I know there's a lot of work going on with the missions in general, but I thought I'd note that some of the missions ask for some -really- silly things. Like for you to go buy some units of something from some far off station... when the station where you're taking the cargo sells the same product for less.

Maybe some checking so that it's asking for something the current station doesn't sell in bulk?

Also, there seems to be a lot of overlap in what stations have. Is this intentional?

Yeah, the trade mission harkens from an era when there were only 18 sectors. It will be revamped before release, never fear!

Also, yes, there is quite a bit of overlap in what stations sell. With over 100 stations, it doesn't really make sense for each of them to produce unique goods. You may notice that the various types of ores are for sale everywhere, but the prices vary quite a bit. Think of those commodities as being traded openly.

Well, I wouldn't expect 'unique' production, just more variance for things like the ores.. Well, I have to admit, I've only been to three systems so far, so that might be a factor. I'm going to start exploring a little more hardcore this weekend.

I look forward to the trade missions making more sense. :)

"Yes, we'd like you to go spend 18 credits on these two pieces of ore that cost us 14 credits down the hall.." "Uh, wait.." "You'll have to cross three wormholes and deal with hostile forces on the way.." "But.. Uh.." "We expect you to do it in six minutes." "..."

Speaking of which.. For the trade missions, will -any- cargo of the appropriate type qualify, or do you have to go get -that- cargo from -that- station?

'Cuz in some cases, it'd be more fun to go hunt a collector for it. :)

Maybe give a bonus for, say, getting Premium Aquean Ore, instead of just RunOfTheMill Aquean Ore, or something. (There is a difference, right? 'Cuz, uh, at a station that sells Aquean Ore for 7c, I can dump off what I got from a collector for a couple hundred.)

What you can do is say, fill your hold with aquean ore at a place that sells it, go to the iter (or something like that) system, go to armand's something (the left one on the map) and take the trade mission that tells you to go get aquean ore from soem station and bring it back. Just take that mission, undock, and redock. It told me I completed the mission in 0:37 :D, after that you go to the missions screen again and take the same mission, undock, and redock. Just keep doin this to grind trade :D

and trade missions need not take you over 3 sistumys .(yes, I did that knowingly)

more like, more then one kind, long ( longer, but more money) and short (faster!)

And please, when you redo the mission system, please please please allow us to take more than one mission at a time.

Hanshlomo: But you don't even have to get it from one place and go to another, much of the time. You can take the mission, -buy it there-, exit, redock. =p

be care that would be classed as an exploit and should be reported as a bug

but i may use it for now so i can erm ... check the higher lvl content sooner!!! ... erm yeah!
hehe

Heh heh, looks like octopusfluff and Hanshlomo found my trade mission exploit RelayeR made me delete!

But yeah, as Dmentia said, if you find an exploit (no matter how obvious it may seem): for the love of God don't post how to do it! Submit a bug report instead.