Horizons Passenger Mission Question/Observation

[Joe Benotts]

First let me say that I am a casual player of the game and I am really enjoying the new passenger mechanic. The only thing that is bugging me about it (and it may just be that I am missing something) is that after spending several days running passenger missions and regular missions to build my relationship with a Faction I am still not able to run the million+ cred missions in the system. The weird thing is that there was originally several mil+ passenger mission in the station that required me to have a "friendly" relationship with the faction in order to run them. Once I attained that friendly relationship those missions suddenly disappeared and the ones that correspond with my friendly relationship are suddenly less valuable to run. I feel like some is holding a carrot on a stick in front of me. I ended up leaving that system in disgust and went back to bounty hunting.

Am I missing something here? It really doesn't seem right that those missions suddenly disappeared. Does the relationship to the faction not really matter as far as whether or not I can run those missions?

 

[MagicTofu]

Minor faction relationship does matter, but the random nature of mission generation matters even more. If you've been seeing worse missions consistently several times after improving your standing with a faction, then it's either really bad luck, or an actual bug.

At least that's for passenger missions, other types from the mission board are now widely reported to payout much less than they should since 2.2 went live.

 

[excy [CMDR Hodge]]

I've seen exactly this. When I was cordial there were lots of high paying Friendly missions, and once I became friendly they all disappeared. So I worked my way up to allied by taking poor paying missions because of all the well paying allied ones in the list and guess what... as soon as I achieved allied that list of 6 or 7 missions paying 6 figures have now gone and I'm left with one 500k mission.

It's almost as if they leave the good missions there to motivate you to work up the ranks (which is fine) but they need to give you some reward for actually doing so and not just make those missions disappear (or potentially much rarer). At the moment I can see well paying missions for other factions at the friendly or allied state but I have no motivation work work my way up as they'll just disappear too.

 

[Joe Benotts]

Oh thank god I'm not the only one seeing this. I was online last night and saw a 2mil mission but it was a sightseeing mission and I didn't have the playtime left to run it. Well, at least now I know I'm not the only one that this happens too. Thanks guys.