I've already posted this in the discussion thread, but thought I'd repost it here:
[h=2]Last night's mission.....a case of an opportunity lost.[/h]
[h=2]Last night's mission.....a case of an opportunity lost.[/h]
So I took a Rebel Transmission Salvage mission last night &, when I jumped out at the target, I was quickly jumped on by 5 ships Super-cruising into my location. Needless to say, I was very nervous, as I already had my cargo scoop deployed.
I needn't have worried, though, as it turned out they were pirates who-seeing my hold was empty-promptly jumped out of my location. I confess that I was extremely disappointed (see the video below to see how it played out.....& apologies again for the poor sound quality. It sounds fine at the time, but is very sketchy during play-back for some reason).
[video=youtube;cvfJaRGLRhM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvfJaRGLRhM&t=6s[/video]
The way I see it, there were several ways in which this encounter could have helped make this mission become much more different from a run-of-the-mill salvage.
1) They could have ignored me, but promptly started to head towards all the cargo floating around.....including my Transmissions.
2) They could have been part of a mission wrinkle, with the ships belonging to the rebel faction-tasked with destroying my ship to prevent me getting the transmissions.
3) They could have been part of a mission wrinkle, with the ships belonging to a faction (maybe the rebel faction) tasked with capturing the transmissions before I could.
These are exactly the kinds of outcomes-mid mission-that can make a mission feel completely different.....even if you've done the same template a hundred times over before.
I hope this all makes sense. In a nutshell, I think that mission wrinkles need to be more frequent, more organic, offer even more challenge & variety to existing missions & not be limited to just 1 per mission.
I needn't have worried, though, as it turned out they were pirates who-seeing my hold was empty-promptly jumped out of my location. I confess that I was extremely disappointed (see the video below to see how it played out.....& apologies again for the poor sound quality. It sounds fine at the time, but is very sketchy during play-back for some reason).
[video=youtube;cvfJaRGLRhM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvfJaRGLRhM&t=6s[/video]
The way I see it, there were several ways in which this encounter could have helped make this mission become much more different from a run-of-the-mill salvage.
1) They could have ignored me, but promptly started to head towards all the cargo floating around.....including my Transmissions.
2) They could have been part of a mission wrinkle, with the ships belonging to the rebel faction-tasked with destroying my ship to prevent me getting the transmissions.
3) They could have been part of a mission wrinkle, with the ships belonging to a faction (maybe the rebel faction) tasked with capturing the transmissions before I could.
These are exactly the kinds of outcomes-mid mission-that can make a mission feel completely different.....even if you've done the same template a hundred times over before.
I hope this all makes sense. In a nutshell, I think that mission wrinkles need to be more frequent, more organic, offer even more challenge & variety to existing missions & not be limited to just 1 per mission.
