I thought 1.3 was going to bring some much needed overhaul to the bulletin board, in regards to the board itself on station not the missions themselves, it seems the only change that has been made is that the missions are restricted by the three pilot federation rankings; combat, trading, and exploration in addition to the faction reputation. This is all well and good giving the player more reasons to increase ranking is fine (funnily enough its now very hard to increase combat rank in 1.3 "mostly harmless" everywhere) but this hasn't really changed the BB in anyway effectively the same missions are being offered just now with more restrictions.
What I would like to see is more missions being offered and a complete change in how the bulletin board is presented.
Instead of have all the missions listed together, have a different types of "boards" that focus only on certain missions types (eg. Bounty board, Hauling Board) or for illegal activities have a separate option in starport services called "underworld contact" or something similar where you can find less respectable forms of employment (eg. Contract killing, Smuggling, piracy). Having the missions broken up into types like this will make it obvious if the mission is illegal or not.
I would also suggest increasing the amount of missions available in each type (currently certain mission types could be non-existent or very limited depending on RNG this base on my experience currently I am master combat ranked) and also there needs to be an significant increase to rewards the missions offer have them well balanced for the risk/time investment involved, at the moment a lot of missions ask a lot for little reward.
Finally these changes may cause players to just stay a one location and never leave, but this could be solved by putting a lock out timer on each mission type. For example each station has a max of say 8 missions for bounty hunting (per player) once all are completed no more BH missions will be offered at that station for say 3 days or so, this will force the player to move on to get more or try the other mission types.
What I would like to see is more missions being offered and a complete change in how the bulletin board is presented.
Instead of have all the missions listed together, have a different types of "boards" that focus only on certain missions types (eg. Bounty board, Hauling Board) or for illegal activities have a separate option in starport services called "underworld contact" or something similar where you can find less respectable forms of employment (eg. Contract killing, Smuggling, piracy). Having the missions broken up into types like this will make it obvious if the mission is illegal or not.
I would also suggest increasing the amount of missions available in each type (currently certain mission types could be non-existent or very limited depending on RNG this base on my experience currently I am master combat ranked) and also there needs to be an significant increase to rewards the missions offer have them well balanced for the risk/time investment involved, at the moment a lot of missions ask a lot for little reward.
Finally these changes may cause players to just stay a one location and never leave, but this could be solved by putting a lock out timer on each mission type. For example each station has a max of say 8 missions for bounty hunting (per player) once all are completed no more BH missions will be offered at that station for say 3 days or so, this will force the player to move on to get more or try the other mission types.
