This suggestion was inspired by Iskariot's post on a similar topic, but I just thought I might put all my ideas on the subject into their own post. Please check out Iskariot's original post here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/352124-PROPOSAL-Intel-package-gameplay
So the basic issue is that Intel Packages you gain from scanning the Data-links of surface facilities (&, hopefully soon, space-based facilities) currently serve very little function beyond paying a few thousand credits. However, with the help of mechanics already within the game, there is a way that Intel Packages could be tied into the Mission System-as follows:
Follow-on Missions: This is the most obvious one. As some missions can now trigger follow-ons, I see no logical reason why delivering Intel Packages couldn't also trigger a "follow-on" mission, using the same coding logic. Delivering Intel Packages could generate "Sensitive Data Delivery" Missions-perhaps with a "don't get scanned" mission wrinkle, or a Liberation Mission, a Piracy Mission, a Salvage Mission, a Surface Scan Mission....though technically almost any mission type could be triggered by the handover of an Intel Package-with the difficulty & pay-out of the mission being strongly linked to the value of the original Package. These "follow-ons" would probably have an 80%-90% chance of triggering.
Spontaneous In-Space Missions: These are the missions you get when you spend an extended period of time in one system. In this case, though, spending extended time periods in one system, carrying an Intel Package, then you highly increase the chance of getting a Data Delivery Mission from the controlling faction.
Anyway, if anyone else has any further suggestions, please post them here.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/352124-PROPOSAL-Intel-package-gameplay
So the basic issue is that Intel Packages you gain from scanning the Data-links of surface facilities (&, hopefully soon, space-based facilities) currently serve very little function beyond paying a few thousand credits. However, with the help of mechanics already within the game, there is a way that Intel Packages could be tied into the Mission System-as follows:
Follow-on Missions: This is the most obvious one. As some missions can now trigger follow-ons, I see no logical reason why delivering Intel Packages couldn't also trigger a "follow-on" mission, using the same coding logic. Delivering Intel Packages could generate "Sensitive Data Delivery" Missions-perhaps with a "don't get scanned" mission wrinkle, or a Liberation Mission, a Piracy Mission, a Salvage Mission, a Surface Scan Mission....though technically almost any mission type could be triggered by the handover of an Intel Package-with the difficulty & pay-out of the mission being strongly linked to the value of the original Package. These "follow-ons" would probably have an 80%-90% chance of triggering.
Spontaneous In-Space Missions: These are the missions you get when you spend an extended period of time in one system. In this case, though, spending extended time periods in one system, carrying an Intel Package, then you highly increase the chance of getting a Data Delivery Mission from the controlling faction.
Anyway, if anyone else has any further suggestions, please post them here.