What about lower level combat missions on beta that are - kill a specific npc?

Also, this is maybe a bit of a radical idea but what about some kind of dynamic mission reward pricing?
Each mission from each location would have a payout associated with it.
As more people do the mission (from that location) the payout would decrease.

Specifically, the payout could be a function of n/N
where 'n' is the number of times this mission was completed in the last month and 'N' is the number of completed missions of that level in the last month.

This way the total pay rate of missions of each level could be controlled but the attractiveness of a particular mission at a particular location would be balanced by a market-like system.

*edit: Off topic. - DEV Zoom

Actually if the L6 mission is to kill an observer, the observer should drop considerably better loot then they normally do

P.S.

Hope your chicken coop leaks

I'd like to see rare, named Artifacts over the entire spectrum. Named Salvage to named Observer.

The Devs can't script ATM so the only way to do it would be to make them static spawns. This leaves them open to abuse so I would give them fast respawns and make shooting them give you a pvp flag if it's not your mission.

I would also like them to tweak the squad coding so that entering a mission puts you in a hostile squad with the rats showing you where they are on the radar and their health.

I can't be arsed to type it all again so here's what I and a few others said about it after the Assignment II blog came out some time ago.

Some good ideas in there, I thought.

http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … -thoughts/

Ville: I'm kinda confused, Ludlow's link is pretty on topic, maybe you should clarify your OP if you think otherwise.

Its not really that the missions are boring, I mean they are, but I think any form of mission is inherently boring.

Problem is when someone want to do something specific then gets the choice to degrade relation or do something they don't want to do, or are not interested in.  The mission system lost its ability to be a farming enhancement and is now a random content generator that includes things people don't want when selecting that type of mission. Im thinking artifacting in combat, scanning in the industry, ect.

Part of my lack of motivation on doing any form of mission is that I had a relatively high relation with certain factions...that was averaged out with sub npc corps that were not the role or function of those accounts, and now if I want to do missions I need to go back to alpha 1 to regrind relation. Not only that but I cant even tack on a mission when I go mining an ore I need, or farm a spawn I need...it tells me where im going and what im doing.

Im not sure people will like little mini linear quests in a game like this.  If you add those make them a separate category.  Give us some missions that enhance a preplanned farming mission, be it ore farming, mob farming, industry....oh and transport...people want drive across nia not dodge mob spawns in haulers.