Missions and server lag

[romer]

Trading is not the only way to earn money. It's just the most effective.

A lot of people look at it as a necessary evil...especially if you're trying to fund a bunch of capships.

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[onca]

Precisely. And not just capships, but other top-line equipment such as armor boosters and Novas run into the millions.

But more importantly missions are the most effective way to adjust your rep. Sure you could just vape enemies, but it takes *a lot* longer, and hey why not get paid for it too...

As for lag and tradelanes.... may be something to do with the fact TL's never get busted when you're on a mission. (That would be a real PITA). The server must keep track somehow, notifying all NPC to *not* break the relevant TLs, and thus using more CPU cycles doing so.

[Qunitinius~Verginix]

Yea, I have noticed that a Normaly Hostile NPC patrol, are white to me when I fly durring missions. I guess they don't want you to be hindered while your off killing other stuff.

Kinda lame really.
Verginix out

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[marauder]

I've found that the patrols are all normal if you have to goto another system or over 50 k to get to the mission waypoint.

eg: you launch into a group of BHG, the mission waypoint is in the next system so they shoot you up.

[Fellow Hoodlum]

Hemi, this is the Discovery mod, this is how its been planned to work. People actually enjoy trading, and the
rewards are there for them to benefit.
Why does everyone come here and immediately want to change it to the server they left, where they did it
that way, and everyone flew fighters ...
Its Discovery people ... Enjoy it for what it is please. There are still a hell of alot of us here who like it working
just the way it is. Thank you.
Its balanced to do this, commerce is way more important than bounty hunting.
I'm at the 'If you don't like it you know what to do' stage of things at the moment ... Give us all a break please
Loads of posts wanting things easier is all I'm starting to see ... ITS DISCOVERY, its harder than the rest ...
We like it this way ... Thank you

Hoodlum

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Some say he is a proud member of: "The most paranoid group of people in the Community."

[onca]

I think Marauder it's a timing thing... you're given a certain time limit (10 minutes say) where all non-mission enemies appear neutral. I noticed that when returning from a quick mish all enemies are still white, even ones attacking the base you're landing at. (Soon as you launch they're red again.)

Furthermore all NPC's are kept out of your mission area for as long as the it takes. Once I took nearly an hour doing a mish (killing Titans in a Drake -- all I could do was continuously hack away at the monsters), in which time I was not hassled by anyone else.

That ties one with a statement on another thread, where server load increases because your mission is "mulitplied" over all systems in Sirius -- to take care of the missions which take you to another system I guess.

o.

[Virus]

maybe now that missions don't cause lag the rewards could be bumped up so that there is some way other than trading to earn some good cash? considering that the higher level missions are much harder than any trade run, plus they screw with your reputation, it seems unfair that the only way to really earn money is by trading

I had a major "beg" post over in the suggestions thread a while back... I really, really hope that we can be able to make money through missions! (Even if it is a little slower than trading, say 1-3 million a mission, and they're difficult.) Good bye trader char! Hello permanent mission doer... Person.

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