Source Wing Missions no longer viable for profit of any kind Solo?

Miko

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Looking at some missions with the new update and seeing things like "Source 2079 Robotics" for a payout of 2.7 million with a buy in cost of 4.2 million. What's this about?

Weren't payouts supposed to be at least 10% better than before due to the mission board flipping being removed and didn't FD promise a better list of more mission variations for people to get involved in. I'm not seeing any improvements to most of what I'm seeing yet except for Massacre Missions.

What you guys seeing on your lists? Good or bad?
 

CAPT. Ho Chi Minge

CAPT. Ho Chi Minge
Miko said:
Looking at some missions with the new update and seeing things like "Source 2079 Robotics" for a payout of 2.7 million with a buy in cost of 4.2 million. What's this about?

Weren't payouts supposed to be at least 10% better than before due to the mission board flipping being removed and didn't FD promise a better list of more mission variations for people to get involved in. I'm not seeing any improvements to most of what I'm seeing yet except for Massacre Missions.


What you guys seeing on your lists? Good or bad?
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Started out a new commander on ps4 (usually im pc) , had wing missions to deliver over 2000+ units for around 700k profit but also had solo delivery missions for 30+ units which paid 700k also ... so for the same payout i would have had to do around 20 trips on the wing mission or 1 trip with the solo mission , wasnt really bothered but the scaling of them seems to be a tad out of whack.

Edit .. i havent tried the new update , this was from build 3.2.
 
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Miko

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Yeah it seems the game wants source types of wing missions to be done by a full wing if anybody wants to see a worthwhile profit by even doing them versus the solo ones that have a decent profit margin for you effort.

Seeing another one now for 2160 Tantalum with an investment cost of 8,588,160. Payout is 5,343,069. If two people do that 50/50 they still only see a small profit of around 1.1 million, which if they lost a Type-9 during the effort, would eliminate any profit margin.

I don't see why FDev consider this appealing. I think it's about time a proper look was had at the mission board where balancing the payouts whilst retaining the motivation to do them was considered.
 
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Aashenfox

Aashenfox
The reason for this has been stated many times, but it's still rubbish, I'm not saying it excuses it...

If you have a wing of 4, each one pays for a quarter of the goods, while receiving full payout.

Having said that, it's in the patch notes that these are fixed, and while I know that the mission generation system is a spider's web of interrelated algorithms, which are difficult to predict, I'd say this 'fix' hasn't worked.

Have you checked where you are allied? Perhaps it scales up better with mission rank and faction status?
 
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Cmdr Ultra

Cmdr Ultra
At my main Allied base I saw a mission paying 30 million - cost 12 million for the cargo. 1052 units of Thorium - two trips in my T9.

They are still in the game.
 
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Muetdhiver

Muetdhiver
They are very random.

Some are Worth it in solo. And some are worse in a 4-wing than solo missions as far as payout goes.

Go figure.
 
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