Mowing Lawn, Doing Dishes or Cleaning the House Is More Fun then Finding that Mission Completing USS

[Chummy62]

Where Do I Start? So many people have brought this up and still nothing has been done to make ED less frustrating when it comes to missions that rely upon finding that one USS that has what you need to complete them. I get British humor and understand the philophosy of investment vs reward. Eight hours of searching is twice past frustrating. That and I get the idea of leaving a bread crumb without spelling out the whole thing. The problem is the relative size of the bread crumbs. One should be able to see them while standing and not need to crawl about with a magnifiging glass on our hands and knees like Sherlock Holms. Not everyone is gifted with an IQ > 140. I need to chill and do something else for a wile. Mowing the lawn, doing dishes or cleaning the house would be more fun than finding that one elusive USS that is probably bugged and will never show up. I gave up and abandond the mission anyway after getting myself wanted in the system trying to discern what I needed to do. I came back after not playing for over two months because I truly believed things would be better now. All the time invested in new content doesn't help when the old content is still broke.

Dear Frontier, would you please, please, please consider getting someone on staff who is not gifted to play ED for you and explain the frustrations the average person experiences while playing your game.

 

[Sugarat]

If that was an assassination mission you may have been looking in the wrong place.. some of them are in supercruise now..

 

[AluminumAlloy]

Speaking of doing dishes, you should try the Dawn dish washing soap, it's company made a cool TV propaganda commercial of some dude cleaning ducks soaked in oil, being rinsed with dish washing soap. Give it a go!

 

[Senex VII]

Dear Frontier, would you please, please, please consider getting someone on staff who is not gifted to play ED for you and explain the frustrations the average person experiences while playing your game.

Now that is brilliant. And essential. It ranks alongside the practice of giving manuals and documentation to people outside a company to see if they can understand them.

+rep for your last sentence alone.

 

[Krait_79]

Where Do I Start? So many people have brought this up and still nothing has been done to make ED less frustrating when it comes to missions that rely upon finding that one USS that has what you need to complete them. I get British humor and understand the philophosy of investment vs reward. Eight hours of searching is twice past frustrating. That and I get the idea of leaving a bread crumb without spelling out the whole thing. The problem is the relative size of the bread crumbs. One should be able to see them while standing and not need to crawl about with a magnifiging glass on our hands and knees like Sherlock Holms. Not everyone is gifted with an IQ > 140. I need to chill and do something else for a wile. Mowing the lawn, doing dishes or cleaning the house would be more fun than finding that one elusive USS that is probably bugged and will never show up. I gave up and abandond the mission anyway after getting myself wanted in the system trying to discern what I needed to do. I came back after not playing for over two months because I truly believed things would be better now. All the time invested in new content doesn't help when the old content is still broke.

Dear Frontier, would you please, please, please consider getting someone on staff who is not gifted to play ED for you and explain the frustrations the average person experiences while playing your game.

I hate to say you're doing it wrong but you possibly are. Assassination missions have never taken me more than about 20 mins. Remember your target may also now be in supercruise not just USS!

 

[clavain]

Don't worry. USS system is just placeholder for future content.

 

[bitstorm]

The worst thing about it is the bugged nature of it all., from day 1 there's been tons of bug with targets not showing.

I mean it's one thing spending hours searching knowing the target is about somewhere.

It's another spending hours searching while in the back of your mind you're thinking it's likely the missions' bugged out so you are in fact just wasting your time.

 

[dmlb]

I found today that assassination missions often would only spawn if I quit to the main menu. Then, hey presto, as soon as I popped into SC there was the target...

Spawning still needs some work methinks.

 

[Chummy62]

It was not an assination mission. I've successfully completed those. I checked every USS, scanned every ship till I was dizzy from spinning about. Checked every signal source and visited every planet in the system. It was an Imperial Assention mission. Needed to kill 4 military ships in a system. While my IQ is not > than 140 I am above average. I also searched the web and found only one unanswered post. The name of the mission was "A Dirty Business". If you have completed it and post the solution to this riddle, then next person after me will stand at least a bit more of a chance completing it than I did.

