Korolev escorting an infinite source of money??

[Maniac]

I'm playing my first game of Transcendence, and I'm running into some strange behaviour.
The first Korolev station gave me a couple escorting missions, but then said they had no more available. The second one I encountered gave me no missions at all (there were no other stations in the system anyway). However now the third keeps giving me missions without seemingly an end. First I assumed they would stop giving me missions after a while, so I should try to profit from them as long as I could, but now all that escorting is getting a little boring, and space starts to look rather filled...

So I'm wondering, is Korolev an infinite money source, and should I just leave if I feel I have enough money (how much money is needed to play through the game?), or will the missions stop eventually?... I have already done some twenty escorts.

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[(name here)]

after enough 5000 credit ones, i think they stop giving them. never did check that, though. it would take a over 1million to get top of the line non-ringer gear.

[Fossaman]

Which missions are you doing? The 5000 credit ones, or the 2000 credit ones? That looks a little bit buggy to me.

[Maniac]

5000 credits per run. It's in a system before Charon, so I noticed while checking if something interesting was gonna happen if I stopped escorting and move to the next system.

[Maniac]

So anyway, do you recommend stopping these escorts if I still want to enjoy my game? I have gathered some 125k money by now.

[Ttech]

limit, like the Commonwealth Trading posts.

[F50]

I have no clue how you are completing the 5000 credit missions. Heavy gunships with missiles and vikings. I have never been able to beat these consistently (of course, I've never used an omni-particle or omni-TeV on these missions either).

[Psycholis]

Lol. Way to make a quick buck. 125k is just about enough to buy one good weapon, one good shield or 1 set of good armor for mid-late game. Probably not enough to tackle the last 8 or so systems, but by that time, you'll be so far ahead it won't matter. As for the bug part, I never did play the Korolov missions to the 5000s ever, but I think their might eventually be an upper cap. If you haven't done the Charon stuff yet, it's also a pretty good source of cash, but you've got enough already as it is...

[Xephyr]

Well maybe Korolov isn't, but those ships you destroy ARE, look at all of them!

Just make sure there aren't any Salvager Nomads around!

[Fossaman]

No no, you just make sure you have the nomad targeted. Once it reaches the other end of the wreck field, you kill it. Most convenient.

[Maniac]

I tried that once. The nomad was truly stacked. Unfortunately my ship only has a cargo hold of 35, and there wasn't a station in the system that would buy damaged equipment, so making profit from that would take a loooooooong time.

Btw, can you kill nomads with impunity?

[Betelgeuse]

you can kill anything with impunity as long as you don't get caught

[Bobby]

Btw, can you kill nomads with impunity?

you are not punished in any way for killing a nomad, other than one less friendly ship in the system.

EDIT: the OTF goes SO FAST...

you can kill anything with impunity as long as you don't get caught

unles it's a station with intwhateverondestroy or is a ship docked at a station.

[Betelgeuse]

I don't know one of the best ways of getting great stuff is by killing stations on purpose those corp cruisers are just big piggy banks waiting to be busted open.

[Periculi]

those corp cruisers are just big piggy banks waiting to be busted open

Too true.