Missions auto completed themselves?

[Eddie]

I accepted a repair mssion and on my way there the mission suddenly completed itself and I got the reward. Immediately after I took on a goods delivery mission and it instantly completed itself and I got the reward too. What is going on?

[Herasteane]

I had the same happen with a repair mission.

Basicly by the time I got there, there were about 3 ships circling the repair points, so I'm guessing the station's repair drones were already working on it, so instead of 8 points I only had to repair 3 myself.

I'm guessing the same happens for trade goods. If a freighter goes there with what's needed, the mission just ends itself.

[Eddie]

Originally posted by Herastean:

I had the same happen with a repair mission.

Basicly by the time I got there, there were about 3 ships circling the repair points, so I'm guessing the station's repair drones were already working on it, so instead of 8 points I only had to repair 3 myself.

I'm guessing the same happens for trade goods. If a freighter goes there with what's needed, the mission just ends itself.

Could be, but why would I get the reward? Feels really strange...

[Eddie]

And it happened again.
Accepted a Resource Order Mission and it instantly completed itself and I got a 350.000 Cr reward... Is there something I'm missing? Does anyone know if it's a bug or mechanic that I'm not aware of?

[TheDeadlyShoe]

In the resource order mission the only condition is that every resource be above the designated percentage (which can vary from like 25% to 75%). All that matters is that the goal is reached. Its very possible for AI traders to fill the station past those levels between the mission being generated and you accepting it. I can't speak for the other ones.

[Ydyp]

Some missions do complete themself because of AI traders as TheDeadlyShoe said. Other missions just vanish and get absolete because for instance the dataleaks are not there anymore by the time you reach it. Or the miner getting blown up because you took to long etc.

There are very few missions that do not fail or succeed on their own if you wait long enough. And sometimes you are just unlucky to pick up the mission at the point is going to vanish and you can't reach the mission spot in time before the target object is either despawned/destroyed or in some cases repaired.

[Eddie]

Originally posted by Ydyp:

Some missions do complete themself because of AI traders as TheDeadlyShoe said. Other missions just vanish and get absolete because for instance the dataleaks are not there anymore by the time you reach it. Or the miner getting blown up because you took to long etc.

There are very few missions that do not fail or succeed on their own if you wait long enough. And sometimes you are just unlucky to pick up the mission at the point is going to vanish and you can't reach the mission spot in time before the target object is either despawned/destroyed or in some cases repaired.

Hm ok. Still, I find it weird that you get a reward for doing nothing. The game should detect if the player did anything for the mission and just mark it as failed, if he didn't do anything... Oh well...

[cwsumner]

I think the idea works like this:

The station, with high priority needs, hires several contractors to do as much of the job as is needed. Once you have the contract, you get paid as agreed even if the other contractors completed it first. Maybe they get a bonus, I think I did once. And it is only done when very important.

I don't think the game keeps track of credits for the NPCs, but it does keep track of them doing the jobs and you can see them.