Even if its only a message area where we can say "hey, I'll pay this much for so many of this thing". I feel like this will encourage player interaction and give newer players more direction and help them learn about what might be profitable. This might give them a better experience than just grinding for pittance* and license.

*pittance in comparison to, say, the payout of a good escort mission

A Global, Guild, System, Sector BBS System would solve that.

Yes, the concept of player-created missions was actually built in from the early days, and is a critical component of my goals for player-owned stations.

psst we've had player owned stations for 6 years (yea it's been that long)

I think he means something where someone can leave a communication to other pilots.

Like a list table with
[ Poster Username | Job | Payment on Event | Details ]
[ Blaqk | Trade | 500,000c Deliver 200x Plasteel to Bractus M-14 | yarr free station keys]
[ Blaqk | Combat | 10,000,000c Destroy "CrazySpence" | yarr kill cs please ]

psst we've had player owned stations for 6 years (yea it's been that long)

The conquerable station testbed is not what I'm talking about. But I think you knew that.

Indeed, testbed for 6 years bro

psst if you release a trivial feature we all like we tend to quiet down for a few months, my personal suggestion would be a test bed conquerable station in deneb *prod prod*

We just had one of those, CS. Now quiet down for a few months. ;)

I haven't needed m7 for several years and I'm not serco so the border turrets don't mean anything so I'll keep Rollin

Illustrated or not (screw you too whomever :P), my prior point stands. There is no way this feature will not involve a constant stream of inappropriate "missions" unless there's an extremely limiting interface where your ability to enter free text is basically nil.

I envisioned this probably starting as a way to request delivery of items to a station, offering a given rate of payment, and automatically maintain certain quotas and stuff. So, yeah, pretty limited interface, not much opportunity for inappropriate stuff.

Hello, <pilot>. An order has been placed for the following:

Fresh Flowers
Dau Wine
Verasi Specialty Foods
Sedina Chocolates
Corvus Textiles
Synthetic Hydrocarbons
Thrust Regulators
Surveillance Equipment
Pilot Safety Harness
Life Support System
Unassembled Cargo Crates
Waste Treatment Chemicals
Verasi Koffee


(I'm not saying this is a bad thing. Players trying to tell possibly raunchy stories via shipping manifests would be hilarious.)

Trade guild
Local trading
Items requested(list items players prices?)

Maybe...

Player created contracts asking to haul goods from one station to another. Would be cool to see that added in conjunction with the player owned stations. You'd see contracts issued to deliver goods to the POS for construction. Collateral costs to accept the contract ala Eve Online to insure the cargo should a malfunction occur in transit. ;)

I'd like to see player posted missions well before player owned stations.

+.8

Loooool rin.