Would it be possible to have more than 1 mission running at a time? For example, with Trade missions that end at the same station, it would be useful to be able to take both missions and double your profit.

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You could always load up on regular commodities and still make a profit.

Yeah, but there's something so satisfying of taking one mission, then another and another, and delivering them all on time to reap a healthy profit.

Hmm, this sounds like it could get complicated. Could you take multiple combat missions? What if both missions required that you kill the same ships? I can't think of any really complicated examples, but this type of feature sounds like there would be plenty of corner-cases, expecially as more mission types are added.

That said, I do like the idea. It would allow for more variety in missions and would be more realistic (we're going for realism in this game, right? ;). Just the other day I was thinking it would be convenient to have a couple of prospecting scanners at the same time.

Keep it in mind Guild, but don't rush into it.

They were thinking more along the lines of trade missions.
Often there are 2 missions at the same station that want you to either
A) take cargo to the same place
or
B) one wants you to deliver cargo and the second wants you to bring back cargo, once again from the same place.

It would be nice to be able to take both of them at the same time.

Or be able to take a combat mission and a trade mission at the same time so you don't have to stop the combat mission if you want a little variety. The only exceptions would be the license tests, where you'd HAVE to stop the current combat mission to be able to level up.