Seriously, something besides escort missions. Pirate seek and destroy, scouting invasion forces, anything! Make it high risk and high pay so combat pilots can actually make some frigging money without having the trade all the time.

It would be cool if, as suggested before, NPCs could tell you when and where they last saw a specific person/NPC. Then, there could be a mission that generates an NPC at a random station, and your mission could be to hunt it down. This would be really hard, but could be fun. To help, you could get a message at the start of the mission saying what station the NPC started at, so you have somewhere to pick up the trail.

On the other hand, you could do this already with just players. Get some people together and set up your own combat scenario that isn't a duel.

Or, you could enter the PCC (Player Contribution Corps) and make your own, hoping that they'll be accepted.

How do I do that? I will seriously create my own missions, if I'm given the chance.

I made two new missions yesterday, which should be appearing soon. There's like over 200 other missions that are apparently in the works by other PCC members. They've submitted a couple of new ones, but I haven't had a chance to test them yet. We're trying to flesh things out, really.

I hope my essay was satisfactory.