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Steno
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Posted - 2005.01.05 21:54:00 -
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Thanks for the info, i'll stop getting mad now that i know its not a permanent change :)
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Thingul Sindacolla
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Posted - 2005.01.05 22:15:00 -
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Ok got another of these missions the other day and only today I bothered to do it, only thing I couldn't read the mission details no longer so I decided to travel the 15 jumps to the agent in my bs.
When I finally arrive he won't talk to me, I then relog and he's gone from the agents tab in the station.
I clearly remember the mission deadline to be the ninth of january which is four days from now.
Now the entire mission is gone from my mission offer/active thingie and I'm kinda wondering what happened.
Any idea on why the mission details couldn't be read today ? Because I know I had a peek at them the other day to see if there were any spiffy bonuses.
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Steno
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Posted - 2005.01.06 01:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Thingul Sindacolla
Ok got another of these missions the other day and only today I bothered to do it, only thing I couldn't read the mission details no longer so I decided to travel the 15 jumps to the agent in my bs.
When I finally arrive he won't talk to me, I then relog and he's gone from the agents tab in the station.
I clearly remember the mission deadline to be the ninth of january which is four days from now.
Now the entire mission is gone from my mission offer/active thingie and I'm kinda wondering what happened.
Any idea on why the mission details couldn't be read today ? Because I know I had a peek at them the other day to see if there were any spiffy bonuses.
This is only a guess but....
In talking to one of the GMs i was told that the time you are shown in the journa that you have to accept/complete the mission is different than that actually being timed by the server. Thus a bug that will be fixed. But for now if you have a storyline mission, dont put it off is what the GM told me, because it will expire before the time listed in the journal entry.
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Gelf
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Posted - 2005.01.06 06:09:00 -
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Edited by: Gelf on 06/01/2005 06:10:20
Im am wondering now if CCP will be rethinking the new important missions as it seems that quite a few people are not happy with them at all, or will we be stuck with these changes?
if that is the case i will have to call it a day as far as agent missions go, i dont enjoy this type of forced game play and will just have to go find something else that doesnt take up to much time to do so i can do it in short bursts. pity coz even tho they r quite dull it was a good way for me to pass the time while i am waiting for my main character to become free again. i would be happy if i got offered the missions, but didnt get penalised for not doing them.
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Garia666
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Posted - 2005.01.06 10:14:00 -
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Nice to find a post wich i can share my frustrations on.
As i do mainly lvl 3 agent missions and i have gotten several story line missions now over the time.
they all start by saying i qoute " This mission is of utmost importance to the Amarr Empire, and would not go unnoticed in the world."
( what the hell is utmost anyway ? )
Anyway the first STORY LINE mission i ever got. I tough oh boy.. i am getting great stuff or i hit the Eve news by doing this mission..
( not looking at the journal )
at the end i go shoot 5 rats get 1 station vault and 200k
Then he tells me to F off.
If CCP define`s the word STORY LINE mission with with the WORDS same as ALL OTHER missions just a diff agent far far away giving u same crap.
Then i understand the meaning of the words story line
if thats not the case can anyone please tell me what the story line agents are for??
and why do i get 15 of them anyway al at diff places?
hope some one could awnser or shar frustrations :|
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Vailin Snow
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Posted - 2005.01.06 11:21:00 -
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I dont mind them being 10 jumps away...
I dont mind the lack of difficulty...
I dont mind the pointless corp standing increase...
But why thesame mission? Why the ****e reward? And why dont u get LP for it?
I think there should be a "Faction" LP account that takes stuff from the story missions and gives you faction offers.
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Mitchman
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Posted - 2005.01.06 12:03:00 -
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Originally by: BH Mephysto
There is a small bug in the storyline agents at present, where they will not talk to you if you go to their station prior to accepting the mission. The workaround for this is to talk to this agent remotely (from space or another station).
There is a big bug where the expire date given in the journal is wrong. Maybe you should include that in this post.
