(06-15-2020, 02:39 PM)Haste Wrote: I think it's been said that it's already coming with phase 2: Missions just need to be less profitable when done in random locations all over the game universe, with the most profitable ones only being in very specific areas. That way they'd be much less safe (people would see you in "Mission Running System A" on the player list and know what you're up to) and more easily interrupted.
They're probably also not perfectly balanced. I'd like mission running in fighters to be both more difficult and more profitable, perhaps requiring duos or larger groups to really do efficiently. I think every class of ship should have access to a decent mission option in the highest "tier", and I'd like that tier to be difficult enough that you can actually die while doing it unless you come prepared (i.e. with friends).
I do think that killing off the Transport-Pirate-Lawful cycle with highly-profitable missions available all over the place is bad long-term.
I would state that people need to be careful about making a PvE zone, to only then attract PvP to that zone. Especially since, you can, just wait for a person to start a mission then go in and kill them during it. Essentially you would be encouraging greifing. Not to mention people like to mission run, either by themselves or in a group, to farm money. Interrupting that process will inevitably piss people off. (Much like piracy)
You can get really intense fighter missions, those are usually in the 'cap' section of the mission lists for GBs. Most of the time its fighting large swarms of snubs.
Since you are able to freely take a mission, based on its difficulty/reward. There is already a scale you can choose from. Higher end will see you smacked if you're in the wrong ship class for that mission or not with friends.
The Ore rework has done wonders to kill off the already infrequent cargo piracy. With the hard reset to basic, its killed off a lot of the sell points for pirated ore. I've had a few people cite to me the reason they switched to mission running was the ore rework. (Although, if that's because the missions are better, the rework is bad or out of spite is in the air.)