Is anyone else having this issue? Mission updates as I enter the system but the timer is already at zero. And to make it worse, then comes another update to tell me I missed it. I may have faster than light engines but my ship isn't a time machine.
http://imgur.com/Gml0KhO
Are you completing the mission as part of a STACK of missions and therefore letting many hours or days go by before you finally go to turn the mission in? There is some time based components in missions that are tied to the completion point vs delivery and final reward/closing of the mission with the servers.
There was a bug in the original 2.1 release that had all the timed based missions extremely close to the deadline time before you even accepted them off the board. That bug has been fixed. Timed missions now provide on average about an HOUR of space between the issue time and the ETA deadline time.
That same bug was also effecting any BONUS rewards that are tied to quick delivery back to the issuing faction. The message that now pops up in your in-box should give you between 30 minutes and 90 minutes to deliver the mission faster to collect this BONUS reward. This BONUS is activated upon entering the issuing system WITH the completed mission cargo onboard your ship. You should get this update message sent to your in-box immediately after you jump into that system. The clock starts ticking right then and there.
I do dozens of this type of mission every single session, and since the 2.1.02 update fixed that timer bug, I have never had a problem with the timers being screwed up and too close to the current time to be doable.
I would suggest that you are possibly entering issuing systems in the process of traveling within a specific region and are not aware of this fact. (Multi-jump routes which include mission issuing systems) Since the timers all start from the second you enter the issuing system, if you are not expecting these updates, you may be failing to notice the in-box messages until much later in time. ??
- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -
I've had the exact same thing, update at 0.0h. It's been posted as a bug, and there was a mention of it being addressed in a list published by ED for the next point update, IIRC.
So no worries, you're not the only one, and it is being addressed.
Where did you read that there is still a timer bug in .02? There was definitely one in the original 2.1 release but that one was patched with the point update and since then I have been able to complete ALL the timer based missions I have ever accepted. This also includes all the missions which offered me a BONUS reward for early delivery upon entering the issuing system with the full compliment of mission specific cargo.
