Endless Universe - Incorrect mission time span

ShadeParadox - Raging Tide
ShadeParadox - Raging Tide Posts: 169 Arc User
edited March 2012 in Support Desk
I have had several failed attempts in the Endless Universe zone due to the "Incorrect mission time span" error appearing. It occurs when the party leader attempts to spawn the bosses for the second half of the zone.

This is just after finishing the Mirror quests, returning to the starting area and attempting to update the mission to the next step. When the party leader talks to the NPC to spawn the first boss it gives the party leader the error "Incorrect mission time span".

I have now had this happen 4 times. It is a ONCE A DAY zone and we can not cancel any quests or retry the first part of the zone as that is already complete. We have tried logging off and on, passing leader to everyone in the party and retaking the party leader quest from the other NPC in the zone. Nothing works. I can only wait until the next day and "hope" it does not happen again.

Please find a fix for this as I have now lost several chances for the rewards in this zone and most likely will lose several more due to this bug.

This seems to happen more often when we do not fail the first part of the mission (no restarts). I get the feeling the better we play the game the more we are being punished. Find a fix and implement it asap.
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  • ShadeParadox - Raging Tide
    ShadeParadox - Raging Tide Posts: 169 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    ShadeParadox - Raging Tide wrote: »
    This seems to happen more often when we do not fail the first part of the mission (no restarts). I get the feeling the better we play the game the more we are being punished. Find a fix and implement it asap.

    I just got the glitched zone again today. This time while I was leader.

    I think I figured it out. The first Gem Delivery quest is glitched. If you fail it once you get a retry quest. The retry quest doesn't seem to glitch (at least I haven't seen it glitch yet).

    My temporary fix action is to forcefully fail, at least one time, right away and then do the retry mission every time.
  • brideinred
    brideinred Posts: 29 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    I'm trying to figure out this too, and making some SS.

    I did a few runs without failing the gem deliver once and it worked flawless.

    The reason I found so far is after the Theta gem is delivered you can notice the red text saying it was done successful. If someone jumps just after it may also shows a red texts saying mission failed.

    Now, when this happens you have both quests in the npcs, the Gem Delivery Success with Zirihk Slanh and the Try Again! with Wade Slanh. If you choose the Try Again! or any other quests with Wade Slanh it will glitch. Always check Zirihk Slanh quests first to avoid it.

    All I have are some answers when I asked what leaders did when it happens, but could not force glitch yet because no one really wants to give it a try.
  • ShadeParadox - Raging Tide
    ShadeParadox - Raging Tide Posts: 169 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    brideinred wrote: »
    Now, when this happens you have both quests in the npcs, the Gem Delivery Success with Zirihk Slanh and the Try Again! with Wade Slanh. If you choose the Try Again! or any other quests with Wade Slanh it will glitch. Always check Zirihk Slanh quests first to avoid it.

    When I tried yesterday I went to Zirihk first and it glitched. The quests from Wade only gave the one party leader check quest.

    I do like what you caught from people jumping off too early. I'll try to keep an eye on that if someone's exiting too fast to get to the starting point.
  • ShadeParadox - Raging Tide
    ShadeParadox - Raging Tide Posts: 169 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    So I had a successful (flawless) run yesterday. I "tried" to fail it right away. Apparently I failed to fail the quest...

    If you dig a gem then leave your area immediately before you get the pop-up quest update then it does not fail the party quest. Instead you still have free roaming and can go anywhere in the instance until you return to the area for your gem and get the pop-up.

    Kind of a bad exploit for this zone and I hope it get's patched asap.

    I did ask everyone to wait a moment after the final mirror update before returning to the start. The next update was successful and I received no "Failed" quests when turning in.

    Still not 100% certain what causes the failure. I will continue to try different things and see if it any strange errors occur again and post what we did to cause it.

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    If anyone else sees anything strange happen in Endless Universe please post and maybe we can work out how to correctly avoid any failed quests.
  • ShadeParadox - Raging Tide
    ShadeParadox - Raging Tide Posts: 169 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    ShadeParadox - Raging Tide wrote: »
    This seems to happen more often when we do not fail the first part of the mission (no restarts).

    Glitched again today. And this time while doing the retry. So much for that idea.

    Still it may have a problem with people leaving too early to get back to the starting point. I'm going to keep warning my party about that now and see if that alone can help prevent the glitching.
  • ShadeParadox - Raging Tide
    ShadeParadox - Raging Tide Posts: 169 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Glitched again. This time someone jumped off the edge right at the start before we even killed one mob. It glitched and would not let us even Try again.
  • ShadeParadox - Raging Tide
    ShadeParadox - Raging Tide Posts: 169 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Asking my party to wait a moment for the "Can't Leave" quest to clear seems to be working. I have not seen any glitches the last few days.

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