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JP Beauregard
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Posted - 2005.01.06 12:17:00 -
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Edited by: JP Beauregard on 06/01/2005 15:02:59
I'm beginning to think that the distance may not be the real issue.
After running missions for Material Acquisiton out of Cat (.7), I get mail from Aliastra agent Dedotte Aindou, located in the very heart of Syndicate, for a mission in beautiful OT-AMZ. Of course I could find a way around PF-346 - which would have been on the short route - but my standing with the Syndicate is -8.24 modified to -5.32 with Diplomacy 4.
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Quasarwave
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Posted - 2005.01.07 07:21:00 -
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Lol I have just laughed in the face of an agent after the important mission lvl 2 that I got....wanting me to go into 0.0 space. As if.....these def need to be changed!
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Phantom II
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Posted - 2005.01.07 13:46:00 -
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Edited by: Phantom II on 07/01/2005 13:49:21
Ive lost 3 important missions which have expired 8 hrs after i accepted them (i needed to get some sleep) even dough they would expire 5 days later.
I Petitioned it and the GM says its a bug but they cant do anything about it. oh they said they where sorry. so i lost about 2.5-3.0% in faction standing due to a bug they cant even compensate me for. :( waste of time really.
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SemTX
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Posted - 2005.01.07 15:29:00 -
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Is it me or do lvl 4 missions dont get storylines anymore???
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Galea Wildfang
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Posted - 2005.01.07 18:47:00 -
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Originally by: BH Mephysto
(...) Frequency:
You will be contacted by an agent giving these missions once every 16 successfully completed missions. However, this number will increase if you fail or refuse a mission.
(...)
I did 29 Missions for an Interbus agent, without declining or failing a single one. Yet I got no Storyline mission, which actually is the reason to fly for that Corporation/Faction.
Are they probably bugged or got overseen, as Interbus doesn't have any own Stations ? A clarification would be greatly appreciated.
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BH Mephysto
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Posted - 2005.01.07 19:51:00 -
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Interbus agents are not giving important missions at present.
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Galea Wildfang
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Posted - 2005.01.07 19:54:00 -
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Originally by: BH Mephysto
Interbus agents are not giving important missions at present.
Thanks .. time to move elsewhere then.
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Ragina
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Posted - 2005.01.07 20:57:00 -
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Unless I'm blind, I never saw a reply to "Why the freak we're only ever killing mercenaries" oh, and never ever, ever getting implants as a reward from lvl 3? Not too cool.. Will we only ever get implants from offers now or something?
In addition, why are the agents always so far away? I didn't see an answer to that one either.
I read this thread quickly so don't flame me if this has been answered just point me in the right direction.
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Tyrrax Thorrk
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Posted - 2005.01.08 04:58:00 -
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I never get offered storyline missions by my lvl 4 agent. Don't think I've rejected that much, but who knows.
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Ky Vatta
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Posted - 2005.01.08 15:10:00 -
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Originally by: BH Mephysto
Once you have done a storyline mission, the counter to the next one resets to 16. Refusals/failures then start modifying that number again.
Ahem!! I`ve been suffering from not being able to do storyline missions AT ALL, because a chat bug with the storyline agent:
Everytime I get a storyline mission, thae agent suddenly refuses to speak to me, so I can do the mission! (and it doesn`t matter where I try to speak to the agent from, I still can`t get to do that mission...stupid Merc assassination, of course ....)
Quite apart from the *I`ve put the mission in your Neocom* bug, where it takes days to even appear there..., and nevermind the expiry date, as I cannot contact the agent at all....
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Arosth Katsbalger
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Posted - 2005.01.09 07:17:00 -
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my whole thing with the agent storyline stuff is the distance to travel for crap reward or isk. bring back the old way of important missions. it aint worth me losin a ship over. another thing is if an agent you work for is offering you say a caldari 75mm railgun and the agent wants illegal items as well as lp for the trade, how the hell do you make the trade seeing as all the items the agent wants are illegal everywhere. i was told by someone that they are undoeable. well, if thats the case why the hell are the agents making offers you cant possibly fulfill?
