PSA - Palin Mission Nerfed

[JesusRocks1988]

Hadn't seen this come up yet on the forum, so apologies if it's being extensively discussed elsewhere, but since the repair of Obsidian Orbital, the Palin mission has returned to the game - the one that previously played about anywhere between 8 and 21 million per run to jump one system over to the Thargoid Scout crash site, grab 4 of the containers on the floor and deliver back to the star port.

Except it's now only paying 1.5 million as far as I can see.

Just in case anyone was wondering.

I wonder why FD reduced this one down so heavily... Actually no, I don't, it was a brilliantly high earner for very little effort and I know lots of us made hundreds of millions from it. Although I'm pretty sure it wasn't the biggest of the high earners AND it was a hand placed mission, so in that case, what gives?

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Because there are new alien missions and Palin one was meant to be terminated...but they decided to leave it with decreased payout.

 

[The Lawful]

I wonder why it is back at all. Payments now seem to be reset to initial values. When 2.4 went live, they raised them by about factor 10, possibly to cope for ship losses in Thargoid battles. The mission always was kind of odd, but well-paying

There's still money to be made in the Pleiades. Look out for boom cargo missions in Merope. If you really want to hit the mother lode, Meta-Alloy missions from Darnielle's Progress are the thing to do. Only available for a short time in-between usually, but if they show up, prepare for 150m an hour, single hop shipments. I think these require the Ants to be in Boom.

If your home base is Shinrarta, just come home. The Founders | Elite missions are back since the update. Expect up to 10m for a single hop shipment to Bunda, Skeggiko, Fong at al. ~50m an hour, enough to pay off my new Cutter

O7,
[noob]

 

[Stealthie]

....and Palin one was meant to be terminated...but they decided to leave it with decreased payout.

Source?

*EDIT*

FWIW, it might have been better to leave the payments alone but change the mission so you had to deliver probes, links and sensors so people can't just farm the scout crash-site to get the stuff.
Or, alternatively, spawn some 'goid scouts at the crash site so you have to do a bit of combat before you scoop your goodies.

FDev always seem to go with the "nerf the credits" solution rather than anything more interesting. [sad]

 

[Vardaugas]

I did those in a Sidewinder, one at a time, scoping and resetting the crash site until I had what I needed. Massive profits for such low investment.

 

[777Driver]

So Thargoids attack the station because Aegis is running a lab, all the while Palin was also handing out billions for random bits of tech. Community gets the the station running again, back to hauling alien tech. I guess Thargoid Thursday is no longer a thing.

 

[Brrokk]

It's worth noting that, now tech brokers are making bigger CR cargo tracks available, it's far easier to farm that mission. The original payouts would just encourage mad relogging at the crash site. I think the new payouts are probably fairer.