Hi, so I made this suggestion in the Horizons Beta thread, but it went into release without anything being done about this, so I figured I would make the suggestion again in the regular suggestions thread. Also, with the announcement of the mission changes coming in 2.1 and the delay in 2.1 landing, I figured this is as good a time as any to see if this is something FD are already considering (I hope so) and if not, that they would consider it.
My issue is as follows:
It doesn't make any sense to me that I fly down to a planet's surface and land at a settlement there, only for them to ask me to leave the planet again and fly to a different system to perform some kind of task, then come back.
I can live with that from Stations and Outposts in space, because you're only talking a few seconds extra to jump out of the system. On a planet though, it takes a good few minutes to get to the surface.
Additionally, purely from a gameplay perspective, it's highly unlikely that players who have just flown down to the planet surface are going to want to leave again immediately; they clearly wish to do things on THAT planet, which is why they flew down there in the first place.
So, my suggestion would be to make the mission system for Planetary Settlements spawn planet-based missions only (or at least primarily) on the Planet itself, and not elsewhere in the galaxy.
My issue is as follows:
It doesn't make any sense to me that I fly down to a planet's surface and land at a settlement there, only for them to ask me to leave the planet again and fly to a different system to perform some kind of task, then come back.
I can live with that from Stations and Outposts in space, because you're only talking a few seconds extra to jump out of the system. On a planet though, it takes a good few minutes to get to the surface.
Additionally, purely from a gameplay perspective, it's highly unlikely that players who have just flown down to the planet surface are going to want to leave again immediately; they clearly wish to do things on THAT planet, which is why they flew down there in the first place.
So, my suggestion would be to make the mission system for Planetary Settlements spawn planet-based missions only (or at least primarily) on the Planet itself, and not elsewhere in the galaxy.
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