Assignments are alot better now from the old ones only problem is that rewards needs to be balanced
some higher some way lower like some (special) mission on lvl 1 gives u around 750k nic and lvl 2-4 gives u maybe 3-500k   

I think alot morre assignments are needed to so it does not get so repetetive
Some missions seems to be picked morre offen than the other "rare" ones

Another thing is that progression might be to fast?   From lvl 0 to lvl 6 took me only 2 days of work
Even tho this isnt nessesarly a bad thing i think it might be to fast for newer players.

I like the idea off instances.   But what if u make a iland whit some sort of faction fortress? that will randomly conect to any iland in the game exsept alpha.    Like wormholes in eve

have artifact scanning be the way to find a  Aincent teleport witch conects to the fortress iland  the teleport wuld have a masking value were its not to easy to find by random ppl but still a chanse.
Make it even have multiple diffrent conections  to other iland at the same time  and diffrent starting points on the fortress.

Maybe have those black bots or some other bots/mods drop from these complex/fortress ilands?
Black bot 10% chanse of a black bot loot and maybe alitle higher chanse of some t4+ or t5 loots? )

Not sure if i got the last part out of my head right but i tried

-squadmissions needed(make rewarding to any squadmembers to do it)

-more missions a bit

-you can accept it somewhere in the islands not needed to go back every time to the main terminals

-balancing, Beta is need more reward, level 5 more reward so on

I was surprised to see in Gamma Wipe thread that Zoom mentioned stage two of mission revamp comes AFTER Steam. I thought that was the main delay in launching on Steam. Not that I want to see Steam delayed but isn't the mission content one of the biggest gripes from new players? I like new mission ideas. I just hope awesome mission engine doesn't miss the boat.