Why so many black box missions?

[Jmanis]

So, I'm a regular of running missions, and am pretty happy to take on all sorts.

For salvage missions, it's always good to get a homogeneous set of missions (i.e all of a single type of salvage), that way if there's any excess at a site, you can double-up.

But lately, over the last 3 weeks at least, almost (not always, but 90% of the time) all the salvage missions are for black boxes. These are the most annoying because unlike other salvage missions, when black boxes spawn in WSS, they spawn one or two, not half a dozen or so. A single mission to find 5 ancient artefacts usually has me luck out and get all of them in one WSS site, but a mission to find four black boxes has me need to find four WSS that spawn black boxes.

This is how it looked in a recent station,, five missions (one out of shot) all for black boxes. Salvage missions for other salvage seem to be like hens teeth.



Anyone else experiencing this? Was thinking of bugreporting in case something was borked with their mission RNG. I got no problems doing black box salvage missions (despite my complaints), but it's a bit much for this to be pretty much the only mission I ever see.

 

[Brimstone]

Seems like the Monarchy of Awang has been busy killing lot's of folk and trying to cover it up

 

[shadowwar]

I wanna know did you do the rank up mission? LOL

To confirm your suspicion, in my home system the number of black box missions increased three fold too.

 

[Vasious]

Seems like the Monarchy of Awang has been busy killing lot's of folk and trying to cover it up

Doesnt unrest or lockdown trigger such missions to come in abundance, so you might be right

 

[Jmanis]

Doesnt unrest or lockdown trigger such missions to come in abundance, so you might be right

It probably would, but all systems I'm operating in currently don't have either of these states (or any BGS state for that matter).

Flying around just today, I had one system where there was 4 salvage missions, one for Ex Chems, one for Ancient Artefacts, two for black boxes. Went to another system and it was 3 missions for black boxes only. Another couple stations had one salvage mission only, for black boxes.

I wanna know did you do the rank up mission? LOL

Feds? Psht! Like I want rank with them.

Spoiler

 

[The Weasel]

I am surprised to see a couple of data courier missions in your list - often out of 10 or so missions listed, all are smuggle - destroy - retire - black box or sometimes mining - almost none are ever cargo missions or courier trips - has been like this since 1.3 released for me. If I am lucky 1 or 2 missions I want - does not matter if I am in CMk3 or T-7 - 1.3 killed missions for anything apart from the "dark side". So I had a go at mining - now rares and exploring - especially as RES etc. not so much fun.

I even tried CQC in Beta, which is fun - but as I am a mainly looking to be a serious trader [warehouses stations - large missions - similar to CG, but for individuals - with a full mission board - covering local sectors etc private messages with people asking for repeat business] - I would like a proper ecomony and joined up missions - PP not worthwhile for me - unrelated mini game - not part of the big picture for me.