Hello, I'd like to report a problem with missions to hunt down pirates (applies to other similar missions for killing authority vessels, bounty hunters or traders, etc). I'll give you an example of something that just happened to me. I had a mission from LHS 2925 Hillary Co-operative station to destroy 7 pirates for 50000 cr approximately. So I go out and start hunting pirates at USS signals. I managed to kill 4/7 and then at one USS I encounter a ship that offers me the alternative mission of killing 4 authority vessels. Upon receiving the information, the mission parameters change, but the kill count that I had achieved so far resets back to 0. So again I have to kill 7 pirates. I figure it's not a big deal and start hunting pirates again. I kill 3/7 (which would have normally completed the mission if there was no reset as I mentioned earlier) and then move on to the nav beacon to try and finish the mission there, since I kept finding USS that were useless to me at that point. At the nav beacon, I start hunting a pirate. Then an Anaconda system authority vessel decides to run close to me while shooting at the pirate. I try to move away, he tries to move away, we crush, my ship gets destroyed instantly (while at 100% shields and health) and I lose the mission and another 100k cr in rebuying the ship (and about another 100k cr in cargo of Marine Equipment). I don't complain about being dead, it happens. But the bug not only led me to put myself in the position of dying, it also cost me 200k cr in damages and resulted in me losing the mission, when I should have normally completed it. I don't want a reimbursement, I just want this issue to be fixed. Don't reset kill counts just because an alternative quest giver gave me an alternative option to finish the quest, for which offer I had absolutely no interest. This happened to me at least on 4 occasions that I can recall (although it didn't end as tragically as this one). On a second note, perhaps USS events should be more related to the quests you currently have than constantly finding Funeral ships, Honeymoon barges, a USS containing a single canister of scrap, and finding consecutively those Type-9 black market transports.
I've also opened a ticket about this issue, I'm wondering how many other people have encountered this problem.
I've also opened a ticket about this issue, I'm wondering how many other people have encountered this problem.
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