Remove Nomad Cruiser Missions / Replace Nomad Cruisers in Missions with Battleships

[Lythrilux]

Nomad remains should never become available via missions. The only way to get them should be by going to Nomad Worlds. Nowadays it's too easy to get them and noone ever bothers visiting Iota or Major. Nomad missions are fun, but they should offer a higher monetary reward instead of remains. Major actually requires cooperation (if you don't kill one in time, another will respawn on your donkey and poof) instead of random right clicks at maximum range.

tl : dr add special Nomad npcs for missions, which will drop either regular credit cards or just increase monetary reward from such missions + keep remains within Iota/Major/Psi

In the past, back when there were no Nomad missions at all, farming remains was something special. Remains in missions kill the spirit and actual risk.

The thing is I'm actually not too sure if it's worse for [Nomad] activity by having missions in Delta. Case and point:

• Omicron Major has no Nomad/Wild bases. Alien players must come from either Iota at best, Delta at worst, in order to intercept.
  
• The system is large (when considering farming) and thus fairly easy to lose Nomads/Wild in.
  
• The system has two exits, one which is one-way and throws you back into fairly neutral space.

Comparatively, Omicron Delta has a Nomad/Wild base, and frequently the missions zones spawn quite close to hostile bases - or at least near factions who would not be happy to see you farming. I would not say it's too easy to get them, as many times I have ambushed mission farmers and interrupted their operators. Wild have also done the same in the past to us as well. My belief is missions actually increase the convenience for ALL factions/roles, whether that be farming the remains themselves, or ambushing people doing the farming.

I disagree that missions require less cooperation, however. Missions have allowed Core| to orchestrate cooperative farming operations with its members as well as indies.

Actually, gonna pop back in here again. Core doesn't have a Heavy BS, so it can't farm as well as literally any other ID with Omicron ZOI. And there's a trick to finding missions with Duks.

My findings, from missioning around in Delta with my cap buddies are:

• 5 million - 5,8 million = up to 15 Irras as a typical mission
  
• 4,4 million - 4,9 million = up to 6 Duks/10 Irras as a typical mission
  
• Anything under 4 million is typically Irras/Nammus
  

Hope that helps.

Thanks, we'll run those and see what happens.

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