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Wastelands Story Arc - Federation Side?

banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
edited September 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Where does this begin exactly? Since they removed it from the episode guide, I can no longer seem to access it, nor find Franklin Drake to get it. What do I have to do to get this started? Thanks in advance.
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  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,472 Arc User
    banegrivm wrote: »
    Where does this begin exactly? Since they removed it from the episode guide, I can no longer seem to access it, nor find Franklin Drake to get it. What do I have to do to get this started? Thanks in advance.

    It's your Journal under 'Available' tab after you complete the initial Fed arc.
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    I just finished the arc for J'ula yesterday where it introduced Stamets, and there isn't anything in my journal. I read in some patch notes it got moved out, so I am wondering where to find the mission giver NPC to pick it up in person so to speak.
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  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    I am really confused. I found it in the Available tab on my other character and was even able to play the arc the whole way through to completion. On this character it's non existent. I had heard that they made changes to some of those arcs and that you had to find the contacts in game to get through them. I'm not quite sure what I am doing wrong and this whole thing has me very confused.
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 10,914 Community Moderator
    Horace Jones is the mission giver for "The Lost City of Paradise." Did you try just going to Nimbus III and talking to him to see if he offers the mission?
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  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    I did and he wouldn't give me the mission. Horace Jones is the NPC just inside the city on the right hand side yes?
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 10,914 Community Moderator
    banegrivm wrote: »
    I did and he wouldn't give me the mission. Horace Jones is the NPC just inside the city on the right hand side yes?

    Yes. Hmmm... You said that your toon is FED? What era (2409/TOS/DSC)? Which episode missions have you done? Did you skip any?
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  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    I am TOS Fed. I've done everything but the New Romulan and Dison Sphere stuff, mainly because they are so monotonous.
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 10,914 Community Moderator
    Ok. I forgot about "Secrets of Nimbus" coming before that mission and it is given by Franklin Drake. Have you spoken to Admiral Quinn and accepted "The Galaxy at Large"?
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  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    I have not done that yet. I also did not get a "The Galaxy at Large" mission from him either.
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 10,914 Community Moderator
    Visit Quinn at ESD and see if he offers "The Galaxy at Large" then see if those missions appear in the Available tab.
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  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    I have spoken to Quinn in person already for a turn in on another mission and didn't notice anything as such, but I'll go back and check.
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  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    The only thing that is not a TF that Quinn offers me is Lost Dominion and Spectres.
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    65?
    'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 10,914 Community Moderator
    This whole situation is why those missions never should've been removed from the mission journal.

    Try playing through the "Spectres" missions since Drake is part of that. Perhaps afterwards he'll offer up "Secrets of Nimbus."
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    edited September 2019
    The missing Wastelands thing is fairly common with Fed and KDF toons since they shuffled the mission off to the "available" tab, the only one it seems to always appear for is the Romulan faction (and possibly Dominion, but since I cannot get into character with a Jem'Hadar I do not play Dom ground so I have no idea on them).
  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    65?
    Of course I am 65. I am going to try the Spectres idea later and see what happens afterwards.

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  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    azrael605 wrote: »
    > @phoenixc#0738 said:
    > The missing Wastelands thing is fairly common with Fed and KDF toons since they shuffled the mission off to the "available" tab, the only one it seems to always appear for is the Romulan faction (and possibly Dominion, but since I cannot get into character with a Jem'Hadar I do not play Dom ground so I have no idea on them).

    Not true. I played Wasteland on my DSC just after I got to the 25th century, nor is it missing on any of my othe Feds of any flavor. I have also played it with my Vanguard Jem Hadar.

    Alright, then why don't I see it? I finally got Franklin Drake to offer missions on the Available tab by doing Spectres as was suggested. Unfortunately he still isn't giving me the Wastelands arc.
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    azrael605 wrote: »
    > @phoenixc#0738 said:
    > The missing Wastelands thing is fairly common with Fed and KDF toons since they shuffled the mission off to the "available" tab, the only one it seems to always appear for is the Romulan faction (and possibly Dominion, but since I cannot get into character with a Jem'Hadar I do not play Dom ground so I have no idea on them).

    Not true. I played Wasteland on my DSC just after I got to the 25th century, nor is it missing on any of my othe Feds of any flavor. I have also played it with my Vanguard Jem Hadar.

    Count yourself lucky then, I and a lot of people I have talked to about it have it missing on at least some of their Fed and KDF toons (with me it runs to most of them after the change are missing the mission altogether).
  • anodynesanodynes Member Posts: 1,999 Arc User
    edited September 2019
    leemwatson wrote: »
    banegrivm wrote: »
    Where does this begin exactly? Since they removed it from the episode guide, I can no longer seem to access it, nor find Franklin Drake to get it. What do I have to do to get this started? Thanks in advance.

    It's your Journal under 'Available' tab after you complete the initial Fed arc.

