One of the most common complaints I see about Patrol missions is that the Scan/Scout missions are a "waste of time" or not worth doing because they take too long compared to Kill/Collect missions. Sure, I understand that Kill X enemy missions are pretty damn quick, but if you're reliant on, say, 2 or 3 enemies in an entire zone to drop items for a Collect mission, are people really completing those in under a minute?

I use a minute as my cutoff point because, from my experience, almost every Scan or Scout mission can be reached in a minute or less, many of them land you in a zone with patrol beacons, and the only reason they would take more effective time from completing patrols is that end zone being cleared of patrols previously (so a Scan mission bringing you to The Hollows, but all of the patrols there being cleared and waiting to respawn).

So either I'm doing Collect X missions historically slow (they generally take 90 seconds, usually over 2 minutes unless I get lucky with drops), or people are actually overestimating how long it actually takes to complete Scan/Scout missions.