What's the significance of a follow up mission and what happens if you don't take it?
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Newcomer / Intro What's the significance of a follow up mission and what happens if you don't take it?
- Thread starter Gobin Splat
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"Thanks to the biowaste you delivered, we were able to kill the pirate lord" ;-) or something like that. It's just mission generator randomly throwing missions your way and trying to remember the sequence 
. There might be some influence differences, but for that you'd need to ask BGS folks. For normal gameplay they are just as @yianniv described - loosely connected fluff with no real significance.
. There might be some influence differences, but for that you'd need to ask BGS folks. For normal gameplay they are just as @yianniv described - loosely connected fluff with no real significance.
Follow-up or "chain" missions are, as noted above, generally intended to be extra rewards for a job well done - a tiny allocation of cargo to move for several million credits, or a nice juicy pirate to assassinate. The high value of the rewards also means they're a good source for max-rep, max-inf or max-mats rewards options. If you don't take the missions, they eventually disappear (I think they stay up for a week?). They won't get upset with you if you choose to ignore them.
The missions are as semi-persistent as regular missions, but If you don't like your follow-on mission and want to re-roll the dice, you can: if the faction that issued it has multiple stations, visit another station they own. The other stations will generate their own follow-up mission list. The fluff-line in the comms message about the follow-up mission being offered at a certain station is lying; any old station the faction owns will do.
The missions are as semi-persistent as regular missions, but If you don't like your follow-on mission and want to re-roll the dice, you can: if the faction that issued it has multiple stations, visit another station they own. The other stations will generate their own follow-up mission list. The fluff-line in the comms message about the follow-up mission being offered at a certain station is lying; any old station the faction owns will do.
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The only real significance is that once you have a faction set up to give you one you can reload the mission board to turn it into a permit or rank mission.
I always seemed to find that, although they pay better, the target station is often about 200kls away.
Depends on where you are in the bubble, but yes, if there is a far-away station in your vicinity, then by Murphy's law, it'll be it.