Skimmer Missions not fixed
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We need one of those memes where jmanis is the rational employee, and gets thrown out the window...
"Why don't we just decrease the payouts...?" ***SMASH***
You could just not worry about it and continue with your game.
Cosmo, is that you?
Wait till the masses find out that the 100M/h is actually an exageration, that you need to go drive and shot, and even aim and the skimmer -respawn-kill-me-again-from-300-mtrs- logic isn't just working as it was, they keep dying becuase they don't know why a turret is shooting them or had no idea the SRV had a turret.. Yamiks didn't do a video about it yet, they are lost.
It doesn't actually need nerfing in difficulty, if anything just the payout, 5M for 2 sentry skimmers for the win!
It doesn't actually need nerfing in difficulty, if anything just the payout, 5M for 2 sentry skimmers for the win!
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these threads blow me away tbh. the guy in the video is literally playing the game. i'm trying the skimmer missions now and it's not exactly easy to fend off endlessly spawning waves of 3 types of skimmer in groups of 3 at a time (fighting up to 6 to 8 in total simultaneously), including 3 guardians all firing missiles AND a goliath zapping from the rooftops. like, yelling "fix it now" when the devs took the thing offline and brought them back paying out what they pay out suggests it's supposed to be like this. if the issue is not actually the payout but board flipping, then good luck with any fix for that because the last time they jammed a ton of missions on the board simultaneously half the game fell to pieces.
looking forward to the eventual nerf where the devs remove buildings and then, finally, planets, just in case.
looking forward to the eventual nerf where the devs remove buildings and then, finally, planets, just in case.
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Thanks! Right on the money! (Pun intended)
I've tried the new skimmer missions too, and they're indeed not as easy as Exigious makes it look. I wouldn't call his claim of 100MCr/hr a hoax, but you have to be really competent with manouvring the SRV to take advantage of the buildings. Also, it's mandatory to bring materials to resupply and repair the SRV otherwise it won't last long. I needed about 45 minutes to complete one mission to shoot 12 skimmers, and got 4.3M reward, which doesn't look extravagant to me (I can make more trading, with much less risk). It was kinda fun and challenging, tho. Contrary to what is told in the video, my ship was not attacked when I landed at 5 kms outside the base to deploy my SRV. And killing a skimmer only counts towards one mission instead of all missions.
yeah, this is NOT an easy thing to pull off. the faintly hysterical reaction to almost anything that makes money in this game now is ridiculous. but sure, i'll take those endless missions for 10-20k despite flying around in an anaconda, or one million for taking some data to colonia(!), or hump those 7000 cans of biowaste 130 ly with about 6 trips back and forth, or enjoy the almost complete lack of solo missions on any of the boards instead.
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This is low effort trolling at its worst.
Go away OP and get a life.
Go away OP and get a life.
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I second this. We need the ability to give negative rep here on the forums.
Missions are actually easier than the video makes it look, because what the heck is that guy doing?
1. Beeline to the Emplacement Power Generator in your ship. Any site with a sizeable defence array has one.
2. Blow it up with missiles point-blank. All base defences go down.
2.(a) Deal with any defence fighters
3. Get into your srv and trigger skimmer spawns
4. Get back in your ship, fly up and start happy bombing time.
Every now and then the emplacement generator repairs, just hit it again no problems.
I just tried this myself, 10 minutes stacking 20 missions, 5-10 minutes bombing skimmer spawns without even needing to relog thanks to the skimmer respawn mechanics.
Cut the pay to 10%. Seriously. Easiest fix because these missions are cake.
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Tried that yesterday, too. The skimmers respawn at a rate of at best 1 skimmer/minute. And there only respawns one at a time. So the 8 missions that I stacked took me way more then an hour to finish, it's just easier to do it with a srv if you know what you're doing.
Regarding the payout: you become a criminal for that missions, it's illegal. Under the new C&P I consider that a worthy reason for a higher payout.
Regarding the payout: you become a criminal for that missions, it's illegal. Under the new C&P I consider that a worthy reason for a higher payout.
Depends on the site. The place I know of to do this, you happily get five at a time, every minute. It's a + "normal" security site.
A criminal in 1 jurisdiction, and often just the jurisdiction of that base and not the actual system. It's hardly problematic. After finishing my batch of missions totally 50-odd skimmer kills, I had a 32k bounty with a single faction who owns no systems, and level 2 notorierty. It has no impact on my ability to continue playing the game however I like.
Covert massacre missions which require far more effort, far more kills and will guarantee get you a system-owner bounty pay out far less.
Do you really think destroying a Federal Corvette and becoming a system-wide criminal is only worth 1-2m credits, while shooting fish in a barrel with skimmers is worth 7-8m per mission, up to 40m when stacked appopriately?
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