Missions are worthless??

[Tanyon]

I did 2 missions this time in my play through to try to increase my rep with a faction.. one was "deliver 220 energy cells to a close location".. I completed it and I was given c8700 and THIRTY FIVE rep LMAO.. Max rep is 100k to go from neutral to good is about 33K so if I wanted to grind missions I would need to do around a thousand missions.. selling asteroids and defeating pirates awards you over c100k and 2K-5K rep usually.. am I missing something??.. what is the incentive for missions at all?? Also other than asteroids and killing pirates is there a better/quicker way to grind rep? thanks.

[ouch67]

rep is given in proportion to the involved money/difficulty of the mission. Delivering a couple hundred of the most common item in the universe is not going to give you much.

But doing the deliver war robots mission for example can net you quite a bit of rep. (or lose you rep if you don't have the proper license and get caught.)

The missions that seem to give the best rep are the out of sector pirate attack ones where you save a fleet of traders.

Trading and buying equipment nets you rep as well. or you can just go to the diplomacy screen and give them money/resources.

Taking out pirate sectors in their territory also seems to give quite a lot. (the well established ones that have stations especially)

Later on you can put up a station near or in their territory and the constant trading will always raise their rep to max eventually.

Trading in general can also raise rep really fast if you have the money. Just get a trade system module on your ship and check the trade routes it suggests every now and then. This is more effective the closer you get towards the center as the larger stations carry and accept more items.

Oh, also if the faction is at war with another one, then go and cause problems for that other one.

But in general the game rewards you rep fairly I feel. I will say it seems harder to please the factions further from the center because their stations don't buy much and the ships around there have hardly any HP or dps so the rep rewards from killing them are crap.

[Tanyon]

thanks Ouch67 I appreciate the comment.

[Jake Rossum]

I just camp a system to increase rep to max. A few AI ships on "Attack Enemies", Another AI ship on Salvage. Let it cook over night and max rep and more systems/turrets. Move to the next system.

[SPE]

In a sector touching the barrier, we are still offered delivery missions with rewards as low as 7k credits. To find out about this "generous" offer we first have to click on each station with a maker (which is not shown in the strategic sector map overview, so we have to pan around to each station), then wait for the text to finish being typed out OR click again, and then we must pause to consider if the devs are going to finish a single feature properly, before introducing more half-baked content, and a more bugs.

Yes, most missions are worthless, and finding the ones that are not, is more trouble than it's worth, making those worthless as well.

[MadArtillery]

Missions seem garbage, I never bother to even look at the mission boards. It's just almost always free slaves for 0. They ain't payin, I ain't doin.

[[TrC] Diabolus]

Originally posted by MadArtillery:

Missions seem garbage, I never bother to even look at the mission boards. It's just almost always free slaves for 0. They ain't payin, I ain't doin.

You should do them. The Free Slaves missions give 15K rep for getting hold of the slaves and then finishing off the pirates. Then you also get all the nice mods and weapons they drop. Just focus the station till it's hull drops to 50%, and they'll hand over the slaves to your cargo. Then just murder them all. Boom. 15K rep. Maybe more if the faction you're working with sends their fleet after the station dies.

[Astasia]

Ya the free slaves missions are great. You don't have to touch the station to finish them, that can take a lot of extra time (30 minute timer on the mission) and add some difficulty since it spawns extra waves as you attack it, just killing 3-4 ships where you warp in is usually enough for them to hand the slaves over. I make sure my auto-turrets are off at that point, salvage those 3-4 ships, then warp back to turn the mission in, then return later to kill the rest of the ships and the station for a bunch more loot and salvage. Much better than sitting around waiting for the game to spawn small pirate groups on you, the 15k rep is a bonus.

[[TrC] Diabolus]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Ya the free slaves missions are great. You don't have to touch the station to finish them, that can take a lot of extra time (30 minute timer on the mission) and add some difficulty since it spawns extra waves as you attack it, just killing 3-4 ships where you warp in is usually enough for them to hand the slaves over. I make sure my auto-turrets are off at that point, salvage those 3-4 ships, then warp back to turn the mission in, then return later to kill the rest of the ships and the station for a bunch more loot and salvage. Much better than sitting around waiting for the game to spawn small pirate groups on you, the 15k rep is a bonus.

Been spending the last five hours making max rep with factions. Pulled in 9 factions in that time to fully allied.

[MadArtillery]

If I want rep I'll just mine in their space and make millions of credits AND get allied. Spam of pirates and aliens, get payed to blow them up on top of your mining and you'll have to blow them up regardless so why not get paid for it. Hey look, it not only allies you but even pays for the alliance cost too likely with 100+ million on top of it! Why the hell should I work for free then and have to make the money seperatly? No reason so ♥♥♥♥ that noise I'm insulted they'd even ask.

[[TrC] Diabolus]

Originally posted by MadArtillery:

If I want rep I'll just mine in their space and make millions of credits AND get allied. Spam of pirates and aliens, get payed to blow them up on top of your mining and you'll have to blow them up regardless so why not get paid for it on top of the mining. Hey look, it not only allies you but even pays for the alliance cost too likely with 100+ million on top of it! Why the hell should I work for free then and have to make the money seperatly? No reason so ♥♥♥♥ that noise I'm insulted they'd even ask.

I automated mining ages ago. I have three mining bots cutting through all the sectors I clear, gathering me millions of raw ore on a constant basis. Pirates and Xsotan also don't attack as long as you're not in a sector. Means my 13mil shield health, 130K dps battleship can clear pirate sectors and complete Free Slaves missions unimpeded. I have automated transport ships too, for ferrying goods between my own stations and others. You can set loop commands that allow miners to fill the cargo, jump to a resource depot, refine, pick up the refined materials and jump back to an asteroid field. Same for buying/selling goods.

[MadArtillery]

They never seem to complete the refine since the patch and just get stuck there indefinitetly for me. I have semi automated mining all over the place though, tons and tons of ships but I like mining so I still do it myself as well. I actually have a fleet that comes with me so I don't need to stop mining to shoot annoying pirates xD. I can't be bothered to fight anything short of a boss and I usually oneshot those with my face because i've never been the shooting type so if I don't have to I won't.

[Host Migration]

Freeing slaves gives you no cash reward but grants you a massive + rep increase

[Ugh Zug]

When I'm trying to establish rep on an already neutral faction generally i just hang out in one of their sectors and help the defenders ward away pirates while i mine and salvage. if the faction is hostile i will hop around mass sectors killing pirates until they are not, Or i get headhunters and book it to the next sector.