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Wild,


Wow. You're usually not so succinct.

B

Dude, thats awesome!

/sign

Originally, with help from the blasted submit bug, I decided not to post this proposal. I was wondering what good it would really do to the hide market as it currently exists, but you've goaded me to it Delta good Job!

This is the result of a poll I put up in the ranger forum. I'm sure the results for scouts would be pretty close too.

For the most part people seem to be ignoring the terminals. Either they don't pay in a decent ratio (as per the 8 destroys :1 explorer = 24k:22k) or they just ask for things that are darned near impossible to find. I'm wondering therefore whether we could petition the devs to look into making these terminals a little more worthwhile. Maybe rather then telling us to just go and kill 45 of a critter it could ask us to go harvest 1k units of a certain type of harvest.

Wouldn't it be nice if it asked you to go out and collect 1k units of herbivore meat? It's something we acutally do, and its closer to what the artisans do with their survey missions. In the very least it would cover our travel expenses when we have to spend 3-4k just to get to and from some of the more remote planets. And even if we can't sell it for a really good price we could use it to send more practice quality harvests into the system while still covering our expenses. (It also would help scouts get a handle on what types of creatures carry what as they'd need to experiment on a variety of creatures.)

I guess my biggest concern would be too many resources entering the system suddenly, thus devaluing our current prices. I just think these terminals are underused and could be better utilized.

There ya go Delta! see what you made me do!

-WB

I have to agree that it doesnt seem very worthwhil to take explorer missions.
How do you guys think the new /track and /scanara will effect their worth?
I think, perhaps, the payout should be raised or maybe they should let us
get explorer missions that have strange or more rare creatures. If they
lowered the amount needed to say, 5 or even 1 depending on the creature I think
that would be a lot more fun.

Example:

Explorer mission is to find 2 Peko Peko Albatrosses... for say, 25k.
I think this would be more of an explorer mission than 'go get me 45 durnis'.

What do you guys think?

PS I like your ideas too, Wild. Definitely something different that the destroy
missions!