Quote Originally Posted by JoshCooper View Post
Recycle:
I feel this was quite expensive to complete. I had to buy x2 eyes which cost about 75k in total for a return of 8k, lube and a token
That's also been my experience. I have a researcher with a bit of skill in recycling and got two research missions, then the mentioned recycling mission, then another research mission. Either the research missions are too easy or the recycling missions way too expensive by comparison. I almost figured it was intentional, so you'd have to invest ~80k into completing the chain to get the reset.

Quote Originally Posted by JoshCooper View Post
Combat:
Marsh Hippos:
A fine mission but takes alot longer to complete then the tradeskill I had completed for the similar rewards. Perhaps combat should offer more as it takes longer to complete?
You also need to consider that with the hippos and the other mobs in the zone you have a high chance for rare parts drops, which kind of factors into the reward.

Now someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the big hippos and bulls only spawn in F02, right? I found that you almost always have to take out the swampriders there and wait for respawn to get the quest-relevant mobs to spawn, which adds both to the time requirement and difficulty (especially for a non-le'd player).