Correct it does revolve around efficiency , and doing it all yourself is more time consuming, this would be a cheaper option for missiongivers (as they need to do most of the logistics and searching) , than just placing buy orders. Feel free to make a new thread with these posts, maybe somewhat off topic, sorry.

If you think players don't need items, which i think it's incorrect like e.g why are there buy orders ingame, then this is a more underlying problem with the game, not this idea. There is no 'goodwill' involved just players looking for a cheaper more enticing option than just placing buy orders.

Its not about by passing market fees, you could add assignment creation fee as a NIC sink if needed. Its cheaper for the simple reason the mission giver is doing 30% (or whatever %) of the work with the hauling and finding the right spot for the resource required.

Let put it this way, a player wants to make NIC filling up buy orders, but has to find that resources, haul it back to station and all that. With player made missions he can just accept X mission for lets say 100 hero kernels , it will indicate the exact spot to farm them given by the mission giver upon mission creation, once he places the kernals on the mission container he gets the reward, he should get less than the buy orders, but that all depends on a player driven economy.

That's a population problem, valuable stuff has a price no matter how high, but there are so little players right now no one is willing to pay enough, because they can get it themselves because we are all bitter vets with our 3-5 accounts. But was was hoping this to change with steam.

Can work just as well, why not?. I know it competes with the market, but it does create more options for both the mission creator (gets cheaper stuff but has more work involved) and missioner has less walking around to do, but gets less reward than just selling the stuff., The option to use the market is still there. What it does well is it helps solo and specially new players who don't really know what to do or where to find those kernals / ores to fill out that X buy order. This won't fix NPC assignments, it will just add another layer to the new system.

Missed your last reply. Good thing you are thinking about this idea , great addition to the mission overhaul, which will help new players find a direction in game even if they would like to run solo.

Sometimes is hard for new players to find good direction/goal in game where there is loads of stuff to choose from specially if you are not used or played a sandbox game before.

Dispenser buildings also sound like great stuff and can't wait to see it happen after Steam release.

Yes transport containers are fine, and it does not replace it. If you are talking about the private assignments those are transports between terminals. These are from 'farming fields' to terminals or just farm and some one will come to collect and you get your cut.

The market is kind off dead too, I would leave that due to lack of players and the private assignments are really hidden in a corner tab. Not many new player know it exists.

Edit: There also seems lacking some features like corp transports or to assign to a specific player or corp.

Could come in handy to any corp leader to give some ready made assignment missions in corp as well as for the public.