Does anyone know or have noticed a way to tell or avoid what missions will lead to this garbages that force you to log out?
I too would welcome an answer to this question. Thanks in advance.,
All multi-stage missions have the "four dots" at the bottom of the icon. Thus, the two-arrows-pointing-both-ways icon means a single-stage procurement (fetch-and-return) mission; the two-arrows-pointing-both-ways-with-four-dots-beneath-it icon is a multi-stage procurement mission.
I believe there is one scenario where you have to log out: its when you are in a multi-part mission where you try to accept the next step after the timer has expired. 'accept' will be greyed out, so you need to log and just abandon the mission. You already failed the mission, so I dont consider it to be 'sooooooooooo irritating' as the OP considers it to be. Then again, I guess I didnt find reading a basic history book 'soooooooo irritating' either.
It seems you must be a Horizons owner. For those of us who haven't yet acquired Horizons, the multi-stage missions are all bugged: the game (correctly) won't let us accept such a mission if the first stage requires Horizons content (ie the destination is a surface starport or requires you to obtain surface-only commodities) but subsequent stages are not also checked for Horizons incompatibility. Thus, the second or third stage of a multipart mission
might require you to have Horizons, even if the first stage did not; there's no way to tell, since it either doesn't know or doesn't tell you where the next stages are going to go at the initial "accept mission" stage. When it asks a non-Horizons-owner to go to a Horizons destination as the next stage of a mission, "Accept" becomes grayed out and the only option is to log out of the game and default on the mission.
Since the solution to this bug is, "Well, why don't you buy Horizons, you idiots?", there is no pressure on FD to solve this particular problem; as far as they are concerned, they have already solved it.