 

[Goilveig]

I'll gladly fly hours of your missions for you in exchange for you mowing my lawn. Srsly.

 

[Chummy62]

My lawn is very similar. Not many flat spots here in West Virginia. That and I have a spring so if it rains, I can't mow for at least 2 days or the tractor will tear it up.

 

[Goilveig]

My lawn is very similar. Not many flat spots here in West Virginia. That and I have a spring so if it rains, I can't mow for at least 2 days or the tractor will tear it up.

Drat, you're in WV. I'd probably have to do quite a few missions to get you to drive 750 miles each way to mow my lawn

 

[Chummy62]

Good News! After a bit to cool down (and dinner) I logged back in. Got a new mission and was able to complete it. I'm beginning to wonder if it may be a good plan to abandon any mission that doesn't present the USS, etc... within a reasonable amount of time. I do hope everyone has a wonder day!

 

[Schmack]

Speaking of doing dishes, you should try the Dawn dish washing soap, it's company made a cool TV propaganda commercial of some dude cleaning ducks soaked in oil, being rinsed with dish washing soap. Give it a go!

Now that sounds like fun. Washing oily ducks in dish soap. Should be a mission tbh.

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I get putting targets in SC that you have to interdict, it creates a need for something that already exists (cart before horse actually) but when you fly a Vulture, you're very limited on the things you can add. I can add an interdictor, but I have to sacrifice something else like a shield booster. Because of this I don't have the interdictor on that ship, and the Python was nerfed so it's not nearly as effective at combat as the Vulture, in my opinion.

 

[atak2]

Takes me 4 hours to mow my lawn. Its a bleedin field on a slope. no joke. Gotta do it tomorrow. seriously would rather be hunting a USS

lol. My garden is also sloped and oddly shaped. I have given up using a lawnmower and just use a strimmer.

 

[sqzbox1]

So, what comprises a "military ship"? Does that mean that you have to find the CZ in that system and kill 4 ships there? Or is there some other definition that is not generally known? I must admit, my first reaction to this mission would be to go and find the CZ rather than USS's. Also I'd look in SC - if a ship came up that showed "mission target" then that would be helpful too.

 

[Yomamas Fett]

Oh man, that was funny, sooo wrong, but funny.

<snip>

 

[DrakeAurum]

So, what comprises a "military ship"? Does that mean that you have to find the CZ in that system and kill 4 ships there? Or is there some other definition that is not generally known? I must admit, my first reaction to this mission would be to go and find the CZ rather than USS's. Also I'd look in SC - if a ship came up that showed "mission target" then that would be helpful too.

The briefing for these missions does mention Conflict Zones, but as often as not they seem to send you to systems where no conflict is occurring. I've taken to avoiding them.

 

[sqzbox1]

Ah - well - that would be a problem. So if it were me then I think I would go and check out the system, going close to each main body because CZ's don't show up until with a ls or two, and then abandon the mission.

BTW - I wouldn't be too upset by this happening to me. After all, we all know that "Military Intelligence" is an oxymoron, and that incompetence reigns supreme (in-game I mean, not the Devs). I fully expect there to be missions handed out that can't be completed due to erroneous info given to the department which creates them, and targets who refuse to oblige by being in the predicted system. All this, to me, just makes it more true to real life and hence easier for me to "immerse".

 

[Mifuyne]

Ah - well - that would be a problem. So if it were me then I think I would go and check out the system, going close to each main body because CZ's don't show up until with a ls or two, and then abandon the mission.

I haven't played this game for very long, but isn't a system guaranteed a CZ if two factions are at war with each other? If that's the case, couldn't they simply check the faction status in the right panel (Status > Standing(? It's the second page)?