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Chance to find Support Mission down?

spike74656spike74656 Member Posts: 55 Arc User
edited July 2014 in Duty Officer System and R&D
Has the Chance to find Support missions at Clusters/Nebulas/Belts gone down with 9.5?

I've been checking the tracker often and there seems to be far fewer support missions popping up.

Am I just imagining it? (I Hope so) or is there actually something to this?
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  • operationschiefoperationschief Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I haven't seen a single one pop yet. I have gone through 8 or 10 nebulas each reset and still nothing. Small sample size. If it keeps up, maybe there is something to it.

    I wonder if they have been moved from the cluster interact to department heads? Not really sure.
  • alexvio1alexvio1 Member Posts: 389 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    It was one in tong nebula 9 hours ago.
  • spike74656spike74656 Member Posts: 55 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Just logged on and looked at the Tracker. Not a single support available in all the clusters.


    This isn't looking good.
  • elishathorneelishathorne Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I think the chance is the same to find supports only problem is we can't double dip via the operations officer anymore so it ends up being rarer.
    And in my opinion the doff tracker at bit.ly/doffs isn't always completely updated.

    Oh and yea well if a certain cluster isn't working(betrakacough) then the chance there is off course zero^^
  • opak1opak1 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I have not seen any since the patch either.
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  • spike74656spike74656 Member Posts: 55 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I realise we dont get the second chance from departmend head.

    My worry is looking at the tracker(Which has only ever tracked the Current map version) the support missions seem to be down.

    It's a bit early to tell for certain but I think we should keep an eye on it.
  • architect13architect13 Member Posts: 1,076 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    spike74656 wrote: »
    I realise we dont get the second chance from departmend head.

    My worry is looking at the tracker(Which has only ever tracked the Current map version) the support missions seem to be down.

    It's a bit early to tell for certain but I think we should keep an eye on it.

    And when you find one, please offer me a Bridge invite. Oh wait, Cryptic took that away!
    Have you tried the new forum on your phone?
  • asindar1asindar1 Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    The other issue is that the missions in clusters last for 20 hours now. They use the same timer as the department heads.

    So you have a long time to get all your alts there since you can't use bridge invites anymore.

    Will be a pain for anyone that has leveled the the colonization chain since it will now take months to get lucky for the 4,5,6 missions to appear since you can only get them once a day instead of 6/12/(or higher if you had bridge invites) chances a day.
  • spike74656spike74656 Member Posts: 55 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    asindar1 wrote: »
    The other issue is that the missions in clusters last for 20 hours now. They use the same timer as the department heads.

    So you have a long time to get all your alts there since you can't use bridge invites anymore.

    Will be a pain for anyone that has leveled the the colonization chain since it will now take months to get lucky for the 4,5,6 missions to appear since you can only get them once a day instead of 6/12/(or higher if you had bridge invites) chances a day.

    Is this confirmed?? That's rather Awfull. Is there a visable countdown in game for this anywhere?
  • asindar1asindar1 Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Confirmed by people in the doffjobs channel.

    Current Map and Department Head reset times are tracked on the http://bit.ly/DOFFS google spreadsheet along with the doff missions.

    Current map reset time is on Doff UI, Department Head time has to be tracked separately and the new cluster popups follow the DH reset times, except Betreka which has no missions at all.
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