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ToXx
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Posted - 2005.01.09 14:27:00 -
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I got myself 2 storyline missions, added my agents to people and places, got there did the missions, and when i docked to their station the agents aren't there, and if i talk with them remotely, i get a "Go away! I'm busy" message when trying to start a convesation. I don't think i'll be doing anymore storyline missions as i had to jump over 17 gates to get over there for the las one. :(
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Feiht ero
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Posted - 2005.01.09 16:50:00 -
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Edited by: Feiht ero on 09/01/2005 16:53:00
Just two questions, I have recieved a storyline misson from my agent, my agent is based in 0.8 and the mission is in a 0.3, is that normal?.
Also are the soryline missons the only route to implants or are they just a faction boost?.
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Garia666
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Posted - 2005.01.10 14:15:00 -
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Originally by: ToXx
I got myself 2 storyline missions, added my agents to people and places, got there did the missions, and when i docked to their station the agents aren't there, and if i talk with them remotely, i get a "Go away! I'm busy" message when trying to start a convesation. I don't think i'll be doing anymore storyline missions as i had to jump over 17 gates to get over there for the las one. :(
I had the same thing, you can solve that problem with a relog.
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SlaneeshZ
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Posted - 2005.01.10 16:33:00 -
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Edited by: SlaneeshZ on 10/01/2005 16:37:56
Mine are always the same. Add some point I am getting an EVE mail from some strangely-named guy working for someone friendly to Gallente Federation. Standard procedure is then as following (always).
1.) Dock at some random station
2.) Go to journal and right-click on the newly appeared offer and start reading details
3.) right click on destination as shown in the details and set as destination
4.) head over to the destination and open journal again, accept the mission
5.) kill the standard spawn and head to the system's station or directly at the agent's station (doesn't matter really)
6.) start conversation with the agent, accept reward while reading the politely formulated message to sod off
That's been the case since like a long while (since Exodus has been released). In fact I call them faction standing increase missions because it is in fact only one single odd storyline mission (often chapter 3 of the storyline) not a row of them. The only mission I petitioned and which I got told via GM to ignore was that one where I had to jump deep into syndicate space for lousy 20k phalanx rockets as time bonus. I wasn't willing to travel to 4 pod-killing nodes for an apple and an egg as reward.
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Lord Anubis
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Posted - 2005.01.10 19:01:00 -
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As it stands now these missions suck and are not worth it. So just wait until they patch it.
It would have been better to keep the old system in untill they finished the new one lo 
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Violent Sky
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Posted - 2005.01.11 17:36:00 -
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I am glad to see so many peeps complaining about the state of important/'storyline' missions.
What I am still waiting for is an explanation on what was wrong with the system of important missions before Exodus. Were we busting our humps too much and getting too high standings with the corporations too fast?
I still fail to understand why an Amarr Constructions agent would give an agent working for Sarum Family a mission of "utmost importance". Wouldn't that agent give it to someone working for and trusted by Amarr Constructions?
The old system wasn't broken, so why try and 'fix' it? I can understand slowing down the implant drops to make them more valuable, but there was no reason to make such drastic changes to the important mission system as a whole. If standings with corporations were increasing too rapidly then a change should have been made to the percentages not to the system as a whole.
I can appreciate if CCP was trying to make them more interesting, but that could have been done by creating even more missions, not by creating these elusive 'storyline' missions.
And why don't skills and standing affect the frequency of important missions? Does agent standing affect ANYTHING?
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X'Alor
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Posted - 2005.01.11 21:59:00 -
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Well got a Lvl 4 storyline last night. it was a lvl 4 mercenary assasination. and didn't think I had completed 16 missions with that agent yet. And I declined one in the middle.
All I have to say is.......thank you.
them merc mwd BS's(plural) were nasty. not sure what was worse the mwd orbiting BS's circling my raven at 10km or the merc commanders at 15km orbit.
I was definitely in trouble solo, thank god for my windowed alt that came in and help dispactched the commanders.
