Pilot Archive
Thread: Focus thead: bugs within specific missions. 2/2005
Vashra
Sun May 29, 2005 9:29 pm
#79
So, if you are a freelance pilot, your first tier 2 mission is to go find a Nym Cannon Ship, inspect it for shipment orders, dock with it, and get those orders.
Quite often, you will apparently do everything right...and nothing will happen. You will NOT get a "mission complete" note. I did the mission about 15 times and this is what I did the last time (when it finally worked)
1) Abort the mission if you have it.
2) Go back to the Captain to get it again. When he asks if youhave the orders, flatly say "no" and he gives you the mission again.
3) Get into your ship and launch out to space.
4) Hyper space to the Loc System...to the 2nd of the three hyperspace choices. I think this makes a difference, because I went to the other two locations and the mission did NOT work.
5) Go *NEAR* the waypoint they give you but do NOT pass through it.
6) Ignore any Cannon ships that spawn and hunt around for a ship that says "Nym Leiutenant"
7) Blow that ship outta the sky.
8) NOW hang out at the way point and scout around for a Nym Cannon Ship (I use y on my keyboard, yours may be different).
You will NOT get any updated waypoint but you *might* see some Nym Cannon Ships that spawn about 4km away.
IGNORE THEM THEY ARE EVIL hehe
9) Stay at that waypoint they gave you. Take some inventory with you and craft or something to pass the time, but do not bother with any Nym Cannon ship that doesn't spawn *very* close to that waypoint.
10) If any other "Nym Leiutenant" pops - blow it up, but leave everything else alone.
11) When the Cannon Ship spawns ****that goes through the waypoint***, target it, follow it, and zoom in for an inspection.
Now you must act quickly because that ship is getting ready to hyperspace.
12) As soon as you inspect the ship and it says it has the orders you want, try to dock. The ship will deny you permission.
13) INSPECT THE SHIP AGAIN
14) TARGET THE SHIP'S ENGINES (no other component -- in the fine print of your mission you will read it says specifically to disable the engines) and disable them -- be careful because if you take too long, the ship will hyperspace out from under you, but if you get too aggressive you'll blow it to bits.
15) As soon as the ship is disabled, inspect it one more time THEN dock to it.
After doing all this in exactly this order, I got an *imediate* mission complete note when my ship automatically undocked.
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The big differences between this and the other umpteen times I did (and failed) the mission were
1) ONLY going after cannon ships that spawn very near, or pass through the given mission waypoint
2) leaving EVERYTHING else in the system alone
3) KILLING THAT BLASTED NYM LEIUTENANT (nothing in the mission orders about it, but it seems to be part of what makes the difference)
Hope this helps someone and that I didn't just get lucky.
Kaleborn
Mon May 30, 2005 12:45 pm
#80
Thanks for the info Vashra. I suspected the waypoint was more then just a 'guideline', but didn't have the patience to stick around to test the theory lol. Sounds like the mission timer is broken or somethig, since every other mission I've flown in JTL either spawns the target right away as you approach the waypoint, or gives you a follow-up system message telling you to "wait here for a bit" etc, which isn't a very long wait in any case.
Hopefully the Devs take a look at this pronto. Not wanting to miss 2x XP week, I've since dropped and gone up the Black Epsilon tree instead. Maybe next time ... 
Modru
Mon May 30, 2005 5:35 pm
#81
Ok got the first mission sending me to Endor from Yavin 4, my question is when I am escorting the engineers I am getting jumped by tier 4 rebels and still trying to protect the engineers, at one point I counted eigth rebels either fighting me or the enginners. I have tried 3 times to accomplish this mission to no avail--isthis a bug or is it just that difficult?
GhostInAShell
Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:19 pm
#82
Smuggler's Alliance, tier 4, mission 4, escorting Valarian freighter. Fought wave after wave for over 2 hours, and finally got a "Mission Failed" report for TAKING TOO LONG! Excuse me, but how can I take too long to escort a freighter? This has happened to me twice now, and I'm very frustrated.
Jobe72701
Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:35 am
#83
[quote]Hi all i'm experiencing a big problem with Storm Squadron 3rd TIER3 mission
Basically we (me and a master pilot on a KSE) get to follow the "Decoy Lambda Shuttle" (last step) and after 5 seconds of the last wave's spawn the mission ends in a failure saying we didn't kill nearly enough rebel fighters. We failed 5 times in a row (i tried soloing it and got the same error). We also tried Bomb Striking as soon as the last wave appears without any better result. I tried to send in a ticket but it's still unanswered. Have you got clues or hints for me? ^^[/quote]
I want to second (or third, forth.. whatever it is now) this problem.
Message Edited by Jobe72701 on 06-02-2005 03:38 AM
JediNg
Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:18 am
#84
Tier 4 Inquisition. When the Inquisitor gives you the patrol mission, go to Dathomir to get it started. When the last way point is given, stray around it and go to the Crystal Runner and inspect. That should start the next leg.
Jobe72701
Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:38 pm
#86
TomoRainer wrote:
I understand you need to destroy an entire wave before the next shows up four times in a row to successfully complete that one.
Another wave shows up when there is only one ship left from the previous wave. So I should continue to persue the last fighter even if he's far off from the shuttle? (he typically is by that point if he's dogfighting me)
thanks
darkk1138
Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:12 pm
#87
Smugglers Alliance, Tier 4 mission number 3. Just helped a friend with it.
After 55 minutes of escort, the mission failed with the message "You took to long to complete the mission. The critical target has left the system." Yes, we captured it, and yes, we escorted it, and no, it wasn't destroyed.
What I noticed was that the freigher travelled with 132 speed and hit the border of the system 10 minutes prior to failing.
In total we spent 1 hour 20 minutes for this mission. That's beyond a joke.
After 55 minutes of escort, the mission failed with the message "You took to long to complete the mission. The critical target has left the system." Yes, we captured it, and yes, we escorted it, and no, it wasn't destroyed.
What I noticed was that the freigher travelled with 132 speed and hit the border of the system 10 minutes prior to failing.
In total we spent 1 hour 20 minutes for this mission. That's beyond a joke.
Ferrek
Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:07 pm
#88
Been trying to complete the CorSec tier 2 mission (with the Nym Cannon Ship) all day, every time trying different approaches, also trying to follow Vashra's step-by-step instructions from this thread exactly, but to no avail. I must've "completed" this quest 8 or 9 times tonight, and right now I'm pretty frustrated. Actually I'm beyond frustrated, I'm pissed off.
Any word on this getting fixed? If they're gonna force us to do quests in order to progress the least they can do is make sure the damn quests are actually possible to complete.
Any word on this getting fixed? If they're gonna force us to do quests in order to progress the least they can do is make sure the damn quests are actually possible to complete.
JediNg
Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:36 pm
#89
I didn't have a problem with this mission. It's a kimogila class ship. It's in the area. (yes, that implies you have to look around)
Message Edited by JediNg on 06-06-2005 05:36 PM
Ferrek
Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:45 pm
#90
I've inspected, disabled and docked with 5-10 of them by now - that's when it appears at all, sometimes it doesn't. And yes, I've looked around and gotten sore eyes from staring at the targeting-HUD while spamming Y and flying around a pretty big area.
The quest journal never gets updated beyond "target the engines and disable it, then dock with it to retrieve the orders" or whatever it says.
The quest journal never gets updated beyond "target the engines and disable it, then dock with it to retrieve the orders" or whatever it says.
Message Edited by Ferrek on 06-06-2005 08:46 PM
JediNg
Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:47 pm
#91
Err. I managed to pass it :/ I just do what the quest journal said.