Or some survival stuff either waves or something else that is a challange. A long strike that just gets harder and harder. And some kind of ladder system for it, survived the longest or fastest time.

There should be an impossible patrol as well, just for shock value

My idea is multi-stage objectives within a single patrol mission. All those ether sups you just collected? Take them to an extraction point in another area if the map. And getting there shouldn't be as simple as drive sparrow from point a to point b. No you'll have to fight your way to the extraction point, secure it and defend it until the transport is away. By the way the fallen are kinda pissed you keep scavanging things they need to survive, so don't be surprised when they drop a fallen walker into your LZ to keep that transport from leaving. For those of you keeping score: That's a kill and collect mission A sweep and clear mission And a public even all rolled into one. Edit: Here is a similar idea: It starts with a public event such as the fallen walker. As soon as you and your fire team take down the walker, you have to move one of it's components, say it's power core, and move it to a destination across the map, an extraction point. The whole time defending it from opposing forces. Secure the LZ as before. Wait for the transport to take the core while defending the LZ. Better yet, you and your fire team will use the core as a bomb against a target. You'll move the bomb, while defending it. Except this time You'll be defending it not only against the fallen who want it back but also against the Hive because you're gonna use that core/bomb to take out one of their Seeders or underground nests. Now that I think about it the second one would work way better as a public event. Can't you imagine multiple fire teams working together to secure the objective against an onslaught of Fallen and Hive? I can and it sounds glorious. As I see it the problem with public events is they can be soloed and the reward for completing them isn't that great to be begin with. I've lost track of how many times I've soloed the fallen walker in the divide. Or extraction crews in the steppes. And why is band a of pikes even a public event? You get nothing from it other than hijacking a pike. The only reason I do the fallen walker so much is for the daily reward, (which usually turns into motes of lights or useless blue engrams I can't use) the handful of marks/rep and the ascendent materials. These are descent rewards but a pubic event should be just that, a huge public event. It should take multiple fireteams to take down a walker. To be fair I've never or rarely been able to solo "Eliminate the Target." They are massive bullet sponges. Even after my Hunter unleashes all four shots from the golden gun and all seven rockets from my rocket launcher, all I've managed to do is take out it's shields and maybe 1/8 to a 1/4 of it's health. And that's if it doesn't glitch teleport across the map. I honestly don't bother with the Target if I'm alone because I know I either won't do enough damage in time to stop it, or it will just glitch across the map jumping from 1 checkpoint to the last. (-blam!-ing bullshit I might add.) Give us harder patrols, or multi-objective patrols. Make public events more meaningful and in the process make them worth the time doing them. Edit number 2: Defend the warsat... From a fallen walker!