"Locate and Scan Meteorite" Mission.

[DemiserofD]

This would help alleviate the materials grind.

A mission to go down to a planet's surface and land, and use the SRV scanner to find a nearby quest meteorite. Then you scan it, and then shoot it to break it, and it drops one quest material plus the standard allotment of normal materials.

This would help introduce players into raw materials gathering, and teach them how to do so a bit better, before they actually need it.

 

[Cmdr John Lyn]

On planets that have rings or systems with large belts and rings, meteorite showers should be natural phenomena. How often would ringed planets experience meteor showers? Now that I think about it, would we be able to see ships moving around in supercruise like shooting stars from a planet? Probably not if they reach c and beyond.

 

[Insanerobert]

This sounds amazing. Also, I would love to see the Manufactured materials grinding less of an issue right now. It's painstaking and slow to gather, especially those Rank 5 rare ones.