Planetary missions - suggestions...

[Banquet]

I'm coming back to Elite after quite a long time not playing. I remember when you could first land on planets you could get missions to locate downed pilots or be sent to find something on that planet. After playing for a few hours I can't find a single mission like that any more. All missions seem to send me off to a different system. Did they get rid of them?

I would love to have planetary missions that just involved doing stuff on that planet. If there are 4 bases across the surface, give me courier and taxi missions from one base to the other, so I can do a kinda sub-orbital jump. There could also be infiltrating competing bases - sabotage or just observing, plus the old find a downed ship... botanical sites could send you to objects of interest for bio stuff. It seems to me there are so many things we could do on planets that would make exploring them so much more interesting. I love the idea of getting to know the planet, for example a mountain range because you keep flying over it transporting people from one base to another. There could be passenger missions where someone wants to go site-seeing the tallest mountain, or dropped off at basecamp so they can climb it. Or a pickup missions from a deep canyon.

Are there any missions like that, that I've not found? If not,I wish Frontier would add stuff like that. The planet surfaces are a massive untapped resource imo.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

I remember when you could first land on planets you could get missions to locate downed pilots or be sent to find something on that planet. After playing for a few hours I can't find a single mission like that any more. All missions seem to send me off to a different system. Did they get rid of them?

I think those particular missions stopped in the 2.1 release, so a very long time ago (pity, I liked them too, though they never quite worked properly)

If there are 4 bases across the surface, give me courier and taxi missions from one base to the other, so I can do a kinda sub-orbital jump.

The Odyssey missions will occasionally generate to the same planet (and a lot more often, to the same system) for on-foot work.

Most ship missions require out-of-system work, though.

 

[Pville_Piper]

Planet side, missions are typically found from by exiting the ship and going to the monitors in the station.