yhn
Wing missions still do not pay out enough to provide sufficient incentive to do them. Example: In system Bhotho, allied with 6/7 factions. I'm seeing ONE wing mission out of all of them in my list. 5800 units for 8mil. Ok... not bad if you have a full wing of people with large ships, fully cargoed Type 7 at a minimum.
The delivery site is a 160k ls from its star.
Every other wing mission doesn't pay out nearly enough to justify the time it would take for delivery. I understand you all have to strike a balance, and you want all money making ventures to roughly equal. I also understand that wing missions are supposed to encourage people to wing up. These delivery and industry need missions would outrageously miss that mark.
The wing missions are back to being suitable for solo players again TBH. I don't think you're looking at them from the right angle, trade runs are not the most exciting way of earning credits but at least with the wing missions they add a little diversity to trade loops and fill the gap for one sided profit runs, for example:
At system A I can load my T-9 with 736 cargo and make 2,600,000 profit at system B
Loading 736 cargo at system B only makes me 576,000 when selling at system A
If I take a cargo run mission at system B that drops off at system A and gives me a total of 8,000,000 as a reward, say 5700 / 736 in 8 runs, which would have made 4,608,000 had I just moved the best selling cargo, this then gives a total of:
20,800,000 (8 runs from system A selling cargo at system B) and the 8,000,000 reward from the mission at system B gives me 28,800,000 for a few hours work, obviously this needs two systems with drop off points that only take a very short period of time to reach and dock but they are out there, I have a few I use and swap between. As the time limit on the cargo missions is quite generous I also take on data boom and other cargo drop off missions to add variety.
Darkspire
EDIT: Having given more time to this current update the reward credits for wing missions are much, much lower than before, getting 8,000,000 plus for one of the first I found was a fluke, the cargo amounts may have been lowered again but the rewards have as well unfortunately ... back to trade loops then :|