That's certainly a plausible theory. I can't remember if I've run up against something else which autogenerated a mission after completing a hunt count.
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I had the same problem the last time I did this arc. I abandoned the task and talked to Harvey again and got the hunt to do again. The second time I made sure I defeated the last few on the street.
This is a new bug because I have always completed the hunt 50 by doing radio missions to get them. As a matter of fact, I always do radio missions to complete defeat X enemies unless the hunt states they must be defeated in a specific zone or location because I hate hunts (with a passion). I never had a problem with this or any other mission that auto spawned a second mission until I21.
I was finishing up the Harvey Maylor story arc the other evening, when I ran into a couple of issues. One was frustrating, the other was a specific bug.
First, the frustrating one: The penultimate mission on Maylor's arc is a 'Hunt' mission - to defeat 50 Carnies. Great, no problems - except, there are very few areas blueside where you can find Carnies on the streets. There are a few of 'em in a small part of PI, but that's about it. (at least, AFAIK)
If we're asked to go out and hunt 'em, then it would be nice if their spawn locations / rates were increased - at least in certain parts of PI.
...This leads me nicely into my second issue...
Because of the aforementioned lack of Carnies on the street, I used the police scanner to see if I could find some missions with Carnies in them. A couple of return trips back to Talos, and a Carnie mission was available. I ran this through, reset it, and ran it again. I managed to defeat the requisite 50 carnies (and I even got a couple of shards, which was a nice bonus !).
I finished the police band mission, exited, and was immediately set up with the finale of the Maylor Arc - which was expected. However, there was no mission entrance. No location on the Nav bar, and when I tried the mission teleporter temp power, it failed, and I had the following error:
I've a theory on what happened here: Presumably the defeat of the 50th carnie triggers the creation of the final mission. Perhaps because I was already on an instanced map when I reached this goal, the spawn point of the mission entrance couldn't be created (I would guess it would have spawned somewhere in PI if I was on a street map). Perhaps the mission entrance was spawned somewhere inside the instanced map I was on at the time ? (Which may fit the above message).
I guess there's no way of knowing though. I'm half tempted to try and recreate it with another toon, or through Oro. But only if I'm really bored :-) GM_Brandon recommended reporting the issue here as well, so here it is!
Right, that's enough typing, better get on with my Sunday. Apologies if this is a known issue. I couldn't see any mention of it elsewhere
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