Grind in the game is as you say repetitive, everyone one pretty much wants to get millions of credits and when you do, then what do you do? The game is very much a hungry animal we want more and have little patience to wait, however the immersion factor is what makes a good game, and the immersion is slowly dying in Elite, getting rewards can help however such small rewards of a paint job or holo me add on seem fine, but I feel players will want a lot more.
Lets look at the basics we are here because it's a space sim of sorts, and we all want different things from the game and some key areas need work as a progressive move forward, 2.4 is all about quality of life improvements so players are coming forward each day making suggestions of what they would like and what would make the game more fun to play.
Traders: as we know trader is a big part of the game and has become quite stale for sometime, trying to find a decent route that pays well, ( I recall when i first started playing that earning 60,000 crds on a two way trip was awesome at the time nower days you wouldn't even begin to consider taking a mission of that low payout, so the game has moved on in ways of payouts but so have we as players, and we need to be kept entertained. Trading needs to be worthwhile again. Maybe something like employment bulletin board offering the right rep players first come first serve "high paid trading route for a limited time". So in a way its worth while looking around for these in each faction, feds, empire alliance, so on.
Bounty hunting: is a mix bag at the moment you find your own way pick your own missions high risk or not, however with immersion it could do with a buff maybe get tip-off from a station source or in-flight message giving you updates on locations of high interest or last known location of a wanted person or wreck would be welcome change. After all, immersion is still key in every game facit here.
Exploring: with improvements coming we can only wait and see, however exploring should be all about tech and finding new things as anything new or what we have not seen before is immersion right, Frontier have this growing problem of always saying mystery new things or lots of things still to find in the galaxy, but the way I see it, is that the galaxy is so huge they have only tipped a handful of things into try find hence the grind in exploring, the galaxy should be teaming with things and not just new planets to find, it's nice that when we plan a explore trip we get kitted out we double check everything we need to take with make sure our ship is good to go that's great that immersion right there so to keep it there we need a few things, as when we get into deep space that when immersion slowly gets to us for example we do the space honk great we start earning credits but that's all under the hood immersion behind the scenes stuff we don't have much to do with until we cash them in later, what we need is a proper good surface planet scanner that reveals all whats on the planet to whats in the planet, this immersion would now make us focus on as many planets as we wanted scanner in two ways the honk which as we all know gives us some basic details or shows us some planets another scanner like the detail surface scanner should be giving us the rest wouldn't it be nice to see a outlined scan on a planet telling us where wreck ships are metallic items like canisters cargo, buildings and mineral deposits, this would now give us a purpose to examine a planet and even stay in systems longer than just a quick space honk and move on to the next rinse and repeat = grind, this is just a basic idea of whats needed there are many great ideas from players out there besides this one for exploring. gain this is an option for players as there will be players that will say yeah but this makes exploring to easy which ok then you still have the option of exploring the old fashion way if you want to so in all this idea gives players the options and paying for the tech to do this.
Combat: not being a heavy combat player combat has had its ups and downs over the years "nerf" is a word we all know these days and players do keep a close eye on all things combat for me combat is more bounty hunting in rez zones and seems ok for the most part, however, there are many great ideas from players already out there so cant comment too deeply on this subject matter. There are dedicated combat players and casual combat players.
Galaxy/Nav map: needs some huge attention as in the cosmetic side of things maybe some tweaks like you are here pin showing where you are it has had some tweaks recently which have all been welcomed, so moving forward with any galaxy map and nav map updates I'm sure will be equally welcome.
These are just some ideas that would reward and bring much more immersion to the game I feel, we all have our ideas but the more we suggest to Frontier will hopefully will be taken on board, so keep posting ideas.
