Aim:
Have mission options when traveling to another part of the Bubble.
Background:
Often players have to or want to travel to places which are "far away" from their current playing location in the game. Whether it's for Engineering, Exploration, or whatever.
Currently there's no easy way to find missions (passenger or otherwise) along the way. One has to stop off at a station and even then most missions offered are "local".
Suggestion:
Let a player advertise his ship's route. This would probably need to be done at a station. It would automatically advertise the ship's capabilities as well (cargo/passenger capacity etc). Bonus points if the system could be smart enough that passenger cabins and cargo bays can be swapped.
This would flag interested parties along the route to possibly offer missions. This would then trigger "Mission Critical Message" where people would offer relevant missions from a system on/near the route to another system on/near the route. The idea being that these would be longer-range missions than normal, and would always be in the direction of the intended route.
Conversely, nefarious types could use this information to intercept the player along the route, so there might be an increased risk of piracy when using this feature.
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My concrete situation is that I'm currently needing to travel to the Pleiades to pick up a tonne of Meta-alloys; it would be great to get a couple of missions to do along the way, but firstly I have no idea whether such missions currently exist (presumably passenger ones might?) and secondly the only way to find one is to randomly sift through Mission Boards/Passenger Lounges to find one.
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Alongside this, perhaps a better way to filter missions? Filter by destination system(s)/faction(s)/type(s)? Basically instead of me browsing random advertisements, I'd like a way to advertise what I'm willing to do and only see matching missions (*).
(*)EDIT: NB: This isn't an attempt to just get more missions and stack them; let the system generate the currently active missions; Sometimes I'd just like to be able to filter them by various criteria instead of having to manually go through all of them.
Have mission options when traveling to another part of the Bubble.
Background:
Often players have to or want to travel to places which are "far away" from their current playing location in the game. Whether it's for Engineering, Exploration, or whatever.
Currently there's no easy way to find missions (passenger or otherwise) along the way. One has to stop off at a station and even then most missions offered are "local".
Suggestion:
Let a player advertise his ship's route. This would probably need to be done at a station. It would automatically advertise the ship's capabilities as well (cargo/passenger capacity etc). Bonus points if the system could be smart enough that passenger cabins and cargo bays can be swapped.
This would flag interested parties along the route to possibly offer missions. This would then trigger "Mission Critical Message" where people would offer relevant missions from a system on/near the route to another system on/near the route. The idea being that these would be longer-range missions than normal, and would always be in the direction of the intended route.
Conversely, nefarious types could use this information to intercept the player along the route, so there might be an increased risk of piracy when using this feature.
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My concrete situation is that I'm currently needing to travel to the Pleiades to pick up a tonne of Meta-alloys; it would be great to get a couple of missions to do along the way, but firstly I have no idea whether such missions currently exist (presumably passenger ones might?) and secondly the only way to find one is to randomly sift through Mission Boards/Passenger Lounges to find one.
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Alongside this, perhaps a better way to filter missions? Filter by destination system(s)/faction(s)/type(s)? Basically instead of me browsing random advertisements, I'd like a way to advertise what I'm willing to do and only see matching missions (*).
(*)EDIT: NB: This isn't an attempt to just get more missions and stack them; let the system generate the currently active missions; Sometimes I'd just like to be able to filter them by various criteria instead of having to manually go through all of them.
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