*** Vendetta 1.8.124
- Escort mission rewards are now reduced in proportion to how much
of the mission you spend docked.
- Nation-specific Constellations in War Convoys (also not swarm-happy)
- Significantly increased XP rewards for Guardians.
- Slightly increased XP rewards for Overseers.

yoba, great update :}

i hope that means no more people getting to freeload off the convoy escort missions getting paid to just ride the tridents.

That is exactly what this means. Though they can still use them to safely cross Grey in an XC. I really liked the Alloh idea of people being allowed to dock only to be instantly R&Red and spat back out like the clumpy little trader turds they are.

We could also disallow certain ship types. Anyway, it's a first step.

It seems you need to stay in physical proximity to the voy for the entire trip, and not just refrain from docking with the cappie, to get the full payout. This adds serious amounts of immersion value to doing escorts,so major kudos for that!

On the down side, you now end up with a reduction in payment when you're in a storm and get a different jump point from the rest of the voy, so this might be a good time to fix that..

Awesome update! I have one question about the escort stuff. How will it behave for escorts where one or two ships race out in front of everyone and get to the destination while the other members are two wormholes behind?

I don't read where it says "stay with the voy the entire trip."

I just see "reward is less based on time spent docked."

Those are not related in any way, point is moot.

Good job with the escort rewards however I didn't see a "War convoy fighters actually fight" line in there... oh well

I still think rewards should be nerfed in general too. It's kind of silly that you make more money for escorting a convoy than killing it and selling the loot...

diqrtvpe:

No actual cargo-carrying convoy members ever actually separate from each other. Those are only the convoy escorts (who could use a little smarter AI, including the War Convoy ones as CrazySpence mentioned).

Fair enough.

I do note though that if you travel with the convoy ,( even one that doesn't have a trident ) but jump a sector or so ahead then dock in the destination station you are still told that " you were docked far too much to be considered an escort ".

I don't seem to be getting increased experience rewards for killing guardians. Is this a bug?

"I do note though that if you travel with the convoy ,( even one that doesn't have a trident ) but jump a sector or so ahead then dock in the destination station you are still told that " you were docked far too much to be considered an escort "."

Must mean that the dock thing doesn't specifically refer to "docked in a capital ship" and just means "docked." Oh well, added incentive to wait for your convoy to arrive before docking.

You shouldn't dock while members of the voy are out still anyways. I'd never hire you for a CAP if you're just some lazy docking bastard

As long as you're in each sector the convoy passes through at the same time as at least one convoy member, you'll get full credit. This isn't that fucking hard, Ecka.

I find this new escort system ridiculous...

'You'll get paid better if you spend more time flying alongside the convoy'

So now if i want to afford a few fights i have to spend a lot of time flying slowly, come on! this sucks even more than conq. stations

it's called an escort mission.

To escort you fly along side and make sure they get there.

lol, seconded.

The Quake server is over there, jackass.