Ok Missions seem really cool - Hey Look Everyones Yellow! A personal fav of mine. But other than that and a mutual takeoff runway and time (which varies by your machine speed and lag anyway) whats the point? This is why with dozens of people on a team mission planners often go begging for pilots. Now missions we all know are great fun, why not make them useful too to draw more people to them. Why not take all of the perks scored in a mission and award them to all of the players who accepted that mission, whether or not they survived. Thus the lonely goon pilot or the M3 driver or even the OSty guy would all benefit from joining the mission as well as the poor buff who was shot down on way. You can water it down some, say you get your normal perks plus a portion of everyone elses, but even that is a great motivator for missions. You could also do this with Squads, but since everyone joins a squad anyway theres not as much reason to promote that with a bonus.
