Robigo is dead :(

[Broon]

Robigo has been dead, or shall we say passenger oriented, for quite some time.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/304591-Robigo-s-new-thing

 

[Red Anders]

Yup.
When they removed fail-on-scan, they basically removed smuggling along with it.

Now it's just a cargo delivery.

Fail-on-scan was the best part of smuggling, and is what justified the rewards.
And the high risk, high reward, all or nothing gameplay is what made it so much fun.

Agree with all of that. I actually went out to Robi during 2.3 and it was enough to make you weep. Long haul missions to deliver 192 tons of slaves paying 3m. Now I can understand the reduction in the potential payouts because with the removal of fail on scan (after yet again people spamming the forums about how difficult/unfair it was) there was no risk whatsoever, they were just cargo missions.

What I don't understand and never will is why the hell they listened to the moaning in the first place when the game was full of no-risk cargo missions for anybody who wanted that gameplay. It just crapped on those of us who wanted something different.

So I started doing passenger missions with wanted passengers. Not sightseeing missions, passenger missions. Guess what? All the places I'm allied with multiple factions and used to pick those up from are only offering sightseeing missions since 2.4. I mentioned this in another thread - went out to Wu Guinagi and HIP 10716 last night, nothing but sightseeing missions on offer. In particular I didn't note the numbers for Wu G. but at Morgan Port in HIP 10716 there were 55 missions on the board and every single one was sightseeing. That's just ridiculous.

 

[AnotherVoice]

I did Robigo the legit way (long range smuggling) when it was still alive. Best memories of my PvE experience. Actual THRILL and sweat when being interdicted or trying to land at destination.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Good riddance. We shouldn't have to go just one place to earn decently in a galaxy with thousands of markets.

 

[[DOOK] Droogie]

Good riddance. We shouldn't have to go just one place to earn decently in a galaxy with thousands of markets.

Illegal with higher risk should pay better than most. Robigo shadow deliveries were fine. There should be other ways to make a good living, but things like Robigo should pay better.

 

[NorsePaganPirate]

Is Elite Dangerous becoming Elite Not So dangerous, just a little bit scary if you're afraid of the dark?

All I see is:

Don't kill Thargoids, make peace
Don't PVP
Don't pirate, not even from NPC's let alone, god forbid, other players

Go explore, that way you wont hurt anyones feelings
You must play the game the way I played it

Blah

I want to smuggle, for rewards, the longer the distance, the more risk involved, the more money I want, just as it should be. Wheres the fun in hauling legal goods? I do that in real life

I want to Pirate, when I want, who I want, where I want. If I get a huge bounty or killed by an NPC or human player, good! that's part of the risk and I'm happy at that

Slaves are there, people want them, I'll sell them to them, both sides happy. If you don't like it thats fine, I'm not asking you to do it.

BRING back proper smuggling! not the 'snake in 2 tons of narcotics' to a station 1 jump away, I want to be chased half way across the milky way and then back again.

I'm happy to have to jump 4000 ly to deliver 2 tons of narcotics for 4 million credits, watching my back all the way, avoiding interdiction, wondering if I'll get past security at my destination.


Please FDEV gives us back something, some kind of proper seedy criminal underbelly I'm being trodden into the ground by do-gooders, by 'nice friendly pilots and by people telling us we shouldn't be doing that'

I want to be chased for being a no good low down dirty snake who will do anything to earn money (except assasinate innocent civilians, which is what seems to pass as wetwork now)

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