Hi,
I like, I love doing missions in the game.
But most of them are either not fun to achieve, or simply so buggy that it is impossible to finish them without suffering. I don't like to suffer IRL for a game.
# Courrier mission : Easy to do, almost never annoyed by pirates/enemies. Boring, but easy
# Export mission : Same as above, boring but easy. Sometimes you'll have a pirate or two to kill : Waste of time/money, but a little fun.
# Gift commodities mission/import mission : Stupid. You need EDDB or another website to find this. You have to go to a station where you have nothing else to do. Most of the time, you only lose time/money unless you know the neighbourhood perfectly. (with a big anaconda, a lot of space, 15 import missions, and many weapons to kill all the pirate who want your cargo : that is a lot of fun, but hard to find 15 missions like that without relogging/cheating. But I do it sometimes, and that is a lot of fun)
# Smuggling mission : Let's go to a military facility and let's find a smuggling mission. Most of them will ask you to send slaves instead of weapons. Even if the mafia faction holds this facility, you'll find tons (?) of slave to transport instead of weapons. Nonsense, boring. Plus because of many players abusing the system, you'll find less/no long range smuggling missions to do. As I said below about mercenary mission, legit and honnest players are not rewarded when cheaters can gain lots of credits without beeing threatened by Frontier.
# Salvage mission : You want to fly 5-30 minutes to reach your destination for 100K credits ? If yes, chose this mission. You'll have no idea where to go before you are in the target system. If you are lucky, the destination is 50 ls far from the star, if not, it can be 2.546.186 ls far from it. It's like casino, except you wont earn lot of money for that. The same problem appears for many others mission (skimmer, assassination, scan, etc ...) when you don't know how far it is. But it's fun, right ?
# Pirate mission : You'll find lot of mission asking you to steal things from a ship. No matter the level of the mission is, you'll need a heavy ship, with a heavily protected shield because you'll stay a very long time, sending lots of hatch breaker, hoping for what you are looking for to go out the ship. During this time, maybe the police will shoot you. If you have 5-10 units to steal, it is complicated but ok, but if you need 50-90-100 units, it is almost impossible. Well, try a novice mission with a tiny ship, and tell me how you do that. Then look at the reward, and tell me how it is supposed to be profitable. It's not. Waste of time. You can't do that. And if you do it, the reward is simply ridiculous.
#Mercenary/BH mission : At the beginnig of ED, these missions were buggy and perfect to make money/influence. You took 20 missions with "kill XX pirates in this system", and it was easy and stupid to do, and of course, easy to abuse. Now, it is still bugged, but in another way. Kill 40 civilians of this faction in 1 day ? If you are lucky and jobless IRL, you have enough time to spend in your life to do that. If not, the next hour, you'll kill 3-4 civilians before you understand you need a lot of luck and 10 more hours to do that and earn 4-6 millions credits. You don"t have fun doing that ? Strange, it is though a game ... ! And waiting 10 hours to find 40 ships, avoiding BH and cops is sooooo fun and rewarding.
Mercenary/War mission : You want to participate in a war ? Great ! Good choice ! But don't expect to find missions for that. So many players have cheated in Draconis and other systems that now, you'll find no missions for that (because legit players have to suffer for mistakes others do). Try to relog the game as many time as possible to hope to find this mission. Ok, it's stupid, almost cheating, but you'll have no other choice. If you really like PVE combat, then you can do war without missions. But dont expect to make money. You'll make 2 Million credit per hour, far far less than another regular activity. Fun, but not rewarding.
You understand well, If you don't want to lose time in travelling in the void for nothing, if you don't want to use multiple website to find in the game what the game can't give you, if you care about making some money in a legit way, then don't try mission.
Frontier, can you please make your mission system works a little ?
# If I am in a weapon facility holding by a mafia, can I tell the mafia I am ok to bring the weapon in this system where I have to go find food to give them for free as they want ?
# If I want to kill in the name of a faction, can I do it without waiting a mission from theù just because the game tells me who are their enemies, and I am ok to work for them as mercenary today ?
# If I need to travel 20 minutes for a single scan, can I earn enough credit for that instead of 100K credit ? Does the world of Elite in 3303 doesnt have a minimum wage ? Should I put my blaster on the head of my mission giver to make him understand he cant play with my time ?
Well for months, years, we are waiting for a better mission systems. Can you do your job and give us a mission system ?
It is just a suggestion, a request, for a feature we deserve.
