Doesn't it figure. Just when you thought the "mission" bugs couldn't get any weirder, Funcom grows weirder bugs.
After the patch on the 18th, I was running a "go get me that one" mission. It said I was supposed to bring back the Superior Nanoclusters from such-and-such a location.
I cleared out the dungeon, a tiny little one, one of those worm-gut ones. When I get to the worm's colon, there's my mission objective: a Superior Nanocluster sales terminal.
Needless to say, it wouldn't let me pick it up and take it home.
I petitioned twice on this, but no ARKs showed up to see it.
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On a related note, I can confirm what others have said -- the "go observe this object" missions can be completed by single-clicking the object, at least some of the time. It'd be prudent, until you hear this bug is fixed, to always try that first.
Being an old retired code-monkey, I'll bet I even know how this happened. This is how you're supposed to work the "go observe this mob" missions -- which you'll notice don't always work, either. Want to bet that two chunks of code got swapped around?
Too bad you can't pick up mobs; but until they fix it you can at least select object containers on the ground and finish those missions.
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I deeply love the idea of a science fiction, not fantasy, MMORPG. You couldn't pay me to play Everquest or Dark Age of Camelot. But when it comes to ship it, then fix it, boy in some ways Funcom makes Microsoft look good.