All of a sudden too many on foot long range Mission's?

[Fawkner]

How come there are so many on foot long range mission's now and hardly any local to the system you are in?
I literally had two combat mission's on the board that were local (both were illegal) and then the rest were for systems 150 to 200 lys away!

 

[Bottom Hat]

I'm not sure, but I can ask the team for you?

 

[Malloc.I]

I noticed this recently too. Had a nice system I was doing missions in and now half of them are for that system and the other half are 250-400 ly away.

 

[Vedmo]

You don't normally play after restart on Thursdays, I'd wager.

 

[Florenus]

I haven't seen it, but maybe it has something to do with weekly server reset? I think it still happens every week with regular, space based missions, that for some time after Thursday reset (couple of hours) missions tend to target distant systems.

 

[Factabulous]

Still> https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/rev-enging-mission-boards.543467/post-9564693

I guess we're finding the people who don't watch the streams

 

[SteveWW57]

I have been seeing this for a least a week or more. Some 300ly away. Just ignored them.

Steve 07.

 

[Fawkner]

Still> https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/rev-enging-mission-boards.543467/post-9564693

I guess we're finding the people who don't watch the streams

Guilty as charged!

 

[Frop]

Guilty as charged!

Nothing to feel guilty about, apart from the stream schedule and the announcement prior to the stream FDev do not post any (condensed) transcripts and subsequently fail to generate any further hype around it ("watch our latest stream to find out everything about mission generation", etc.).

 

[Frop]

You don't normally play after restart on Thursdays, I'd wager.

I haven't seen it, but maybe it has something to do with weekly server reset? I think it still happens every week with regular, space based missions, that for some time after Thursday reset (couple of hours) missions tend to target distant systems.

I've played plenty on Thursdays and maybe it's just me, but I can't recall seeing any 200+ LY missions around that time. Like I said in another thread, the only times I've experienced that is on patch days. Like Steve I've been seeing these missions everywhere since Update 9.02 and as Factabulous stated, they actually acknowledged it's a bug.

 

[Vedmo]

I've played plenty on Thursdays and maybe it's just me, but I can't recall seeing any 200+ LY missions around that time. Like I said in another thread, the only times I've experienced that is on patch days. Like Steve I've been seeing these missions everywhere since Update 9.02 and as Factabulous stated, they actually acknowledged it's a bug.

I was assuming it was the same as ship missions, where some long range pop up after a restart, but was then educated by Factabulous.

 

[Florenus]

I've played plenty on Thursdays and maybe it's just me, but I can't recall seeing any 200+ LY missions around that time. Like I said in another thread, the only times I've experienced that is on patch days. Like Steve I've been seeing these missions everywhere since Update 9.02 and as Factabulous stated, they actually acknowledged it's a bug.

It has been like that for a long, long time in EDH. Weekly server reboot and for a while almost all missions are to distant locations. They do disappear after a while.

I never thought there were supposed to be long range missions in the mission board (which I thought was a shame) and I thought those appearing after weekly reset are a bug, but of different kind that it turned out to be.
If I understand correctly what Dominic said in this thread that Factabulous linked, he just recently tested mission generation (after Factabulous pointed out that it doesn't work as he said it does) and realised that there actually aren't any long range missions spawning in the Bubble where they should, except for a short while after weekly reboot.
After all those years he had to run some tests to notice that usually there's no long range mission to inside the Bubble! Nobody there plays this game. They have no idea what's going on

 

[Frop]

After all those years he had to run some tests to notice that usually there's no long range mission to inside the Bubble! Nobody there plays this game. They have no idea what's going on

Even if they do, they clearly don't play it like, well, the average player here does. Also, you have to admire their confidence despite their track record with bugs, reintroducing fixed bugs, thinking they fixed bugs without actually fixing them and often breaking completely unrelated things while doing so.