Missions & Complexes

Being a sandbox game, they should make a way for players to spawn mini incursions into systems that disrupt everything. And other players can talk to agents to get rid of the disruptive mini incursions. Just an idea.

Just add more lvl4 with liquid payout ~10-15mil isk to fill the gap between 30mil and 5mil missions since i cant hit the "decline" button more than once per 4h
More difficult...why? We have incursions and lvl5
BTW... missions are not suppose to be fun.

For me, it's gotten to the point where I can AFK most l4.

if people want to run group events, why not run incursions? the raison d'être for lvl4 missions is providing solo content for people who like earning ISK by shooting red crosses. if anything, they resemble anom grinding in 0.0, not incursions.

lvl5s are a little awkward. they are not profitable enough unless you run them alone, which in turn is an unreasonable risk unless your corp controls the system. they are also hugely unbalanced, as in some can be blitzed with one tengu in 5 minutes while others require a serious fleet and loads of time.

I'd like to see more missions and I'd like both mining and distribution missions to be more interesting. Other people are already advocating for security missions.

I'd like to have the option for distribution missions where you have to:


1) Pick up a large stack of items and split the stack into smaller batches all along a route (delivering medicine, food, entertainment, toys, tools to every specific station along a route).

2) Choose between a short run in low sec that will earn you a time/danger bonus or a longer run through high sec that pays less.

3) Drop things off in a plex (where you may or may not be attacked by rats).

4) Have to scan down a hidden location in order to make a delivery.

Turn some hauling routes into a series of acceleration gates, with appropriate dangers, especially rats. Make haulers fit for tank (and a little gank!)

There should be reasons to use tiny cloaky haulers and big freighters as opposed to L4's needing nothing more exciting than a T1 industrial you get in the tutorial missions.

At least mining missions have gas mining (which needs better than tutorial skills). I'd like to see some fake ice mining and some oddsituations. What about mining inside a fake wormhole that will collapse and need scanning to escape just like a proper wormhole, when you're about halfway done with the mining?

What about mining in areas with radiation leaks or faulty acceleration gates? Isn't there a career agent mission that teachers you to use an afterburner that features an asteroid that has a DOT effect (Damage Over Time)? Why aren't we mission mining in areas like that? Security mission runners swap out ammo and hardeners between missions, why shouldn't haulers and miners need to swap modules or ships?

Why aren't miners doing missions that pay out (MUCH) more if we have high refining skills?

Miners and haulers should get missions that make use of the skills they're expected to have.

To be honest - I would prefer them to come up with some kind of dynamic mission system instead of the current pre-cooked model. As while they might indeed do couple more missions these get old pretty fast, so the resources would be better spent on somekind of system that generates missions from some set of "bricks" you can assemble to have a mission.

Then adding new brricks later on would introduce a lot more variation than the old fashinoned handcrafted model. Ofc it might be harder to balance (and test) that kind of system.

Presumably the best way to do something like that would be to implement that kind of system in very limited manner, tweak it until its functional and then make the regular agents slowly to give out more of the "generated" missions, say, for example, every 10th mission, for a start, would be generated, etc.

More missions = The ability to run them longer without burnout.

Running them longer = More ISK in my wallet

More ISK in my wallet = Buying more ships for PVP

More ships for PVP = More PVP

More PVP = More fun!


This is at least for me. I cannot afford to fund my PVP with RL money. I honestly enjoy missions sometimes but after repeating the same half dozen over and over it just becomes a grind.

Beside diluting the actual mission pool, which should be a good thing for diversity, CCP could also increase the kind of missions we get, but slowly, one kind at a time, with making sure that the new kind introduced is not the same thing as an older type.

Actualy, we have 3 kind of missions:
-go mine these stones/mine these ice cubes/hoove these clouds while reading a book;
-take/find/buy that and put it somewhere else;
-go kill a bunch of NPCs in protracted battles.
I feel like a little more options would be nice.

What I would like to see are assassination missions.

"Hey, we spotted this wanted guy at this place, all alone, I want you to take him out.
Don't forget to bring a scrambler or the guy could warp out never to be seen again, automatically failing the mission and making you lose standing with our corp.
Oh yes, the guy is a good pilote, you should definitely bring an optimal setup against mono-target with you on this one"

See what I mean ?
It would change from the griiiiiiiind of BS hitpoints that security missions are, give pvpers a way of funding their activity without the need to use a pve fitting they may not like, and it would help newbies learn the starting rules of pvp.

Beyond that, I know that CCP cannot multiply too much the number of mission types, unless they literaly overcrowd stations with NPCs, and I don't think it would be a good thing.
Each kind should have a purpose and catter to specific needs among the playerbase.

Dread pirate scarlet is "unpredictable" in the sense you don't know which factions spawn in there (from a pool of choices).

Blitzing in high sec is worth it, just have to find a good conversion rate item (atm stratios bp).

Missions should lean towards better LP rewards (faction guns better than t2, with t2 ammo would be a good start). The isk component should not compete with nullsec anoms, rather get nullseccers printing isk and highseccers printing quality faction items.

Would be nice, but there is a lot more I would rather them work on.

A good mission overhaul (my personal opinion) would be to change up the higher level missions a bit. Make a new Level 6 category that is the same as the current 5s (low sec only stuff) and make a new set of Level 5's for high that are designed for the new Marauders. Something challenging for them.