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Kalfu
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Posted - 2004.11.24 14:23:00 -
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I stopped by my research agent for a mission, and he wants viral agent, which is now illegal pretty much everywhere. I tried shifting some viral agent using instas, but got blown up anyway; I was locked/webed/scrambleed before I could enter warp.
Is this a bug with the mission, or do I need to figure out a way to avoid customs agents?
If it's not a bug, anyone got advice on running contraband? Or does bypassing customs officers count as an exploit, the same way bypassing CONCORD does?
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Kalfu
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Posted - 2004.11.24 14:23:00 -
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I stopped by my research agent for a mission, and he wants viral agent, which is now illegal pretty much everywhere. I tried shifting some viral agent using instas, but got blown up anyway; I was locked/webed/scrambleed before I could enter warp.
Is this a bug with the mission, or do I need to figure out a way to avoid customs agents?
If it's not a bug, anyone got advice on running contraband? Or does bypassing customs officers count as an exploit, the same way bypassing CONCORD does?
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Chai N'Dorr
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Posted - 2004.11.24 19:19:00 -
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Personally, if I was a smuggler and knew how to get around the Customs Agents to get illicit good from one place to another, I'd not share the info but make you pay me to get the stuff where you want it ;)
Finally a Smuggler option in the game, been waiting around for this for over a year... now I still have to wait to get back home, and get ADSL again before I can play :(
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Chai N'Dorr
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Posted - 2004.11.24 19:19:00 -
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Personally, if I was a smuggler and knew how to get around the Customs Agents to get illicit good from one place to another, I'd not share the info but make you pay me to get the stuff where you want it ;)
Finally a Smuggler option in the game, been waiting around for this for over a year... now I still have to wait to get back home, and get ADSL again before I can play :(
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Celt Eireson
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Posted - 2004.11.24 19:28:00 -
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What were you flying by the way? Interceptor, or something else?
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Celt Eireson
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Posted - 2004.11.24 19:28:00 -
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What were you flying by the way? Interceptor, or something else?
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Lagartija Nick
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Posted - 2004.11.24 20:41:00 -
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Yeah, it would be cool as a smuggler IF there was some warning, IF it wasn't handed out as a standard agent mission.
I had the same thing happen to me, minus the getting blown up part. I can't believe agents are handing out contraband missions. My level 1 creodon agent shafted me on my second mission with this. Didn't even know it was contrband till customs had me warp scrambled...
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Lagartija Nick
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Posted - 2004.11.24 20:41:00 -
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Yeah, it would be cool as a smuggler IF there was some warning, IF it wasn't handed out as a standard agent mission.
I had the same thing happen to me, minus the getting blown up part. I can't believe agents are handing out contraband missions. My level 1 creodon agent shafted me on my second mission with this. Didn't even know it was contrband till customs had me warp scrambled...
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Kalfu
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Posted - 2004.11.24 20:48:00 -
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Personally, if I was a smuggler and knew how to get around the Customs Agents to get illicit good from one place to another, I'd not share the info but make you pay me to get the stuff where you want it ;)
I don't blame you, I'd say the same if I knew how to bypass customs. At this stage I'm not even sure if it is possible to avoid customs (other than senidng an alt through each gate and finding and unwatched route); I know it isn't with the amount of lag curretly being experienced on TQ. I'll submit a bug report and petition and see what happens.
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Kalfu
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Posted - 2004.11.24 20:48:00 -
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Personally, if I was a smuggler and knew how to get around the Customs Agents to get illicit good from one place to another, I'd not share the info but make you pay me to get the stuff where you want it ;)
I don't blame you, I'd say the same if I knew how to bypass customs. At this stage I'm not even sure if it is possible to avoid customs (other than senidng an alt through each gate and finding and unwatched route); I know it isn't with the amount of lag curretly being experienced on TQ. I'll submit a bug report and petition and see what happens.
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Tranquil Suul
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Posted - 2004.11.24 21:01:00 -
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just lost a condor doing a Caldari mission in Caldari space, I seem to have been fined twice for it too.
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Tranquil Suul
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Tranquil Suul
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Posted - 2004.11.24 21:01:00 -
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just lost a condor doing a Caldari mission in Caldari space, I seem to have been fined twice for it too.
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Kalfu
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Posted - 2004.11.24 21:44:00 -
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Originally by: Celt Eireson
What were you flying by the way? Interceptor, or something else?
Iteron V with 10MN microwarp. It takes 3 seconds from decloaking to entering warp, and it still wasn't enough.
Remember, NPCs have instant targetting.
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Kalfu
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Posted - 2004.11.24 21:44:00 -
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Originally by: Celt Eireson
What were you flying by the way? Interceptor, or something else?
Iteron V with 10MN microwarp. It takes 3 seconds from decloaking to entering warp, and it still wasn't enough.
Remember, NPCs have instant targetting.
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Captin Biltmore
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Posted - 2004.11.24 23:37:00 -
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What about a covert ops ship that can cloak?
