Currently being grouped locks out any except a few select combat missions. While this makes sense for other missions which are meant to be done solo, it is nothing but an annoyance in manufacturing missions. People often group together when manufacturing/hauling, and it's pretty annoying to have to leave group and rejoin every time you want to manufacture. In fact, manufacturing missions should be group-oriented, so multiple people can fulfil requirements for the mission. This is useful in the very common case of multiple people building a major capship part such as an EHA or an EPA together, where instead of dropping every part to the final manufacturer they can just group and individually fill the requirements from their inventories.

Therefore, suggestion is to
a) allow manufacturing missions as existing to be taken while in a group
b) in the future allow multiple people to fulfil requirements for a manufacturing mission while grouped, as in hive skirmishes or other group-oriented missions.

yea everyone loses protection from my glorious mine fields if ii gotta de group

Love both ideas

It's an interesting idea, but it may not be trivial to implement. There are a lot of assumptions around the current mission structure that are based on the idea of a single character.

Group Missions effectively use a completely different system.

Anyway, it's something we'll think about and look into.

This change might get me to start manufacturing a bit if it happens

Not only do i think this is super cool, i also have one more request if we are updateing manu missions. Rather than manuing one item at a time when you need like 80 rn, make the manu mission have a input allowing you to set how many you want, allong with a max. Kinda like the buy and buy all options when buying weapoms or commodities. So rather than spamming mission for 5 min, we do one mission.

or maybe make some kind of manu menu? also less missions in the list