update combat mission

[oblivionmanman 2476]

got the mission found the snitch dropped into his wake ,go to x system no target, check transaction,lol pick reward mission complete,hell never fired a shot can i have more of these please,saves messing about.

 

[Rat Catcher]

He probably forgot to slow down when landing...

 

[Schmack]

Do you get credit if you never fired a shot or even made physical contact? I've had mission failures when another assassination target drops into the same instance with a group I am fighting, and they all shoot each other because they are all carrying commodities.

 

[Riverside]

I had a kill 7 civvies mission earlier where they spawned but all just sat there in a tight group, no cops either; didn't take long.
I also had a pair of massacre missions for the same pirate faction & instead of killing 7 then flying thousands of Ls to kill another 7 ad nauseum they just kept spawning in 2-3 at a time in the one location. Much preferred that format, hope I get that again.

 

[Kira Goto]

Much preferred that format, hope I get that again.

I miss being able to take my Corvette out into a mosh pit of 6+ pirates in one of those signal sources and come out victorious. Definitely remember them doing that… at some point in the last year, and it actually felt like an interesting combat encounter the ship was fit for, instead of them all casually just floating about until you shoot at one. (Maybe I should start taking mission cargo on those runs.)

Or the one with the lone Anaconda where attacking it prompts an ambush by a bunch more pirates. If I see that scenario - seems to be really rare at this point - now the ‘ambushing’ pirates… fly up to your combat ship and scan it, see it has no interesting cargo, then fly off while you slaughter the ship they were meant to support.

 

[oblivionmanman 2476]

i got the creds for the mission but not the bounty.

 

[Shurimal]

mosh pit of 6+ pirates in one of those signal sources and come out victorious. Definitely remember them doing that… at some point in the last year

I still get these moshpits if I go to the mission signals. Quite a challenge in my Phantom. But it might be because I have completely bottomed out my rep with HIP 49599 Pirates who are my usual mission target

 

[Schmack]

I had a kill 7 civvies mission earlier where they spawned but all just sat there in a tight group, no cops either; didn't take long.
I also had a pair of massacre missions for the same pirate faction & instead of killing 7 then flying thousands of Ls to kill another 7 ad nauseum they just kept spawning in 2-3 at a time in the one location. Much preferred that format, hope I get that again.

I've seen that. They drop mines. You can accidentally kill one too many.

 

[Schmack]

I miss being able to take my Corvette out into a mosh pit of 6+ pirates in one of those signal sources and come out victorious. Definitely remember them doing that… at some point in the last year, and it actually felt like an interesting combat encounter the ship was fit for, instead of them all casually just floating about until you shoot at one. (Maybe I should start taking mission cargo on those runs.)

Or the one with the lone Anaconda where attacking it prompts an ambush by a bunch more pirates. If I see that scenario - seems to be really rare at this point - now the ‘ambushing’ pirates… fly up to your combat ship and scan it, see it has no interesting cargo, then fly off while you slaughter the ship they were meant to support.

Take mission cargo to a pirate threat level 7 or so. Good times.