problem/question

Sun Apr 13, 2003 4:21 am by Hojji

I'm not sure if this is where this post belongs, but maybe someone can help me understand this issue. I'm not sure exactly what constitutes a "spoiler," or if this is a general game query, but here goes.

Let's say I'm in a very dangerous system, and I'm in a position to purchase and haul a high-risk/high-profit cargo. It seems to be the case in the game, in MP anyway, that if I sign up for a -mission- prior to leaving on my cargo run, even if (or perhaps especially if) my cargo run is in a totallly different direction from the mission objective, I can go any distance to deliver the cargo (while leaving the mission unaborted but unfulfilled) and be completely unmolested all the way--no lane hacks, no nothing. Then I'm free to abort the mission, or do it, or whatever, even if my cargo destination was half the universe away.

Am I wrong about this phenomenon? Have I just had bizarre good luck in this fashion? Is it considered cheating? Poor sportsmanship? Bad game design? All of the above? Do lots of people do it? Does the practice have a name? I really did discover this by accident, then tried it on purpose. I can make lots of money, but I don't like to cheat and it kind of takes the fun out of things.

Sun Apr 13, 2003 4:30 am by OracleX

I've noticed that too, I've never been attacked on the way to a mission, only when I come back

pretty nifty, and slightly cheap :-)

Sun Apr 13, 2003 4:46 am by ??WILD??

that worked for me before

I live in my ship cause everyone hates me........

Sun Apr 13, 2003 5:17 am by Ranpostgen

Incredibly cheesy but yeah. The only thing you lose is reputation for aborting the mission.

Sun Apr 13, 2003 5:55 am by Phoenix

with 4,000,000 credits in your account... who cares about rep??? you can buy it!!!!
Phoenix out

From this celestial bough all but one did fall into the pitiless fires of reach.
A soldier’s ignominy to have dreamt while his brothers bled. But oh, for the rest of us his shame was our salvation.

Sun Apr 13, 2003 6:12 am by Ranpostgen

With 4,000,000, who cares about trade runs? You can retire to Planet Hawaii!

Sun Apr 13, 2003 7:44 am by Lt Cmdr. Ajim

even enemies become neutral ya know...

I hate Wasp Missiles[!

Sun Apr 13, 2003 8:48 am by Ranpostgen

That was random

Sun Apr 13, 2003 8:57 am by Balefire

With a few more million, you could *buy* the Hawaii resort and retire in style. ;-)

Sun Apr 13, 2003 8:31 pm by bbrock81

I never thought about that...kinda a cheap way to play though, itsn't it?

How much does aborting a mission hurt your rep? I've never aborted one, so I didnt' even know it hurt rep at all...

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Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:23 am by Ranpostgen

Not much. I remember trying to join the hackers at the beginning of a MP game by continually aborting the mission. But even after failing every mission in the bar, my rep with the Liberty factions were still way up, and the criminal reps did'nt seem to move at all.

Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:31 am by Nightsilver

As far as I can tell, aborting a mission does absolutely nothing for the faction it was against. So, if I take a mission to waste some Junker ships, then abort, my Junker rep doesn't move. The only rep that takes a hit is the faction that gave you the mission, and the rep loss is usually less than it is for killing a single one of that faction's ships.

It depends on the mission's difficulty, too. Aborting a high-level Corsair or Outcast mission hurts a lot worse than a level 1 LSF mission (even though it still doesn't hurt your rep very badly).

Mon Apr 14, 2003 5:57 am by Cham

Aborting Mission: -0,0675
Failing Mission: -0,0450

Mon Apr 14, 2003 6:33 am by Nightsilver

That number, I think, changes by a given factor for each faction...

Either way, though, the change is pretty small.

Mon Apr 14, 2003 7:30 am by bbrock81

Just out of curiosity, how does that compare to the penalty for killing their ships?

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