No more missions in X3AP?

[mcconnell_ta]

I may have an issue with my game (steam V1.1 X3AP) but I am not sure. I have traveled through about twenty sectors and there are no communication icons on any station or spaceship.

Is it part of the game to not have these after some point?

p.s. also the Boron are attacking one of my stations (I am at the highest prestige level with them)

[CBJ]

If you're using Steam then your game should be 2.0 by now. Just tell Steam to verify the game cache for X3AP and the missions should reappear.

[all_other_names_taken]

I've noticed a significant reduction in availability of generic missions since the 2.0 patch.
In my game they are not completely gone, but I only get a few missions in very crowded sectors (many stations built by me completing build missions).
Whereas previously I would typically get 7-10 missions in a 20 stations sector (not all of the missions were on different stations), now I only get 2-4 tops.
Is this an intentional 'feature' of the new patch or a byproduct of other changes made to the game?

[Allan F]

I have just restarted, and I don't have any problems with lack of missions. So It's not generic, just random.

[CBJ]

Is this an intentional 'feature' of the new patch or a byproduct of other changes made to the game?

Almost certainly neither. The availability of missions has a random element, and that means you will see ups and downs in the number available.

[kurush]

I had no missions in my game for some time after patch, but while I was dealing with two new mini-plots, it returned back to normal.

[all_other_names_taken]

Almost certainly neither. The availability of missions has a random element, and that means you will see ups and downs in the number available.

I understand there is a random element and I've experienced it while playing.
I'm just saying that I observed there were noticeably fewer missions since the patch. This based on a flight through 5 sectors in a row and not one sector offered more than 3 missions, some of them only 1. This never happened before. Ever. I notice these things because after several days into the game I still haven't even started the plot, still building my empire, I don't fight (yet) nor use exploits, so my primary source of income is doing missions. That's why this change in availability of missions popped into my eye.

[all_other_names_taken]

Here's what I'm talking about:

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- sector with 29 stations: 1 mission
- sector with 7 stations: 0 missions

Both screenshots were taken immediately after entering the sector, and I have not visited (nor completed any missions in) those sectors recently.

These two are just examples I ran into first. The whole universe looks pretty much like this.
This is not normal and cannot be simply attributed to a random factor, because nothing even remotely similar has happened during several days of playing. This situation came to be immediately after applying the patch.

[Brettflan]

I've seen the same thing. Shortly after loading an old 1.1 game, I noticed that there were almost no missions available, just a single one in a few sectors. That was the last extra mission icon I've seen in about 10 sectors or so. No mission icons at all.

I just had Steam verify the game cache and it found 1 bad file which it replaced, so assuming the complete lack of jobs isn't intentional (based on what CBJ seems to be indicating), hopefully either that will take care of it or the passage of time will.

EDIT: results already after doing the above. I just continued my game and jumped to another medium-sized sector I hadn't been to recently, and it has two mission icons. Seems to be fixed then.

[Alan Phipps]

There is a pretty common issue with station missions not being available after the 2.0 patch but in almost all cases doing a Steam verify gamefiles cache and then restarting the Steam Client reminds Steam to finish or repair the update and then it works.

[all_other_names_taken]

Did as you suggested. I made Steam verify the integrity and indeed it found 6 'bad' files and reacquired them immediately.
I restarted Steam client a couple of times just in case.
It seems that the number of available missions has improved a few percent (which is still nowhere near the previous number of missions).
However, I seem to be having another problem now. 90% of missions offered to me are 'Easy', as if I'm on lower standing with the races while on the contrary I'm top rank with all of them.
Before this, 90% of missions I got were 'Hard' or 'Very hard'.
This is so disappointing for me. Like I said before, missions are my primary source of income and while earlier I could easily earn ~50-100mil an hour, now I can barely scrape 10-20mil. Plus, I recently 'discovered' the joy of retrieve abandoned ship missions, where they want me to return an M7 and I keep it. It's not that I can't buy it (I got around 600 mil cash atm), but it's somehow more fun this way.
While earlier, after I topped my rank with everybody, I used to regularly get these good ships in missions (I got 2 Shrikes, Thresher, Cobra, 2 Krakens, Deimos, Cerberus), now even when I bump into this type of missions, which is rarely happening, they give me ****** TP, TS or the like.

[Ketraar]

Prety sure the difficulty will be eventually more often easy than Hard, given you got better ship, higher rank etc.
Dont think the payout will be that much lower, given its tied to your ranks. You still should make good profit from late game missions, even if they say easy.

Also its all quite generic so things may change suddenly.

MFG

Ketraar