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What's the point of doing these missions anymore if you don't receive any skill points for completing them?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Sabutai wrote: »
    What's the point of doing these missions anymore if you don't receive any skill points for completing them?

    What exactly are Data missions? -.- The crafting? Did you unlock the next tier? I wasn't aware crafting gave SP.

    Crafting is there to upgrade gear you find... not as a way to level.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    No its the exploration missions where you get told to collect data and fly around in a circle scanning 5 anomalies. They offer no reward for completion.

    I imagine its a bug, they should offer some skill points, even if its not the same as other exploration missions.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Foxrocks wrote:
    No its the exploration missions where you get told to collect data and fly around in a circle scanning 5 anomalies. They offer no reward for completion.

    I imagine its a bug, they should offer some skill points, even if its not the same as other exploration missions.

    Its not a bug... You can get the quests to complete three exploration missions. Those missions are insanely easy and thus have no SP reward but do count toward the "Explore 0/3" quest.

    It would be way too easy to just enter and leave exploration systems until you got those easy ones to get SP and finish the quest.

    As far as I know only the combat oriented exploration missions give SP at the end. Its a time vs reward thing.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    what skills did you use to earn any points. It takes no effort so it should award no points.

    I would hat to think someone could level farming these.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    MrBlinker wrote:
    Its not a bug... You can get the quests to complete three exploration missions. Those missions are insanely easy and thus have no SP reward but do count toward the "Explore 0/3" quest.

    It would be way too easy to just enter and leave exploration systems until you got those easy ones to get SP and finish the quest.

    As far as I know only the combat oriented exploration missions give SP at the end. Its a time vs reward thing.

    no these used to give SP. And your time vs reward argument doesn't mean much when I can go into a defend mission and push the free SP button in the corner and leave.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Chenchuan wrote: »
    what skills did you use to earn any points. It takes no effort so it should award no points.

    I would hat to think someone could level farming these.

    About as much skill as walking around a planet and scanning random creatures or artifacts, all the explore missions should yield SP.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Sabutai wrote: »
    no these used to give SP. And your time vs reward argument doesn't mean much when I can go into a defend mission and push the free SP button in the corner and leave.

    The explore missions which don't involve combat have never given me SP. Even through OB.

    Also you can only do that once and generally if you enter at the beginning of the fight you have to stay until the end to get the Deep Space Encounter quest SP.

    Its probably a bug that you can enter a finished one and click the "Hail" button and get SP.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    MrBlinker wrote:
    The explore missions which don't involve combat have never given me SP. Even through OB.

    Also you can only do that once and generally if you enter at the beginning of the fight you have to stay until the end to get the Deep Space Encounter quest SP.

    Its probably a bug that you can enter a finished one and click the "Hail" button and get SP.

    every easy portion of the explore missions yield SP. You can walk around a planet and scan 5 things and get points. And you have always been able to get sucked into a defend mission and press the free XP button in the corner, bug or not, and has zero effort compared to the data missions.

    And in OB it did yield SP for those missions, this is recent change and needs attention back in the other direction.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    What free SP button???
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I think it is a bug...cause when you get those "scan 4 things on a planet" missions, they actually award you with sp....and there is also no combat involved...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Chenchuan wrote: »
    what skills did you use to earn any points. It takes no effort so it should award no points.

    I would hat to think someone could level farming these.

    The effort you put in is time. Not much different then the kill 5 enemy missions... pressing space bar is no extra effort then pressing scan button.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Poldii wrote:
    I think it is a bug...cause when you get those "scan 4 things on a planet" missions, they actually award you with sp....and there is also no combat involved...

    so you're proposing that the peaceful missions, aka what Star Trek is about, should be removed in favor of the combat ones? Or those that want to run those type of missions shouldn't be allowed to level with everybody else?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Are you sure you aren't getting SP?

    When I do those missions, I don't see SP in the pop up text on the reward, but I see +xx amount of SP in the chat window.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Abradax wrote:
    Are you sure you aren't getting SP?

    When I do those missions, I don't see SP in the pop up text on the reward, but I see +xx amount of SP in the chat window.

    yes the retrieve anomalous data missions don't yield SP, you get some officer skill ups and some merits but no skill points.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Abradax wrote:
    Are you sure you aren't getting SP?

    When I do those missions, I don't see SP in the pop up text on the reward, but I see +xx amount of SP in the chat window.

    I am sure. You dont get Skill Points for those find 5 anomolies exploration missions anymore. I know you got SP in 'Closed' beta. Not sure we did in 'Open' beta.

    You do get credit for them as to your total number of exploration missions and at least one of the exploration areas is bugged and auto-completes when you do the last of 3 missions. This could be what you are seeing when you think you are getting SP's for those missions.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I noticed this as well thought it was odd since ground scan things ones do, at least it's quick to do I guess.
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