Missions pay&difficulty makes no sense

[Wou]

I've been doing some repair jobs, satellites, stations, dropping new satellites and laser towers, paying upwards of 100k for somewhat boring but very very short work, cool.

Then I was asked by Argon to help them in the war against Xenon.
first task was to drop an advanced satellite deep into Xenon territory. Job payed 67k. Adv. satellite costs 104k. Uhhh

Then I was asked to destroy a Xenon P, took a while to find one but in the end I ended up with +127k. Neat

And then just like that they ask me to attack and board an Argon Behemoth. In 2.something hours, counting now. For 118k. What the hell?
Oh and there are some missions around where you are asked to deliver ship(s), they pay 100k-ish for who knows how much worth of ships.


in conclusion: in earlier games missions had both pay and difficulty tied to player rank. A Beginner will be asked to kill a Xenon N and get like 10k in reward, advanced pilot will be send after destroyers for a millions of pay. Why change it?
Or even if you want to drop the rank dependency - at least don't make me loose money like with the satellite or deliver ships ones. And vary they pay depending on the actual difficulty, please.

[Wou]

Ok, I might be eating my words about the Behemot mission thing, except it's even more ridiculous.
Turns out the ship didn't put much resistance at all, was easy boarded with all rookie crew, aaaaand ... I get to keep it.

Sure it is a bit broken, I can't get the engines to run, but maybe my engineers will in time. And even if not I can sell it on the spot for 12mil. Damn.

[Ezarkal]

Did you try using your repair laser to fix the engines?