I just came back from a break of a few months here and tonight I wanted to take advantage of the 2x Federation Rank to finish unlocking the Federal Corvette. I set off for the Lung system as it is a refinery economy and it is currently in the boom state. I also have good rep with the factions in that system. So off to Hopkins Landing I go.
Tonight I was able to consistently find missions in the 3.5-6.5MCr range from Lung to the Ross 33 system along with many others in the 1-2MCr range to the same system. This never happens to me. I was able to spend the whole evening doing fairly lucrative haulage in my Anaconda and I not only finished unlocking Rear Admiral, but I made a good 80MCr just doing the haulage missions. It was really fun!
Did something change on the servers over the past few months for the mission boards or did I just get lucky tonight? Many times before I've looked for systems in Boom state where I have good rep with the factions but it still often proved fruitless which has been one of my chief frustrations with the game. Spending time aimlessly looking for decent missions is the antithesis of fun. If I could have more evenings like this I'd be really happy (I am more excited that I found good missions tonight than I am about unlocking the Corvette).
In any event, thanks Frontier for the double rank and the discounts! Thank you for the bonus Arx as well. I made a good bit of coin, fought off waves of Deadly Anacondas (some variety with NPC's would be good), and ended up the evening with a shiny new Federal Corvette (at a discount no less). Most fun I've had in Elite in a while. And yeah, took the Vette out for a quick Haz-Res spin before bed. Not bad! Not bad at all. She has teeth!
Tonight I was able to consistently find missions in the 3.5-6.5MCr range from Lung to the Ross 33 system along with many others in the 1-2MCr range to the same system. This never happens to me. I was able to spend the whole evening doing fairly lucrative haulage in my Anaconda and I not only finished unlocking Rear Admiral, but I made a good 80MCr just doing the haulage missions. It was really fun!
Did something change on the servers over the past few months for the mission boards or did I just get lucky tonight? Many times before I've looked for systems in Boom state where I have good rep with the factions but it still often proved fruitless which has been one of my chief frustrations with the game. Spending time aimlessly looking for decent missions is the antithesis of fun. If I could have more evenings like this I'd be really happy (I am more excited that I found good missions tonight than I am about unlocking the Corvette).
In any event, thanks Frontier for the double rank and the discounts! Thank you for the bonus Arx as well. I made a good bit of coin, fought off waves of Deadly Anacondas (some variety with NPC's would be good), and ended up the evening with a shiny new Federal Corvette (at a discount no less). Most fun I've had in Elite in a while. And yeah, took the Vette out for a quick Haz-Res spin before bed. Not bad! Not bad at all. She has teeth!
