Merkle wrote:

Aye, back to an Eve system I guess tongue
I know tried and tested never fails big_smile

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THIS DO NOT RE-INVENT THE WHEEL HERE!

This was basically my point, yes we like new ideas but what Eve (the basics now) does is perfect in a mission sense.

However Eve uses a instance based approach.  (Warping into a point in space, yes you can probe down the site and grief them, this is a GOOD thing.)

If the DEV's can come up with a way to incorporate this mission strat. into Perp they will have a successful mission system.  Having a "safe" place to mission to call your mission is a good thing, and as well having a way to kill and grief the missioners is a good thing as well.  As the trade off is it requires effort on the griefer.

Argee that instances should be greifable.

Make the interzone beacon used to travel to instance hackable (a head or leg module?). Meaning mission runners will need to find a good place to hide their beacons used to travel to mission or have a second squad of PVP ready people guarding the beacon. Hacking a beacon will flag you on alpha side and once hacked (1 min?) you will be teleported to the instance unable to TP back while flagged.(similar to beta rules of engagement free fire but flag prevents your jumping out).
With those parameters the Squad in the instance will have the advantage as all bots coming through the beacon via hack will be flagged and will be -1 PVP module due to haveing a hacking module.

Just a thought to balance/ sandbox it if instances were used.

Well this is not the griefing that I had in mind...Alpha based shouldn't have the chance to kill or shoot actual players but rather just do the mission : )

Beta and Gamma have at it.

Aye, back to an Eve system I guess tongue
I know tried and tested never fails big_smile

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

THIS DO NOT RE-INVENT THE WHEEL HERE!

This was basically my point, yes we like new ideas but what Eve (the basics now) does is perfect in a mission sense.

However Eve uses a instance based approach.  (Warping into a point in space, yes you can probe down the site and grief them, this is a GOOD thing.)

If the DEV's can come up with a way to incorporate this mission strat. into Perp they will have a successful mission system.  Having a "safe" place to mission to call your mission is a good thing, and as well having a way to kill and grief the missioners is a good thing as well.  As the trade off is it requires effort on the griefer.

Argee that instances should be greifable.

Make the interzone beacon used to travel to instance hackable (a head or leg module?). Meaning mission runners will need to find a good place to hide their beacons used to travel to mission or have a second squad of PVP ready people guarding the beacon. Hacking a beacon will flag you on alpha side and once hacked (1 min?) you will be teleported to the instance unable to TP back while flagged.(similar to beta rules of engagement free fire but flag prevents your jumping out).
With those parameters the Squad in the instance will have the advantage as all bots coming through the beacon via hack will be flagged and will be -1 PVP module due to haveing a hacking module.

Just a thought to balance/ sandbox it if instances were used.

A Alliance feature still isn't a high priority.  However, another Upgrade of the squad system would be a good direction.  More options, ect ect.

Random Mission Generator isn't a bad idea.  I see this idea having a good potential. 

What I would suggest is to not make missions around a squad, but to make missions extreamly hard so players have the option of grouping if they want, or to solo them if possible (and trust me just because its hard on day one for one person, in a month it will be a breeze for that one person).

What I'm trying to say here is, on day one missions are hard, in 30 more days they are extreamly easy.

Make them hard!!!!  And then, step back and make them even harder!!!

(Scaled with the Lvl of missions of course.)

The main question i have with this whole topic:
What are squad missions? Are you really finally working on the Random mission generator?
Missions that need more then one player to compete (and not only because you have to recover loot from some 5th star npcs that is 50U in size)

Some aspects of those two suggestions really screaming: RAID INSTANCES.

... ok, im back in firefall, with its nice world events -> random mission targets you stumble upon while running around. (and the grind of more then 5000 Aranhas yesterday was FUN!)

I like the community as well as the ability to share intelligence and attack, defend in common with other corps. that is afforded by a large squad.  In addition, given the current state of the game population, further fragmentation caused by small squads would make the world seem even more empty.

On the other hand, dropping in and out of the big squad when creating small special purpose task forces gets tiresome.  Further, large squads currently make joint missions a joke for reasons stated above by others. 

There is a need and a use both for small and large squads.  As at least one person has stated above, I'd like to see a squad hierarchy implemented.  The large squad, might have 50 members.  Any of these members could form a sub-squad of 5 or so people for mission running.   The sub-squads would inherit from the squad in that a member of a sub-squad would still be able to see large squad chat, share large squad teleports, etc...  The large squad would not inherit from the sub-squad in that only members of the sub-squad could be part of an accepted mission and members of the larger squad could not see the sub-squad's chat channel.  If that's is what your proposing by option 2, then cast my vote there.

