For the longest time I have been wondering why there are no "Collect" missions. A Collect mission would in a sense be the opposite of a "Transport" mission. Instead of transporting from one location to another, one would fly from one location to another and collect what one wants to collect and then fly back (only between own locations). One could also call it a sort "self-attack" or "self-loot" but without fighting the defense.

It could save some trouble if you don't want fleet on that particular location, but resources happens to be there. So instead of "Deploying" from location A to B and then "Deploy" back to A, then one could simply just "Collect"

I would like to add, that just like a transport mission one can chose exactly what to pick up at the "collection" site, providing that the resources are there ofc.

So one might send some HC from a moon to some form of a "main planet", where resources are kept safe behind a huge def and decide to pick up 2 mil meth, 4 mil cry and 2 mil deut, that is needed for the Jump Gate.

The point here is that one can specify exactly what to pick up, unlike an "attack" mission.

OR if nothing is selected, one would simply pick up what one can.