    Or even just skip the initial arc. I've gone to Nimbus at like level 3 on new characters made after the change, just to see if I could and to check on some bugs.
    phoenixc#0738 wrote: »
    azrael605 wrote: »
    > @phoenixc#0738 said:
    > The missing Wastelands thing is fairly common with Fed and KDF toons since they shuffled the mission off to the "available" tab, the only one it seems to always appear for is the Romulan faction (and possibly Dominion, but since I cannot get into character with a Jem'Hadar I do not play Dom ground so I have no idea on them).

    Not true. I played Wasteland on my DSC just after I got to the 25th century, nor is it missing on any of my othe Feds of any flavor. I have also played it with my Vanguard Jem Hadar.

    Count yourself lucky then, I and a lot of people I have talked to about it have it missing on at least some of their Fed and KDF toons (with me it runs to most of them after the change are missing the mission altogether).

    I also have had no problems finding it. This was on characters who already completed it, or ones who were created after the change. 100% success rate with those. My guess is that those who have issues finding it were in the gray area of being in progress when the change happened, which is something that I, unfortunately, cannot test.
    banegrivm wrote: »
    azrael605 wrote: »
    > @phoenixc#0738 said:
    > The missing Wastelands thing is fairly common with Fed and KDF toons since they shuffled the mission off to the "available" tab, the only one it seems to always appear for is the Romulan faction (and possibly Dominion, but since I cannot get into character with a Jem'Hadar I do not play Dom ground so I have no idea on them).

    Not true. I played Wasteland on my DSC just after I got to the 25th century, nor is it missing on any of my othe Feds of any flavor. I have also played it with my Vanguard Jem Hadar.

    Alright, then why don't I see it? I finally got Franklin Drake to offer missions on the Available tab by doing Spectres as was suggested. Unfortunately he still isn't giving me the Wastelands arc.

    Is there anything anywhere in your Episodes tab with a Hail or Skip button? Especially those TFO introduction missions? Those things caused most of the roadblocks to doing "later" content that I've run across.
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  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    This is a new character so it has nothing to do with any kind of intermediate patch or changes. I skipped all the TFO's. I'm wondering right now if it's because I haven't done the Devidian arc from Franklin Drake on this character. I am doing it right now to see.
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  • shrimphead2015shrimphead2015 Member Posts: 536 Arc User
    I ran into this problem and I found that if you do all the missions that pop in in your available tab then the Wasteland missions will emerge. Try not to skip any of the missions (and i think that also includes tfo's).
    "There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life." - Ten Bears (Will Sampson)
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    The 'Arcs' that moved offline to the Availible Tab will only give out the Missions one at a time, in order, on your first run of them. After you run one it will stay available to Replay. This only applies if you have never run that Arc to begin with.
    'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
    Judge Dan Haywood
    'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
    l don't know.
    l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
  • kaithan1975kaithan1975 Member Posts: 947 Arc User
    azrael605 wrote: »
    > @phoenixc#0738 said:

    Not true. I played Wasteland on my DSC just after I got to the 25th century, nor is it missing on any of my othe Feds of any flavor. I have also played it with my Vanguard Jem Hadar.

    Same. The question here is exactly what triggers this to appear in the 'Available' tab? It isn't 'Spectres' since neither my DSC character or my JH have ever done it.

  • tyler002tyler002 Member Posts: 1,586 Arc User
    As far as I'm aware, Secrets of Nimbus should become available when you complete "The Galaxy at Large". At least, that's how it usually works for me and I did Wasteland earlier today as a Lieutenant Commander.
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    edited September 2019
    tyler002 wrote: »
    As far as I'm aware, Secrets of Nimbus should become available when you complete "The Galaxy at Large". At least, that's how it usually works for me and I did Wasteland earlier today as a Lieutenant Commander.

    True, when it does work it becomes available very early on. In fact, my new Romulan (who I made specifically for the Elachi ship) got the mission as part of the mission spam that happens right after choosing a faction. When it does work for my Fed characters (about one out of three times or so) it comes in with the earliest mission spam batch too.

    If you depend on Spectres to trigger it (and I am not sure if that even works) you will be already done with leveling and probably already have the purple Borg torpedo doff from Omega reputation so you don't need the main draw of Wastlands, the purple torpedo doff Law, any more anyway. And you do not need to do the missions just to go kill the scorpion things for the endeavor, unlike the Kobali stuff where you need the mission unlocked just to get to the ground battlezone.
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    But, after you get 'Law' (don't fight him because he'll win), on reruns you will get random VR Doffs instead. ;)
    'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
    Judge Dan Haywood
    'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
    l don't know.
    l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    I have done everything that I can think of and finished everything and still no luck with getting this mission. It's very frustrating.
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  • banegrivmbanegrivm Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    I got it finally, thank you to everyone that offered help. I saw I had to do a Romulan TF before Quinn would give me The Galaxy at a Glance. Once I did the TF, he gave me that mission, then completing it, logging out, logging back in, I was then offered the quest chain. Again thank you all very much. I appreciate the help.
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