St Dragon
Blood Association of Dragons
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Posted - 2006.12.14 04:19:00 -
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I mission run a lot I do it mainly because i enjoy the activity. Its farly predictable and safe no player rats i can test setups on them and i get some good loot. Also i find that as my faction rating rises i get better NPC services that cost less and reduce the ammount they take from me in tax.
As for the rewards they ahve definatly gone down since i really started missioning for example once i could sell a level 3 implant for say 25 million a pop now id be lucky to get 10 million. Also the mission rewards rarly tops 1 million isk in total even for level 4 missions. Unless of course its a Combat missin then sometimes the reward reaches 2 million.
As for the rat bounties in level 4 missions then you can get a few million but no more usually than 8 million unless its a serpentis extravaganza.
As for why people post in these forums concerning mission runners id say the real reason boils down to the following....
1. Recently CCP has introduced warp to 0km limiting there gate ganking opertunities. What they forget here is that ccp also fixed Warp stabs and that travel was boring and very unpopular compared to now.
2. They feel that mission running is one of the amin reasons for lag in eve. This is only partly true but not the only caise of course. After all recently an alliance talked about how they fought over 2 days to set up an out post repeatedly talking about how there fights were crashing eve's nodes and not seeming to mind that they were doing thios and even using it as a tactic. Another cause of lag apart from blobs is of course the programming of eve itself which i can happily say ccp is fixing.
3. Mission runners are not as vocal as Carebear gankers who live in empire so of course the carebeargankers are very vocal about it making this a bigger problem than it really is.
I persoanlly feel mission running adds a much needed PvE component in a game that is pretty crap at this area of online gaming and its a great content for those who want a break from corp life and groupe work. True this is a MMORPG which entails groupe activaties but in all reallity we DO need at elast some good solo content so we can cater to all player styles and needs.
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"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."
-- Jean Rostand |
St Dragon
Blood Association of Dragons
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Posted - 2006.12.14 04:26:00 -
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 Originally by: Gonada
i love how those that have no clue about misson running complain bout no risk.
every time i do a lvl 4 misson I take a chance, you never know whats gonna happen, go ld.. loose the ship, dones dont do what you say and get blown up, aggro the whole stage... might loose the ship to npc's that warp scramble you, web you, jam you and NOS you.
If i loose my ship i loose 1-2 billion.
having your drones aggro a whole stage of a tough lvl 4 and having to tank 6bs's 30 cruisers, 10+ frigs that was warp scrambling, webbing, and nosing you while you pick them off one at a time
all for what? maybe 5 mill total in an hour.
thats risk.
Yea there is risk in missions especially the ones ccp ahve hardened tho they are still predictable im sure.
And the cash rewards and loot is pitifull.
I really only do them for the faction and the agent offers for example.
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"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."
-- Jean Rostand |