How would the missions where you buy a cheap ship, deliver supplies to somewhere else, deliver a dead drop, deploy a spysat and smuggle items work ? Its not like they can just teleport those things to your fleet from light years away.
In that way, isn't calling a remote captain to do the delivery sounds reasonable? Since most delivery mission from contacts don't offer you the goods and you need to purchase it on your own. It's a stellar era, so I think communicating somewhere with a comm. relay is enough to explain this.
This give me a thought that maybe the mission from the contacts can be marked legal or illegal. For the legal part, feel free to communicate through the lines, you are just talkibg about a business; for the illegal(or something seem to require dedacted, like deploying spy sats.), a face to face meeting is required.
P.S It would be great to know that some ships are on sale, come on, it's a sale. Advertising it to the potential customers is quite reasonable. If I know someone is putting a ship I like on sale, paying it first remotely and later grab the ship on storage dock is quite fancinating to me.
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Topic: Contacts should really, really be reachable from a distance (Read 1278 times)