How many mission are run at the same time

[richard]

Question - How many mission do you run at the same time?

1, 2 or a larger number?

[daveal]

All of them. Well, as many as possible anyway.

Early in the game, you can only take one mission per contact, so I visit all the contacts in the local system to do their one mission and start building up personal rep. Soon, each one will offer 5 missions; with 3 contacts in the home system that's 15 possible missions. I will look at them all, and then pick as many as possible that go to the same location. Of course you have to be careful not to overflow your passenger/prisoner cabin limits, but it really helps to get up to 5-6 missions all going the same place and do them in one shot.

[fallen]

Some of the high efficiency Mission runners on the forum have dropped numbers like "16" so daveal is right on the money. Mission efficiency is based many not one or tw.

[daveal]

16! That is a lot. I find that it is easy to accidentally overbook passenger suites, especially once I start combining a mission to pick up at A, drop at B, along with a mission to pick up at B, drop at D, etc. Also I guess if there are any short duration missions among the 16, it is hard to get done in time.

[gilmoy]

Yes, you cherry-pick missions to fit your tour. You always consider the time remaining, and your capacities at every stage. I do most of that in an external spreadsheet (Excel on 2nd monitor), as it does not fit in my head's cache across multiple sessions.

I've had nearly 30 missions at once, on my way into the Cirm branch cul-de-sac for the 1st time ever.
I was overdue for about 4 of them, but I've never reneged on one, and I haven't failed one (of this batch) yet.

The way to make up the overdue penalty is -- to accept another mission!