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Mission Offers Expire After 24 Hours?
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Jacynth VeRouche
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-03-31 11:57:24 UTC
I always remember mission offers expiring after one week as long as I have been playing EVE. A couple days ago I got a storyline mission and it had a one-week expiry time. Great! Then I joined a fleet to do some anomalies and when I looked at my journal I found that now the mission offer would expire within 24 hours. I thought it was because I joined a fleet, so after the fleet was done I did the mission ASAP so the next mission in the chain would expire in a week now that I was out of the fleet. I did the mission only to find that the next one expired in only 24 hours.

I had to let the storyline chain (Kidnappers Strike, a really nice chain) expire because I didn't have the time to run the next mission in that time frame. Ever since then, every mission I have been offered expires in 24 hours regardless if I'm in a fleet or not. I am pretty darn sure that missions have always had a one-week expiry time, at least as far as I know.

Has something changed? Am I wrong about missions having had a one-week timer? Everywhere I look on the web I see that mission offers expire in one week, so I am really not sure what is going on here.
Hans Hoff
Mine n Mellow
#2 - 2012-03-31 12:41:34 UTC
I Noticed that too. It is probably to stop players farming missions as I do. I will just change my strategy and find new work arounds even if it means that I have to grind all my alts standings to enable more choice of level 4's..
Ank Parkor
WildSpace Otters
#3 - 2012-03-31 12:51:52 UTC
I have just noticed that it also applies to special missions like the trade storyline missions given by the data centers agents Ugh

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Vito Antonio
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-03-31 14:32:50 UTC
Hey guys I know of certain other mmo that doesn't have expiration date on questsBig smile
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-03-31 18:19:09 UTC
Well, that doesn't sound right. Maybe a bug due to the latest patch. Probably be a good idea to file a petition. The only thing that should have a 24 hr timer is expeditions. I've been doing Epic Arcs which don't have a timer so I haven't noticed it.

The large multiple part mission series are supposed to have a 30 day expiration timer on the first offer, such as 'Kidnapers Strike'. I think that 30 day timer applies to missions with 5 or more parts. After the completion of the first mission, the timer should revert to 1 week for the next mission. Each mission offer should have 1 week timer and after accepting it, have 1 week to complete it.

As for the Data Center agent missions, having only 24 hrs to accept it is also wrong. Those should also be like regular missions. 1 week offer and 1 week to complete.



Hmmm, seems there's lot's of things going wrong in Eve nowadays.




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Kiwis23
Kiwis Corp
#6 - 2012-03-31 20:24:26 UTC
It's just an information delivery bug. It actualy still expires after a week.
Try in journal right click and chatwith agent, it will show the date it will expire.
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2012-03-31 23:21:11 UTC
Kiwis23 wrote:
It's just an information delivery bug. It actualy still expires after a week.
Try in journal right click and chatwith agent, it will show the date it will expire.

^ they mean Read Details. Open Journal. Right click the agent/mission, choose Read Details. That will open mission info window, first paragraph is Mission Briefing, then there is one line with the expiration date and time.

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