Accessible from every outpost a quest board to receive various tasks to help break up the tedious nature of the grind.
Things like hunting specific species for a family's dinner, taking pictures of a certain creature for a nature documentary, possibly tracking and tranquilizing a target with a disease for study.
Quests can refresh in the board every few in game hours and add a fair bit of exp and cash for completion.
Can even have holiday based quests like a flood of turkey hunting requests for thanks giving.
Just spit balling some ideas off the top of my head, the more the merrier I say.