All these missions are half bugged. If you gain rep and then get this stupid prisoner ship mission in the same area you go to USS and one of these prisoners will talk to you to abandon a mission. You try to kill him instead and you lose like half a rank of reputation. Sick and tired of this! Can we finally have missions fixed at least so we can play SOMETHING?!
I agree. Most missions are still very confusing in it's description and execution. I once took a pirate hunting mission and killed 5 pirates (i even let myself be interdicted by a wanted ship that wanted "all of my cargo") and nothing counted as pirate kill.
Then i took the "kill prisoners" mission for the Pilot federation. 4h countdown. I never found one single "prisoner" but some other ship that spew a few lines in text chat and before i realized it, i had an "alt" mission. Who in the what now? Now i have to kill traders? Can i still kill prisoners? And if so, what the heck is a "prisoners".
This game is officially released by now and the mission system still feels broken.
And the best thing is, by "testing" these missions and involuntarily fail them, your reputation goes down very fast. All of Federation is hostile now and i never ever shot a ship that was not wanted or had a bounty on my head. Now the Pilot Federation, in Founders World, is already downtrending from neutral, thanks to missions that can't be finished.
Oh, but it gets better. The Pilot Federation gave me the mission to hunt down "pirates", right? The pilot who lurked in the USS, the one who said "i bet those Pilot Federation scrabs are behind this" and gave me the alternative mission? Yeah, i scanned him and guess whose faction he belongs to? Pilot Federation. So the Pilot Federation gave me the mission to hunt down "pirates" (again, whatever that may be) and then asked me to not do that but kill traders instead?
As i said, very confusing.
