Test Server Feedback

Ahoy-hoy pilots!
Just to inform you that the Missions Objective Guidance feature (affectionaly called the Mission Tracker) has now been enabled on Singularity.

This handy little feature resides in the Agent info-panel of the UI. It sits to the left of the mission, and tracks the various states of your mission giving you some helpful hints of how to complete the mission. It will update when a mission has been completed, and advise you to return to the agent.

It's been a difficult feature to implement, and we are trying to refine some of the hints now so they are as helpful as they can possibly be. So please give feedback on this.

And if you do have a mission where the tracker does not seem to be helpful, please tell me the name of the mission, and the agent too.
And then tell me what it is about the tracker hint that doesn't quite add up.

Please go forth, and give it a try. We will be waiting eagerly for feedback so that we can polish it further. We of course have a few ideas of our own for where to take this, we will be discussing this further in an upcoming dev blog.


-CCP Paradox on behalf of Team Banana Stand

Nothing really changes, right now you have to go to eve-survival whatever out-of-game source you like most to get the info what to shoot. The only thing that changed is, that the information is now in the client, where it belongs.

Stop trying to pretend PVE (especially missions, only belt ratting is lower) is somehow "hard" or requires any thinking. It really doesn't.

I've tried it briefly but already I saw a major flaw :)

Mission : Drink Wars
Agent : Heinulaila Yaris

The mission objective thingie states that you need to have "Quafe Unleashed" in your cargo, but when you kill the npc that drops it, it immediately switches to "You need to warp to the mission location", despite the fact that I haven't even looted the can yet. Oh and the message is wrong anyway, because I would need to go back to the agent to complete the mission.

Also I'd like to point out that, while a nice small feature, it was hard to find in the first place. Even though I knew I had to look for something different than what I already knew. So yeah, I hope that you included some line in the NPE that informs new player that they can mouseover this.

By the way, the icon itself becomes brighter when you mouseover it, even though its not clickable. I was expecting something to pop-up upon left clicking on it.

Oh and, my two cents... Shouldn't you be working on a way to design dynamic and procedurally-generated missions instead of doing something that probably takes a lot of time, by necessitating to manually go over each mission and manually enter the objectives?

Interesting! But the question is, if my mission is to bring an item back that drops on an NPC, will it work?

Because you know how new players are! If they see the tracking telling them to kill stuff, the one time they need to bring an item back, they will assume that the objective is not to kill an NPC.

Time to go thru the NPE yet again

One less thing for newbros to get frustrated at before they graduate onto bigger and better things. More visual feedback as already riffed on with incoming damage rings, discovery scanner and inbound BM compass etc. Good change.

Did Pirate invasion from Mekamireki Fedas.

Showed warp to system when I was already in the system instead of warp to mission objective. After I selected to warp to the event the message changed to warp to mission objective. The use warp gate message does not last long enough. Warp to objecive is used to ofton.

Mission icon and warp gate icon are stacked backwards. not allowing warping if clicking right on the icon.


On to the NPE: Gallente out of duripant

Does not take the fact that you are docked into account for the first message.
The message icon needs to be the color of the mission icon if you are warping to a generic or specific location.
Mouse over is required to see what the mission name is for mission icons in the overview.
NPE mission one has "hack invisible cloud" instead of board ship.
warp to objective instead of use gate.
Destroy the cargo rig instead of loot it

Mission two. Message to destroy the fuel depot included active gate in the message without clear punctuation needs a comma between depot and activate.
Never liked that model. The thing you destroy is surrounded by a structure that looks like a bomb has already gone off where the structure is.

Mission three:

After jumping in to the correct system the message does not change until after you are warping to the correct location.
Hacking the invisible cloud is back instead of looting container.
Warp to mission location shows up for no reason.
Double mission indications on the station.

Duo of Death. Sigga Tzehri Veki

Early messages are good.
Did not notice a go to system message when I was already in the system. Change might have been triggered by the undock.
Issue: When the mission success window pops up when you destroy the target it triggers the what do you need status to go way. The message warp to mission area shows up to fast before you have a chance to get the item.

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Kidnappers strike - 1 of 10 Ambush in the Dark -- Chemare Arafaya

Requires a save of the prisoners but only shows a kill of all ships as a requirement. before it reverts to the warp to mission default.
Even when mission check in in the mission details the hint does not does not update.

Got a check once I docked in the turn in station might have updated at the jump was not watching.

Kidnapers strike- 2 of 10

Says you need the prisoner but does not change need to be in system.
Hint changed but only after a couple of jumps.
Check did not show up even after docking at the correct station.

3 of 10 got stuck on go to gergish until i warped then it changed to warp to. Went to warp to mission location instead of showing the need to get the prisoner. Warping off causes a recheck of the situation and a green check.

4 of 10 Says you need the object in your cargo hold even after you have it and have warped a couple jumps. Docking in the target station did not generate a green check.

Would suggest you check all string missions thru out the game because while the generic missions work okay the string ones are very broken. NPE and others.

Added to the previous post.


NPE mission "Moving Onward" does not give a check mark when docked at appropriate station with the item.

First Cosmic Signatures Tutorial never got a green check.
"Read the mission details" icon is missing.

3 of 5 cosmic signatures got a green check right away with out the proof in the cargo hold.

With mission menu not appearing when in map view a point of confusion is created.

complete mission button would be awesome