Random Mission Bug Report

[Fall Guy]

I accepted a return the ship mission but it failed me with 46 minutes still on the clock. It was listed as very easy I`m using patch 1.2 no mods yet. It acually failed me as I was about to press the relinquish control of the ship button. Loss of rep etc.

[pjknibbs]

Had you taken any other timed missions at the same time as this one? Or another "return ship" mission beforehand which you'd already completed?

[Fall Guy]

No it was the only mission I was on. It was also the first retrevial I had been offered and the fail message was on the lines of Your time is up you hav`nt returned our ship the police have been informed that it has been stolen. I had a save from the start of the mission and tried several times before I was able to do it in the end. Just flying straight there and back with it resulted in a fail. At that time I didn`t realise how much time was left on the clock. Only by taking ten mins repairing 25% of the damage before flying it back was I able to get a chance at passing it. Even then I had some near misses including the one I mentioned in the OP.

[Fall Guy]

I tried another one tonight this time with it only being an M4 I fully repaired the hull so that it was alble to zoom back at an impressive 54m/s over three sectors and it failed me with 7 mins and 38 secs left on the clock (I was watching it count down) I was about 5 km out going for a manual dock to get in as fast as possible this one is a bust I can`t get there any faster.

[EventHorizon]

I tried another one tonight this time with it only being an M4 I fully repaired the hull so that it was alble to zoom back at an impressive 54m/s over three sectors and it failed me with 7 mins and 38 secs left on the clock (I was watching it count down) I was about 5 km out going for a manual dock to get in as fast as possible this one is a bust I can`t get there any faster.

I have had this happen on numerous occasions, it is more frequent when you have two return ship missions on the go...but still happens a lot normally.

My worst one was a request to return a hydra, three sectors away with 3 1/2 hours...should have been easy right? Nope, a little over 2 hours left and I was told that I had run out of time - no other active mission. I dropped from a Teladi Company Director to a Company Enemy (or somthing). Suffice to say I was p*****! I just reloaded the game at that point.

BTW, I have started a new thread with some other mission related bugs. I think this mission system needs a lot of work, not being able to count time is one thing...not being able to track the mission status is even worse!