One board - all modes?

[racer1]

Yes, but like others have said mode switching is a symptom of the BB not working as people would like.

I think a max number of missions that can be accepted/outstanding (say 10) plus a refresh button perhaps would solve the problems of excessive stacking and poor availability. Coupled with mission specific cargo for all missions and inability to sell cargo after abandoning a mission for any significant value.

I look forward to what 2.1 will bring...

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Want persistence! Want!

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Waaaaaaant!

 

[racer1]

It is completely irrelevant if the BB offers the same missions for modes or not, one won't notice and care about that anyway. Also it won't make the mode switching useless, as long as there are multiple servers not all offering the same missions. It might slow down things a bit though, because one might need to switch more often to get assigned to another server with different missions.

There are many ways to make all servers offer the same missions within the same station.

 

[Conch]

Atm not doing missions, cant get much fun out of them now.

but looking forward to the mission overhaul, and i think they will change it to persistent board.
but they should also take in account that they should pay more, and give people a massive list of missions that wouls fit the ranks.
just sitting in a station waiting till new missions pop up is boring and no fun at all.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

If the game were to have just 1 mission board per station but it was used in all modes, so any missions you see would also be shown in the other two modes, how would you feel about this?

i think this would be great. At the same time i think the number of "jobs" on a mission board should be expanded however, and linked to the number of people in that system.

 

[Altair8800]

But what if you did not get any different missions when mode switching, what if there was only one mission board regardless of mode. That's the question I posed

Won't work as long as there are multiple servers not in sync with the missions. Try switching mode open/solo, often BB stays the same because they try to counter this. But after a while you'll get assigned to another server, then you get different missions. You even don't have to switch mode, you also can logout to the main menu and then go into the same mode again and agaib to switch the BB. This way the missions will change faster than 10 minutes too.

As usual, all this funny ideas will make things even worse then it is already.

 

[Bran Tse Mallory]

i think this would be great. At the same time i think the number of "jobs" on a mission board should be expanded however, and linked to the number of people in that system.

Agreed. The system would need to have a number of jobs ready for all types and if the station is busy it would have to cope with the possibility of two CMDR's each trying to take the same mission...

While the fine details would need to be worked out I can see how this could be implemented to mean mode swapping was not required to get a good stack of missions to do.

I am neither for nor against mode swapping - I don't so it myself however - I just think it would be nice if the system always had several missions of a similar type and could generate new missions on the fly, so if a player took a smuggling slave mission it would not be a full ten minutes before another smuggling mission replaced it.

Interesting responses folks, keep them coming!

 

[CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned]

Atm not doing missions, cant get much fun out of them now.

but looking forward to the mission overhaul, and i think they will change it to persistent board.
but they should also take in account that they should pay more, and give people a massive list of missions that wouls fit the ranks.
just sitting in a station waiting till new missions pop up is boring and no fun at all.

What I've done is take the covert data delivery mission. Sometimes get just one sometimes several from Cubeo or Tamar. Get the missions and fly off. Just about at Viscount rank (2% off) and I'm still getting missions that progress me 6% at a time (mostly 1 or 2 % though). When I land there's almost always another one to take so I continue until I run out then back to whichever is closest between Cubeo or Tamar.

Spend virtually no time in menus but loads evading NPC's or boosting into stations whilst silent running.

 

[anikaiful]

I guess current BB shuffling works only if you get different server than in other mode(s)? Tried a switch after reading the OP but board remained the same.

 

[Altair8800]

There are many ways to make all servers offer the same missions within the same station.

What they have implemented yet is technically seen pretty bad, this could be improved, guess we'll see that with 2.1.

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I guess current BB shuffling works only if you get different server than in other mode(s)? Tried a switch after reading the OP but board remained the same.

If you switch once you'll likely get the same missions. Switch mode for 10 minutes and see if you get different ones before 10 minutes.
Switch mode this: solo -> group 1 -> solo -> group 2 you'll get different missions after every switch.

 

[Goose4291]

Totally think this is the way it should have been since day one. Level headed and sensible Bran.