Faizawhat determines how much a station/system will pay for missions?
i thought that i needed to build up my reputation in order to get high pay/high risk missions, so i've been pretty much stay local to one system and not moving on until i've maxed out reputation with each group to get higher paying rewards.
Rewards do scale with reputation, but there are also other, possibly hidden variables that determine base rewards. FDev folks posted some info to the official forums in the past, but I have not bookmarked it and right now I can’t be bothered trying to find it.
Faizabut i came across a system in the past day that seems to give unusually high payouts for ground missions. For example, I just accepted a lvl 5 takedown quest that is neither covert nor professional - the rewards are 2.6mil CR/10 power regulators/5 reputation ticks. My reputation is neutral with everyone though. All of the missions seem to be in the lvl 4 or 5 range with odd payouts.
10 power regulators, just wow.
Two explanations that come to my mind:
- The system was in some very special state (not necessarily visible otherwise) that resulted in such extravagant payouts.
- The system’s BGS was bugged (and has probably corrected itself since). This is especially likely if it was shortly after an update.