Horizons I don't understand this game or its missions. At all.

Shaimou

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- ''Help! One of our pilots is down and we need someone to extract him!'' - LTT 9796 Jet Universal Corp
- Allright! Lets do a rescue operation!
- I find a crash site of a ship. Instead of that one escape pod, there are like 7 of them for some reason.
- It is guarded by a few sentries and its a restricted area. Why? Is rescuing people a criminal offense somehow?
- I don't care, I destroy the sentries.
- The sentries were owned by Workers Of Orang Future, and I receive a 750CR bounty for assaulting and destroying them.
- Meanwhile, the same very organization that owned the sentries and placed a bounty on me for assaulting them, pays 1000CR each for destroying them since they were wanted.

Can someone please explain how any of this makes sense?
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
Lol.

Last night I took a similar escape pod rescue mission. Needed to rescue 2 escape pods. Took off from the base and literally the first signal I land at like 5km from the base is the crash. (Guess they couldn't just walk over the hill and pick up these guys). There are 4 escape pods, thankfully unguarded. I pick up two. "Cargo Bay Full!" I hear the computer say. Hmm. Well, I was only *supposed* to pick up two.... 'Sorry, suckers!' I yell as I turn the SRV around and head back to my ship....

So I headed back, leaving the other two to their fate. Then I flew 5km back to base and turned the mission in. Felt good to be a hero. :)
 

who?

who?
LTT 9796 Jet Universal Corp hired you to find one of their pilots. Unbeknownst to them, he was running a sly side-business smuggling illegal immigrants into the system. The dastardly Workers Of Orang Future got wind of this lone wolf pilot muscling in on their territory, and had him shot down, with 7 illegal passengers on board. He skilfully managed to crash land on the surface of a planet though, so they sent a "cleanup" squad to remove the evidence.

You interrupted them before they'd finished, and by opening fire on the cleanup droids you rightfully incurred a bounty - I'm guessing you may have fired on one before checking if it had a bounty? When you arrived at the station, you were lucky enough to come across a bored, underpaid Workers Of Orang Future clerk who pushed through the documentation and payment without ever checking with the centralised bounty system to see who the bounty was for.

Simples. :) (I enjoy this game more when I fill in the gaps myself).
 

Lowievisser

Lowievisser
Shaimou said:
- ''Help! One of our pilots is down and we need someone to extract him!'' - LTT 9796 Jet Universal Corp
- Allright! Lets do a rescue operation!
- I find a crash site of a ship. Instead of that one escape pod, there are like 7 of them for some reason.
- It is guarded by a few sentries and its a restricted area. Why? Is rescuing people a criminal offense somehow?
- I don't care, I destroy the sentries.
- The sentries were owned by Workers Of Orang Future, and I receive a 750CR bounty for assaulting and destroying them.
- Meanwhile, the same very organization that owned the sentries and placed a bounty on me for assaulting them, pays 1000CR each for destroying them since they were wanted.

Can someone please explain how any of this makes sense?
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i dunno m8, i just hope next mission "overhaul" is really a overhaul.

my mind just dont have enough imigination to have fun with the missions. Its like all the mission givers are on xtc and you always lucky to find the stuff you need on a 2500km radius planet within 10min and without going to the right direction. atleast give me last seen heading east or so
 
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thenickmove

thenickmove
Jenner said:
Lol.

Last night I took a similar escape pod rescue mission. Needed to rescue 2 escape pods. Took off from the base and literally the first signal I land at like 5km from the base is the crash. (Guess they couldn't just walk over the hill and pick up these guys). There are 4 escape pods, thankfully unguarded. I pick up two. "Cargo Bay Full!" I hear the computer say. Hmm. Well, I was only *supposed* to pick up two.... 'Sorry, suckers!' I yell as I turn the SRV around and head back to my ship....

