Newcomer / Intro Are completely empty bulletin boards a bug?

rumtruffle · Dec 19, 2014

just wondered. ive had a couple recently.

how long do boards take to get new stuff on them?

Tiamat · Dec 19, 2014

I believe they refresh with new missions every 5 minutes. Blank boards are a bug.

CMDR Sheehy · Dec 19, 2014

I am not sure on the refresh for the bulletin boards, but I have seen empty ones. I just fly to another station.

I ended at a station where I was intending to log of yesterday and noticed the BB to be empty but for one mission. This morning, I log in and there's tons of missions.

Hans Zarkov · Dec 21, 2014

Just restarted, both stations I have visited have no bulletins..

E. Baley · Dec 21, 2014

I've seen them too, but after a short while they tend to refresh with bulletins.

krysohmyz · Dec 21, 2014

This is likely a bug, but also note that only missions that your ship is capable of doing (jump range, cargo hold) will be shown to you. I remote systems with only few missions available this could be a thing.

Darlos · Dec 21, 2014

Are missions being unobtainable common place? I'm aware that there are faction based ones which require greater standing with said faction however I've had a few missions that wont allow me to select them but no reason given. Just confused by this.

krysohmyz · Dec 21, 2014

Yes, if the mission needs a certain reputation and you otherwise have all other prerequisities to take it, it WILL show, but is marked as unobtainable until the faction trusts you enough.

Darlos · Dec 21, 2014

This particular mission wasn't faction locked though, I'm guessing I didn't have the required ship or something, it would have been good to see a message to that effect rather than having no idea. Loving the game but a tooltip here of there wouldn't go a miss

krysohmyz · Dec 21, 2014

Hmm, usually you see why you can't obtain the mission in red parts of the contract.

Darlos · Dec 21, 2014

Yes this is what I thought, I just didn't know if it was a standard feature or if not telling you why you cant take the mission was standard. Thanks for the reply

Phirmware · Dec 21, 2014

I most often find empty bulletin boards when logging in to a station that I have logged out in. Although I never stuck around for 5 mins to see it refresh, time is money.