Change of destination woes

[CMDRBeranu]

As I am sure many others have experienced at this point, the random location change that some missions have is bugged, often changing the location to a place that does not exist, or is not capable of being completed in the ship the player picked it up in.

This is becoming aggravating because I have to keep taking fines for playing missions.

Message for location change: http://i.imgur.com/xo9xKAm.jpg

Transaction Panel after the mission change: http://i.imgur.com/tmT7lHh.jpg

And a place I would really love to land on with my clipper: http://i.imgur.com/HYlmsmc.jpg

This isn't even the best part of it yet, at times once you get to this new destination, you cannot even turn in the mission even if you were capable of doing so to begin with.

I can understand having some RNG to change missions up, but this is really driving me up a tree right now.

 

[Sapyx]

You can now switch ships without having to ditch the cargo (as long as the new ship has enough cargo space for it all to be transferred). So if you've got a medium-sized ship in storage somewhere nearby, swap over and fly there in the other ship.

If you don't have another ship handy, then maybe fly to that Coriolis station a couple of planets over which probably has a shipyard, buy a smaller ship there, shuttle the mission cargo over to the outpost and then fly back to pick up the Clipper.

Yes, it's slower and more tedious than you'd hoped the mission would be, but you shouldn't be forced to abandon it; if avoiding mission failure is important to you, it's what you've got to do now. Personally, I'm never accepting a mission while flying a Large ship, for this reason.

I will agree the destination-switching is annoying. Sometimes I'll only accept a mission because I'm already going to the place the mission wants me to go and I don't really appreciate being told to go elsewhere. As far as I'm concerned, they contracted me to take X to A and if they want it to go to B now instead, that's their problem, not mine.

Rather than "new destination", I'd prefer to see "alternative destination". You should still be given the option of taking the X to A as you'd agreed, but they then give you the option of taking it to B for an additional bonus payment, if you want to.

Finally, some of the alternative destinations make no sense. I recently took a mission in Cemiess to procure some clothing. OK. So I went to Vequess and bought the clothing, only to be told when I got back to Cemiess that they now wanted it shipped somewhere else... you guessed it, to Vequess. I docked at Cemiess, coincidentally found another mission wanting the clothing so I dumped them all there, then sailed back to Vequess, bought more clothing and completed the mission in the same place I just bought the clothing from.

 

[We Are Groot]

Yeah yesterday someone said they had to run to Hudson Orbital on a destination changed. I had to do a long distance run all the way back outside the bubble because of that. I was planning on doing something else. Not that I mind too much because I picked up more than a few good missions with some nice pay attached to them but still.