Thanks for bringing back the grind frontier.

marlowe221

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GG7 said:
Did I miss something?

Taking a quick look at the mission board over here at Stross Installation in HIP 5623 (Near Cubeo), I am seeing dozens of Planetary Scan missions that are paying between 3-5 MILLION CR each. Pirate Lord Assassination Missions (My personal favorite) paying over 2 Million each, Antiquites Salvage missions paying between 2.5 to 4 Million CR each...

And that is only about half of what I am seeing available on the mission board here right now.

Since when are those considered nerfed/low level payouts? If you seriously think those are, then I think its time to find another game.
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Maybe I'm the one missing something?

Take the salvage missions you are seeing. I love those. They are one of my favorite mission types in the game. I do them a lot.

But in 500+ hours of this game, I have never seen one with a payout that broke the 1MCr barrier. I can be allied with every faction in the system and the most I've ever seen for a salvage mission is 900+KCr.

And that's part of my point. I have no doubt that you're telling us the truth about those salvage missions. But I look for salvage missions like that all the time and can't ever find one that is anywhere near as good. Why is that? Why is the mission generation system so amazingly inconsistent?

To me, that's what needs to be fixed. The long range passenger missions where just a symptom of a larger problem.
 

Saber123316

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GG7 said:
Did I miss something?

Taking a quick look at the mission board over here at Stross Installation in HIP 5623 (Near Cubeo), I am seeing dozens of Planetary Scan missions that are paying between 3-5 MILLION CR each. Pirate Lord Assassination Missions (My personal favorite) paying over 2 Million each, Antiquites Salvage missions paying between 2.5 to 4 Million CR each...

And that is only about half of what I am seeing available on the mission board here right now.

Since when are those considered nerfed/low level payouts? If you seriously think those are, then I think its time to find another game.
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Peanuts where are the 40-60 million credit missions. Lets get some endgame content going.
 

Maka Gucci

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Sysmon said:
What is this "grind" people keep talking about? What should be the alternative? A button-combo?

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Even that would be an improvement on 1000s of data delivery missions.

[video=youtube;JCDyeKoCD1s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCDyeKoCD1s&t=257s[/video]
 

GG7

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marlowe221 said:
Maybe I'm the one missing something?

Take the salvage missions you are seeing. I love those. They are one of my favorite mission types in the game. I do them a lot.

But in 500+ hours of this game, I have never seen one with a payout that broke the 1MCr barrier. I can be allied with every faction in the system and the most I've ever seen for a salvage mission is 900+KCr.
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Really? Well then... I suggest you head over here to the HIP 5623 system (The Stross Installation) and get yourself Allied with the major factions here.

I see those Antiquities Salvage mission all the time, along with even more common civil war and non war based versions for Black Boxes, Antiques etc. that always pay over 1 million each. Often over 2 Mil each.

The Planetary Scan missions are ubiquitous here at Stross, although there is a bug with that mission type at the moment that hopefully FDEV is fixing with the 3.0 update.

But the main attraction for me are the Pirate Lord Assassination Missions. It is really hard to find a system that continually spawns the Threat Level 4 versions that have an Elite Piloted and Engineered Corvette as your target, and that pay over 2 million each.

Stross is THE KING of those. :)
 
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Saber123316 said:
Peanuts where are the 40-60 million credit missions. Lets get some endgame content going.
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Huh? Don't you think that would blow the balance out of the water a wee bit?

And why does someone at End Game even care about CR anymore?

If you are truly End-Game then you should have at least 5 Billion CR free to spend after spending an additional 10-15 Billion on your fleet and upgrades.

THAT Is end-game, and when you make it here, you don't need 40-60 Million missions to feel good about taking them. ;) You do them because they are fun and you enjoy doing them.

If it is only about the money for you, I think you are playing the wrong game. ;)

I never set out to have earned over 20 Billion CR since I started playing ED, it just happens by playing the game on a regular basis for several years. Most vets in this game have roughly the same amount of $$ that I do, give or take a couple of Billion up or down.

Rather than higher paying missions for End-Gamers which we really don't care about, I would much prefer an in-game asset that costs 3-5 billion to purchase. THAT would be a welcome addition and would give me something truly end-game to spend my billions on.

You can only own so many Corvettes, Cutters and Condas. :)
 
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marlowe221

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GG7 said:
Really? Well then... I suggest you head over here to the HIP 5623 system (The Stross Installation) and get yourself Allied with the major factions here.

I see those Antiquities Salvage mission all the time, along with even more common civil war and non war based versions for Black Boxes, Antiques etc. that always pay over 1 million each. Often over 2 Mil each.

The Planetary Scan missions are ubiquitous here at Stross, although there is a bug with that mission type at the moment that hopefully FDEV is fixing with the 3.0 update.

But the main attraction for me are the Pirate Lord Assassination Missions. It is really hard to find a system that continually spawns the Threat Level 4 versions that have an Elite Piloted and Engineered Corvette as your target, and that pay over 2 million each.

Stross is THE KING of those. :)
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I'll definitely be heading over there to check that out.
 

GG7

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marlowe221 said:
I'll definitely be heading over there to check that out.
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Cool!

I sent another commander over here last week who was complaining about not being able to find any good Assassination missions in the game. He was MORE than pleased with the number he was getting when he got to Stross and he hadn't even Allied up yet. :)

Have fun. :D
 

Balkore

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Saber123316 said:
I just got my corvette, doing some calculations I figured I can smuggle slaves for 8k credits per ton in my cutter.

I figure, 105 trips, or 17.5ish hours of time in game should be about right to get it fully equipped. Then I can do the engineering grind done. WHICH I better get done now before you introduce the new Engineer grind in 2.4

Thanks frontier again, truly next level game design.

I mean 4-5 hours doing passenger missions were so wrong right.
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I get what you're saying and I don't disagree, but wait until we see how much wing missions will pay out. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that wing missions will finally provide the end-game tier payouts we've all been craving.

Also, if that doesn't pan out, just wait until the next grind spot gets revealed on youtube. A new one will crop up soon enough, it always does.
 
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