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Thread: Focus Thread: Missions running out of time
Is your pilot faction Rebel, Imperial or Neutral? Imperial
Was your first trainer on Naboo, Tatooine or Corellia? no, Talus imperial station
What is the name of or Tier of the trainer that give you the impassable mission? third mission on tier 3 on Yavin 4
Which mission in the series, or duty mission, was it that failed due to the time limit being exceeded? third mission on tier 3. It happened on the first part where I have to escort a freighter. It got to the waypoint and hyperspaced away and I received the mission complete message. Then a second later all enemy fighters but the one tier 4 z95 hyperspaced away and I received a mission failure message that I had run out of time. This is about the 10th time I have had to run this mission and this is the first time this has happened. Usually I get through this part fine but have my butt handed to me on a platter in the next part of the mission.
Any of the Devs who are supposedly using this as feedback want to give us any feedback?
- What the problem is.
- Is there a workaround.
- How soon till a fix can be put in place
I've done the mission over 10 times with the same result. I'm looking forward to these missions being repaired. (They worked before 11.5 if I'm correct...)
First trainer is Tatooine, Mos Eisley. Smuggler's Alliance.
Tier 4 trainer in Dathomir Outpost cantina gives mission immediately after I trained my third tier 4 box (4443).
Mission progression:
Go to Dantooine, Disable/Inspect Valarian fighters for Freight Plan. (WORKS)
Go to Tatooine, Destroy Valarian fighter/escorts (WORKS)
Go to Endor, Destroy escorts and Disable/Escort Valarian Transport out of system (*BROKEN*)
Mission fails during escort. After about 40 minutes of escort, claims "A critical target has left the system" because I "took too long". No clue how to bypass, happens every time and since the craft I'm escorting dictates the speed, I can't make it go faster.
Kinda sucks, unable to master pilot because the bug happens with every attempt and it's impassable.
[EDIT] Wish I had seen this thread before I bothered trying this mission... come to the pilot forum to complain and lo and behold, a focus thread with 100 other people with the exact same problem with the exact same mission!
Sure hope you'll fix this pronto and automatically advance us all past this, I see a bunch of people on this thread who should be master pilots who can't be and don't want to repeat this ordeal again... take the mission out if it's not going to work and let us master!
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Message Edited by Ko-aIri on 12-20-2004 11:49 AM
-zoe- wrote:I have decided to drop SA privateer and go the other way with privateer im not waiting forever for this to be fixed.
now you are assuming the other privateer factions dont have any "changed from docking to disabling and screwed up in the process"-missions. after all, it does seem like at least 3 missions are having this problem (maybe more, im a lazy sob and didnt check if its different imp missions that are reported).
anyone who played the missions earlier happen to know if they all required docking before the last mini-publish? because it really sounds like somebody changed the mission scripts and forget a tiny little detail *cough*. if that's it then it should be fixable in minutes (if not, just for ONCE admit defeat and undo an "update" for a change until the problem is solved). but then, if their software architecture is about as needlessly complicated as their game design it might just take days or weeks as well. and face it, if you keep changing and updating a piece of software it WILL become a horrible mess sooner or later (especially if your devs dont get enough time off to relax and keep working 10+ hours a day, 6-7 days a wekk until they cant think straight anymore.. tired and exhausted programmer -> lousy code.. i pray soe isnt making that mistake, too).
My first trainer was on Tatooine
My current trainer is on Dathomir, named "Nirame"
This mission comes up after completing the third box on tier 4.
It starts out at Dantooine, with a frieghter disable & inspect. Then it moves to Tatooine to take on waves on Valarians, and then finally to Endor to capture & escort the Frieghter
Tiggs wrote:
Some of you are experiencing missions that fail due to running out of time. For one type you must dock with a craft that is listless in space to repair, and then escort them out of the system. For the other suspected type you must chase down a ship in transit, disable to capture and then escort them out of the system.
- Is your pilot faction Rebel, Imperial or Neutral? Neutral
- Was your first trainer on Naboo, Tatooine or Corellia? Tatooine
- What is the name of or Tier of the trainer that give you the impassable mission? Tier 4 Mission 3??
- Which mission in the series, or duty mission, was it that failed due to the time limit being exceeded? Capture and escort freighter (Hijack and Pizza delivery), mission fails when freighter jumps out of space, or just disapears for no reason.
I have TWO friends stuck at exactly the same place, on the same mission. I am a master pilot myself, but like to help people with missions
Same thing as said below
And Its NOT a time issue, being an accomplished master pilot myself, the wave we "failed on" 3 of the ships were dead before they even got in gun raqnge of the freighter, the last ones were gone before they were able to complete one pass on the freighter (I got a little lucky), so how could it possible be done quicker???
Message Edited by MonsofoLexius on 12-20-2004 09:21 AM