Higher paying missions, just a discussion

[Dab]

The way the mission system is coded, it's practically impossible to predict whether caps will spawn or not. The way it works is each wave of spawned ships is assigned a number value based on the level and number of ships. If I remember right, Disco treats mission capships as level 18, which is the same as the highest level fighters.

The level system is being redesigned so that this won't be a problem in .87 (or, hopefully, during .86 via updates), and we'll have greater control over mission spawns.


As for the topic in general;

More extensive, and profitable, missions will be available at some point. Likely not in .87, but it's possible that they will be.

This will include such things as fleet versus fleet missions, much more complex station assault missions (mission stations will be armed and have more armor on higher missions so you can't just fly in, drop a nuke, and leave. High-level missions will have bases that are unable to be destroyed by a lone fighter, but possibly by a well-flown lone bomber).

It's unlikely that missions will ever be as profitable as trading, for the simple reason that trade creates activity. Without traders there aren't pirates. Without pirates there aren't police or military. The activity line starts with traders, so they will always be necessary. Missions will be designed to be a nice supplement so that people don't have only trading or mining to do, but it will never be quite as profitable.

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