Mission rewards are now more balanced.....

[JohnLuke]

Hey everyone,

Just a quick post to let you know that we've made a few balancing tweaks this morning with regards to missions in the game. Many mission rewards have been increased, while passenger mission rewards are slightly decreased to create a better overall balance across the board. This balance is part of an on-going process and we will continue to make changes as required.

Additionally, we've fixed an issue whereby passenger missions will now award points toward the correct Elite rank.

Link:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost4774499

[heathen]

I sure hope all those people are over-reacting and the BGS just hasn't caught up yet.

[TorTorden]

The fd forums overreacting?

Noo! never.

[stereoBear]

While definitely reduced a smidge, there is still money in passengers (allied, boom state):

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Whoops - This just in:

It appears that the templates didn't properly update, we'll reapply those as part of this morning's 2.2.02 update.

The changes in summary are:

- Bring delivery and courier missions back up, although bring down the top end slightly for things like the extreme runs
- The passenger missions were a little too high for the normal bulk types, so bring them down a bit

Note that the expedition type has not been touched at all.

It's worth bearing in mind that they are procedurally generated so it is possible to get extremes and makes it a lot of fun to balance, so we'll continue to tweak as necessary.

Michael

[Xeyder]

As someone new to the game, I sure hope they get this sorted out. Right now I feel like I am treading water instead of making any real headway at getting out of that sidewinder.

[stereoBear]

As someone new to the game, I sure hope they get this sorted out. Right now I feel like I am treading water instead of making any real headway at getting out of that sidewinder.

Regarding that, these were the last comments from yesterday:

Adam Waite:

Hi all,

I have been looking at the mission rewards and have located an issue with the the long range expedition missions. It's likely the reason you are seeing lower rewards on those missions. We will try to get that tested and push it live as soon as we can. Apologies for the inconvenience.

As mentioned by the OP this is an ongoing process that we will be monitoring and hopefully continually improving.

Thanks,
Adam.

Adam Waite:

The fix for the passenger mission issues (I believe I have found the issue that impacts all of them) will not go live when the servers go down I'm sorry to say. The fix needs the appropriate testing time.

Sorry once again and thanks for your patience,
Adam.

[Xeyder]

Thanks Stereobear, I seen the first one, but over looked the second one. That's good news they found something.

Also I just bought the base game to check it out, would buying Horizons right now open up anything that might help these challenging times till its fixed any better?

[stereoBear]

Thanks Stereobear, I seen the first one, but over looked the second one. That's good news they found something.

Also I just bought the base game to check it out, would buying Horizons right now open up anything that might help these challenging times till its fixed any better?

Skimmer-killing and other planetary missions seem to pay quite well, especially when stacked by swapping gamemodes.
It's not the ...uhm... most "fun" "gameplay" and I certainly would not recommend buying Horizons just for that.
But I just really hope they fix the passengers soon, it was a nice distraction that even payed a bit of pocket money.

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[Xeyder]

Thanks

I seen some info on those Skimmer things, while it looks nice for get rich quick thing, that's not really what I am looking for. I thought maybe there was something there that would pay a little better than the current vanilla pays. I would rather just play the game and make credits the right way and enjoy the ride.

Hopefully things return to somewhat normal again.....soon

[stereoBear]

You could always do some rares hauling, the money is not as impressive as it used to be, but you might see it as something one should try once in their career and you get around the bubble a bit.

(There's other routes floating around the interwebs, the one I linked just reminded my just now...)