Personally, I want to see better bounty hunting. What we have now are just kill missions and there's not much finesse to it.

I want to have to track my prey down to somewhere inside a bustling city or outpost, or find where they're hiding in an abandoned asteroid mining facility. Missions should go through several stages, where we have to track down and interrogate outlaws that might know where our target is. I'd also like to see apprehension missions be worth a lot more than kill missions.

I think there's a lot they can still do with this profession!

I like playing pretty much all game mechanics, but I know I'm going to get most of my money from Trading, so that's what I'm looking forward to the most.

Unfortunately, we won't get a real taste of trading until CIG adds multiple other solar systems. True space trucking across multiple systems is going to be a lot of fun.

Engineering is missing from this list. It may not be what I'm looking forward to most, but it's still going to be a pretty important part of the game!

If it turns out anything like what the brief details, it should add a lot of depth to the game: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/12936-Engineering-Ship-Components-Systems

I'm all about medical!

What we have now is a huge step forward from before, but there are so many parts of medical gameplay that we haven't even scratched the surface of. I hope CIG does it justice!

Racing needs some love. It's nice to see them actually working on it again, but I'm not sure if they realize how much the players love to race.

They need to just give us the ability to create our own waypoints. The players will make the racing content for them!

Obviously we want to see exploration. It's hard to even really grasp what exactly CIG is going to do for it. We've seen a few concept renders and things for how the exploration scanning is going to work, but I feel like there's a ton of content that will need to be made to make it interesting. Lots of derelect ships and station, points of interest on planets, and unique content that make players feel like they're finding something new. I really hope they can pull it off.

VR. I stopped playing Elite after Odyssey and I'm hoping that CIG puts in proper VR support.

Not a major game mechanic per-se, but I'm looking forward to a better contract system. All of these professions will be great, but without the ability for players to contract other players, they all fall short. Imagine a mining captain issuing a contract for players and they automatically get paid out a set amount for the work they put in. That system is going to really improve the game!

The guy with the mustache and dungarees.

More than anything, I just want fleet battles.

Look at a game like EVE. It is what it is today because of the political struggles and the wars between major factions. I don't expect SC to get close to that, but fleet battles should be enough to keep the Orgs fighting and grinding.