General Some Mission Details Should Be Readapted

[Starman 1966]

As everything is prone to rebalancing these days I'd like to add my 2 cents:

1) Outposts continue to offer bulk passenger missions for 54 first class passengers. Which ship can do those? You guessed correctly, no ship can, not even the mighty Python. 51 first class passengers is the absolute limit. So outpost passenger missions should come with smaller passenger counts compared to large starports.

2) The upper cargo limit for boom delivery missions has recently been increased from 180 to 196 units. This devaluates medium ships even more, exceptions are the Krait Mk. II and the Python. Would it be possible to dynamically adapt the mission boards to the individual ship? So that other medium or even small vessels could be more useful?

o7 and fly dangerously!

 

[Spacerschoice-00]

noticed this as well... I also agree.

As everything is prone to rebalancing these days I'd like to add my 2 cents:

1) Outposts continue to offer bulk passenger missions for 54 first class passengers. Which ship can do those? You guessed correctly, no ship can, not even the mighty Python. 51 first class passengers is the absolute limit. So outpost passenger missions should come with smaller passenger counts compared to large starports.

2) The upper cargo limit for boom delivery missions has recently been increased from 180 to 196 units. This devaluates medium ships even more, exceptions are the Krait Mk. II and the Python. Would it be possible to dynamically adapt the mission boards to the individual ship? So that other medium or even small vessels could be more useful?

o7 and fly dangerously!

noticed this as well... I also agree.

 

[RamirezKurita]

Definitely agree with point number 1. Stations offering missions which are technically impossible shouldn't be a thing.

However, number 2 I am generally fine with in terms of which missions are offered. The missions are what the station needs doing, not what you are capable of. Not their fault that you have brought a ship that is incapable of doing what they need doing.

However, point 2 does highlight one ongoing issue with Elite that does need resolution - a lack of ship variety. Faulcon Delacey is literally unopposed in the high-end medium freighter category as they have the top 3 medium ships for cargo capacity, all with medium-high jump ranges. This is particularly an issue for the high-end medium ship category as a lot of players end up using them due to ship progression moving onto large ships that can't access outposts.