Regards,

SPoT

perhaps i will quote it down here again later, after the initial two choices seem to not incorporate a single bit of my suggestions.

• On the assignment (random one of the specific level, that's important), you should get to the Ass-Port Station (Assignment Teleport) which should be placed on each Alpha Island

• Activating a trigger by one of the squadmates (with all the limitations, new squad systems and all) will teleport every partipicant to a random place on a random (or not that random) Beta or Gamma Island

• There will be all the things you need to do on the assignment

• After assignment is completed, you can exit the island by usual way OR you can use special teleport beacon to get back to the Ass-Port Station (teleport beacon can/should have some restrictions like power-up timer)

What will we get:

• A possibility to access and complete some high-level assignments on hostile islands

• A possibility to find and kill such assignment partipicants (this can be eased if necessary with pop-up for everyone on that island like "Ass-Port Jump detected")

• No need to actually develop an instances

Optionally, we can have some Delta Islands for such assignments, but then we need some kind of free access there via jumpgates, and an additional reason to be there if not on assignment.

Of course i have my own point:
1. Should be able 2 features:
a) Each member takes the assignment and stands in line. If there are enough ppl in squad to start assignment, sends invitation for participating. If everyone takes it - automaticaly forms the squad to begin.
b) Squad leader (secondary leader) takes assignment and everyone should confirm participating. If there are enough confirmed ppl, assignment starts as well.
2. Squads must be strictly limited or it should be senselessly to make big ones (example: too small reward or limited loot). By my expirience: Game is a game. There should be losts not only wins. So assignments performing should be harder than simple scan/mining the ores near beta outpost (with following 1mil reward)
3. Should be the voting feature. After forming the squad and before start, squad members would be can to vote against 1-2 ppl (bad guys with bad reputations) for replacing. This is very important feature. Because of everyone will be able approve an assignment but not participate (sometimes even interfere).

P.S. It may be hard to realize 1-a and 3 paragraph. 1-b and 2 must be anyway.

Aye, back to an Eve system I guess tongue
I know tried and tested never fails big_smile

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

THIS DO NOT RE-INVENT THE WHEEL HERE!

This was basically my point, yes we like new ideas but what Eve (the basics now) does is perfect in a mission sense.

However Eve uses a instance based approach.  (Warping into a point in space, yes you can probe down the site and grief them, this is a GOOD thing.)

If the DEV's can come up with a way to incorporate this mission strat. into Perp they will have a successful mission system.  Having a "safe" place to mission to call your mission is a good thing, and as well having a way to kill and grief the missioners is a good thing as well.  As the trade off is it requires effort on the griefer.

Only thing that comes close in Perp is the distress beacons, but they haven't really tried to milk it's true potential. Great idea that has not been capitalized.

Merge distress beacons in an array of ways with different missions. Random beacons?

Aye, back to an Eve system I guess tongue
I know tried and tested never fails big_smile

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

THIS DO NOT RE-INVENT THE WHEEL HERE!

This was basically my point, yes we like new ideas but what Eve (the basics now) does is perfect in a mission sense.

However Eve uses a instance based approach.  (Warping into a point in space, yes you can probe down the site and grief them, this is a GOOD thing.)

If the DEV's can come up with a way to incorporate this mission strat. into Perp they will have a successful mission system.  Having a "safe" place to mission to call your mission is a good thing, and as well having a way to kill and grief the missioners is a good thing as well.  As the trade off is it requires effort on the griefer.

Been busy and this is 1st and only post I've read in thread. I've wondered long time if it could possible to have both instanced mission and way to grief that mission (insert drawbacks).

That said, having read nothing else

+1

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

THIS DO NOT RE-INVENT THE WHEEL HERE!

This was basically my point, yes we like new ideas but what Eve (the basics now) does is perfect in a mission sense.

However Eve uses a instance based approach.  (Warping into a point in space, yes you can probe down the site and grief them, this is a GOOD thing.)

If the DEV's can come up with a way to incorporate this mission strat. into Perp they will have a successful mission system.  Having a "safe" place to mission to call your mission is a good thing, and as well having a way to kill and grief the missioners is a good thing as well.  As the trade off is it requires effort on the griefer.