I really like the passenger missions on testbed. But one crucial part is missing. Mail Packets! Information was/is crucial and with the removal of the trader tool I see huge potential for it.
Suggestion:
Players can accept mail packets - missions. Those missions have a shorter duration than passenger mission to fullfil them. Reward is ofc reals/dbs and informations of contracts / buy sell prices of items and stock count. So actual informations that the tradertool was offering.
How data could look like:
Like the ship spotted notes
Or additional infos that get added to the player map and get deleted every server reset ( port info window)
But why not visite the ports yourself?
A mission grants infos for whole region.
Data is not real time. Its a picture of the moment as mission gets accepted. But doing a missions saves time (1 sail for whole region)