Search and Rescue

[CMDR Yates]

I am in for that, this emergent career needs some love and attention too Please FDEV, it will be awesome.

Yeah, I love this game so much, and I really appreciate all the work the devs put in. I just wish, when they put out the stub of a new feature like this, they'd be a bit more open about coming out and saying either "it's cool, guys, we intend to do more work on this" or "that's all for now, we have bigger fish to fry", so we have some gauge on where it's going.

 

[Imgran]

Start with two things

1: Take the code for the black box missions, swap the item spawn the Occupied Escape Pods and adjust the reward as you feel is appropriate. The presence of missions is more important than the details of missions, and reskinning black box missions is the lowest-effort way to get something satisfying into gamers' hands -- 1 day of coding and a week or two of testing should be all that is necessary.

2: Conflict zone salvage and rescue. Accept a salvage bond to go into conflict zones and salvage downed ships as well as rescue occupied escape pods belonging to a friendly faction. Bring that salvage and those rescued pilots back home for fun and profit. If anyone shoots a SS&R bonded ship (Salvage, Search and Rescue) they get a wanted bounty for whatever faction they're bonded to. Maybe throw in some SS&R bonded NPCs as well competing for those resources.

For added lulz, make the Vulture a ship favored by SS&R NPC pilots.

 

[Tacyon]

There are SAR missions and not only in the Pleiades. I took two of them yesterday to see what was what on them. It was go here to this search area, locate and bring back 4 occupied cryo tubes. Another one was to locate and bring back 4 damaged ones. Payout was very low, but I looked at it as a discovery to find out what I could about these missions. Would I do one again or as a thing, I don't think so unless it was where i was going and I knew I'd have room for "X" pods.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Check back in a couple months. They take very long to fix their missions and rewards.

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

There are SAR missions and not only in the Pleiades. I took two of them yesterday to see what was what on them. It was go here to this search area, locate and bring back 4 occupied cryo tubes. Another one was to locate and bring back 4 damaged ones. Payout was very low, but I looked at it as a discovery to find out what I could about these missions. Would I do one again or as a thing, I don't think so unless it was where i was going and I knew I'd have room for "X" pods.

Thanks!

I will try to look for them on mission boards then.