Escort missions

[sleoj]

I remember some of my favorite (and frustrating) missions back in the days of X-wing were the escort missions. It'd be nice to have something like that.

• Escort high-value cargo/passenger between points, possibly having to drop out of supercruise to defend them against pirates that interdict them on multiple occasions. Or defend against police/bounty-hunters interdicting them to destroy a wanted criminal.
• Points could include intermediate stops in normal space to take care of critical activities where they'd be defenseless for some time, like exchanging cargo/passengers or collecting a lot of data from a point of interest.
• Hired to protect a miner in an asteroid/ring.

It's one thing to be able to hold your own in a ship when everyone is targeting you. It's another to have to try to protect something else that can't hold its own when the other side knows they don't have to kill you to win.

 

[Nibbo]

Great idea. I bought an Imperial Courier the other day because its pretty, but don't really have much of a use for it. I thought at the time it would be fun to use in an escort role. Really hope this gets looked at.

 

[MBaldelli]

Amusing given that last week I was dealing with the other aspect of escort missions here in the suggestions forum... Taxiing call girls/call boys to some richer than sin Clientele in some random place within the Bubble (yes, it devolved to that point thanks to someone shaking their stick at the thought).

It would be nice, but I can see this devolving into rage and salt given that some NPCs are brutal in their omniscience and near omnipotence.