Dear Devs.. please read this.

Why is it that when people join a Task Force and log out after 1 mission, still get rewards if the Task Force is completed. The people on the Task Force will enter missions designed for teams that include the people who logged out making it harder for the team, while the person who logged out, will get all the rewards as if he was there the whole time.
However, people on an Incarnate trail, who are there for the entire duration, but either crash or freeze at the end, don’t receive anything. I had this happen to me several times, and always get the same response from Customer Support how they can’t reward people who are not there at the end of a trail.

Last night was the straw for me, I lead a successful Mother of Mercy trail, however, the game crashed right at the end, and when I got back, they just finished it. I did not get the badge, Empyrean Merit and/or Astral Merit for completing this, while I only missed the last few minutes of the entire trail, basically meaning I wasted a good 45 minutes or more of my limited playing time, and that is not counting the time to build the solid league we had.

It is also a concern for people who want to try the Underground trail. They fear they might Crash or DC, and therefore will not get the Rare or Very Rare reward table. So instead of that, they just don’t run it out of fear of wasting an hour, or more, of their time.

Can we find a way to stop people’s frustration regarding this, since I know I’m not the only one who got cheated out of rewards. I understand that a Reward table is hard to provide, but I’d be happy with 10 or more threads, the Astral Merits and if necessary the Empyrean Merit and any earned Badges from that trail.
Either this, or remove the ’cheat version’ on the regular Task Forces.

Signed,
A very unhappy customer.

Wait do you're complaining people get rewards on TFs they exit and don't get rewards on Trials they leave?

The TF reward thing is wrong anyway, as Aggelakis and Obsidius said. Dual boxers who solo TFs leave the second toon on the entrance of every mission to get double rewards.

You should see why you're crashing, the game interprets that like you logged out. My client basically never crashes (unless I use the Mac one, which is just awful).

Earlier this year I was having a lot of crashes from memory leaks near the end of trials, and missed out on several reward tables. So I sympathize.

I don't know if this is still the case, but years ago I was on a mission and the leader kicked me for some silly reason. Afterwards I was running down the street and all of a sudden I got an end of mission reward out of the blue and I leveled.

It would be interesting to test whether that still works. If so, the logic for detecting this kind of problem is obviously there and the intention is that you get the end of mission reward if you're there long enough and still logged on. The only problem with crashing is that you're disconnected and your session information is lost, as well as the trial data if everyone else exited.

Obviously the devs could add code that would decide whether you were on the trial long enough to deserve a reward when a disconnect or kick is detected, and if so remember this and bring up the appropriate reward table when you next log in.

The question is whether it's worth the effort doing this. I'd rather have them spend the time fixing the crashes than implementing kludges to correct for them. So the questions are:

How frequently do people disconnect due to Internet connectivity problems under these circumstances?

And what constitutes "being on the trial long enough to deserve a reward?" Many of the trials already have significant rewards (astrals in all and 60 threads in some) for partial completion of the trial, so to get the end reward table you pretty much need to complete most of the final conflict. For Lambda and BAF it would seem that you'd have to be present for most of the final AV encounters, say, until they were down to 20%.

Since that last 20% goes by pretty fast, probably only a minute or so, the number of people who disconnect in that short window is very small relative to the number of people running trials.

Is it worth the effort? If the devs had considered this issue during the initial design of the system it probably wouldn't have been a big deal to implement. But adding new design hooks like this to an existing system is messy, and is often the source of future bugs.

I just tested this out, and if you're kicked from a team you still appear to get all the rewards at the end of the mission if you were on the team long enough.

To test this I ran a tip mission with one account and invited a character from my 99-cent second account. I completed the defeat objectives (two named NPCs, Flambeaux and Blast Furnace, I think), and then kicked the second character, who was ejected from the mission after 10 seconds.

I then defeated one spawn around the two glowies and clicked the glowies. The character that had been kicked got normal end-of-mission rewards, including credit for completing a tip mission:

You gain 1,237 experience and 1,485 influence.
Federation of Superheroes gains 95 prestige.
You were kicked from the team
[NPC] Jimmy: I know it'll be okay. I just saw La Flamme Fatale.
You gain 4,167 experience and 3,751 influence.
Federation of Superheroes gains 568 prestige.
You gain 4,167 experience and 3,751 influence.
Federation of Superheroes gains 568 prestige.
Congratulations! You earned the Walking the Path badge.
Congratulations! You earned the Ear to the Street badge.
Congratulations! You earned the Collector badge.
Congratulations! You earned the Kaolin Legacy of Earth badge.

I tested the following:

Ran a radio mission with two characters. Do everything including getting the glowie, but not defeating the boss. Logged out character B. Logged back in without inviting character B back to team. Had character A defeat the boss, ending the mission.

Character B gets inf and prestige out of the blue for having participated in the mission.

I'll try ending the mission with character B still logged out, but I'm guessing I won't get anything when I log back in.