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Silent Nerf to Courier Mission LP..
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Sm4kahm Shalloola
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-09-03 12:06:50 UTC
@ CCP

So when were you going to front up with the announcement you have nerfed LP rewards on Courier Missions?

I'm not going to pull ficticious percentages from a rectal orifice but I DO see an alarming reduction in the amount of LP rewarded per courier mission. Figures from over a week ago showed rewards ranging from 750 odd to a few missions over 1000 LP rewarded. Since middle of last week (running 12 - 18 missions a day over 3 accounts) rewards of between 540 and 790 with most showing at 640-670. THAT is a reduction in LP reward.

SO did I miss the announcement, mebbe a posting somewhere, even a notice to courier mission runners hidden amongst the rest of the published bumpf ? If i did a link would be appreciated.
Arazel Chainfire
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-09-03 15:16:37 UTC
Were you aware that missions balance themselves LP wise by how long on average it takes people to complete missions? No? Well, i hate to be the one to inform you that CCP doesn't actually pay attention to LP payouts, except to put a ceiling, a floor, and a starting value on them, and the faster people run them, the fewer LP they are worth.

What happened wasn't a nerf - it was more people running courier missions faster.

-Arazel
Reticle
Sight Picture
#3 - 2012-09-03 15:24:52 UTC
Arazel Chainfire wrote:
Were you aware that missions balance themselves LP wise by how long on average it takes people to complete missions? No? Well, i hate to be the one to inform you that CCP doesn't actually pay attention to LP payouts, except to put a ceiling, a floor, and a starting value on them, and the faster people run them, the fewer LP they are worth.

What happened wasn't a nerf - it was more people running courier missions faster.

-Arazel

More specifically, it was the OP running them on 3 characters for over a week. OP, you might consider that LP payouts work, in principle, like PI extraction. Over time a good spot/agent yields less and less.
Yatama Kautsuo
Tencus
#4 - 2012-09-05 16:16:40 UTC
or maybe you changed the agent and are in another system? 0.5 pay out way more than 1.0
Anvil44
Quantshure
#5 - 2012-09-05 20:30:29 UTC
I was unaware of this as well. Been playing for about 3 years steady now too. Guess you can learn something new everyday. That may explain why I had such a high pay out of LP in the Dread Pirate Scarlet mission last night. I hadn't run missions with my high sec alt in quite a long time.

I may not like you or your point of view but you have a right to voice it.
Arrs Grazznic
Poena Executive Solutions
#6 - 2012-09-07 15:08:50 UTC
Anvil44 wrote:
I was unaware of this as well. Been playing for about 3 years steady now too. Guess you can learn something new everyday. That may explain why I had such a high pay out of LP in the Dread Pirate Scarlet mission last night. I hadn't run missions with my high sec alt in quite a long time.

It is a global Eve thing, not on individual pilots. The longer the overall average time to complete a specific mission (mining, combat, courier) the better the base reward, the bonus reward and the LP payout. A higher agent level and lower security status of the agent's station also increase the rewards, as do a certain set of the Social skills.