I think I'm stuck in this weird bug where I cannot for the life of me rank up in Imperial ranking. Been an outsider even though I've completed 3 or 4 navy ascension missions already (both pre and post today's patch). Anyone else got the same issue?
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The problem is making those ways to make money something anyone can access will make new Sidey pilots flying Pythons way too fast.
The best solution I can think of are missions - higher paying missions for higher level pilots. Really make it worth their while. I have to admit my Pioneer rank has brought up some juicy recovery missions, easily worth the time vs the 2 cargo runs I'd have to do to make the same money, and not terribly high risk to me. The variety is nice too. I'd like to see more of that.
The advantage here (and internal logic) is that they're only going to trust these missions to pilots who have proven themselves, so the money goes to those who have earned it through rank, as opposed to anybody.
But we need more. More variety, more quantity, and more exclusivity for higher ranks with higher payouts.
Go back over my response to someone else who said that earlier on this page or one page back. Even taking into account scaling based on ship kill efficiency, for solo combat purposes, you have a deficient in income from repair costs of expensive ships.
Here, let me put it in an even more logical way. The repair costs on large ships is more expensive than the module cost. I can literally sell and rebuy the module for cheaper. How is that different from crashing into a station pre1.2 to claim insurance?
That only happens if you get totally beat to hell and thats my point. Trust me, I know. I've owned an Ananconda and Python and I own a FDL and Vulture. Don't take the Anaconda or Python to a combat zone, keep them for doing missions or interdicting pirates. They're profitable like that.
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Yeah exactly, give me an assassination mission worth a few million and I might bother with it!
300k to someone who owns an Ananconda ain't worth the effort, hell it aint really worth the effort in a Vulture...
This is the problem.
Just because we have small ships, it doesn't mean we're low tier pilots.
You sir, sound like an elitist. Not very nice at all.
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I've tried - just cant not take a 3 * beam lasers into combat - it's the only way.
For 3 million, the target better be damn tough, though. Like one wrong move and half that bounty is going into repairs level tough. It's not just the pay that should scale, but the difficulty.
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Absolutely.
Ghostieboi
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If I can afford a larger ship, larger than my Cobra Mk III, AND afford to be able to outfit said larger ship (which is expensive to me at the moment, as I've put around 8mil in equipment alone into it), then I better be damned sure I can repair said larger ship.
BUT! I can also see your pain. If its gonna cost me 600k, to repair my ship....my cobra mkiii...then why fly it. Me, personally, I plan on buying a larger ship, the anaconda actually, AND keep my smaller ship. That way, if it does get the pretty paint job of storm cloud grey scratched, I can hop in my cobra and go make the money to repair it. I also agree that having a larger ship, the income should scale with that. And it kinda does.
If you have me, who is pretty new to the game, IE one week old, the ranks that I have in the various areas (IE Trader, Explorer, Combat) are pretty low. Well, my trader is to merchant, but still pretty low. Yes, I can get some pretty decent missions from rank alone. If the influence and whatnot are neutral, ok. Once you start raising both rank and standing with stations/factions/ect., then there comes bigger missions. Just made about 1mil in putzing around LH 3447, and surrounding systems. Just doing a few missions before work. Met some people, had an NPC ship block my landing pad...Good times. If a person is up there in ranks AND standings, the missions they offer are a bit more up there in reward. Now, from what I've seen, is that the repair costs ARE fair. You scratch a lamborghini, its gonna cost $10k to repair that 7" scratch. The rewards from MISSIONS (the higher end ones, mind you) are NOT fair. If I'm an elite Trader, and you want me to run something to a system 15ly away, I hope to GOD you're paying me about 5mil Cr for that run. IF I'm flying my anaconda. If I'm flying my Cobra, then knock it down to 1mil.
I agree with you on a few parts, but disagree on others. Mission income SHOULD scale to Ship Size (to factor in the cost of running said large ship). Mission income should also scale with Ranks. BUT, Repair costs shouldn't be scaled down.
