What, did you remove Bountiful and Rich entirely from Class 6 Slicing altogether?

 

I've done over 30 Class 6 missions in the past 2 days, and all I'm getting is more Moderate and Abundant yields. Not a single Bountiful or Rich yield in sight.

 

I can't say this doesn't make me lose respect for BW.

they havent removed em... i still get em fine

i haven't seen a Rich nor Bountiful in the last tier of missions as of yet.

I get them just fine too, I just end up at a loss when I do them overall (stopped after 12 "successful" rich and/or bounteful missions ending in a loss of 300 credits), so don't feel bad.

 

I realize that people have apparently shown that it isn't just a matter of doing rich and/or bounteful, there are specific named questions that apparently consistently give a small amount of positive credits, but I refuse to consider it anything else but bugged and am waiting for them to change slicing entirely (thats my hope, to get rid of the stupid arguments on here about the value of slicing)

There is no class 6 rich mission only abundant ?!

seems people are misunderstanding, we are speaking of 'rich' and 'bountiful' in the LAST tier of Missions which mean the Level 50 tier or Class 6 Lockboxes. in that tier i have not seen Rich nor bountiful as of yet.

Nothing is wrong with it. They have never been at the Tier 6 level. I got to 400 before the nerf and there was never any then. I would always do level 3-4 Rich and Bountiful once I hit 400 as none would ever be there. So there is nothing wrong with it.

 

Not much point doing missions any more. Only useful to collect containers in the environment.

"No point in doing missions anymore" ...that is completely wrong.

 

Do you people not realize that Slicing is a "set it and forget it" small money maker? When I can't play, I log in every 30min-1hr and send my crew out on another set of missions, and I am always making credits.

 

I have been keeping track of who I have been sending, and for what missions. Below is a data set of what I gathered just yesterday for about 5 hrs:

 

(K=Khem, A=Andronikos, V=Robot, Z=Ashara)

 

- First column is who I sent

- Second column is the mission type (A=Abundant, B=Bountiful, R=Rich) and the number is the "Class" of the lockboxes

- Third column is how much the mission cost

- Fourth column is how much was returned

- Fifth column is the profit

 

K R5 2025 2838 813

A B4 1250 907 -343

V A6 1485 2051 566

 

A R4 1695 2216 521

K R5 2025 2936 911

V B3 1175 1344 169

 

A R5 1930 2377 447

K R5 2025 2451 426

V B4 1175 1246 71

 

A B4 1250 1893 643

V B4 1175 996 -179

K R5 1930 6331 4401

 

A R5 2025 2526 501

V A6 1485 1679 194

 

A R5 2025 2415 390

V R5 1930 2201 271

 

A R5 2025 6561 4536

V B4 1175 1368 193

 

A R5 2025 2707 682

V A6 1485 1177 -308

K R5 1175 2237 1062

 

A R5 2025 2422 397

K B4 1250 1416 166

 

A P4 1120 2102 982

Z A6 1485 2118 633

K R4 2025 2649 624

 

Zero failures, and only 3 missions came with a negative return, out of 26 missions. Andronikos regularly crit, bringing back around triple what he was supposed to.

 

Rules are: Class 5 Rich > Class 5 Bountiful > Class 4 Rich > Class 4 Bountiful > Class 6 Abundant. If none of those exist, I wait until a crew member comes back for the missions to shuffle.

 

From this, I made 19,599 credits and lost 830, giving me a total of 18,769 credits in about 5 hours of afk farming. This works out to about 3,754 credits per hour.

 

Free credits while afk. Sure, it's not as good as it was pre-nerf, but this is AFK FARMING PEOPLE. Stop complaining.

Do you people not realize that Slicing is a "set it and forget it" small money maker? When I can't play, I log in every 30min-1hr and send my crew out on another set of missions, and I am always making credits.

 

 

Except 18,000 credits cannot buy you of anything of significant worth. I lose credits more often then I make a profit.

 

Yes, I run the better missions just like you did.

 

 

Are you even level 50?

I'd pay 18k credits every 5 hours to avoid the annoying mission complete that completely closes out whatever I was doing.

Honestly, at level 50 Slicing has little point other than the missions that drop. The credits are negligible. I'm not saying they should up it, I'm saying they should rework Slicing altogether or make a suggestion that it is a leveling mission skill.

 

I would recommend everyone take either Slicing or Treasure Hunting while leveling along with a crafting and gathering crew skill. Then, when you hit 50 or get close to it, start spending those credits you never spent while leveling on power leveling a mission crew skill (Underworld Trading, Investigation, Diplomacy, etc.).

 

Although, honestly, it's hard to recommend any crafting crew skill other than Biochem, as it's the only one that will really benefit you all of the time (Artificer and Cybertech being the only other two close for the mods).

 

On topic though, as people have already said, there have never been class 6 Bountiful or Rich lockboxes (although they need to put them in). I think it's Azure Databanks that is the highest lockbox mission. At 400 skill, it's green and yields Abundant Class 6 Lockbox. You would think at 400 they would at least have a yellow level mission for a Bountiful Class 6 Lockbox (maybe orange Rich one).

Edited January 1, 2012 by Myze

Andronikos regularly crit, bringing back around triple what he was supposed to.

so you would say the majority of your profit was due to Andronikos Revel's +2 crit to slicing... glad my sw get a companion that has a bonus to slicing....oh wait...

 

Drop AR from your slicing missioning and repeat it, i have a feeling your profits will tank like the rest of us.

so you would say the majority of your profit was due to Andronikos Revel's +2 crit to slicing... glad my sw get a companion that has a bonus to slicing....oh wait...

 

Drop AR from your slicing missioning and repeat it, i have a feeling your profits will tank like the rest of us.

 

 

I have Mako with +15 Slicing Efficiency.

 

I can't tell you what this means exactly, I would assume the yield on a given class is more effective ( lol ), but I don't notice the difference between Mako and the stupid droid.