This started out as a complaint in suggestions because I seemed to be losing credits the more skirmishes I ran. So initially I posted a suggestion that the rewards needed to be tweaked up somewhat. I don't know whether or not that is still the case, since after a few more missions I noticed that I experienced a substantial loss of credits (in proportion to what I was making per mission) after docking with a Trident at the conclusion of a Critical mission. Below is the progression of my observations and edits to the original posting on suggestions.

Hive Skirmish rewards need to be tweaked up a bit. I was doing a few over in Sercoland this evening and was wondering why I was losing credits or at least not appearing to make any. So I marked my credits down before I started playing the last critical available in my chosen system and by the time I finished I had a net increase of 27,164cr due to repair costs when I returned to the station. With kills, partial kills and the 40,000cr reward for succeeding in the mission. Had I lost a ship, which was highly likely given the lag I seem to be experiencing- particularly immediately after firing a volley of swarms, I would have ended up losing credits.

I'm not sure considering my intermittent play these days as to what has changed, but I remember a hard night or two of work cleaning up all the available hive missions would net me a few million credits. Heck, I make out better doing the Deneb missions.

Edit: Running a few in a different system, but wasn't really keeping track. Just lost a fair few credits; 130,578 according to my advancement log; by docking with a trident after the mission completed. I've deleted a few bits that are private from the paste from my errors.log below. Perhaps one of the moderators might want to move this thread to Bugs.

[01/05/13 19:44:27] Combat +48
[01/05/13 19:44:27] 320 credits added to your account.
[01/05/13 19:44:28] Assist tallied for *Siepos Assault JT-6122b
[01/05/13 19:44:28] Heavy Weapons +180
[01/05/13 19:44:28] Combat +113
[01/05/13 19:44:28] 758 credits added to your account.
[01/05/13 19:44:38] (group) *Siepos Guardian JK-9852m destroyed *Bata Rotra
[01/05/13 19:44:41] *** *Bata Rotra has left the group.
[01/05/13 19:44:51] Assist tallied for *Siepos Queen ZX-2481h
[01/05/13 19:44:51] There goes the Queen! The rest of the bots are leaving!
[01/05/13 19:44:51] *** Group has been disbanded.
[01/05/13 19:44:51] Heavy Weapons +100
[01/05/13 19:44:51] Combat +23
[01/05/13 19:44:51] Combat +1600
[01/05/13 19:44:51] 40158 credits added to your account.
[01/05/13 19:44:52] Light Weapons +10
[01/05/13 19:45:05] People in the room: Captain Fluffy
[01/05/13 19:45:05] You are now in *Rebelta Dekas.
xxxxxxxxxx Ship repaired.
xxxxxxxxxx Ship refilled with ammo.
[01/05/13 19:45:05] 130578 credits deducted from your account.

[01/05/13 19:46:59] [100] <Westacular> hey Wally, sneeky needs some spam rag training

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