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Clockwork Owl

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More types of bounties.
« on: January 21, 2018, 03:01:40 AM »

Apparently we get these assassination bounties when we get commission, which is nice. We could use some more types of bounty, though.

*General:
 - Bounty on a pirate fleet after it achieves certain kill counts, for terrorizing faction space.
 - Escort mission you accept from mission board and get paid once it reaches destination.
 - Payment and rep boost for protecting relief convoy, either from the sender or from the receiver.

*Commission specific:
 - Bounty on enemy relief convoy. Commission specific because I'm fairly sure it's war crime IRL(and probably in pre-collapse Sector too) and they certainly wouldn't want to admit they do it.
 -- or some random convoys, say it carries important thing/person.
 - Reward for disrupting enemy market. i.e. dumping food in black market on food shortage, supplying hand weapons and stuff on a black market, etc.
 - System blockade bounty, destroy everything that burn drives(especially convoys) for certain amount of time in certain system.
 - Sabotage on enemy outposts? If NPC outposts becomes a thing, that is.
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Re: More types of bounties.
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2018, 09:34:50 AM »

Escort missions would be pretty easy to implement. 

The Pirate one wouldn’t be; we’d have track “kill counts”, which goes against keeping them abstract when we aren’t nearby.

The others are more-or-less covered by taking a Commission; you can take down a Relief Convoy and get paid to do it right now.  Based on the behavior of everybody in the Sector, I’d say that the Geneva Conventions are just a distant memory, lol.
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Re: More types of bounties.
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2018, 09:11:28 AM »

Yea i would like some bounty that let me intercept on moving target instead of stationary one. It could do like Mount and Blade where they give you clues about fleet you need to intercept. It might go from A>B>C back and forth so you could setup and ambush in between the path.
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Re: More types of bounties.
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2018, 10:26:15 AM »

I'm sure Alex will improve this with time, I think a lot of the missions at the current time are just "placeholders"
What I would like to see though, even in the current state of the game, is more achievable early game missions, I like to turn the exp gain down to like 20%  I love the struggle in the early game, but also wish there was more to do.  There should be cargo missions for small fleets too, right now it seems all missions are geared for mid to end game fleets. 

I'd like there to be more mission types as well... I just can't honestly think of anything good...
I'd like more options for a free agent,  as it stands now, it's pretty much impossible to buy any decent ships as an independent
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