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The best missions are on Malta and Crete because that's where the hardest enemies are. It makes sense:

Leaving aside the whole Rheinland>Kusari>Bretonia>Liberty hierarchy, the further you go outside of colonised space, the tougher the pirates become, because you're closer to their big bases. In addition, there are more hazards in the Edge Worlds than in the Houses, so you need a tougher ship to survive those. (Think Omega 11 and 41). So if the pirates have better ships, it follows that the factions warring with them in the edge worlds (GMG and BHG) have good ships as well to compete with them. Thus the missions are harder and have higher payouts. Think about it - blowing up 6 Pirahnas is a lot easier than taking down 6 Hammerheads.

A little clarification.

Edge Worlds:

Omicron Theta
Tau-31
Omega-41

Border Worlds

All other Taus and Omegas

Outcasts Systems:

Omicron Alpha
Omicron Beta

Corsairs Systems:

Omicron Gamma

Independent Worlds

Magellan
Cortez
Kepler
Galileo
Hudson
Bering

EVERYONE gets these confused. so heres some clarification

sorry,
edge worlds:
tau-37, omega-41, and omicron systems

border worlds:
omega-3, omega-5, omega-7, omega-11, sigma-13, sigma-17, sigma-19, tau-23, tau-27, tau-29, and tau-31.

back on topic, the best missions are in the omicrons because it's where the best ships are, or what darkstone said.

strafe!

It's because of the main (illegal) trade industries of the 2 factions...
For the outcasts it's cardamine...
for the corsairs it's artifacts...
not to mention all the other stuff they probably pull in from tradelane ambushes and the like...
which gives them more money...
plus the mission difficulty...
and voila ther is your fair payment...
even pirates pay their people well LOL

Omicron Explorer

can someone tell me how much exactly they pay u, in rhineland hoghest go to about 26000...how much is it of the border worlds?

triangular sandwichs taste better than square ones

In the Omicron systems, missions pay around $120,000

Pffft

YOu can easily get missions giving 250,000 Credits plus

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Online, yes. In single player they only go up as far as around $135,000 (unmodded)

Nah, I've seen a job for like 310,000 credits on Crete once while jaunting multiplayer and that was was an un-modded game. Hmmm yeah I took it with a mate....Foolish Bounty Hunters...when will they ever learn NOT to put their large space stations right next to Kahlmera

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The official FL guide shall bring order to this chaos (looks up chart). According to this book (which does have several flaws), the highest difficulty mission in SP is 39 on malta and crete, which pulls in up to 146,000 credits. In MP, the payroll is as high as 247,000, although with the high end weaponry you blow off your enemies as scrap, your total profit will be higher. --- VH16

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If you read news in Crete and talk to ppl you will find that BH presense in the system is not a real threat for the corsairs and since "police in bretonia is loughable" its a bit strange that the highest paying missions for them are not those in O-5 (against red hessians)

Same for the outcasts, BH are not anything close to big for them (speaking in the bar on Malta will reveal you their uber planetary defence system) so its strange too that missions against GMG (much more challenging ships/guns/pilots plus radiation and asteroids) are not paying more

Maybe so, but perhaps they are more anxious to remove the threat from their doorstep, however minor, before moving onto larger threats further away?

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