Missions & Complexes

Why is there still a 4 hour cooldown on mission rejection? This was the single-most frustrating and distracting feature in the system for the years that I played back in the day. I'm shocked to return and see it is still there. Does it really require 4 hours to dissuade people from cycling requests to get the mission they want or am I missing the point of that cooldown altogether? And why, after all these years, hasn't the mission system found a better feature than a timer that lasts half of an entire work day, that often stands right in the way of a mission runners desire to play the missions they enjoy playing?

4 hours is too long to wait. I have never once run up against that timer and thought to myself, "hm, I should maybe find yet ANOTHER agent to manage just to possibly get a mission I want." Instead I've just logged off wondering why the game keeps wanting to punish me for mere mission preference. Because more often than not I end up with so many missions queued up that I don't want to do that I forget to go back and decline one of them after the 4 hours has lapsed anyway. And by that time I've spent more time moving equipment around to support the necessary re-equips for all the missions than I have running any missions. It's a really bad and clunky feature. I'd love to come back and play some missions after my free time has expired but I just can't stomach it when that looming 4 hour penalty keeps reminding me of just how much frustration it has caused me over the years. It's one of the two reasons I quit playing in the first place.

Get your faction standing up to 6+ (so you have a bit of leeway) and find an agent that doesn't constantly want to send you to low sec and has a reasonable mission pool and you can serial decline. As long as you are only declining 1 in 3 or 4 you can do this semi-permanently.

Just keep an eye on your standings in the beginning so you can see whether you are dipping a bit too low. Having more than one agent in a station helps as well as you can switch between them.

It's a non-issue if you do it right.

It doesn't mean you can't run a mission for 4 hours. It just means you will take a standings hit. A minimal hit at that. That can easily be fixed by running about 2-3 missions (depending on skills). Geez, of the things in EVE to whine about, this is one of the least things to whine about. You want us to fit your ships and run your missions for you too?

Yes, I too get to pick which chore I get to do at my job all the time. Welcome to the real world.
If you had been playing for that long, you would have known better than to place all your eggs in once basket, namely your faction standing with a single person instead of diversifying. There are plenty of L4 "hubs" of a half-dozen or so agents within 2-4 jumps of each other. Do some research before crying on the forums.

Carebears gonna whine. What can ya do?

I had 9.9 standing with Gallente & over 9 standing with Minmatar before too. That was like 2010 or 11, and since then I said feck it my standings are too high and it doesn't do much for me. So I just started declining whatever I didn't like, sometimes I'd reject like over 10 missions in a row if I really don't get what I want or if I'm looking for a specific mission to test my fit/ship or run with a corp mate. After years of doing this, now in 2014, my Gallente/Minmatar standings are STILL over 8.0, which is more than enough for my purposes.

Admittedly, I don't run missions full time so you may run down your standings quicker than I did. But the standing hit you get with rejecting missions outright is really really tiny as almost not to matter at all. If, for whatever reason, you really want to keep your pristine high standing, then that really is your choice and 4 hours down time is consequence of choice you make.

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Yeah I've done all that. I have ships, jump clones and equipment all over the place. It's still quite a pain in the butt to move around in Eve on that scale while still maintaining any semblance of efficiency. It just plain sucks to work agents all the way up and still have to sit on 4 hour timers with your best agents because you don't want to take heavy faction hitters or really long missions if you don't have the play time to support it when it comes up.

A lot of things in Eve have changed for the better in this regard. The new industry changes have made it SO much easier to deal with industry and its shaved a lot of time off the process. Ships got more agile, skills were introduced to reduce the jump clone cool down, anchoring things got EXTREMELY faster. The new missions are kind of cool sounding and its going to be fun to try them out when I get one. But isn't it time the mission system itself got a little love and overhaul to make it more time efficient and pleasant to use? A 4 hour timer just seems archaic.

And furthermore, Is it so bad that a player may want to hang some pictures up and call some place their home? Settling-in is what its about anywhere else in the game. Hell wormhole space wasn't intended to be used that way and yet people still found a way to settle in. Give mission runners the same options. If we go through the grind to get an agent up high in standings, we should get a far better choice over missions AND they should give missions within the same system if you're really high standings with them. We've got all sorts of new options for anchoring things and setting up shop. Let us mission runners play with them as well!!

i agree with the op +1

Nice passive aggressiveness but the mods removed the rants. I came in to the forum about missions to ask a question about the feature first. I don't think its particularly responsible to come back to the game after taking a couple years off, after the game has changed considerably, and start posting ideas without having more information first.