Missions & Complexes

first of all.. i love doing missions.. they are relaxing and so on but the variation is SO little !?
Now im talking about combat missions..

There is only a small handfull of missions where you have to kill a huge structure ..
and 90% of them is kill pocket 1-2-3 and group 1-2-3 and then go salvage
The payout varies from people to people depending on how they do the missions and that is of course allright..

i just got a few easy SUGGESTIONS to make missionrunning more interesting..

-Kill a huge base (Station sized with less hp ) wile defending off spawning groups of ships.
More eyecandy and explosions please

-Require skills like Hacking , cracking to complete missions some missions

-Solve small puzzles ?

-Add two player missions that has to enable/disable stuff together ..


-Make mission runners able to find stuff like rare materials / Components and reactions

-High sec level 5 missions ?

-More storyline missions with loads of steps.

rewards and difficulty should ofcourse be dependent on the level of the mission.
But most of all.. i just want missionrunning to be more exiting.. not rewarding

Sorry about my ****** grammar..

dude either you support the idea of making missionrunning better..
or you tell why you want to keep it as it is now.. :)

me and ccp cant really use anything else.

i think that rewards for doing missions are just fine :)
also those special missions like two player could perhaps be a storyline mission ( every 16 )
not something common.. just for variation :) people can allways decline them
and just because people can do escalations and complexs.. why not use it in normal missions aswell : )

I tend not to run missions anymore, but if I do, the very last thing I want to be bothered with is recruiting someone else to complete a storyline. Especially since all I'm really doing is grinding standings while getting a touch of income on the side.

How about after every 16 or so missions instead of having a storyline, have a really challenging one that would require 5 people one of them being a logistics pilot, and have a Quere to instantly find a group and make it in high sec i know i know it sounds wow-ish and you can already do this in 5s in low, but it would be better than a storyline that 99% decline anyway because they dont want the standing hit.

There are many agents that are unused or used rarely just turn them in elite l3 and l4 agents that give multy player missions that pay similar to l4's but not in isk maybe more LP or even fancy tags just a few.

So people that want to die slowly over the years farming regular missions can do so in peace .

Make em scalable more people more enemies or objective to accomplish,more high end gear and ships harder they go.so it is to cater to younger players that are not so much skilled to fly or have high end gear without borrowing moms credit card that is.

Example t1 logy and 2 canes + maelstorm =manageable crapstorm of enemies to deal and you need to know how to do it.

t2 logi+3 nightmares=brainwashed mad pigeons strapped to ballistic missile that are trying to bite your ballz off type of hard.

You know scalable not just in a way of rewards.

Also focus on scraming and thus preventing frigs to warp of or holding pointed NPC Super or something..you know something useful to do except shooting dots.

..ok im done.

Whilst it would be nice to have more content added the game, built using the new(ish) mission building tool they have.

I'd rather see CCP prioritising other tasks like

Ships - Roles, Slots & Fitting Options.
FW & LoSec - It does 'need' something else.

Spore added an expansion called Galactic Adventures that let players create missions that other players could rate. Players could also create their own creatures and buildings, but EA had to develop tools to prevent the place from being drowned in flying pink penises (Second Life had this problem from time to time). In any player-generated content, it would require some sort of administrative burden to prevent monty haul problems from occurring (or to reduce the rewards to the point where it was irrelevant to the sort of min-maxing that lead to the faction war LP scam earlier this year). I can imagine that some folks will be creating parodies of missions that belong in our version of Stay Tuned (or "you must mine this asteroid belt with a herring").

There are already a lot of missing little pieces in the mission system, so I suspect it takes a lot lower priority than making things that explode (for example, Interbus is missing a storyline mission for their agents - could be fixed in an afternoon, but has not been).

If you think missioning is boring, why are you against making it more interesting?

Since even a (major? minor?) part of the more PvP-oriented playerbase is using them as the main source for income, not to mention the part that does little else, I'd be all for making it less of a chore and more entertaining.
Some damn good suggestions so far (though yeah, I have to agree with Zhillia, don't mix exploration rewards into them - unless you add an exploration challenge to it as well of course, see below)

My ideas so far (yeah, repeating one or two previously mentioned, but I had them too ;)

- Missions where you need to prevent a rat from escaping -> warp scrambler needed obviously (might even be interesting in terms of ninja salvagers, at least in some cases)
- Make them less static, right now, I bet most know the ideal fitting and trigger rats by heart or just look them up. Ravenal's idea might be worth a closer look there.
(might need some missions to be a tad simpler, though certainly not each and every one - or at the very least it would encourage running them with other players, and you can always decline a mission that you don't want to handle solo)
- Other EWAR/support/mixing in tactics options. Repping a ship or structure, escorting (might make ECM useful - jam the one or two frigs that have the escorted ship tackled) ...

- A probably too big change that I guess has been suggested before anyways, but I'll throw it out here nontheless: "Solid" structures that actually block gunfire and missiles. Would add quite a nice tactical aspect to a lot of missions :)

Read again - I said PvP players, not nullsec. And apart from that - your post doesn't exactly contribute to the missionrunning debate, does it? (I know, neither does this one from me, but I couldn't stop myself, so sue me ;))
(not to mention - if you're already calling it "my" highsec, stay out of discussions about it and have fun in "your" nullsec)