What steps are being taken within Cloud Imperium to prevent missions like 'go there, shoot somebody, come back', the problems that modern MMOs are facing, to keep things interesting story- and mission-wise?asked by Schism

So basically you're saying the boring grinding missions that you get in most MMOs. So I guess several things. First of all, my personal opinion, whenever I've tried to play a lot of MMOs, I hate it when it's very basic grinding, because I feel like I'm doing busy work. So it should be kind of the same way that, say, Privateer or Freelancer felt in a lot of ways, where it was kind of fun even to do basic missions. But we have a really big focus on a combination of: in the big world, there's going to be a lot of sort of player-generated action and intrigue. And then also the economy itself, in terms of how the worlds and the systems work, they're generating sort of missions. So if you're a player going around, you can sort of do missions that are basically something you'd be interested in. So if you're someone that wants to be a trader, you can go and be taking goods from one planet to another planet. If you're someone that wants to be doing combat, then you can be taking on missions where you've got to hunt someone down, you've got to fly protection for someone. So generally, the missions should be getting generated by the world and the economy and the other players. And I'm hoping that will be more interesting. I mean, obviously you will have to play it to see it, but generally I don't want busy work. Like, I hate the MMOs where you go out there and you're literally killing low-level creatures and you've got to do it again and again and again, and then maybe you can get a really crappy sword. So that is something we will definitely not have in Star Citizen.