Link between 'Tasks' and 'Milestones'

[Ίμπις]

Hello,

I am wondering what the link is between 'Tasks' (the dedicated 'side-quest' style tab that you can manually pin) and 'Milestones', if any.

I was minding my own business, having just completed 'Milestone 2 - Blueprints', I decided to focus on completing tasks (before progressing onto 'Milestone 3 - Space Platforms), and the game prompted me with a dialogue message along the lines of "...we recommend completing milestones first and completing tasks as you are prompted/they are sent to you..." (though I am not 100% sure this is what it said, it may have been the other way around).

To me, it seems logical to clear all of my available Tasks before progressing on the Milestones, since completing the Tasks provides me with research points, which will in-turn improve my efficiency. Milestones on the other hand, as I understand it, provide me with more 'content', like Space Platforms and Foundations etc.

Essentially, 'Tasks' reward skill points for the skill tree and Milestones unlock new content.

Furthermore, I am not receiving any prompts to complete 'Tasks' (I only receive prompts for the Milestone objectives); 'Tasks' have to be manually pinned. If I have no 'Tasks' pinned, then I have no way of tracking them. Milestones are always pinned, and fixed so that they cannot be unpinned.

This dialogue message has led me to believe that certain tasks are tied to the milestone objectives, and will be easier/more efficient to complete if completed at the same time as the corresponding Milestone. However, I can see no link between them - the 'Tasks' have their own objectives, which seem completely separate from the objectives of the 'Milestones'.

This game is all about efficiency and as such I want to progress in the most efficient way.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[elidoran]

What it's really saying is get the current milestone factories going and then while that takes time to complete, fill that time by doing the tasks.

At higher difficulty settings doing the tasks first helps to gain Platform Units (PU) and research points for upgrades which help to then complete the milestones.

You can do any of it in any order you want. You could do all tasks available before each milestone, or, do all the milestones and then do all the tasks. It's up to you.

And, the only prompts for tasks are when completing a milestone it tells us there are new tasks available.

And, you can do tasks which aren't yet unlocked, and do the later task steps before completing the one(s) before it, and view the progress in the Tasks view.

[Ίμπις]

Originally posted by elidoran:

What it's really saying is get the current milestone factories going and then while that takes time to complete, fill that time by doing the tasks.

At higher difficulty settings doing the tasks first helps to gain Platform Units (PU) and research points for upgrades which help to then complete the milestones.

You can do any of it in any order you want. You could do all tasks available before each milestone, or, do all the milestones and then do all the tasks. It's up to you.

And, the only prompts for tasks are when completing a milestone it tells us there are new tasks available.

And, you can do tasks which aren't yet unlocked, and do the later task steps before completing the one(s) before it, and view the progress in the Tasks view.

Thank you very much for coming back so quickly.

I am only playing on normal difficulty, and it is my first time playing anything from this series and genre.

Okay so the Tasks are there to keep you occupied once you have started the Milestone progression essentially. There may be a more 'optimum' time to complete them, if say you can use a bi-product of an already existing system, thus not having to create the same system again later down-the-line. It's up to me essentially, if I want to consider upcoming tasks, and existing systems, and if it's worth keeping them around in order to complete tasks with less repetition.

Great advice. Thanks again.