Thanks
I like, I love doing missions in the game.
But most of them are either not fun to achieve, or simply so buggy that it is impossible to finish them without suffering. I don't like to suffer IRL for a game.
# Courrier mission : Easy to do, almost never annoyed by pirates/enemies. Boring, but easy
# Export mission : Same as above, boring but easy. Sometimes you'll have a pirate or two to kill : Waste of time/money, but a little fun.
# Gift commodities mission/import mission : Stupid. You need EDDB or another website to find this. You have to go to a station where you have nothing else to do. Most of the time, you only lose time/money unless you know the neighbourhood perfectly. (with a big anaconda, a lot of space, 15 import missions, and many weapons to kill all the pirate who want your cargo : that is a lot of fun, but hard to find 15 missions like that without relogging/cheating. But I do it sometimes, and that is a lot of fun)
# Smuggling mission : Let's go to a military facility and let's find a smuggling mission. Most of them will ask you to send slaves instead of weapons. Even if the mafia faction holds this facility, you'll find tons (?) of slave to transport instead of weapons. Nonsense, boring. Plus because of many players abusing the system, you'll find less/no long range smuggling missions to do. As I said below about mercenary mission, legit and honnest players are not rewarded when cheaters can gain lots of credits without beeing threatened by Frontier.
# Salvage mission : You want to fly 5-30 minutes to reach your destination for 100K credits ? If yes, chose this mission. You'll have no idea where to go before you are in the target system. If you are lucky, the destination is 50 ls far from the star, if not, it can be 2.546.186 ls far from it. It's like casino, except you wont earn lot of money for that. The same problem appears for many others mission (skimmer, assassination, scan, etc ...) when you don't know how far it is. But it's fun, right ?
# Pirate mission : You'll find lot of mission asking you to steal things from a ship. No matter the level of the mission is, you'll need a heavy ship, with a heavily protected shield because you'll stay a very long time, sending lots of hatch breaker, hoping for what you are looking for to go out the ship. During this time, maybe the police will shoot you. If you have 5-10 units to steal, it is complicated but ok, but if you need 50-90-100 units, it is almost impossible. Well, try a novice mission with a tiny ship, and tell me how you do that. Then look at the reward, and tell me how it is supposed to be profitable. It's not. Waste of time. You can't do that. And if you do it, the reward is simply ridiculous.
#Mercenary/BH mission : At the beginnig of ED, these missions were buggy and perfect to make money/influence. You took 20 missions with "kill XX pirates in this system", and it was easy and stupid to do, and of course, easy to abuse. Now, it is still bugged, but in another way. Kill 40 civilians of this faction in 1 day ? If you are lucky and jobless IRL, you have enough time to spend in your life to do that. If not, the next hour, you'll kill 3-4 civilians before you understand you need a lot of luck and 10 more hours to do that and earn 4-6 millions credits. You don"t have fun doing that ? Strange, it is though a game ... ! And waiting 10 hours to find 40 ships, avoiding BH and cops is sooooo fun and rewarding.
Mercenary/War mission : You want to participate in a war ? Great ! Good choice ! But don't expect to find missions for that. So many players have cheated in Draconis and other systems that now, you'll find no missions for that (because legit players have to suffer for mistakes others do). Try to relog the game as many time as possible to hope to find this mission. Ok, it's stupid, almost cheating, but you'll have no other choice. If you really like PVE combat, then you can do war without missions. But dont expect to make money. You'll make 2 Million credit per hour, far far less than another regular activity. Fun, but not rewarding.
You understand well, If you don't want to lose time in travelling in the void for nothing, if you don't want to use multiple website to find in the game what the game can't give you, if you care about making some money in a legit way, then don't try mission.
Frontier, can you please make your mission system works a little ?
# If I am in a weapon facility holding by a mafia, can I tell the mafia I am ok to bring the weapon in this system where I have to go find food to give them for free as they want ?
# If I want to kill in the name of a faction, can I do it without waiting a mission from theù just because the game tells me who are their enemies, and I am ok to work for them as mercenary today ?
# If I need to travel 20 minutes for a single scan, can I earn enough credit for that instead of 100K credit ? Does the world of Elite in 3303 doesnt have a minimum wage ? Should I put my blaster on the head of my mission giver to make him understand he cant play with my time ?
Well for months, years, we are waiting for a better mission systems. Can you do your job and give us a mission system ?
It is just a suggestion, a request, for a feature we deserve.
Thanks