As it is, a bomber rag cost a little over 80K credits, the border battle pays out 50K and a larger skirmish pays only 40K, with 1500 credits per kill. I typically get about 2 or 3 kills per mission as a bomber. I also die anywhere between not at all and all the damn time. These missions can take hours at times if you are trying one by your lonesome and if other Players are involved against you the chance of dying is clearly a lit higher.

I am not sure what a fair amount would be, but it needs to be higher than is it now. Maybe just double? And triple for a BB?

The Itani and Serco governments have got to have more cash than that!

quadruple.

free repairs on the cappies went a long way... but maybe we could make buyback of the last ship free as well (assuming you died in the BS sector)?

Nevertheless, yah, let's up the rewards. Rewards for social missions should be increased in general I think.

BB: 300,000c
LS: 150,000c
MS: 100,000c
SS: 50,000c

We need more people in Deneb. There are just too many people going to Sedina instead of Deneb because it isn't worth it. Nobody goes because nobody is there. Negative Loop

+ 1

I've been bitching (and commenting) about this since BB was first introduced. In their current status, the border missions are a credit loser and there are far more effective ways to improve licenses.

+1 to everything said so far in this thread.

"There are just too many people going to Sedina instead of Deneb because it isn't worth it."

So sayeth the propietary ninneh.

Anyways, +1 still.

I've seen your rear end too many times to simply ignore you when you say that.

Big yes on this one!

Do it Inc, I will love you forever. (He's implemented something when I said that)

Capt.Waffles, completely agree. And rags should be given for free by government with such rewards. Maybe let's ask devs to give for missions Government-issued Ragnarok Mk3? :}

i was just browsing the changelog, and 1.8.42 introduced free ship buybacks.

"Buyback ship is free for Border Skirmish participants if they die while in a Border Skirmish sector and homed in a station that has Border Skirmish missions available. "

So we are sopposed to get free ships. Anyone able to verify if it works?

Also, +1 to OP. The border battles need to pay more, and give weapon XP.

I also noticed that, at least on Serco military, BS is a money sink...
I never got any free nothing there. Not even in Betheshee serco stations, for a vulture. All is charged.

When I did Itani Border Skirms, I never got anything for free.

Back in my day, I had to walk to school uphill, and in the snow! Not to mention it was uphill both ways...

I've never gotten a free ship. Doing border skirmish is always a credit sink for me when I participate.

Also, move O4 into Deneb! I'm tired of having to home at Itani stations! Or better yet, change ownership of the entire system on a weekly or monthly basis based on skirmish wins

you do get free replacement ships (only) in BS, when you select the option to buy back last ship after being destroyed in the mission, there is a ship bought at the cost of so and so message... it is however... completely false. Its a well known bug to those who do BS regularly and has been considered of little importance by the devs, as money isnt actually lost. If however, your ship destroyed as the mission ends, or you cannot buy back before the mission is over... which does occasionally happen.. you do not get a free replacement for the last ship.

You also have to be homed at the station where you get the BS mission, and have a ship available in the local station's inventory, to get the free buyback thing.

We'll look into the confusing-message problem.

We're also looking at bumping up the rewards significantly. The bomber issue really requires a more fine-grained solution tailored specifically to bombers (a special reward for dropping the shields of a capship, and then receipt of X credits per percent damage done to any capship that dies). But this may not appear immediately. In the short term though, we can definitely implement higher overall payout.

shield dropping rewards would be epic

i was just about to suggest that inc! It's like you read my mind!