Greetings, Just watched the recent ISC and while I am looking forward to more mission content I was sad to see that once again the mission feature team is completely unable to conceive and create a single new location or mission idea that doesn’t get turned in to combat mission or gets combat added to it. To me the constant combat focus on everything without cause to locations that make no sense are damaging the believability of the SC universe! Example – currently Orison is the ONLY Point of Interest on Crusader and we are all looking forward to many more PoI to visit. But what do we get as the first new Crusader PoIs? The four “Freedom Park” Orison platforms originally created for the ”Siege of Orison” event are separated in to four individual piece and are then “copy and pasted all over Crusader" (O-Tone CIG Missions Team) to become Orison Platform missions of the usual Kill all pirates / Kill person X mission locations. This is done so the SoO Freedom Park, which currently houses these exterminate all / kill person X Orison Platform missions, isn’t blocked by these missions taking place at the same location. While I understand why CIG does the “copy and paste” to get new locations for the Orision Platform Missions – it also shows an inherent problem with CIGs current location and mission design. Most of SCs PoI locations are not created to be believable locations that make sense in the greater picture of the Star Citizen universe. Locations are not build to make sense first and have missions take place there second. But most locations outside of cities are created as a mission location only! This approach has ramifications to SCs believability. If a location has no connection to the universe at large, it feels fake. So when CIG “copy and paste” the four Freedom Park platforms – this means that in universe ALL locations on Crusader aside Orison are contested locations that get constantly attacked by Nine-Tail Pirates! Why and how Crusader Security or the UEE even allowed 9-Tails to become such a security problem so they can harass Crusader on a permanent basis – we don’t know. It’s not explained at all. The new Under Ground Facilities also are not build with the SC universe economy in mind, so that e.g. Hurston did build a number of these giant locations to harvest the planets deeper resources or as weapons test and production facilities. From what the mission feature team said about these new UGFs they are merly being build to be the pendant of any other MMOs dungeons / raid locations. CIG you got it all backwards! If the SC universe is to be believable, you HAVE to think about WHY a location exists in the SC universe FIRST and THEN think about what type of missions can take place there! So if you have these new Orison Mission Platforms – you need to ask: why do the 9-Tails want to take control? Does the platform under attack house important Cursader production facilities? Is there research lab for new prototypes? Is it a holiday resort location and 9-Tails take the resort visitor’s hostage to demand a ransom? If it’s pure terrorism explain why 9-Tails act like this. Which then needs you to explain why none of the four planets security companies AND the UEE do not hunt down 9-Tails on the spot and also explain why GrimHEX still exists! Same goes for the new UGF: why does that UGF exist at the spot it sits at and what does it hold that triggers a 9-Tails attack? This can be extended to all of SC – take the new “barge mission” – if these barges get attacked at regular – why are there no fighter escorts? Why is there no heavy security stationed on the barge? Why are the codes on the barge? As talked about in ISC that barge location makes no sense! THAT is the problem with CIGs current mission setup – they are pure gameplay content with not a single thought given to why it even exists, what it holds or produces and why 9-Tail attacks do happen. So if CIG wants that “realistic” and “believable” universe, they need to stop building theme park mission locations and switch over to building realistic locations within the universes own lore! Think about this when you build a HD UGF: why is it there and what does it produce? Suddenly if you add aUGF mining location there could be player missions to help with the mining operation, hope in to a ROC and mine away! There can be maintenance missions to repair damaged machinery. There can be player missions to haul mined raw ore to a refinery. Which has a follow up to collect the refined ore. If that UGF is a production facility there can be player missions to haul needed materials to them. There can be hauling missions to deliver the produced products to another UGFs, LEO station cargo deck, or even end user city shops. Maybe the location is a research lab so there could be a espionage mission taking place there such as the 2019 MT heist mission and you need to steal blueprints or even a prototype. The other mentioned mission type can also apply to that lab, haul needed materials, haul produced product, aid in work done at that location. Noticed something? I just listed a ton of possible mission content – and it had no combat in it! I know you can do better CIG! So please - do better! Enough with the combat focus. Enough with locations that purely exist to have a location a mission can take place at! Do what you set out to do and build that "blievable" universe and stop turning SC in to Disney Land! As always, keep it civil in the comments Tldr; A mission focused ISC once again was full of combat only. It really saddens me how SC locations are not build to make sense in the verse, but get build as mission locations only. The mission feature team once again showed to us how they can only come up with and talk about combat! CIG enough! Please stop building theme park locations! Stop to apply combat to everything! Start to build locations that make sense! Then see what mission types can take place at e.g. a HD mining operation. Since currently you seem to think about the mission first, then you build the location. That’s okay if you want Disney Land Theme Park content! It’s not ok if you want to build a believable realistic universe! Regards HkS73