A little disappointed with mission bigs in 1.6 / 2.1

Pardot Kynes

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Bugs reported etc., but on my first day I had an assassination mission that was bugged - my target never appeared.

Next day, another assassination mission, turned out the target eta had expired before I took the mission (got straight to the system, and immediately got a failed message - eta over an hour earlier.)

I now have two assasinations missions completed on ym left panel, worth almost a million - I can't turn them in - there's no option - tried logging in and out and delaying. They are both for the same faction.

I have to say, after all that testing, I'm getting a bit furstrated by this.

Is it just assasination missions - am I unlucky?
 

Starkiller_

Starkiller_
Pardot Kynes said:
Bugs reported etc., but on my first day I had an assassination mission that was bugged - my target never appeared.

Next day, another assassination mission, turned out the target eta had expired before I took the mission (got straight to the system, and immediately got a failed message - eta over an hour earlier.)

I now have two assasinations missions completed on ym left panel, worth almost a million - I can't turn them in - there's no option - tried logging in and out and delaying. They are both for the same faction.

I have to say, after all that testing, I'm getting a bit furstrated by this.

Is it just assasination missions - am I unlucky?
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It is just how the mission system works, well doesn't as the case may be. Sadly a lot of the missions don't work at the minute it seems.
 

Mosait

Mosait
Pardot Kynes said:
Bugs reported etc., but on my first day I had an assassination mission that was bugged - my target never appeared.

Next day, another assassination mission, turned out the target eta had expired before I took the mission (got straight to the system, and immediately got a failed message - eta over an hour earlier.)

I now have two assasinations missions completed on ym left panel, worth almost a million - I can't turn them in - there's no option - tried logging in and out and delaying. They are both for the same faction.

I have to say, after all that testing, I'm getting a bit furstrated by this.

Is it just assasination missions - am I unlucky?
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Is it possible those assassination missions you have to turn in give you cargo, and you don't have cargo space for it? I ran into that last night.

The mission I had would give my 4 tons of cmm composite upon mission completion. Well, my vulture has no cargo space. So, when I went to collect, I could see it in my transactions tab, but nothing came up on the mission board. I switched to my cobra, which has cargo space, and there was the completed mission on the mission board. I collected, but now am stuck with my cobra until I do something with that cargo. [sad]

Storage would be nice right now.
 
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tappo

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There is a problem with your "big" report.

I am sure impossible missions are given to you outside game too...
 

cmdr_Havalok

cmdr_Havalok
I've been running quite a few missions without any mishap except for once. HAd a mission "Got to Base X and destroy 6 Skimmers". Went to Base X and attacked base from the air and the ground. No skimmers. No defenses at all. Thought it was bugged. Turns out you actually go to POIs near the base so the text descriptor could have been better but their was no bug. Not saying your isn't a bug and if it is report it. But I also try to look eye-dee-ten-tee errors (ID10T) on my part.
 
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1984

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We have a new delivery time for you. Can you deliver in 0 hours and 0 minutes. Mmmmmmm let me think about that.
 

Jay8ch

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I just downloaded 1.6 and played the game for the first time in months. This update was make or break for ED for me. I accepted a simple delivery mission but I can't hand it in, there's no option. I guess it's break. )-:

More than a little disappointed. Nothing was better, something was broken.
 
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Mu77ley

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Mu77ley
Oh the irony in you having a "bug" in your post title. See how easily they can occur?
 

Pardot Kynes

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Mu77ley said:
Oh the irony in you having a "bug" in your post title. See how easily they can occur?
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For some reason - maybe because I'm a new member and posts are pre-modded - I was unable to edit it once submitting. I did notice the error.

I'm surprised at your rudeness, and willingness to waste electrons with weak sarcasm - guess I'll have to get used to it.
 

Whiterose

Whiterose
Viking84 said:
The manners of some people on this forum, honestly. If you disagree with the OP, state your reasons. Don't make fun of spelling mistakes.
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Well said Sir. Let him who has not had a typo cast the first stone. As for the OP I have not had a problem in general with missions, they are working well. My only gripe is that twice now a delivery mission has changed the address from a large docking pad to an outpost where I cant dock and get fined.
 

M. Grey

M. Grey
Did some and had no issues with Assassination missions. All worked, target appeared, target eliminated.
Some have a specific time window when the target will appear in the system. This will not be in the mission description but you will see this in the transactions UI once mission accepted.
Does it no show for some time try jumping to another system and back.
 

