Passenger/exploration missions would be nice.

[Skuli]

Endless Ocean on the Wii had escort missions where a wealthy person would hire your services to find specific fish or sunkenships or what have you.

That type of mission could be interesting in Eliteangerous.

"Science team needs to study a black hole/T-Tauri/white dwarf/carbon star", or some guy wants to sightsee a few types of stars as a task.

Could be an interesting take on passenger missions...

 

[NapalmJunkie]

Could be.

But I have horrible memories of countless other (space) games where you have to escort someone/thing, and they do the most stupid things which ends up with you failling the mission.

 

[Elgered]

Meet the wedding barque, escort for three hours, get cr. 300. Thank you


No please don't give us boring additions, but put the Orca to any use and give us real passenger transport and sightseeing missions and exploration Missions (e.g. find a specific planet type in one of five systems, bring detailed scans of System xy,...) and give us some real "long distance hauling" or anything that requires more than two jumps and brings us to other regions of the "bubble"...

I am really excited about the mission-revamp in 1.3