The BS were not so bad minus the 10 cruisers and 4 wingmen.
full dual nos, tanked for mercs, cl5 xl booster plus amplifier......all torps and not enough. brutal good fun there.
no named loot but bounties and what did drop was good by me. thanks much.
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Citizen Angstrom
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Posted - 2005.01.12 07:59:00 -
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Originally by: X'Alor
Well got a Lvl 4 storyline last night. it was a lvl 4 mercenary assasination. and didn't think I had completed 16 missions with that agent yet. And I declined one in the middle.
All I have to say is.......thank you.
them merc mwd BS's(plural) were nasty. not sure what was worse the mwd orbiting BS's circling my raven at 10km or the merc commanders at 15km orbit.
I was definitely in trouble solo, thank god for my windowed alt that came in and help dispactched the commanders.
The BS were not so bad minus the 10 cruisers and 4 wingmen.
full dual nos, tanked for mercs, cl5 xl booster plus amplifier......all torps and not enough. brutal good fun there.
no named loot but bounties and what did drop was good by me. thanks much.
Amusingly enough X'Alor, I got the exact same mission last night. Pair of Guristas Overlords, plus a whole mess of Commanders, and a bunch of webbers. First Storyline level 4 I've done, and the first of any sort I've had in weeks. No special loot, no implant, but at least it was only three jumps away from my base. My heart got to beating when I realised that both of those Overlords were going to catch me. Should have seen my fingers moving over the keyboard, launching drones/torps/shooting the webbers!
Lots of fun CCP, keep on tuning and fixing up these things, you'll have me happy yet... Course, a little ole implant would go a long way towards that goal as well... 
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Luance DeAngeluotti
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Posted - 2005.01.12 15:46:00 -
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I got my first storyline mission on 2005.01.10 10:32:00 which said 'Please come meet me at Bridi III - Moon 2 - Impetus Publisher as soon as possible'. Well I first had to equip a ship and since there was no time limit noted anywhere I went there right now 2005.01.12 16:44:00 and he told me to sod off. I tried to open the details from my journal, but it did not work. I logged off an on again and the mission was gone from my journal.
That was fun!
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Jacob Kokabi
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Posted - 2005.01.13 07:07:00 -
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Originally by: BH Mephysto
Interbus agents are not giving important missions at present.
Great. Could someone give me back the last 7 weeks of my life that I wasted doing InterBus missions?
The only reason anybody does missions for InterBus is to gain standing with all the major factions. So now you're saying InterBus is worthless? What about Sisters of EVE? Do they have storyline missions? Or is it just the empire factions?
Shouldn't fundamental changes that completely alter the way the game is played for some users be mentioned in the patch notes???
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Styxx
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Posted - 2005.01.13 19:46:00 -
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My question is what other corporations arent giving out storyline missions? I have done over 125 missions since November 29 for a level 3 agent in Transtellar Shipping (TS) Corp and havent seen a storyline mission. Petitioned it and was told to do some missions for the agent that did give me a story mission on November 29 that was in Federal Customs Corp which is 15 jumps from me! I did like 10 missions there and I know I didnt do 16 but this seems wrong. I always got important missions from TS, why should I dump my 9.0 standings with TS to work for Federal Customs agents now?
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Klaryssa
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Posted - 2005.01.14 13:57:00 -
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I had a Level 1 Important mission, from some random guy in Minmitar Mining Corp. I was running missions for Republic Fleet, trying to increase my standing with them.
The mission was 8 jumps away, 5 of them 0.4 or lower, with the actual mission taking place in 0.2.
Seeing as this char is virtually untrained... thats a huge risk, especially coming from a level 1 agent in a 0.8 system.
Anyway, I did the mission.
And what a waste of time.
Sure, i got a 0.05 bonus to my Faction standing, but absolutely ZERO bonus from Republic Fleet. The 0.11 standing increase that i was chasing was from Minmitar Mining Corp... and i doubt i will ever use them, or their agents. If i wanted to, I would run missions for them.
Is this the new important mission?
Its going to take forever to increase standings enough to use some good agents if Important missions don't give ANY boost.
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