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Yves Nat
Panda Express Inc.
#1 - 2014-09-13 15:49:07 UTC
Did not play Eve at all from about February through August, so I missed the experience of seeing a lot of changes, but playing again I've found that when I try to farm L4 missions, there's nothing at the location when I return after what I expected to be the respawn. Is this new game policy, or am I just getting random anomoly?

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Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-09-13 15:57:34 UTC
If you've triggered the missions's completion flag (green tick against objectives in the journal), it won't respawn after downtime. But it's always been like that. As far as I know there haven't been any changes since Crius.
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2014-09-13 16:22:42 UTC
I have been farming Enemies Abound for two weeks now. I have no problem.

Life is short and dinner time is chancy

Eat dessert first!
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2014-09-13 23:14:25 UTC
Elena Thiesant wrote:
If you've triggered the missions's completion flag (green tick against objectives in the journal), it won't respawn after downtime. But it's always been like that. As far as I know there haven't been any changes since Crius.

Pretty much this.

Make sure you completely read the Mission Objective that's stated in the Mission Details and make sure you don't complete it. Then after Downtime the mission will reset.


Caleidascope wrote:
I have been farming Enemies Abound for two weeks now. I have no problem.
Now if there's been a recent change to mission game mechanics that I'm not aware of, please post a link showing that change.

Otherwise :

You can NOT farm a regular mission for 2 weeks when those missions only have a 7 day time limit for completion.



DMC

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Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-09-13 23:32:15 UTC
DeMichael Crimson wrote:

Caleidascope wrote:
I have been farming Enemies Abound for two weeks now. I have no problem.
Now if there's been a recent change to mission game mechanics that I'm not aware of, please post a link showing that change.

Otherwise :

You can NOT farm a regular mission for 2 weeks when those missions only have a 7 day time limit for completion.

DMC


He didn't say he'd been farming the same one for two weeks. With multiple agents and some patient request/decline it's not that hard to have a mission given by one agent and the same mission name offered by another.
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2014-09-14 00:31:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Caleidascope
DeMichael Crimson wrote:
Elena Thiesant wrote:
If you've triggered the missions's completion flag (green tick against objectives in the journal), it won't respawn after downtime. But it's always been like that. As far as I know there haven't been any changes since Crius.

Pretty much this.

Make sure you completely read the Mission Objective that's stated in the Mission Details and make sure you don't complete it. Then after Downtime the mission will reset.


Caleidascope wrote:
I have been farming Enemies Abound for two weeks now. I have no problem.
Now if there's been a recent change to mission game mechanics that I'm not aware of, please post a link showing that change.

Otherwise :

You can NOT farm a regular mission for 2 weeks when those missions only have a 7 day time limit for completion.



DMC

I appologize. I meant to say that I have been doing parts of Enemies Abound, farming each part for a week. Except for the delivery part.

Life is short and dinner time is chancy

Eat dessert first!
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2014-09-14 02:06:58 UTC  |  Edited by: DeMichael Crimson
Elena Thiesant wrote:
DeMichael Crimson wrote:

Caleidascope wrote:
I have been farming Enemies Abound for two weeks now. I have no problem.
Now if there's been a recent change to mission game mechanics that I'm not aware of, please post a link showing that change.

Otherwise :

You can NOT farm a regular mission for 2 weeks when those missions only have a 7 day time limit for completion.

DMC


He didn't say he'd been farming the same one for two weeks. With multiple agents and some patient request/decline it's not that hard to have a mission given by one agent and the same mission name offered by another.


Yeah, what you're describing is more akin to 'Cherry-Picking' through mission offers in order to get a specific mission.

The way the statement was formatted it gave the impression that he was farming the same mission for 2 weeks straight.




Caleidascope wrote:

I appologize. I meant to say that I have been doing parts of Enemies Abount, farming each part for a week. Except for the delivery part.

Ahhh, that makes a big difference.

Enemies Abound - 5 part mission series with part 2 being a Courier Mission.

Yeah, I can see farming each of the other parts for a week before having to complete it and move on to the next part, thus making the entire mission series last for 1 month.

Definitely a good way to collect up a lot of Faction Tags for LP Store.



DMC

'The Plan' | California Eve Players | Proposal - The Endless Battle
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#8 - 2014-09-15 14:32:43 UTC
DeMichael Crimson wrote:
Elena Thiesant wrote:
If you've triggered the missions's completion flag (green tick against objectives in the journal), it won't respawn after downtime. But it's always been like that. As far as I know there haven't been any changes since Crius.

Pretty much this.

Make sure you completely read the Mission Objective that's stated in the Mission Details and make sure you don't complete it. Then after Downtime the mission will reset.


Caleidascope wrote:
I have been farming Enemies Abound for two weeks now. I have no problem.
Now if there's been a recent change to mission game mechanics that I'm not aware of, please post a link showing that change.

Otherwise :

You can NOT farm a regular mission for 2 weeks when those missions only have a 7 day time limit for completion.



DMC


I've noticed that missions fail to respawn properly if you try to warp to something (like an MTU you set up the day before) inside the mission rather than warping to the actual mission BM your agent gives you. This happens even when the mission trigger has not been tripped. Try warping off grid, say to the star, and warping to the mission BM you were given. That should work, if not clear cache, log and re-log and try again.

Also, DMC, Enemies abound is a 5 part'er, he's likely farming 1, 3, 4, and/or 5.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2014-09-15 19:04:54 UTC
Sobaan Tali wrote:
DeMichael Crimson wrote:
Caleidascope wrote:
I have been farming Enemies Abound for two weeks now. I have no problem.
Now if there's been a recent change to mission game mechanics that I'm not aware of, please post a link showing that change.

Otherwise :

You can NOT farm a regular mission for 2 weeks when those missions only have a 7 day time limit for completion.


DMC


Also, DMC, Enemies abound is a 5 part'er, he's likely farming 1, 3, 4, and/or 5.


Yeah, that fact was established a couple of posted replies ago and as I said earlier, the way the statement was formatted it gave the impression he was farming a single mission for 2 weeks straight.


DMC

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