[Suggestion] Difficulty settings

[Imperial Good]

No, it wasn't tedious to get money in Rebirth, no more tedious than it is in 4. Just like in 4, you were given money aplenty for very silly reasons. Yes, it was faster to kill a K with a capship. It is in 4 as well. So?..

I never said getting money in XR was tedious, since the reduction was only like 25% or so, hardly noticeable.

The tedious part was combat involving the Albion skunk. Killing a Xenon P, ships that the player owned caps swatted out the sky like nothing, took 30+ seconds of constant fire due to how high the damage reduction from the skunk damage was. This is just tedious. It is like making the first boss of Sonic 1 take 4 times more hits and calling it "hard mode".

5 minutes per mission is a lot of time?

It is considering it is player time and a lot of missions are quite boring. If the player was only paid 10 credits or something stupid it would totally not be worth accepting the missions.

[radcapricorn]

Wow. That's all I have left to say. Wow...

[Buzz2005]

mission payout has been nerfed in 3.0 and its like around 50k, actually making me not take them as they are boring and now they don't pay well

I dont know how It would help if its less, if they did go even more down they need to add a ton of missions so its not tedious and boring

with the current game would you really choose to have lower paying missions, crystals and higher price of ships, stations and equipment?

[radcapricorn]

With the current game I would "choose" (that is, prefer) missions that:
- made sense economically
- made sense gameplay-wise
- had actual effect on the universe
- scaled with your rank and reputation

Someone paying an off-the-street know-nothing nobody 50k for repairing a satellite when said satellite itself costs 5k doesn't make any sense, economically or gameplay-wise. Someone paying an off-the-street know-nothing nobody 50k for taxiing them, when a small ship costs 200k, doesn't make any sense, economically or gameplay-wise. Someone paying an off-the-street know-nothing nobody 18M for "building" a station that costs 2M doesn't make any sense, economically or gameplay-wise.
At the very least they should check your faction standing and your rank before even considering taking you on for a contract, and then figuring out suitable compensation.

Crystals - ideally, the buyers should've been rare and hard to get to. Which is, basically, impossible to achieve now, "thanks" to teleport. So they might as well be everywhere, as they are. But then at least they should have limited wallets.

Ships and equipment should cost more. A lot more. In the current game, I don't fret at losing any ship, even a destroyer (I may be pissed off at losing trained crew though). Because ships are "a dime a dozen", because money is no object. And when you get your own shipyard, well... that's that.

I would choose a low payment mission if that mission is interesting and leads to more opportunities.

[Wehrwolf_10]

With the current game I would "choose" (that is, prefer) missions that:
- made sense economically
- made sense gameplay-wise
- had actual effect on the universe
- scaled with your rank and reputation

Someone paying an off-the-street know-nothing nobody 50k for repairing a satellite when said satellite itself costs 5k doesn't make any sense, economically or gameplay-wise. Someone paying an off-the-street know-nothing nobody 50k for taxiing them, when a small ship costs 200k, doesn't make any sense, economically or gameplay-wise. Someone paying an off-the-street know-nothing nobody 18M for "building" a station that costs 2M doesn't make any sense, economically or gameplay-wise.
At the very least they should check your faction standing and your rank before even considering taking you on for a contract, and then figuring out suitable compensation.

Crystals - ideally, the buyers should've been rare and hard to get to. Which is, basically, impossible to achieve now, "thanks" to teleport. So they might as well be everywhere, as they are. But then at least they should have limited wallets.

Ships and equipment should cost more. A lot more. In the current game, I don't fret at losing any ship, even a destroyer (I may be pissed off at losing trained crew though). Because ships are "a dime a dozen", because money is no object. And when you get your own shipyard, well... that's that.

I would choose a low payment mission if that mission is interesting and leads to more opportunities.

I absolutely agree! Due to these huge cash payments and low prices, the game looks like an anime with princesses

[Buzz2005]

how could this be a settings bc it needs to overhaul missions and economy

[radcapricorn]

how could this be a settings bc it needs to overhaul missions and economy

It can't

[Imperial Good]

Mission pay scales with faction reputation (confirmed in 2.60), for some missions at least. This means that a mission paying 100k might pay a lot more if one is at 30 reputation.