Group missions

[sovereign]

I like group missions a lot too; although it would be nice if you knew if you were up against caps or fighters beforehand. For example, in a LAN server, my friend and I were happily beating up hessians in O-41, and taking decent 700k missions without serious problems. After the second one I didn't use a single bat/bot (we were in titans, btw). I start up another character, and get him outcast aligned. I head off to malta with a shiny new sabre, fully outfitted, and take a test mission for 200k to break her in. Kill ships: 4 destroyers. WTF??? Before I died, I saw a second wave of them coming in too. Not cool. I decide that was just a fluke, and try a 700k mission: all fighters, takes a few minutes but nothing hard. With confidence restored, I take another mission, highest available being 400k; assassinate, destroyers. :crazy:After dying to that (actually did pretty well; got their missiles to fly into each other for awhile), I take a few missions across the spectrum from 100-720k and there appears to be NO correlation between mission level and caps/no caps. Might have something to do that NPC levels seem to max at 19; that's either an elite VHF or a cap. No distinction in random enemy generator terms as far as I can tell. :angry: I'm thinking that due to the ridiculously different difficulty scale of fighting caps, they should either be A) much higher level, from what I've heard you can't repair a bomber for what you get on the best missions or B) a separate mission type. Shouldn't be too hard to do (methinks), just copying out the assassinate, renaming it, and adjusting the algorithms appropriately.

Just my random pile of change that probably contains .02$ in it somewhere.

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