No missions to SOL
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And that is something I really don't like. It simply makes no sense that passengers (for example) would always fly out from Sol, but never back. I hope they get that fixed in the future, it cannot be that hard: if a permit is required that the pilot does not have, show the mission as "requirements not met". I would also hope to see some missions that go from the fringe of the bubble all the way back to the core.
If I remember correctly, this used to be the case. People complained, the devs changed it.
That seems odd (to me). Do you remember why people complained? They thought it was too easy?
They complained, because unless you had a permit, you couldn't complete the mission. It was an oversight initially, which then led to complaints, and eventually the removal of any and all missions to systems requiring permit access.
The mission system has improved a lot since then. I'm sure the situation could be handled much better now, as CMDR Ellegon suggests.
Hopefully, with 2.4, missions to permit systems will only appear if you actually have that permit.
Which should have been the case all along. Sadly, this is just another example of half a job being done.
To be fair, I'd like to fly out of Sol and not come back!
A while back I took a mission to a base on Lave2 (which I don't have a permit for), thinking that it was a method for gaining the permit. I got there, not allowed to land and mission failed - so there is a mechanism for giving missions to permit locked areas.
Strange, you should bug report it, as this definitely was something they addressed in an update.
It was quite a few months ago (possibly even before xmas) so i'd imagine it's been patched, mate.
That only shows that FDev used the wrong fix for the problem, but hopefully they address issues like that in the post-2.4 QOL updates.
This is where the Frontier Elite 2 (FE2) & Frontier 2: First Encounters (F2FF) mission boards were vastly superior. There were options to ask the mission givers questions including "Do I need a permit? If so, can I have one?". As for missions to systems with permits, the game tells players to check that their route / destination is viable via the use of the galaxy map in nice red lettering - this always seemed to be conveniently forgotten/ignored by folk complaining about being able to accept missions to permit locked systems...
As I understood the problem, there was/is a maximum number of missions generated for the bulletin board (I believe it's 20 missions). A permit-locked mission is therefore "stealing" a mission slot that would otherwise be available. Systems surrounding permit-locked systems would be difficult to find missions for - which, for some permit-locks, are the very same factions you need to gain rep with in order to gain the mission.
Take Alpha Centauri as an example. Being so close to Sol, most of the missions there would "naturally" have Sol as a destination. Without a Sol permit, that means it'd be virtually impossible to find a completable mission in Alpha Centauri, as most of them would be permit-locked.
Or take Procyon, for which Sirius would be a "natural" mission destination. You want to rep up with Sirius so you can get the Sirius permit? Well, too bad, because you can't; all the Sirius Corp missions in Procyon are asking you to go to Sirius to complete them.
I do not know if it is still the case, but I do know that there were some exceptions to the "no missions to permit-locked systems" rule. Over a year ago I was working down near Cemiess (in Imperial core space), and one of the systems down near there had been Expanded into by one of the Achenar-based factions. That Achenar-based faction would offer you missions to go to Achenar. I already had the rank for the Achenar permit, so I don't know what would've happened if I didn't.
Personally, I think the Superpower capitals (Sol, Achenar, Alioth) should be a special mission generator; there should always be a small chance that any superpower-aligned faction will want to offer a mission to travel to the capital. Likewise, missions from the capital out to the various colonies should be abundant.
Take Alpha Centauri as an example. Being so close to Sol, most of the missions there would "naturally" have Sol as a destination. Without a Sol permit, that means it'd be virtually impossible to find a completable mission in Alpha Centauri, as most of them would be permit-locked.
Or take Procyon, for which Sirius would be a "natural" mission destination. You want to rep up with Sirius so you can get the Sirius permit? Well, too bad, because you can't; all the Sirius Corp missions in Procyon are asking you to go to Sirius to complete them.
I do not know if it is still the case, but I do know that there were some exceptions to the "no missions to permit-locked systems" rule. Over a year ago I was working down near Cemiess (in Imperial core space), and one of the systems down near there had been Expanded into by one of the Achenar-based factions. That Achenar-based faction would offer you missions to go to Achenar. I already had the rank for the Achenar permit, so I don't know what would've happened if I didn't.
Personally, I think the Superpower capitals (Sol, Achenar, Alioth) should be a special mission generator; there should always be a small chance that any superpower-aligned faction will want to offer a mission to travel to the capital. Likewise, missions from the capital out to the various colonies should be abundant.