Please note, I did not say income in general. If you're flying your anaconda on a trade run with a cargo hold full of slav-...passengers, the cost to sell those passengers should not automatically go up, to match the operating cost of the anaconda, JUST BECAUSE you're flying your anaconda.
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Yeah i thought about suggesting a new mission scaling system. Right now the people who need 200k can't get those missions and, for the people who can get them, 200k is a pitiful sum of money.
It's reputation decay. Not rank.
You'll go from allied to friendly after about 1 month inactivity. That's all it is. (oh, and of course from hostile to unfriendly too, but no one seems to be complaining about how game breaking that is! lol)
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Ghostieboi
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I actually got a 247k mission earlier today. Its not so little to me (yet) that it went unnoticed. BUT, that is just me. I'm sure there are those getting those missions and are like "Omg...ONLY 250k?....Screw that.... >:C" while I Was like "OoOOooo 250k? OKI! I can do ONE more mission before work!"
To me, half an hour at a poorly spawning RES equates to 500,000 credits. In a Vulture. So 250k to spend 30-45mins stuffing around trying to find some muppet that will result in me getting a bounty is not worth my time...
I would like to know why it is so difficult to translate english into german since Standard Beta?
There are so much english text which has not been translated or corrected!
I have written a very large bug report about that some weeks ago but nearly nothing has been changed.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=149047
I am very sorry about that but I dont understand it.
And please, dont misunderstand me. It is a great game I play longer then anything else and have a lot of fun with it.
Thank you for this
Ghostieboi
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I apologize for the vagueness of my comment. My mission wasn't a hunt and kill. It was a trading mission. 12 slaves to be exact. I did one of those "go shoot this target and kill him" missions. Personally, not my taste of mission, as I did get a bounty. (not a large on, but still one nonetheless).
As for sitting at a RES site, I did go mining at one a few days ago. Didn't get much for the ore, nor the people who came to try and kill me. In a half hour, I can make about the same amount of credits as you do. BUT, I'm a trader (missions only so far) and you're a bounty hunter it seems like. To each their own.
1. Repair costs are bugged. Flying Python. Repair all costed me 16k on the main screen of the station, hull alone was 127k on the repair screen, boosters 22k each. Hit repair all, guess what? repaired everything for 16k.
2. Don't get repair costs if you can't pay for them. By not interdicting and fleeing before shields pop. Start interdiction missions when you can afford them (=bug is fixed or you figure out not to click inside the repairs menu)
Rau out.
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Hello all
Since the latest update, 1.3.05, I have noticed that performing detailed scans on a system results in a 90% failure the first time around, and a second detailed scan is required. Whilst this does not break the game, it especailly frustrating when trying to scan a system and you have to keep scanning the same planet or sun 2 or even 3 times in order for the reading to work.
This has also been a problem with the game since I started playing, but it has become exponentially worse since the last update. Before it was an infrequent occurance - now it is the norm.
Thank you
Hello all
Since the latest update, 1.3.05, I have noticed that performing detailed scans on a system results in a 90% failure the first time around, and a second detailed scan is required. Whilst this does not break the game, it especailly frustrating when trying to scan a system and you have to keep scanning the same planet or sun 2 or even 3 times in order for the reading to work.
This has also been a problem with the game since I started playing, but it has become exponentially worse since the last update. Before it was an infrequent occurance - now it is the norm.
Thank you
I apologize for the vagueness of my comment. My mission wasn't a hunt and kill. It was a trading mission. 12 slaves to be exact. I did one of those "go shoot this target and kill him" missions. Personally, not my taste of mission, as I did get a bounty. (not a large on, but still one nonetheless).
As for sitting at a RES site, I did go mining at one a few days ago. Didn't get much for the ore, nor the people who came to try and kill me. In a half hour, I can make about the same amount of credits as you do. BUT, I'm a trader (missions only so far) and you're a bounty hunter it seems like. To each their own.
I've done a bit of everything. Made millions trading too. The same applies to trade missions. You can make more coin trading properly rather than stuffing around with trade missions.
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