So I headed back, leaving the other two to their fate. Then I flew 5km back to base and turned the mission in. Felt good to be a hero. :)
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How did you find those signals? By driving or flying? If flying, were you close to the surface? I can't seem to find anything :(
 

Cosmo

Cosmo
Lowievisser said:
i dunno m8, i just hope next mission "overhaul" is really a overhaul.

my mind just dont have enough imigination to have fun with the missions. Its like all the mission givers are on xtc and you always lucky to find the stuff you need on a 2500km radius planet. atleast give me last seen heading east or so
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The missions are still a dull grind fest. Rewards ought to be higher to make it worthwhile.

Where's the multiplayer missions? Staple content for an MMO.
 
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deMangler

deMangler
There should be a mega-thread on how ridiculous the mission system is. Like the Solo vs Open vs Group thread. At least it would be some acknowledgement of the issue.
I used my imagination to fill in the gaps and had loads of fun in the original Elite and the sequels. But it just simply requires too much brain bending to do in ED.
 

sensai25

sensai25
Shaimou said:
- ''Help! One of our pilots is down and we need someone to extract him!'' - LTT 9796 Jet Universal Corp
- Allright! Lets do a rescue operation!
- I find a crash site of a ship. Instead of that one escape pod, there are like 7 of them for some reason.
- It is guarded by a few sentries and its a restricted area. Why? Is rescuing people a criminal offense somehow?
- I don't care, I destroy the sentries.
- The sentries were owned by Workers Of Orang Future, and I receive a 750CR bounty for assaulting and destroying them.
- Meanwhile, the same very organization that owned the sentries and placed a bounty on me for assaulting them, pays 1000CR each for destroying them since they were wanted.

Can someone please explain how any of this makes sense?
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Sorry for you but at the moment missions are quite not balanced.
 

Lowievisser

Lowievisser
thenickmove said:
How did you find those signals? By driving or flying? If flying, were you close to the surface? I can't seem to find anything :(
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thats the next bad thing in my opinion. its elevator gameplay , you need to be higher as 1,6km to see the purple point of interesting and then going down again. i wish i could fly right above the surface to find things on scanner. mostly after dropping svr im cruising in search of materials en exploring after the Pio anyway. dont worry FD im gonna use my svr! give that cool svr scanner to ships also , make it a module. trade off!!
 
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Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
thenickmove said:
How did you find those signals? By driving or flying? If flying, were you close to the surface? I can't seem to find anything :(
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[video=youtube;sNW6J-bGPRs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNW6J-bGPRs[/video]

I was flying.

Hope the above tutorial video helps.
 
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DaveB

DaveB
Known bug, reported in beta5, fix attempted in beta 6 but some cmdrs reported during that phase that the fix didn't work and they still got bounties for assaulting "wanted" skimmers and claiming the bounties on them.

File a bug report. The more of us that see this and report the details of the encounter the easier it will be for FD to isolate the problem and fix it.
 

Dbrn47

Dbrn47
Cosmo said:
The missions are still a dull grind fest. Rewards ought to be higher to make it worthwhile.

Where's the multiplayer missions? Staple content for an MMO.
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Strong signal sources :) Also, no matter what marketing tells you, this isn't an MMO, best just to treat it that way.
 

Soon(TM)

Soon(TM)
who? said:
LTT 9796 Jet Universal Corp hired you to find one of their pilots. Unbeknownst to them, he was running a sly side-business smuggling illegal immigrants into the system. The dastardly Workers Of Orang Future got wind of this lone wolf pilot muscling in on their territory, and had him shot down, with 7 illegal passengers on board. He skilfully managed to crash land on the surface of a planet though, so they sent a "cleanup" squad to remove the evidence.

You interrupted them before they'd finished, and by opening fire on the cleanup droids you rightfully incurred a bounty - I'm guessing you may have fired on one before checking if it had a bounty? When you arrived at the station, you were lucky enough to come across a bored, underpaid Workers Of Orang Future clerk who pushed through the documentation and payment without ever checking with the centralised bounty system to see who the bounty was for.

Simples. :) (I enjoy this game more when I fill in the gaps myself).
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Lol

Elite Dangerous: Horizons

The only game in the galaxy where you have to fill in the plot holes to make the game make sense!!!!!
 
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