Elite Dangerous End Game?
- Thread starter howardtay
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Only in a really odd implementation, where you turn in a mission, and then you can pick up another mission which has a chain icon on it, and a little bit of text saying "I AM LINKED TO THE OTHER MISSION HONEST!!!"
Not in the way you might expect, like, picking up a black box, getting the data from it, which then gives you a mission on the spot, to go to the co-ordinates in the black box and find the crashed ship and escape pod - which then gives you a passenger (or just deliver the pod) mission, at which point you turn in the mission.
While that sequence is "sort of" possible, it requires returning to a station between every section of the mission, which just seems odd. (to me)
My dream would be a passenger scientific mission. While you are out making the requisite scans the ship takes off and the passenger tells you to pick up a dead-drop of drugs. When you return with them to the ship he tells you to take him to the delivery point. On the way you have the option to report him to the security patrols but they tell you to continue to the drop point and they will intercept. You get to the drop point and the heavily armed Anaconda tells you to jettison the drugs. If you don't then they will open fire. The security will turn up eventually, but you have to stay alive for a while, after which you get a good bounty. If you drop the drugs then the criminals are gone by the time the security shows up and you get nothing.
Not really. I mean, it is, but it could be better, and it doesn't happen mid-mission, like the poster suggests.
So what currently happens is you accept a mission, complete it (as in, go back to the station and claim your reward), and you'll possibly get a message for another mission, which appears as a "chained" mission in the board. While it's meant to hold some connection to the previous mission, for all intents and purposes, it's "just another mission".
For example, do a Donation mission, and you might get a message saying "we got a new mission for you!". Go back and there'll be another mission to deliver two widgets to some location, and the flavour text will be something like "Thanks to your donation, we manufactured these two widgets, ship them here plox". There's a few problems with this.
1. They're not particularly statically located. Even though it says "go back to X station" in the description, you can dock anywhere that faction is present and they'll offer it to you.
2. The actual mission isn't static. In that donation example, you can go to the boards and it'll be 2 semiconductors, then go to the board again later and it'll be 2 superconductors.
3. They function in execution like any other mission.
Another common one is an assassination leads to another assassination, with the flavour text "Err... we got the wrong guy, soz, kill this other person plox"... but for all intents it's just two fairly indistinguishable assassination missions. I think what poster above is suggesting is, rather, as you do a scan mission, you could get an option to take the assassination mission right then, based on the information pulled out, rather than going all the way "back to base" first.... and that mission may not necessarily be for the same faction.
Personally, I don't think "chain missions" are what was needed, in the context of Elite at least, rather the frequency, type, variation and quantity of "wrinkles" in missions needs to go up[1]. For example, lawful faction sends you on a surface scan mission to find information about a target, which they'll send authorities to lawfully arrest afterwards. Once you find the info, you might get several options presented:
- Complete the mission (Rewards, +security for the issuing faction, -inf for target's faction)
- Keep the data and go after the target yourself for it's fat bounty (Bigger bounty reward, -security for issuing faction due to vigilante justice, -inf for target faction)
- Warn the target, who counters with a mission to massacre the 4 authority ships sent to track you down (Reward from the target, -security and -inf for issuing faction, for obvious reasons)
If you accept the mission, takes you to another system with a marked USS meeting point... go there, and you're greeted by some ships from the issuing faction come to recover the goods off you... you get one last chance to either:
- surrender the goods and "finish" the mission (maybe with no rep at that point),
- Retain the goods, fight off the pursuers, then hand over to the contact who arrives; or (+ effects for target faction, - effects for issuing)
- Retain the goods, fight off pursuer, and destroy the contact who arrives, keeping the goods for yourself to sell on the black market; (-ve effects for everyone, valuable goods for you)
[1] especially since it's virtually impossible to reliably conduct negative actions against factions, thus no generally famine, bust, civil unrest or lockdown. I'd love to be able to more reliably accept missions from other factions to deliberately torpedo them; unfortunately that only really works for delivery missions, where you can abandon the mission and steal the cargo.
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You havent finished, OP, youve fledged 
Youve got your fleet setup as you like it, so you can be effective enough to have an effect on the galaxy. Now you can decide youve finished your goals, and quit / lurk on the forums. Or you can choose new goals to achieve with your fleet. Its basically what you did in the first place. You chose your goals before, you can do it again glhf
Youve got your fleet setup as you like it, so you can be effective enough to have an effect on the galaxy. Now you can decide youve finished your goals, and quit / lurk on the forums. Or you can choose new goals to achieve with your fleet. Its basically what you did in the first place. You chose your goals before, you can do it again
glhf