CylonSurfer

CylonSurfer
There are so many bugs with the missions at the moment its untrue. From missions to salvage cargo which doesn't appear, to base assaults which are impossible for players undertake as they result in certain death to simple delivery missions which are impossible to complete as you can't hand in your cargo. To make it worse, every bug which means canceling your mission means bad reputation in game. It's a total joke to be honest and every bug of this nature was reported in all stages of the beta.
 
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Pardot Kynes

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CylonSurfer said:
There are so many bugs with the missions at the moment its untrue. From missions to salvage cargo which doesn't appear, to base assaults which are impossible for players undertake as they result in certain death to simple delivery missions which are impossible to complete as you can't hand in your cargo. To make it worse, every bug which means canceling your mission means bad reputation in game. It's a total joke to be honest and every bug of this nature was reported in all stages of the beta.
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I found a good workaround. If a hand in / delivery is not possible, try freeing up cargo space in *all* circumstances - whether you need to or not.

I finally managed to get a cash reward for a 30 x gold delivery, by freeing up cargo space.

Now there was no need for this - it was a delivery! I had extra space, and the reward was pure cash. But as soon as I freed some arbitrary space (sorry, I didn't count how much), the hand in message appeared and I was able to hand over the gold and complete the mission.

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mr.Gr3y said:
Did some and had no issues with Assassination missions. All worked, target appeared, target eliminated.
Some have a specific time window when the target will appear in the system. This will not be in the mission description but you will see this in the transactions UI once mission accepted.
Does it no show for some time try jumping to another system and back.
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Yes, but in my case, as soon as I arrived in the system the UI told me his time window had occurred over an hour before and informed me I had failed it.

The time window given actually preceded the time I accepted the mission - so it was mission impossible from the outset.
 

tawittle

tawittle
I've probably done about 100 missions since 2.1. I've only had 2 missions bug out.

i had a boom data delivery bug out and not let me turn in.

then for a targeted piracy mission, after scanning the nav beacon in system I think the mission bugged because my target never spawns (usually the timed missions work for me).

So based on my experience I have to estimate 2% of the missions as buggy.

seems like the missions are much better now, they're more complex, all the new updates to the missions (talking about updates in your communication window), the timed missions and missions with specific targets actually work now ( they didn't work on 2.0 release).

is it bug free? No. But it's much better than 2.0 missions.

Starkiller_ said:
It is just how the mission system works, well doesn't as the case may be. Sadly a lot of the missions don't work at the minute it seems.
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Which ones are those? in 2.0 there were some mission types that were bugged 100% of the time but I haven't identified any of those yet in 2.1.
 
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Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
Done over a dozen assassination missions, plus a few dozen other missions. No problems yet. Not sure why others have such different experiences...

Pardot Kynes said:
I found a good workaround. If a hand in / delivery is not possible, try freeing up cargo space in *all* circumstances - whether you need to or not.

I finally managed to get a cash reward for a 30 x gold delivery, by freeing up cargo space.

Now there was no need for this - it was a delivery! I had extra space, and the reward was pure cash. But as soon as I freed some arbitrary space (sorry, I didn't count how much), the hand in message appeared and I was able to hand over the gold and complete the mission.

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Yes, but in my case, as soon as I arrived in the system the UI told me his time window had occurred over an hour before and informed me I had failed it.

The time window given actually preceded the time I accepted the mission - so it was mission impossible from the outset.
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About the cargo: for some reason some missions apparantly require you to have the same ammount of free space as the total number of cannisters you had to deliver. Havent seen it before, but thats what some say. As for the timer: just check it next time before you accept a mission. Was there a fine? If so, some NPCs must have secretly laughed quite hard when you accepted the contract. :p
 

NMS

NMS
Pardot Kynes said:
Bugs reported etc., but on my first day I had an assassination mission that was bugged - my target never appeared.

Next day, another assassination mission, turned out the target eta had expired before I took the mission (got straight to the system, and immediately got a failed message - eta over an hour earlier.)

I now have two assasinations missions completed on ym left panel, worth almost a million - I can't turn them in - there's no option - tried logging in and out and delaying. They are both for the same faction.

I have to say, after all that testing, I'm getting a bit furstrated by this.

Is it just assasination missions - am I unlucky?
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It seems that update after update they fail to do missions work. In 10 years maybe.
 
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