Something I've been wondering.

With the state of the game as of now, is there a substantial benefit to still having Security Chief missions?

Do they provide a useful function for new players? Or old, or returning players? Would anyone miss them if they're gone?

I was pondering this as I scoured Founders Falls for 40 Crey, which is as many as four tens. I did not manage to come up with an answer.

If they really want to make money from Freedom, they'll have an (expensive) option to remove the security chief missions. They'll make a mint.

They are there so you'll drop them and then not be able to drop the mission you really want to drop.

I think this is why they've revamped the lower level content. Have you tried playing through the beta yet?

Don't worry, security chief introductions have been removed.

The only benefit I can think of to running Security Chief missions is that you can't skip them so you HAVE to run them if you want access to any of the older story arcs.

If you're talking about a benefit to the actual game, then no, they don't have one. They never have. From he beginning of time, Security Chief missions have been a waste of time, a forced kludge to twist people's arms to explore the zones and in so doing fill the standard MMO quota of "Kill X number of Y in area Z." These things were outdated and deprecated from the moment they were first put into the game, and these days serve only to waste a mission drop, and to piss you off when you accidentally drop the "Talk to Security Chief" part and then can't drop the hunt.

If Security Chief missions disappeared one night while I was sleeping, I will not miss them one bit.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I've left whole contacts behind because they were offering Security Chief missions. I don't care if they have their whole story arc to offer yet, I'll leave them behind and go to a new contact and not waste my mission drop. If I really want that story arc, that's what Ouroborus is for.

They should remove the “Talk to Security Chief” missions from the regular contacts & repurpose the Security Chiefs to be like Meg Mason & Borea, giving an endless choice of one hunting mission & one indoor mission.

Players who enjoy doing hunting missions would still have the option of doing them & players who don’t like them can avoid it.

Perhaps it could even be used as an alternative to the Newspaper/Police Radio missions & give you the option of choosing a new contact after completing a number of missions.

I like hunting missions. Outside of the Peregrine ones, never understood the big distaste for them.

Considering what they just did to Atlas Park and Galaxy City, I see no justifiable reason why the Security Chief should be exempt from a revamp. It's been a pointless annoyance since the dawn of the game. IMO, it's only reason for existence was to pad out the game content at a time when content was thin and street-sweeping was imagined to be the most important source of XP instead of the least important.

Down with the Security Chief!