Infiltrate Megaship Data Link mission not completed?
- Thread starter demoncard09
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may be some sort of instancing issue? have your tried relogging or restarting the game to have any effect?
When I first started doing these mission last year it was not uncommon for close to half of them failing.
After you scan the ship log uplink you should get two messages in your inbox. If you only get one message then the game thinks you have not completed the mission and when you get back to the mission provider you cannot turn the mission in since even though you successfully scanned the link the game thinks you did not.
No amount of relogging, jumping out of the system and back in, closing the game to desktop and restarting will reset the game so you can scan the ship log uplink again. Trying to scan the uplink again just gives you a message that you have already scanned the uplink.
Just abandon the mission and move on.
This has not been as bad the last three months as it was last year, but it will still happen.
After you scan the ship log uplink you should get two messages in your inbox. If you only get one message then the game thinks you have not completed the mission and when you get back to the mission provider you cannot turn the mission in since even though you successfully scanned the link the game thinks you did not.
No amount of relogging, jumping out of the system and back in, closing the game to desktop and restarting will reset the game so you can scan the ship log uplink again. Trying to scan the uplink again just gives you a message that you have already scanned the uplink.
Just abandon the mission and move on.
This has not been as bad the last three months as it was last year, but it will still happen.
This is sadly one of the longest lasting bugs in Elite. Been there since the very first day (or not that far off atleast).
You can finish this mission by scanning another random megaship nearby. Though, in many cases, this is simply not doable, and cancelling is only option.
FD doesn't care, or aren't capable of fixing this
You can finish this mission by scanning another random megaship nearby. Though, in many cases, this is simply not doable, and cancelling is only option.
FD doesn't care, or aren't capable of fixing this
This is a very long-standing bug.
UPDATE - Seems finally fixed in update patch 16.01 YAY..!!!!
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I wouldn't be surprised if it's on purpose, that large offer of such missions, just to trick the players. The game is full of such ugly tricks.
I learned to take only one such a mission, from time to time when I need reputation. Then it usually goes well. You should be careful to not take missions for same megaship in the same week, between two weekly ticks.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's on purpose, that large offer of such missions, just to trick the players. The game is full of such ugly tricks.
I'm grinding Fed rank for my second commander right now. I did one of these a couple days ago, and it wasn't any better than the regular data delivery missions I'm doing. They also take longer, making them pretty much useless for superpower reputation. I can't imagine they're much better for faction reputation, so I totally ignore them now.
I've also been working on my Fed rep, and the infiltrate the megaship datalink mission is hopelessly broken. You can only scan the uplink of any megaship once - ever. Also, the only mission of this type being offered at Ceos-Sothis is for the same ship - all missions at all 7 stations.
Not once ever, it resets after a few weeks. By which time the megaship will have probably moved systems.
Yeah, read the bug. I can scan the log. It's the correct ship. All occurred in less than 20 minutes.