Stacking Massacre Missions question?

I started doing Massacre Missions in a system that has multiple stations giving them and I mistakenly thought that because they were from different stations there wouldn't be any over lap. Anyway I finally cleared all them and gave me a question to post.

What system have people come up with to make sure they only take from unique providers? Also how do you decide to take a mission ore not?

Thanks!
 
On PC they have third party log reading application to handle it... yes it was listed in this forum's API and third party tools section but dont remember the name..

On console it was a google spread sheet with faction names...
All this is messed up when factions go to war after server tick and drop the missions. So you have to have Multi systems and multi lists of factions...

Pay vs kill count required, pay per kill dropped to low never took it..
50 mill for 30 kills was the holy grail when full allied... if too low and below 40 mill never take them.. 41-50mill per 30 kills...
 
Pen and Paper. Yeah i know. But for each system you have to write the factions names down only once, and tick them.
 
Even if you stack a bunch, I guess the optimal way is to find a single station with many factions that hate a single other.
This is a ''rare'' condition, but due to the nature of Elite, there are many.

A station to just land, quickly grabe 5 different stackable missions, and complete them all together.
As numbers will be off, you will probably fly around with 10 accepted missions. Wich is a good run without overlaping too much mission providers.

I do this as an ''exploration'' gameplay, looking for perfect systems im the bubble,
One that the powerplay and BGS never changes what I like about them.

Go out there, do a few courrier missions. They tend to take you to the most random stations.

Eventually you will deliver the mission in a station that all combat missions, does not matter why, hate an specific faction on a cetain system.
Generally Massacre a pirate faction.

These stations are generally in a military system close to a production system like industrial/agricultural/refinary with high population.
Some times System next to systems in infra structure breakdown, will have lots of piracy massacre to that broken system.

I've found some in my time for Both Feds and Empire to farm their reputation. Try looking close to Galatic Power's capitals.
Their BGS state barelly changes.

I don't think there is a precise way to filter this, so I really spend a day jumping around new stations delivering random missions.
Checking their mission board, and when it seems good, I spend some time in that system.

If its really good and never changes, bookmark it and set it as a ''home base'', for your combat ships.
Hope you find your stacks =]
 
What system have people come up with to make sure they only take from unique providers?

Location​

The first thing you need is a good location with that number of providing factions maximised (the "Shop"), ideally with other features such as every mission targeting only one nearby system (the "Arena"). Built exactly for this purpose, you are most welcome to try INTRA, perhaps alongside checking some of the usage examples in its announcement thread.

The best locations change over time due to faction activity and states, however this is all tracked and new searches will yield fresh results. The top results at the moment are some Shops which have seven factions with additional factions available at a nearby system, as well as one or two Shops with eight mission-bearing factions. Personally I add a few constraints such as Powerplay, and a reference system to bias the results closer to where I prefer.

Missions​

There are a few utilities for mission-tracking; actually this is something which was (and still is!) planned for INTRA itself, however that course changed with Update 14 and the Thargoid arrival. In any case:
Either way, those will track the total kills required per faction, so you can balance them more easily.


Also how do you decide to take a mission ore not?

Other than balancing the required kills, personally I take missions with a preference for material rewards. You will want reputation rewards initially to get those factions up to Allied and receive better rewards thereafter. You may also want to continue taking reputation rewards for Imperial or Federal factions if Navy rank is your goal.
 
It's per faction, not per station. It's the same grinning fool in the faction contact pics whichever station you go to.
i think it is also not per system, right? the same faction being present in two systems giving a mission for the same target will also not count up both missions?
 
i think it is also not per system, right? the same faction being present in two systems giving a mission for the same target will also not count up both missions?
Yep, doesn't matter where you get the mission. Same faction is same faction.

Correct! Indeed it will not count for both, and instead must be a different faction. Notably, when using INTRA to find an Arena with multiple Shops, any repeated factions will be removed from the count. The example in the announcement thread looked like this:

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Both of those Shop systems on the left actually had seven useful factions each; however, the Revolutionary Party of LTT 2974 faction had expanded into LTT 12058, so in that result it has been removed from the count for LTT 2974 itself.
 
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