Coming down on someone for not understanding the exact way the game is currently broken is kinda mean. This is a bug. I can absolutely understand how someone can break their save file (getting bad reputation, losing quest rewards) because of this bug. I say there's zero harm in filing the ticket. I don't know how they would address this user's particular issue, maybe a reputation-reset without having to start over... but if someone's deep in the game with lots of time and effort (read: credits/assets) and their reputation is screwed up because of a bug in the game that no one would logically figure out unless they came to support forums to learn exactly how it was broken, I hope they get some sort of compensation for that.
Not at all, and I'd love to explain.
The bug is that their kill count for the original mission is reset when the alternative ending option is offered. Yes, this should obviously be fixed -nobody said otherwise.
However, he somehow came to the erronious conclusion that the NPC that offered him the alternative mission was part of his list of targets. He didn't bother to do any real investigation to see if the NPC was indeed a target, just pulled the trigger willy nilly. Yes, I did just say Willy Nilly. That's not the game's fault, that's his fault.
Filing a ticket over something you don't understand isn't smart, especially when you can come to the forum and do a little reading and digging to educate yourself on the matter. I made the same mistake when it came to an unrelated issue with faction rep. I didn't understand something so I brainlessly added a ticket (my only ticket) to the ticket system. If I could go back in time and smack myself upside the head, I would. I should have done my homework first to find out what was going on. It turned out that I was mistaken, but now there's +1 needless ticket clogging up the ticket system that someone at Frontier will have to waste their precious time addressing instead of moving on to a legitimate ticket. That's my fault. I take responsibility for making the stupid mistake. Is it wrong of me to expect others to do the same? Of course not.
The thread starter clearly wasn't thinking properly, either, hoping that the abandon option would somehow abandon just half of the mission when there is absolutely no hud element, no gameplay element, no storyline element, no element WHATSOEVER that suggests in any way that the abandon option will do anything other than abandon the entire mission. Now, before I make the next statement, I'll say that I, too, have had questions about how the HUD works or what a certain button will do because it wasn't clear to me (even though it was clear to everyone else I've talked to about it, making it my fault and not the game's fault for clarity sake). What did I do? I clicked the button to see what it would do. I wasn't angry that something bad happened (this involved abandoning missions and losing faction). I wasn't pointing fingers at the game developers or claiming that there's something wrong with the game because I wasn't using my brain, but that's what the thread starter is doing. There is absolutely NOTHING that suggests that the abandon button will only abandon the optional ending to a multi-ending mission, but this guy somehow conjured the idea that it would, then got angry when pushing the abandon mission button did exactly what it said it would: abandon the entire mission. That's not the game's fault or the dev's fault. That's his fault and he should take responsibility for it instead of screaming on the forum that the fault is anyone else's but his.
You know what I did, after taking the faction rep hits for exploring the HUD elements? I did a whole 1 other mission to get my rep back. Oh man, how hard I had to work to correct the mistake! It comes down to learning. How fast do yo pick up on things? Nothing wrong with being a slow learner. Just don't blame others for the mistakes you make and don't expect the world to change around you to fit you. That's all I ever really ask anyone on this forum.
