NPC nerf

[Pinko]

I can't do missions anymore. I was in a light fighter last week on my LPI, i tried to do a $1500 LPI mission in Colorado and it was impossible, so i got a VHF and it was still impossible and i got taken out in no time. I went to Pennsylvania and found some $400 to $500 missions for LPI. They were easier but still impossible i didnt get destroyed but i had to abort mission and retreat. These missions need to be easier, especially when you're only getting $500. Reduce the NPC toughness back to prepatch.

Honestly, they're not that hard. You're struggling, just you, so you're demanding they get changed to be easier for you? Really? Edit: Choco my dude, what're you trying to do these missions in?

Besides, Missions are largely set up to be group endeavours and are a poor path to profit anyway. Good source of Military Salvage though.

Edit2: To be constructive, I guess it could be argued that there should at least be some form of mission running for loners who just want to get out there and blast NPCs. Especially at higher server load. Not everyone is an ace and some people just want to blow up AI to pass the time and get a little something for it.

I am a gamer that used to have a KSP Ku Des in Tau-29 for the sole purpose of blasting OC GBs from Shinkaku station. I made about 4 billion in a month doing this, pre-patch. It was a very relaxing side activity, something I could do with my brain off. Now, it's essentially impossible to do any hard missions alone, let alone missions against any kind of capital vessel.

I've been talking with @pillow about this a lot. Frankly, I miss my pre-patch braindead missions. It was idle shooting and free activity I could do for factions when activity was on the slower side. Now, I struggle shooting the simplest NPCs without a group. I'm sad, but allegedly, there is a grand plan down the line to make shooting said NPCs in a group worth it.

I suggested making the hard-to-kill NPCs battlefield specific, and to leave Mission NPCs as they were pre-patch, but supposedly it's not all that simple.

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I want to get off Mr. Igiss' wild ride.