Missions are overpowered

[Karst]

All of you who are saying one variant or another of "but missions are fun and it's great that they are profitable" are missing a very important point:

there's literally no reason to use transports anymore

Transports no longer have any reason to exist besides supplying bases. As I said, I do like making money with missions, but I quite literally have no reason to log transports anymore. Why bother? I can make more money in greater safety with missions.

For its whole existence, disco's basic game concept has involved traders tempting pirates, who in turn tempt lawfuls. I think there's a fundamental problem with transports no longer having a purpose, and it's kind of hard to believe that anyone wouldn't see an issue with it. I get that powertrading is relatively "boring", but it's kind of a basis of interaction. If money-making is based entirely on PVE instead of trading, the entire game will become nothing but combat ships.

But with their current profits there's literally no reason to use transports anymore, and that's not to mention the massive imbalances within the mission system.

I can't help but see the hypocrisy of you saying that current missions are giving no reason to silently f2 f3 go to pob f2 f3 go to pob when silent ore trading gives no reason to do normal trading. Ore trading makes so much more money than regular trading you're pretty much forced to do it if you want to make any actual money. I know that you're the ore expert, but come on. Why the hell would anyone run regular cargo when ore exists.

And I'd rather neck myself then continue to do the silent run between Dublin and Frankfurt. It's so ***** boring and the only reason I've done it was to make money. Now that missions are out, I'm choosing to make 30m/h in a gunboat instead of going back to ore. But yea I think I'll swap to higher level missions seeing how much better they are.

Buff regular non-ore trading

I agree with this actually. Ore profits and regular commodities should be much closer together than they currently are. But that isn't really the subject here, I think standard ore profits should be the maximum that any activity can make for you, the fact that an income type that's substantially more profitable exists now is problematic.

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