Yet another rant about missions

[Montezuma/Kukulcan]

To start off, if anyone thinks this is a waste of space and time, please feel free to keep their opinions to themselves. Right, down to it. I have been doing missions in my corsair cruiser for a very long time now, with very little change in the loadout, even from 4.84. Now as i am sure the inhabitants of gamma have heard recently, i have strong opinions about missions and the like, this has all stemed from two particular incidents i recently observed.

What happened in the first incident, was, in all truth, beyond belief. I was doing missions to earn some quick money to buy a light mortar, i was taking progessively harder missions as i tested the strength of my cruiser (none of this was done in a group with anyone). I eventually took a "kill ships" mission from tripoli worth 850,000 credits. Leaving tripoli and heading to the waypoint i was expecting quite an onslaught, perhaps even two waves of destroyers. When i reached the waypoint, i was confronted with eight fighters, thinking this was just the start, i went about slaughtering the poor hammerhead pilots. As the last few died, i was surprised not to have 5 destroyers on my scanners already, this turned out to be a result of there not being any, the mission was over.

The second incident was on another "kill ships" mission, this time worth 500,000 credits. Being intregued by the mission earlier, i decided to time my efforts. I was amazed when i finished the mission which only invoved killing two wings of fighters, to find that it had taken me 39 seconds. THIRTY NINE SECONDS. Now being a veteran of much powertrading, it strilkes me as insane that given the loot value, i earned around 1 million credits in the time it took me to get 13 k from tripoli and back, plus 39 seconds. Without the threat of destroyers, of which i have encountered none all day (in my missions that is, i was called to help someone with their own mission involving destroyers), it seems to me that with a well outfitted cruiser you could make obselete the need to have a trader to earn quick money.

These are just my experiences and thoughts, i would make this a sereious consideration to up the difficulty of missions for the next update/beta/release or whatever is next. If there is a reason why missions have become so insanely easy i would very much like to hear it, and anyone else who has had a similar experience, please share it with us as i for one would very much like to hear them.

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