I would agree, assignments now are very under rewarding.

I have been running L0 and L1 missions for the last few days, and I can say, if it wasn't for the spark at the end, I just wouldn't bother.

Even that I so little its really not worth it.

Just my thoughts.

Golden triangle must return!

+1 and for OP too

We had a topic very recently for this already: http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … -thoughts/

Let me point out that the rewards for doing these kind of assignments even with two people are not even remotely worth it. Forcing people to work together in this manner basically entails people rolling combat alts or even becoming combat pilots, wasting EP on something they don't like, but can't play without. This is one of those things I can really see responsible for hurting retention.

This phenomenon is also already apparent when looking for basic industrial implements (commodities, decoders, fragments, etc.), since the market doesn't supply them.

I've noticed you spawn NPC traps starting with L1 industrial assignments (fetch items, find artifacts). You can run from them, but they're a pain in the *** if you need to complete more assignments in the vicinity. You will have to wait until they clear since the Argano can't cope with their firepower. Then, the 80k NIC and 4 tokens will not inspire people to find a buddy, at all.

Besides, I would say the travel times on these assignments alone warrant far more relation increase and higher rewards.

My suggestions:

- get those commodities and implement NPC orders on the market;
- get rid of those stupid traps, it doesn't work towards making the assignment harder, just more frustrating (which is bad gameplay);
- drastically increase rewards, based on travel time and having people needing to buddy up.

A - MORE MISSIONS  Having a library of the same six or so extensive time + minimal reward missions very, very quickly grows old.  Considering the standings progression is mind numbingly slow and there are few missions to grind = boredom in hours rather than days.

B - vastly increase the rewards for time intensive missions (time sinks), particularly any that require you to slog half way across any island, or across multiple islands, for any reason.  Increase the types of rewards too - low/med/high eff CTs of 'uncommon' items that are 'different' but otherwise equal.  Particle weapons, for an off the cuff example.  Less DPS with a secondary effect like capacitor drain or mobility reduction.  Or a multistage harvesting module that can carry two charges - so you can harvest and mine with the same module, just not as effectively as with dedicated mods.
Ect, ect.

Add something to make missions ... worthwhile.  Right now they just drive the newbs away.  And we need the newbs engaged enough to stay.  Less time sink.

REMOVE THE TIME SINK or increase the rewards logarithmically with the time the mission takes.

Remove the NPC spawns on logistic missions.  They're already painful enough just getting there and slogging back.

I haven't noticed a change in duration (distance to travel) than was in place the last time I played - over a year ago.
The triangle is gone, unfortunately, but that capped out your standings gains pretty quickly.
The current assignment system is mind numbing and slow.  I ran one of each type, got nauseatingly bored, and have not run another mission since.

yep totally agree Merk.

People do missions for 2 reasons sparks / Nic .. after the sparks its just nic LOTS of it.

Missions will continue to be just a way to churn nic >> tokens = beacons = plasma / nic |kernels /nic

Until we get vast improvements in the SS store, we need to be able to buy all types of faction items out of the SS store. Bots and modules of all kinds.

For new players you could add in the niani items as a way to get small improvements before t3 or before t4 this would add in more of a spectrum to the game. right now its throw away t1/2 fit or all T4 there is really no in between.

for the high end add in MK2 'CT's or really high end, few hundred thousand tokens or something the Factional bots, make a version of all Factional bots no just the heavy's 

VV example VV

light 25k tokens || indy light 30K
EW light 50K tokens
assault 75K tokens || indy assault 100K
mech 150K tokens || indy mech 175K
EW mech 200K tokens
Heavy 500K tokens || heavy indy 600K

you can play around witht he numbers but ... there needs to be something "worth" other than nic to run missions for