General Tip-Off missions

Anastasia Lavigny-Duval

Anastasia Lavigny-Duval
While definitely fun, in this age where a ship computer can plot a course through moving astral bodies, it seems unecessary laborious to navigate to a latitude and longitude, wherever a book mark could be added on the target astral body, just like a port where you can just home in. I mean, this seems unecessary labourfor the level of technology we have in this game and of course, for the usual 400k/600 k credits you get usually for these missions. The ship computer is more than capable of finding a latitude/longitude on any astral body.
Even a late 20th century car, boat of plane gps/gyro could already perform such a task.
Please make these "wonderful idea" misions more pleasurable, as we already have enough grind as it is. Just my 2 credits... ;)
 
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Dillon Fallon

Dillon Fallon
It is a search and retrieve mission. I like that there's something a little bit different than the standard pilot to a POI that exists everywhere else.

Additionally, my ships struggle locking on to a ship signature beyond 10 km when it's flying. A dead ship that's half buried won't be emitting much heat for sensors to pick up on.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Some of my most fun moments in the game have been navigating to a lat/lon, tipping the nose down and finding I was exactly over something special - and I hadn't even see in on approach :)
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
I do enjoy these missions as you have to hunt and eyeball things, but the payout is far, far too small. If anything, make these missions have nice rewards- a nice 5 million is more in tune with the effort.
 

Sylow

Sylow
Rubbernuke said:
I do enjoy these missions as you have to hunt and eyeball things, but the payout is far, far too small. If anything, make these missions have nice rewards- a nice 5 million is more in tune with the effort.
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Pretty much, yes. At least the few i did, i spent quite some time traveling, then basically got nothing of value in return. It was an enjoyable experience for the first times, but after a few, i rather discarded them, as they started to feel like a waste of time.

On the OP: Mixed feelings. On one hand, the current implementation requires a bit of skill and thought and thus is welcome. On the other hand, it's quite unlogical that a spaceship, able to do interstellar jumps, able to land on planets and able to place a reliable coordinate system on a planet which merely moments ago was still unknown and unexplored, would lack the ability to calculate the angle (and distance) between two coordinates on the given system.
 

IPFreely

IPFreely
For all the hype and call of these missions - They don't pay very well or hold much interest after you have explored a couple of them, (which I have), in fact, several of them have NO use at all -no mats or cargo containers at all or not worth having ( Biowaste or food containers etc. ) - Maybe 1 or 2 high-value containers - After travelling an average of 500Ly and tracing down the coordinates, IMO, it is not worth the effort.
 

Anastasia Lavigny-Duval

Anastasia Lavigny-Duval
IPFreely said:
For all the hype and call of these missions - They don't pay very well or hold much interest after you have explored a couple of them, (which I have), in fact, several of them have NO use at all -no mats or cargo containers at all or not worth having ( Biowaste or food containers etc. ) - Maybe 1 or 2 high-value containers - After travelling an average of 500Ly and tracing down the coordinates, IMO, it is not worth the effort.
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Indeed.
 
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