One of our pilots is missing... Oh really?...

[Walter]

...Or am I just looking too closely (again)?

. . . yes you are.

But I worry about the impact we must be having on the NPCs: we upset their markets, destroy their ships and interfere in their politics. And the thought of the number of orphans that I create daily is a growing burden.

[Cmdr Kharma]

You and I both Walter.......

But then I take a drink and think.....

Fuck it......

[Black Rose]

Killing missions....lets see I am going to get 3.4 million to go to system XYZ and kill 60 authority? Really? LOL A mission like that could take hours, or even days depending on how you are at interdicting and how lucky you are.

Only thing I would say on that one is that they often (but not always I'll admit) have a multi day time frame - I saw one that was for about 5 days. Can mean that you could do that along side other missions if they are similar.

Agree with your other points, if it is less that 200k I am not bothered! Some can be a little under, but only if I can mission stack and they all relate to the same thing so I only have to do it once LOL (kill pirates for example)

I recently did rank 5 for the Empire. I started with 700 odd merits which was 50% of my total for the previous week. I set my goal at 1500 merits per day and that took, on average, 4 hours. Yesterday I was at 6,000 merits and decided to do the last 4,000 in one day. I am cold blooded and tenacious when it comes to killing things lol. But killing just authority for example is a nightmare and it could take many days due to boredom and frustration over failed interdictions and just the simple lack of that many authority ships. ( 60 on my example )

But after pulling off literally hundreds of interdictions over the last 6 days I think I have it down to a science as far as an NPC goes. My full time gaming partner wants me to get on the open play instances and start pirating with him and I am on the fence in that regard. I mean don't get me wrong, I love to pirate and steal things...lol Stealing is the best, I just have issues with most people not seeing it as a game so I tend to avoid it.

[Loriath]

It's not all about the credits. Yes, Credits are nice, but if all you do is grind, then your not playing a game, your working.

Running with the A-Team, I occasionally grab missions that give me a million or two, but that has become a diversion to the real point of the A-Team. We do stuff that we find fun, we talk about a lot of different things, we enjoy the time and the company. When we are on alone, that is when we jump to get some credits, because what we do makes us very little.

Games are supposed to be fun, and your version of fun may be different than mine but I will be dammed if the time I chose to spend in a game is going to stress me.

We often wonder out loud about the effect we are having by what we are doing, but besides paying the man for mistakes we make (aka fines and bounties) we probably have less of an effect in a week on a station than we could have in 2 hours of selling/buying from a station.

Finding pilots, makes me wonder what happened to them to end up in the situation we find them. But then again, every time I find the Buggy Wreckage, I wonder if its one of mine

[GlobusDiablo]

...Land heading towards the center of the circle. Note the heading. When your SRV drops, drive along that heading. Ugh, again, when in your SRV, zoom out your radar to see more area around you. Drive on the heading, looking at the upper sweep area of the scanner as the guy said. You will see the red box (security area) on your radar long before you see it on the screen in view.

Pilot rescue missions shouldn't take more than 5 - 10 min. That's good, because they WILL time out early and you WILL fail the mission. Basically, take the mission, go do it, go back to base. Don't fiddle around.

Good luck.

Thanks for this. Tried some more missions. Not much good at it. So this scanner zoom out has to be set manually every time. Once while in my ship, and once again when in my SRV. The setting isn't remembered.

I've found bases a few times (that I wasn't looking for). Never found any of those small objectives.

It feels like a complete waste of time driving my SRV in circles (or straight lines) trying to decode the static, and finding nothing.

I'll be going back to other missions. Sheesh...