These missions seem to have all gone, every station I go to show zero missions.
Support Missions
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I've seen a few around .. definitely fewer than before, they might be linked to economic state now, I don't know but they do exist.
You can find them targeting settlements belonging to factions in civil unrest at the very least. Note that this is a state that is triggered by player actions only.
not seeing any support missions ... ???
is it a bug, or just bad rng and the location that ive been? im not seeing any support missions at all ... the rest of the board is filled with other missions though!
systems around shinra ... has support missionS
IN THE SYTEM LTT 4487 I FOUND 10 SUPPORT MISSIONS
IN THE SYTEM LTT 4487 I FOUND 10 SUPPORT MISSIONS
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Just checked again. I found support missions in a system in the bust state.
What I find strange is that I see missions for 'Combat' for 'Exterminate scavengers at...' - so there are settlements that are offline.
Yet there are no missions in 'Support'.
In fact, there are FOUR different 'Exterminate scavengers' missions listed in the Combat section (for a total of about 18 entries for different factions offering different deals) - yet, no support missions.
This is the FIFTH system I've seen that is similar to this.
Cannot help that think that this is a bug or not working as intended.
POST EDIT: updated line 3 to explicitly reference scavenger missions since text made it look like I was talking about combat missions only (and not to invalidate @the100thmonkey comments, below).
Yet there are no missions in 'Support'.
In fact, there are FOUR different 'Exterminate scavengers' missions listed in the Combat section (for a total of about 18 entries for different factions offering different deals) - yet, no support missions.
This is the FIFTH system I've seen that is similar to this.
Cannot help that think that this is a bug or not working as intended.
POST EDIT: updated line 3 to explicitly reference scavenger missions since text made it look like I was talking about combat missions only (and not to invalidate @the100thmonkey comments, below).
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In fact, I'd not noticed this before - seeing loads of Combat 'Exterminate scavengers...' missions but no corresponding 'Support' missions.
Anyone else noticed this? I thought that normally, if you have the one, you have the other?
Anyone else noticed this? I thought that normally, if you have the one, you have the other?
The extermination missions aren't always to offline bases.
Fdevs changed BSD or whatever they call it. Background System something, it supposed to balance minor Factions so they don't kill each other. maybe that have something to do with mission availability. You should try different systems types, like FEDs, IMPS or maybe system in civil war. maybe also they cut down on those radiculas Mass Pirate massacres. That was a exploit that someone could have take 20 pirate massacre missions. I think that created unbalanced factions that got almost wiped out.
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I know - however, I was specifically referencing the missions that were - i.e., 'exterminate scavenger' missions.
So, I saw SCAVENGER missions where bases were offline (and did them to make sure).
Every single mission to exterminate scavengers that I've seen in game so far are to offline bases.
As I said, there are loads of missions for these - just no corresponding Support missions, which prior to patch 5 were there.
I am convinced this is a bug. Bringing settlements online and exterminating scavengers are one and the same since alpha up to patch 4.
This getting ridiculous I've literally spent all day looking for support missions. Going to anarchy systems, neighbouring systems for missions, War state, searched EDDB for damaged settlements and nothing. Need 5 more these to unlock an engineer and it's getting pretty f**king boring right now.
5 Hours jumping round systems achieving nothing. Excuse my French but this is ruining the game for me right now. I have over 2,000 hours of gameplay in ED and never felt so frustrated.
5 Hours jumping round systems achieving nothing. Excuse my French but this is ruining the game for me right now. I have over 2,000 hours of gameplay in ED and never felt so frustrated.
Have you tried to use 3rd part tools to help with your search:
inara.cz
For station pick ground settlements (Odyssey) and for faction state infrastructure failure. Then look which faction owns it and check the nearest systems that the faction is presented.
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For station pick ground settlements (Odyssey) and for faction state infrastructure failure. Then look which faction owns it and check the nearest systems that the faction is presented.
Look for systems in Civil Unrest ... and then visit the station owned by the faction in Civil Unrest state. EDDB can help with this.
Yeah, these are totally impossible to find. Oh wait - maybe I have them all 
War won't help you and anarchy isn't necessary. You want factions in Infrastructure Failure, Bust, Civil Unrest, Outbreak or Pirate Attack. (Other states like Terrorist Attack, Blight, and Famine are probably also good, but I've yet to find any of those without one of the other negative states so I'm not sure). It also seems as though you stand a better chance in a low population system.
You'll find more if you search for stations, rather than systems, in those states. But EDDB's station data may be stale - and not all settlements are known to EDDB - so you need to check the faction states in the system's description to make sure they're still current. If the system's faction list is current, the afflicted faction is in a negative state, and it owns settlements, you have a pretty good chance of finding some there or in nearby systems where that same faction exists.
Where are you?