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Captin Biltmore
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Posted - 2004.11.24 23:37:00 -
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What about a covert ops ship that can cloak?
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Raven
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Posted - 2004.11.25 01:38:00 -
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There many new social skills coming in soon, one of them being black market trading, the description of it is as follows:
Skill at fencing contraband. 10% less chance of being caught selling contraband. Base chance 60%.
With that skill you should have higher chance of avoiding customs.
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Raven
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Posted - 2004.11.25 01:38:00 -
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There many new social skills coming in soon, one of them being black market trading, the description of it is as follows:
Skill at fencing contraband. 10% less chance of being caught selling contraband. Base chance 60%.
With that skill you should have higher chance of avoiding customs.
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killinder
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Posted - 2004.11.25 02:35:00 -
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The only problem is there is no real profit margin in smuggeling
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killinder
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Posted - 2004.11.25 02:35:00 -
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The only problem is there is no real profit margin in smuggeling
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Booky
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Posted - 2004.11.25 03:22:00 -
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Well, I got caught in Caldari space 0.7 system with slaves adn blue pill. I managed to kill the customs agents that had me scrambled and I got away :-) You can still jump out of the system, but you run into a problem if the system you jump into has agents there waiting. Thats where I had to do some killing. My Caldari standing took a big hit, but hey, it was on the test server while the TQ was a full cluster of 0.
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Booky
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Posted - 2004.11.25 03:22:00 -
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Well, I got caught in Caldari space 0.7 system with slaves adn blue pill. I managed to kill the customs agents that had me scrambled and I got away :-) You can still jump out of the system, but you run into a problem if the system you jump into has agents there waiting. Thats where I had to do some killing. My Caldari standing took a big hit, but hey, it was on the test server while the TQ was a full cluster of 0.
Spelling corrections welcome, but don't expect me to edit my post. |
Amberlyn
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Posted - 2004.11.25 04:53:00 -
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That's because lvl4 agents haven't been doing any offers yet. Agents will offer facton items to agent runners with a certain amount of LPs. Some agents may ask for illegal goods and might sweeten the offer if you can come up. Smuggling will be huge as soon as agent runners start to get to this level. |
Amberlyn
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Posted - 2004.11.25 04:53:00 -
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That's because lvl4 agents haven't been doing any offers yet. Agents will offer facton items to agent runners with a certain amount of LPs. Some agents may ask for illegal goods and might sweeten the offer if you can come up. Smuggling will be huge as soon as agent runners start to get to this level. |
Kalfu
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Posted - 2004.11.25 09:48:00 -
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Originally by: Amberlyn
That's because lvl4 agents haven't been doing any offers yet. Agents will offer facton items to agent runners with a certain amount of LPs. Some agents may ask for illegal goods and might sweeten the offer if you can come up. Smuggling will be huge as soon as agent runners start to get to this level.
Not to mention peopel still need to develop way to zaoivd customs. Currently customs consist of enter system, lag, in pod.
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Kalfu
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Posted - 2004.11.25 09:48:00 -
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Originally by: Amberlyn
That's because lvl4 agents haven't been doing any offers yet. Agents will offer facton items to agent runners with a certain amount of LPs. Some agents may ask for illegal goods and might sweeten the offer if you can come up. Smuggling will be huge as soon as agent runners start to get to this level.
Not to mention peopel still need to develop way to zaoivd customs. Currently customs consist of enter system, lag, in pod.
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Grey Area
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Posted - 2004.11.25 16:06:00 -
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I am going to try something tonight to bypass customs. not sure if it will work or not (no it's no a secure can, that's been tried and doesn't work).
I'll let you know here if it is successful, and then I'll be taking orders :-).
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Grey Area
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Posted - 2004.11.25 16:06:00 -
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I am going to try something tonight to bypass customs. not sure if it will work or not (no it's no a secure can, that's been tried and doesn't work).
I'll let you know here if it is successful, and then I'll be taking orders :-).
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* I'm ALLOWED to cheat. I'm a STARSHIP. *
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Sangxianc
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Posted - 2004.11.25 16:14:00 -
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I think they should keep it for the amusement value of hitting the map, putting on "ships destroyed in last 24 hours" and seeing the whole of empire light up like a Christmas tree.
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Any man's death diminishes me, as I am involved in mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
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Sangxianc
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Posted - 2004.11.25 16:14:00 -
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I think they should keep it for the amusement value of hitting the map, putting on "ships destroyed in last 24 hours" and seeing the whole of empire light up like a Christmas tree.
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Any man's death diminishes me, as I am involved in mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee. |
Chai N'Dorr
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Posted - 2004.11.25 20:25:00 -
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Aside from using Covert Ops and Cloaking I do have some other ideas on how to try this. Won't be fast, and for general missions most likely not profitable either.
But then again, smuggling has neve quite been an easy and fast thing to do...
Counting down the days before I can get online!
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Chai N'Dorr
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Posted - 2004.11.25 20:25:00 -
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Aside from using Covert Ops and Cloaking I do have some other ideas on how to try this. Won't be fast, and for general missions most likely not profitable either.
