EVE New Citizens Q&A

I believe the intended behavior is that two ships will spawn, in separate waves. The first one does nothing useful. The second one drops a *cargo container* which contains the mission objective (it's not in the wreck). The ships should appear after one or two mining laser cycles each.

If the above didn't happen - a second ship never showed up, you've been mining for an hour and nobody appeared, a cargo container never dropped, etc. - then the mission is likely bugged. If that's the case, there are a couple options you can take here:

-Wait until after downtime (1100 UTC) and try again. Downtime will often reset the mission sites if the mission objectives haven't been completed, so you could get a second chance that way. (If you *got* the mission objective and just lost it - for example, because your ship was blown up or the container was allowed to despawn - I don't think this'll work.)

-Petition a GM to have your mission reset. They generally have relatively quick turnaround times for "stuck" petitions like this. I think you get there from somewhere in the F12 menu.

-Cancel the mission. Note that for career agent missions, if you cancel the mission, you will not be able to resume the mission chain - the mission chain from them is lost forever. (For regular missions that aren't from career agents, you take a modest standings penalty and get offered a new one.) If you do this, note that each race has three career agent systems, and only the specific agent you chose is flagged "finished", so you can fly to another career agent system and start the chain again.

Career agent missions aren't mandatory - there's nothing they do that's "required" for anything else or unlocks anything else, they don't lock you into anything, they don't represent any kind of permanent choice - so if you wound up just abandoning it entirely, you wouldn't be losing out on a whole lot, just a million or two worth of rewards and a bit of standings, nothing that can't be replaced elsewhere.

They're mostly for the learning experience, and a bit of starting cash/ships, most of which you've already gotten by getting to mission 9 (the chains are 10 missions long, except Exploration). I'd recommend trying to finish it with one of the above methods, but if it winds up not working out or is stressing you out unduly, don't worry too much about skipping it :)

I assume you did, but make sure you warp to the mission location, and not a random asteroid belt. I think it might only have 1 or 2 rocks to mine in total.

I had someone a few months ago with the same problem - turned out they were mining at a belt rather than the mission pocket. That doesn't work! Mission objectives will only spawn in the space specifically created for the mission. As stated, you will find a number of Kernite asteroids there - these are fairly valuable and worth harvesting.

Hi Guys,
Thanks for your responses,

Yes the location I warped to using the info panel did have about 10 Kernite asteroids small in size, and the enemy ship that came fairly quickly did leave a wreck, which I had to inspect.

So I think the location was right (maybe) but the mission settings might not have been? Mara Pahrdi, you said remove insurance and standings? as it happens I did insure the ship, and my standings have risen a small amount so far, do these factors cause a bug? I will remove the insurance just in case, but my standings might be fixed. thanks in any case.

I'll try again later today, hoping for a re-spawn at the location and maybe it will work.
Thanks for your pointers I appreciate them.


Cheers,
NT

lol Seymarr, Thanks whacked!

I guess I fell for that one, that's what you get for being new, Thank you for letting me know before I did something silly in game.

cheers,

NT

Hi Shayla,

Thanks for your tip, I'll check it out for future reference, in the end I pressed F12 and submitted a ticket, and the moderators reset the mission for me, it worked second time round.

Thanks you guys for all your help,

cheers

nt