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« on: December 28, 2015, 03:24:31 AM »

Prospector mission with ID 744957. Mission is in Q -1,-2. I have checked the systems in this quadrant twice, but can't find the deposit! There are only 5 stars there, so I can't miss the planet. The ship with the mission is in the Q -4,-2 now, but when I click "Talk" I get this responce:
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We are in Quadrant -1,-2 now... We should investigate the stars here and look for a planet or moon with the Ice environment.

Please let me know when we are in orbit of a planet or moon, and we will check out the surface.

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« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2015, 11:22:35 PM »

The system may go nova like the com.
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« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2015, 11:35:19 PM »

Yes, but COM missions at least give you some clue that target star has disappeared. With prospector mission there is no such clue. You can circle the target quadrant endlesly, trying to find something, thats not there!
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« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2016, 07:34:59 AM »

Can we please have a change that new missions give the miner a realistic time from pick up to blow up...

Basically new missions should lead to newborn systems, or systems with at least some minimum level of stability.. (-100? or better!)
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« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2016, 02:27:19 AM »

Prospector mission with ID 744957. Mission is in Q -1,-2. I have checked the systems in this quadrant twice, but can't find the deposit! There are only 5 stars there, so I can't miss the planet. The ship with the mission is in the Q -4,-2 now, but when I click "Talk" I get this responce:
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We are in Quadrant -1,-2 now... We should investigate the stars here and look for a planet or moon with the Ice environment.

Please let me know when we are in orbit of a planet or moon, and we will check out the surface.



I have this same problem. I checked a system twice, spending AP. I think it's invalid.

What's going on?
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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2016, 02:30:01 AM »

Can we please have a change that new missions give the miner a realistic time from pick up to blow up...

Basically new missions should lead to newborn systems, or systems with at least some minimum level of stability.. (-100? or better!)
Is not a bad suggestion. Supernovas still keep a limit on how long we can keep prospector missions without doing them. I've been keeping large stockpiles of them because I just can't go to them them all. I try to do ones which're close together.
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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2016, 04:10:09 AM »

I have the same problem.. I collect and take one Quadrant at a time. I found one deposit ($$ 35M) with 2 days left for nova.. and have 1 pointing to a system gone nova..

My suggestion is to make the SOS mining missions dynamic, if a star become unstable, the SOS mining mission should point to a new born system in the same Quadrant..
This way a SOS mining mission newer become "old"...
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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2016, 09:24:25 AM »

the Empire has infusers and are willing to 'rent them out' for a nominal fee. (say a percentage of the deposit) PM sargas for more details.
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« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2016, 11:20:35 AM »

If you really think about it, you do not know about novae until they happen.
The explorers who found the 'treasure' have no idea that the system has gone all 'ka-blooey' 1, but only that there is a 'treasure' on a planet in that particular sector.
You still have to locate the 'treasure' planet whether it still exists or not.

...The Empire does the same thing...


1 - (after all, it's physics - how long does it take to see something on a galactic level? the game is still restricted to 'speed-of-light' except for the WHG's)



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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2016, 07:24:43 PM »

Bump.

This is badly broken. I've searched in 2,0 tonight for a Hot Gas Giant mission. There are currently eight systems in 2,0. Together, the systems have a total of only three Hot Gas Giants. The mission is found at none of them.

What's sad is that, after the programming effort that was spent into re-categorizing the plants into Hot, Cold, Neutral, etc. ... this Supernova change came along and has effectively destroyed all old Prospector missions. They're not just useless now - they're a waste of valuable time and resources, spent in hunting what is no longer there.

Please fix this, SirEmi -
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« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2016, 11:39:04 PM »

Do these missions ever get completed? I wish they worked or didn't exist.
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« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2016, 11:46:57 PM »

yes they do. I has finished three but the nova keep you on your toe.  laugh
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« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2016, 09:48:11 AM »

My heavy miners are packing infusers and the Empire can re-stabilize a system in a couple of days.





(Edit -for a small fee, we can protect your mines as well)
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« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2016, 03:09:48 PM »

Suggestions should be in suggestion forum. This isn't really a bug.

BUT I mine a lot and here're my suggestions:
1) When we talk to the prospectors they should tell us how old the star was when they got the information--using this information we can guess-estimate how long we have before it nova's
2) If the star supernova's then remove the prospector mission from cargo and leave a message they disembarked

Something like that.
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« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2016, 01:59:33 AM »

About 4 days ago I got a 55 million deposit. Guess what? I went to the system and it's not there. It nova'd.

Sucks. I know it's not common in such a short span of time, but when it happens it hurts.
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