But then again, smuggling has neve quite been an easy and fast thing to do...
Counting down the days before I can get online!
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Yeux Gris
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Posted - 2004.11.26 04:52:00 -
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try coutior missioning it to ya self!
as it is in a sealed warpper :P and they should not pick it up.
I have so much contraband now i cant move it!
Who let the cows out?! mOo. mOo. mOo.. mOo mOo...!
WTB 8x 280mm Scout Howies. Will pay 20% more than Naga's current price |
Yeux Gris
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Posted - 2004.11.26 04:52:00 -
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try coutior missioning it to ya self!
as it is in a sealed warpper :P and they should not pick it up.
I have so much contraband now i cant move it!
Who let the cows out?! mOo. mOo. mOo.. mOo mOo...!
WTB 8x 280mm Scout Howies. Will pay 20% more than Naga's current price |
Korbin Dallas
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Posted - 2004.11.26 07:26:00 -
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Contraband delivery work around: take the contraband and put it in the cargo hold of a shuttle, then place the shuttle in your indy cargo hold. indy must be able to move 5k m3s for this to work. tried and tested, this works.
Good luck until ccp fix the missions.
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Korbin Dallas
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Posted - 2004.11.26 07:26:00 -
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Contraband delivery work around: take the contraband and put it in the cargo hold of a shuttle, then place the shuttle in your indy cargo hold. indy must be able to move 5k m3s for this to work. tried and tested, this works.
Good luck until ccp fix the missions.
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Thora Unni
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Posted - 2004.11.26 08:58:00 -
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anyone tried using a cloaked ship yet?
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Thora Unni
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Posted - 2004.11.26 08:58:00 -
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anyone tried using a cloaked ship yet?
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Grey Area
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Posted - 2004.11.26 09:20:00 -
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Korbin, you're a pain in the ass. There goes my smuggling business, now that everyone knows how to do it.
Some people have NO idea...
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* I'm ALLOWED to cheat. I'm a STARSHIP. *
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Grey Area
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Posted - 2004.11.26 09:20:00 -
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Korbin, you're a pain in the ass. There goes my smuggling business, now that everyone knows how to do it.
Some people have NO idea...
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* I'm ALLOWED to cheat. I'm a STARSHIP. *
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Yeux Gris
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Posted - 2004.11.26 10:14:00 -
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Originally by: CCP
Agent mission woes
reported by GM Arkanon | 2004.11.25 21:12:47 | NEW
We are experiencing some difficulties with agent missions at the moment, as many of you will have noticed. Many kill missions are not currently working, since the NPC entities are not showing up to be killed, which is rather unsporting of them.
Secondly, agents are giving out missions which require contraband items to be ferried between locations. As the Empires are now actively hunting and punishing contraband smugglers, those found carrying such items can expect harsh repercussions. This seems to be of little concern to the agents, perhaps understandably, since they neither own the ships being blown up nor do they answer the petitions from the enraged pilots.
In light of this, we urge players to refrain from taking agent missions until we have implemented a fix for these issues
CRAP!!
They expect us to turn down a mission and take a hit on our rating with said agent and his corp?
NAH not gonnna happen..
Who let the cows out?! mOo. mOo. mOo.. mOo mOo...!
WTB 8x 280mm Scout Howies. Will pay 20% more than Naga's current price |
Yeux Gris
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Posted - 2004.11.26 10:14:00 -
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Originally by: CCP
Agent mission woes
reported by GM Arkanon | 2004.11.25 21:12:47 | NEW
We are experiencing some difficulties with agent missions at the moment, as many of you will have noticed. Many kill missions are not currently working, since the NPC entities are not showing up to be killed, which is rather unsporting of them.
Secondly, agents are giving out missions which require contraband items to be ferried between locations. As the Empires are now actively hunting and punishing contraband smugglers, those found carrying such items can expect harsh repercussions. This seems to be of little concern to the agents, perhaps understandably, since they neither own the ships being blown up nor do they answer the petitions from the enraged pilots.
In light of this, we urge players to refrain from taking agent missions until we have implemented a fix for these issues
CRAP!!
They expect us to turn down a mission and take a hit on our rating with said agent and his corp?
NAH not gonnna happen..
Who let the cows out?! mOo. mOo. mOo.. mOo mOo...!
WTB 8x 280mm Scout Howies. Will pay 20% more than Naga's current price |
Grey Area
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Posted - 2004.11.26 10:38:00 -
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No, they don't expect you to turn down a mission. They expect you not to ASK for the mission in the first place.
T'ain't the first bug in EVE, t'won't be the last.
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* I'm ALLOWED to cheat. I'm a STARSHIP. *
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Grey Area
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Posted - 2004.11.26 10:38:00 -
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No, they don't expect you to turn down a mission. They expect you not to ASK for the mission in the first place.
T'ain't the first bug in EVE, t'won't be the last.
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* I'm ALLOWED to cheat. I'm a STARSHIP. *
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