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I'm a fairly advanced Weaponsmith, also Master Artisan. Yet the highest my survey missions ever come up at is 700-900. What gives? How do I get the nicer ones?

I was told my an artisan that he had survey 4, and he was using an FWG5 (or something) and that his missions were at 1800 payouts.

I saw a similar post on these boards.

My question those getting 1800 missions: Do you have Survey 4 AND Pistol 4?

I've been seeing missions down at 900cr and up to 1800cr.

I really don't know if it matters about what skills you have, though... I just keep hitting refresh till I get what I want.

I'm a master artisan and am apprentice carbineer. I am untrained in any other weapons.

I can second the phenomenon of pistol 4 doing the trick. I was getting generic metal, ore, gas missions topping at 900cr. I just got pistol 4 and was suprised to see higher paying missions for more specific resource types. They magically poofed when I unequiped by pistol to work on unarmed, re-equipping my pistol brought them back. Combat missions gave difficulty off of equipped weapon so it might not just be pistol but any weapon skill at 4, dont know since I only have pistol. I am sure these are suppose to be pulling off of your surveying skill but bugged ATM.

Martie

I have two characters.

My pistoleer with surveying I gets 1800 credit rewards.

My weaponsmith with Surveying IV gets max 800 credit rewards.

It cons based on your combat skill/weapon. Woops....

I can also vouch for pistols bumping me up to next level. Surpised me when I made the last level of pistols and suddenly my survey missions increased.

Not just pistols, but any weapon skill will raise the reward from mission terminals.

That's just silly that weaponskill should affect Survey mission payouts. I see the same thing, though - I've got Pistol 4 (and a FWG5) and Survey 4, and I get 1800 credit missions.

Fastest money I ever made, post-BETA.