Shads]

If you want to have fun in a big ship like an Anaconda try putting a couple of turreted weapons on it and set them to fire at will then hit the middle of a high intensity conflict zone and pull the whole of the enemy side

 

[Bortas]

You're already schlepping large amounts of cargo from A to B, so what's the difference?

What's the difference of small cargo missions to just trading? Following your logic, they shouldn't be there, either.
You can bounty hunt at a nav beacon just fine... so why make bounty hunting missions?

The answer is: Variety. Even Cargo missions bring you to places you have not been before, and might never visit, if there was no mission pointing at it. There can also be a follow-up mission waiting at the destination, and so on...

Sooner or later you will have a big ship yourself and I bet you will be happy when there are missions available for you, once you get there.

 

[di6turbed]

I second the OP. Plus, at the moment it seems to me that maintaining the largest ships with costs of fuel etc is quite burdensome. New missions specifically targeting the largest haulers would be a great help.