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completion trigger bugged in Caldari COSMOS mission?

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Miss Morning
Color of Violence
#1 - 2011-11-08 10:24:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Miss Morning
I was doing the other day a COSMOS caldari storyline mission and i think some completion trigger is faulted.
This mission, to be more precise: Community service - Terrorist at large (2 of 4) agent: Kaiya Tuuri system: airmia

HERE IS WHAT MISSION OBJECTIVE STATES: "Capture Zarkona Mirei"
According to all guides, this rat Zarkona, lives in the third part of the complex.

The problem is that the mission checked complete on the first acc gate, after killing the three rats guarding it. None of them called anything near "Zarkona". I did this just before downtime, and the fact that mission completed on warp in, despawned the acceleration gate after downtime. I was at the first warp in on gate, no one else on grid, no one else finished the mission for me. I tried desperately to finish it with a more skilled alt, but never got to the third room... remember, the mission ALREADY checked complete.

And here I am with a uncompleted caldari COSMOS mis that will absolutely sure crash my faction standings. Of course i petitioned. Now the fourth GM is tellin me that " Information on our end indicate that the trigger of this mission is fine." Which information states that "the necessary action to flag the mission as complete was achieved today at 10:43 UTC. "
Well, at that time my logs clearly indicates: [ 2011.11.07 10:42:57 ] (combat) Your Hobgoblin I hits Gate Lookout, doing 19.0 damage. Thank you for stating the obvious, that is me killing the third rat on the first gate of the mission, two acc gates away from the objective - the Zarkona rat.
So how can this be right?

There are plenty shoot-this-rat-come-home missions like this ("Silence the Informant" L4 is a good example) and, as here, the mission objective STATES CLEARLY that an an action is required ON a specific rat (spawn, kill, shoot). And so does this mission "Capture Zarkona Mirei". THIS NEVER HAPPENED. Never spawn this rat, never shoot, never captured.

What to do next? My mission, along with my standings are about to expire. Cry
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2011-11-08 15:33:46 UTC
Ahhh, another one of the many bugs currently plaguing Event Agents. You can try a few different things.



Talk to agent and see if mission can be turned in as completed.

Buy the item needed from public contracts.

Escalate the petition to a Senior GM and ask for the mission to be reset.

Miss Morning
Color of Violence
#3 - 2011-11-08 15:55:58 UTC
The mission cannot be completed as i dont have the rat's beautiful corpse.
This item is not to be found on market/contracts since no one ninja salvages lonely carebears in rare COSMOS missions.
I would kneel before a Senior GM if i could find one, but to my knowledge escalations have a 5% percent chance of senior GM drop Big smile

so, if anyone reads this, if anyone cares .... Big smile
Leetha Layne
#4 - 2011-11-08 16:21:58 UTC
I seem to recall a cargo container with Zarkona spawning after the rats were killed....


Man I hate bugged missions...
Cyniac
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2011-11-08 16:35:32 UTC
Tip - avoid running COSMOS missions close to downtime... yes bad things happen. I know a bit late now but not a whole lot more you can do except try to see if the petition comes through.

Good luck.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-11-08 17:44:30 UTC
Miss Morning wrote:
The mission cannot be completed as i dont have the rat's beautiful corpse.
This item is not to be found on market/contracts since no one ninja salvages lonely carebears in rare COSMOS missions.
I would kneel before a Senior GM if i could find one, but to my knowledge escalations have a 5% percent chance of senior GM drop Big smile

so, if anyone reads this, if anyone cares .... Big smile



In a reply to the regular GM handling the petition, You have to request that the petition be escalated to a Senior GM. It may take a bit of time for a Senior GM to respond. Since you haven't gained the item needed to complete the mission, shouldn't be a problem for them to reset it.
Miss Morning
Color of Violence
#7 - 2011-11-09 08:21:54 UTC
Thanks, i requested the escalation.
I checked and double-checked the 3 wrecks on the acc gate after the agent window popped up with completion. Nothing in them. No cargo around.
Another unusual thing i've observed is that even if the objective is checked with the green mark, the name of the mission didn't get green as it should do when completing the task...
Miss Morning
Color of Violence
#8 - 2011-11-14 17:45:07 UTC
In case anyone watched this topic, here's how it ends.
Since there's was no reply from CCP except an unclear promised senior GM escalation and the mission was to expire this morning, I've asked a friend to crush his standings and take the mission, hand me the objective, and then quit it. With this occasion I have watched again what checks this mission complete. And that has nothing to do with the stated mission objective. Killing three nameless rats on the first acc gate gets it done for this agent. This, in the book of a hardcore mission runner like myself, it is absolute non-sense. The mission is bugged, unless explained otherwise.

But nevermind that. Let others fail it like I did. Just wanted to give a really nice hug to all the "computer says no" team at customer service. Me having fun is you taking care of your business. well, i'm not having fun....