AJGeraden Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Question/comment on this. Two nights ago, I managed to get a purple mission schematic from slicing. The schematic required skill 340, and my slicing is maxed out at 400. I decided to send out a companion on it rather than sell it to see what I would get. It cost me about 2500 credits, AND took 2.5 hours...and it FAILED. The biggest mistake I made was sending one of my companions out that I have very little affection with. But other than that, it seems kind of absurd to me that a mission that costs that much time and money AND is at a skill level 60 points below my current skill level can fail. What does everyone else think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natarii Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) It happens with high affection too. I sent Khem out on an archaeology mission and his affection was about 8500 at the time and after 2.5 hours and 19K on the recipe, he failed! I was irritated, but it happens. FYI though, 340 is the highest mission skill discoverable, it brings back tier 6 materials. Edited January 17, 2012 by Natarii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimsPicken Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 They cant crit, but they can fail. Bad design. So to get the missions discoveries you need a mission crit and the RNG to give you the mission you want, then you need to spend more crew time/money running it, only to hope that the RNG doesnt decide you failed it instead. Really poorly thought out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZNICK Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Rare slicing missions should always be done by Mako... she's has a slicing affinity. Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passionfruit Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Mako failed last night on a purple slicing mission..and she is over 8k affection. In fact I failed 3/4 missions last night I sent various alts on before I logged. I craft on various alts ( lvl 11) all over 3k affection. Khem fails at a much higher rate (researching) then the others. So I'm thinking the randomness of failures is off. Until last night, I never failed a looted mission. Considering the time to even loot these, the cost and time to run one, these should never fail. I would be fine if they even stated you needed a certain level of affection for these to be 100%. Credits are easy to get, but this was the first purple mission I discovered, so was quite disappointing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theothersteve Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Affection only affects crit rates, not failure rates, unfortunately. Yellow missions fail 5%, green 1%. I recently failed a "purple" mission that I blew 20,000 credits to buy on the GTN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marlaine Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 It happens. I doubt much of us like it much, but it's a well known fact that missions can fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciparis Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 You should simply get the mission back if it fails. Lost time, not lost opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJGeraden Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 You should simply get the mission back if it fails. Lost time, not lost opportunity. That would be a great solution. Especially with the amount of time and resources wasted on these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felioats Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 You should simply get the mission back if it fails. Lost time, not lost opportunity. This would be nice. I was irritated the first time it happened to me, too. Once it happened to me twice in a row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakuBenjami Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I have 3 (nadia,qyzen and zerek) at 10k affection on the same sage and they do fail rich, blue and purple missions from time to time. Affection doesnt really affect the crit rates either, it only affects the speed of completion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bovinity Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 They cant crit, but they can fail. Bad design. I have epic Diplomacy missions crit all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepingfrog Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Missions can fail when I am at the skill level 400 limit?!. Are there any items which can be equipped to companions to prevent mission fails or reduce fail risk? If not the mission fails at skill cap are good for nothing else than demotivation. Bioware should think about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiggaHarley Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I have 3 (nadia,qyzen and zerek) at 10k affection on the same sage and they do fail rich, blue and purple missions from time to time. Affection doesnt really affect the crit rates either, it only affects the speed of completion. High Affection does also affect success and crit rate. I saw the tooltip while loading last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coel_Slaw Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 i also had a purple crit that i had purchased, it sucked. but i am new to this game, where do the purple missions come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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