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External Missions
Allow players to /hail npcs where a certain subset have a given mission available to offer a player.
Similar to how the marshal can provide prompts and interact with a player, these npcs would have certain basic type hardcoded missions (or maybe even more complex ones) available to offer certain qualified players if they happen to be hailed. They could be offers to join them on a botting run, escort them to a station, mine a roid with them, etc.
The benefits are two fold, it gives a more immersive feel to taking missions since you're dealing directly with another "pilot" to initiate the mission and complete it and it gives new players a way to get help in certain situations where they may not have another human player to do certain activities with them yet.
the general exchange would go like this, but the responses would catch a number of affirmative or negative player responses so it's flexible.
/hail "NPC ship"
<NPC ship> Hey there "player name", would you like to give me a hand destroying some hive bots?
yes
<NPC ship> Great, i'm transmitting the necessary data to your ship's computer.
Mission button pops up indicating new mission prompt in your PDA and gives necessary details etc.
Similar to how the marshal can provide prompts and interact with a player, these npcs would have certain basic type hardcoded missions (or maybe even more complex ones) available to offer certain qualified players if they happen to be hailed. They could be offers to join them on a botting run, escort them to a station, mine a roid with them, etc.
The benefits are two fold, it gives a more immersive feel to taking missions since you're dealing directly with another "pilot" to initiate the mission and complete it and it gives new players a way to get help in certain situations where they may not have another human player to do certain activities with them yet.
the general exchange would go like this, but the responses would catch a number of affirmative or negative player responses so it's flexible.
/hail "NPC ship"
<NPC ship> Hey there "player name", would you like to give me a hand destroying some hive bots?
yes
<NPC ship> Great, i'm transmitting the necessary data to your ship's computer.
Mission button pops up indicating new mission prompt in your PDA and gives necessary details etc.
+1, but I'm pretty sure this is one of those things they're already intending to do.
+1 I could not agree more with the need for a more immersive mission system.
+1 and agreed. Would like to see this for sure.