Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Two things bothering me ( and im sure annoy you to ) about NPC BH marks.
OhBuggah wrote:
It's not a bug. Incomplete missions happen when the mark has "escaped" by going off the map, or is swimming in a large body of water. Even if you did not get the incomplete mission, how do you expect to kill the mark when he's standing in the middle of a body of water with the nearest land mass way out of range of your weapons?
send a pet to attack him
AD_Maj wrote:
The reason i'm posting this, is well become is im down right pissed. I have a headache from this !I don't know about you, but I am certainly getting tired of "incomplete" missions. Whenever I get a "incomplete" mission, I end the game for the day. Its very frusterating. I mean I would have no problem with this this if there was a reason we failed, say like we took to long or something of that. But, no it just happens after we travel 8k into endor and recieve the "mission incomplete" sign.Another thing that is bothering me and also a few guildies is marks that spawn on Talus. Whenever I get a mark that spawns in the cities with starports, like dearic, the mission is bugged. My waypoint is in one spot and the only way I can think of getting around it is waiting 10 mins of launching/re-launching seekers, THEN my mark magically appears at the spot I was staring at for 10-15 mins at.I don't know about you guys, but just all these bugs in the game, are really starting to get on my nerves. And these things particular make me want to cancel my account and reactivate my UO account or just get more involved with counter strike.If they don't fix these bugs in the game soon, instead of adding useless content that we can wait for, im gonna cancel.Anyone else fed up with these? Or is it just me on a really bad luck streak./sigh
lol good thing you missed the early days with no vehicles or mounts and incomplete or bugged marks on 2 out of 3 missions on elite planets. You would prob jump off a building.
I agree with these remarks... but...
There's a way around a couple of the incomplete missions... and here's how.
When you land of the planet and the mark is REAL close to the border (as in you can't see most of the waypoint on the overhead map) Or... if he/she is floating in water (like below Coronet about 3k).
... just stop.
Position yourself 2.5 - 3k away from your mark. Place youself between it and the nearest starport.... and wait.
After about 1 seeker droid, the mark will move away from the edge of the map or out of the water. (times may vary) and with any luck he/she will be REAL close to you.
Most marks are the same, they know you are coming and are heading off planet... right to the nearest starport. That's why you try to position yourself between it and the nearest starport.
I've yet to incomplete a mission due to water/map edge since I started doing this.
Or just : NEVER approach the shores closer than 500m or so and wait til he comes to you...
The incomplete thing will happen when seeker updates a location in deep water when you're close enough to have the mark drawn and appear.
HanzoShinobi wrote:
lol good thing you missed the early days with no vehicles or mounts and incomplete or bugged marks on 2 out of 3 missions on elite planets. You would prob jump off a building.
Thanks for the above advice - I 've had more than a few cross-channel swimmers amongst my marks, and will now wait them out.
Also had 2 diferent ones spawn INSIDE generators at Talus Imperial starport.....and they seemed determined to NEVER come out.
AD_Maj wrote:
The reason i'm posting this, is well become is im down right pissed. I have a headache from this !
I don't know about you, but I am certainly getting tired of "incomplete" missions. Whenever I get a "incomplete" mission, I end the game for the day. Its very frusterating. I mean I would have no problem with this this if there was a reason we failed, say like we took to long or something of that. But, no it just happens after we travel 8k into endor and recieve the "mission incomplete" sign.
Another thing that is bothering me and also a few guildies is marks that spawn on Talus. Whenever I get a mark that spawns in the cities with starports, like dearic, the mission is bugged. My waypoint is in one spot and the only way I can think of getting around it is waiting 10 mins of launching/re-launching seekers, THEN my mark magically appears at the spot I was staring at for10-15mins at.
I don't know about you guys, but just all these bugs in the game, are really starting to get on my nerves. And these things particular make me want to cancel my account and reactivate my UO account or just get more involved with counter strike.
If they don't fix these bugs in the game soon, instead of adding useless content that we can wait for, im gonna cancel.
Anyone else fed up with these? Or is it just me on a really bad luck streak.
/sigh
Come on guys, can we find some production to complain about?
I hate incomplete missions too, but they are not common practice. It is not like the old days when 50% of our missions were bugged or as if these "incomplete" missions were recurring on a regular basis. Of the 200+ missions I have run, I have had about 5 drop or mission not spawn.
While it is annoying, it is not rampant, not even close. Try putting this in perspective a bit, we are the only profession in this game with profession specificcontent. This "content" has and is contributing greatly to fulfilling the actual role of our profession and creating an enviroment for us. No other profession has that or anything even close to it, so be happy for that and stop worring about insignificant bugs.
If you want to toss out the "I quit" rant for every insignificant bug, expect your post and your profession's issues to be ignored, then when the "wolf" actually appears we can all blame you when SoE doesn't pay attention to it.
Message Edited by rYsyn on 09-01-2005 11:09 AM