Mission drops.

[Ascendancy]

Coming from a person who has thousands of missions under his belt, I'd really like to see unique drops occur once in a while from NPCs. Now, admittedly I only deal with Nomad and BH NPCs, but either one of them is bound to drop something unique, or very rare. Currently I find the "rare" things to be Nomad Energy Blasters, Ripper Mines and high level mine droppers and missile launchers (Cutter Mines, Ripper Mines, Firestalker Missiles).

If it happened every so often, but very rarely, that NPCs dropped the occasional Class 10 weapon (other than the Nomadic ones), but not Codenames (unless that was a <0.01% chance of it dropping), then it would make missions more viable. I've always hated that those power traders can make more than I ever will in a lifetime trading instead of me going out and fighting tons of NPCs that have weapons beyond their ships' class restrictions and infinite power to boot.

Oh, and the $10,000 Sirius Credit Cards are hardly anything, I would think the Level 19 NPCs would have $100,000 ones, but I digress...perhaps the very rare Class 10 weapon or thruster drop should occur, but only so rarely (and only on Level 19 NPCs).

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Thanks to Cattman2236 of E-Studios Forums for the signature.

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