Ok, just finished up a scrapyard mission, was kinda dissapointed.

For those of you who havent done one yet, they work like this.

the station wants a silly amount of scrap (at least at trade level 11 anyhow, mine was for like 257, but i've seem them for as much as 324)

As you collect the scrap metal and deliver it you recieve some cash, (around 220 credits per unit where i was at) 2 Trade XP for each unit, and some reputation gain, seemed to be about 1 rep point every 20 or so crates.
(and of course you get the XP for killing all the bots)

At the end of the mission you get no additional bonus. I was kinda hoping for one.

So here's my suggestions.
1. Increase the cash reward, make it 1.25 times whatever the scrap is regularly selling for at the station.

2. Give it a little more Rep gain. maybe 1 point of reputation for every 5 crates. It takes about twice the amount of time for me to kill 35 bots and collect the scrap as I can complete a single 3 system trade mission in. The reputation gain should at least be similar half of what you get on a cargo mission.

3. Add some form of reward for actually finishing it. My suggestion would be either to
-A. give out an additional reward of trade XP and Reputation as if it had been a cargo mission, or
-B. put some kind of badge in for doing them. maybe make a badge for each faction, complete 10 scrapyard missions for that faction and get a 5% discount on stuff there.

4. More variety, we used to have broken electronics, damaged weapons, etc. have a series of missions, each needing a different scrap component. That would make it so that you didnt just go hunt artemis collectors for scrap.

5. Tougher bots, more scrap please. This would address the same thing as in point 4.

Thats my ideas for now.

Oh yea, one other idea/thought.

This mission screams out "Make me a Group Activity"

The amount of scrap needed could be whatever the current base is, increased by 50% for each additional group member. Everyone in the group can deliver scrap to reduce that total. Then you just split the reward (and the reputation) evenly through the group as cargo gets delivered. BINGO, a way for players who are KOS with the factions to regain access to those stations. Provided they can find someone to help them out that is.

thank you for posting this. i guess i wont waste hours killing orun collectors now.

Mine was about 376. I have it down to the mid 200's now.

This does indeed scream group mission. Then you can have a few people doing the killing in fighters, and some doing the delivery in centaurs.

Though killing collectors in a centaur with a dual plasma dev vII is quite funny... insta-kill on orun collectors :D

FYI at faction standing 872, delivering 40 crates of scrap metal does not even give you 1 single point of increased faction standing. It says 'standing increased slightly', but the number doesn't go up. I tested this by delivering 5 crates, 8 times, in a vulture.

FYI2: i can get about 1 scrap about every 30 seconds on average by this method: Get a Maurauder. Go to Dau k9, kill a few oruns, transports will start showing up. then hit 'u', click on the 'transport', and go kill it. the transports always carry 1 scrap metal. then its 2 escorts will usually attack you quickly. they also carry 1 scrap each. then hit 'u' again, click on the new 'transport' , and repeat. i got 47 scrap metals in 21 minutes this way.

PS Spellcast i like your ideas for improving this mission.