Mystery of the Vanishing Tips
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Blood_Beret,
Posted on: 2010-09-01 07:31 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Interesting. I only activate 1 Tip at a time. I actually thought that that was how it was supposed to be done, and that you couldn't have more than 1 active Tip...
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I usually get 2 tips, and go to the one that is closest. I usually end up getting a 3rd tip while I'm inside the mission, which I'll investigate when I'm done with the current mission and then go to the closer one again. |
Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Interesting. I only activate 1 Tip at a time. I actually thought that that was how it was supposed to be done, and that you couldn't have more than 1 active Tip...
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As for tips disappearing.. I have not had that sort of thing happen. There is a mechanic that wipes them when you travel back to the opposing side, but from DA, Talos is right next door. That's quite strange.
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you can have up to 3 active tips, since you can have up to 7 active mishs at once, you just cant have more than 3 tips total
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Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Interesting. I only activate 1 Tip at a time. I actually thought that that was how it was supposed to be done, and that you couldn't have more than 1 active Tip...
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Maybe it is somehow related to leveling up? A far as I heard, there are different level bands for tip missions. Is it possible you crossed the level band?
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This is why I mentioned the fact that I had levelled. On the other hand, levelling up has never cancelled on-the-agenda missions or story arcs before; many times I've found I had level 15 story arcs open on a level 50 character, noticed by the fact that you still had an active contact in Steel Canyon. So this behavior is doubly unexpected.
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Originally Posted by NordBlast
Maybe it is somehow related to leveling up? A far as I heard, there are different level bands for tip missions. Is it possible you crossed the level band?
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I would say that it was definitely caused by out leveling them. There are indeed in 3 bands: 20-29; 30-39; and 40-50.
Whether this is WAI or a bug, I do not know.
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I will relate a similar, but somewhat more annoying experience related to leveling up and tip missions. I was at level 29, and fairly close to leveling up to 30 when I entered the Hero Morality mission. During the mission I leveled up to 30 on the very final defeat objective which also completed the mission. I received no alignment credit for completing the mission. My alignment bar stayed full at 10 points, and I didn't receive a Hero Merit either. I can only assume this has something to do with the level ranges for the missions themselves (20-29, 30-39, etc.)
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Originally Posted by Heraclea
I was playing on a level 29 - 30 Blaster. I had just gone to Dark Astoria to farm up three tip missions. Once I had them, I took all three of them in Talos Island, confirmed that they were on my active missions, and entered one of them. While in that mission, I levelled to 30.
When I exited the first tip mission, the other two missions had vanished from my list. So had the tips, so I could not retake them. |
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What I am afraid of is that I might now have two missions in my queue that I can't access to either finish or drop. When you got to the point in an old contact arc where he was ready to give you the story arc, as soon as the book appeared you were committed even if you had outlevelled it, and it occupied one of your major story arc slots.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
I would say that it was definitely caused by out leveling them. There are indeed in 3 bands: 20-29; 30-39; and 40-50.
Whether this is WAI or a bug, I do not know. |
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Exact same thing happened to me. I went from 29 to 30 thanks to the final mob on the mission. I did not get credit for the tip mission, I still had 4 left to do at the time. Also the 2 other tips I had were gone.
It would be nice if there was some cary over. Like 20-30 and 30-40 instead of 20-29. If possible I would like to see it so you can get the different band missions from say 20-29 but have them doable up to 30. Once you get to 30, any new tips would be in the new band but you would still be able to do the "old" tips until you hit 31. There is already something similar with the contacts so I don't see how it could not be done.
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Yes, but you're talking here about story arcs. Tip missions work differently. You should be able to pick up more and do them normally, though they'll now be out of a different pool, with different enemy groups.
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Originally Posted by Heraclea
What I am afraid of is that I might now have two missions in my queue that I can't access to either finish or drop. When you got to the point in an old contact arc where he was ready to give you the story arc, as soon as the book appeared you were committed even if you had outlevelled it, and it occupied one of your major story arc slots.
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I know you can have 7 at once. However, I was initially under the impression that you could only have 1 active tip at a time. However, it's a moot point at this point.
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
you can have up to 3 active tips, since you can have up to 7 active mishs at once, you just cant have more than 3 tips total
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I thinkit is the level up that causes it. I got 3 tips in a mayhem Mission, and leveled from 47 to 48, Upon exiting and training I had no tips. I am not sure if the level up did it, or the training did it.
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I leveled during a Tip mission last night. Went from 23 to 24. I had the Tip I was working on, and one other. The other Tip did not vanish, even after training. I was hoping it would, since Slag Golems and Corruptors don't mix, thanks to them having the lame *** Warwolf 1000000000000000000000000 points of Move DeBuff Ressitance. 
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I was playing on a level 29 - 30 Blaster. I had just gone to Dark Astoria to farm up three tip missions. Once I had them, I took all three of them in Talos Island, confirmed that they were on my active missions, and entered one of them. While in that mission, I levelled to 30.
When I exited the first tip mission, the other two missions had vanished from my list. So had the tips, so I could not retake them.
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