Since active hive sectors pop up on the map coloured, instead of having to go figure out which faction owns the mission and visiting that station I think you should be able to join that mission just by entering the sector

I had this idea yesterday when I was using small hive skirm sectors to test trident turret loadouts "hmm would be nice if it had joined me to the mission automatically..."

Requirements for autojoin:
-No active mission
-Minimum faction level for the faction that owns the mission

Maybe not join automatically but when you enter the sector you get a message like:

This sector is being defended from the Hive by <insert faction>. '/msg "<insert name>" join skirmish' to join in defeating the Hive menace.

Yea that works too. Either or, an easy way to join without finding the station would be great,

the missions in question were in latos and corvus owned but they cant be taken from m7 for whatever reason and you have to go to sedina to get them which is annoying

I think it would be better to keep the interface the same.

Missions should be accepted from the mission screen of the PDA. However a notification should be sent to the player via PM or some other method to inform them that a mission is available in the PDA.

+1 no brainer

+1 to having the option to join like this. Odia is another example of having to find out which of the three factions are defending.

+1

Deneb too?

+1 Great idea.

Yes +1

yes PLEASE! +1, it absolutely sucks to travel to Sedina for a skirmish in Latos

We're going to take a look at this. It's something I've kicked around before, but I want to try and make it pretty mobile/touch-UI friendly, which makes it a bit more complex than some of the ideas currently outlined.

But, we will take a look.

Why not just pop up the Mission update icon with some text saying there's a local mission available to take?
Mobile can tap the icon, and PC can just open the PDA.

Well, because we have to have UX defined for all input models (touch, mouse+kb, 10ft and VR), and check text-field overlap issues on different screen sizes and resolutions, and test the mechanics and everything else.

Doing any UI feature-add properly is not a "just".

make a /joinsectormission command that we old timers can type in in the short term while you work out all the UX corner cases in the background through various future updates

I get it. But doing half an implementation one time, and then another half an implementation another time, is often not a very time-effective way to build software.