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Keizo
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I really feel that the 48 hour time limit needs to be variable. A mission from somerset to the badlands truckstop in 48 hours is possible, but it cuts it close. For two reasons, I failed my first courier mission. The first is, I had to resize my van's gas tank (from 20 to 25) in order to make it anywhere. That took 13 hours. Then, I didn't wake up at 5 AM my time in order to get the van going right after it arrived in gateway. I lost another good 6 hours there. Add up a few more problems, and I missed my deadline by 5 hours. I imagine this is going to wreck the reputation that took me over a week to get (and it's only a measly 34 right now), meaning I won't get to do any more courier missions for a long time. Not only that, but the profit from the mission I might have made (something like 2500$) isn't going to come close to covering the repair costs of the three encounters I had to deal with to get there. (Over 3.5k).

Basically, I can see why you'd add courier missions--except, the y simply aren't working for me.

......................... vet
Posted Jun 20, 2007, 1:51 pm

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I already made the timelimit change, a day or two ago, but only for newly created missions.

I think the lower-paying courier missions probably need to be combined with other activities (either other missions, or trading) to make them profitable.

Is your mission already failed? If not, I'll add some extra hours to it for you.

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Posted Jun 20, 2007, 2:15 pm	Last edited Jun 20, 2007, 2:18 pm by sam

Keizo
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No, the mission isn't failed yet, but it will be in about 3 hours. The mission is the one involving the private documents in my van. It's due by 6-21, 1:00; my squad is going to get there at 6-21, 6:00 (server time, approximates). Thanks a lot Sam!

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Posted Jun 20, 2007, 10:21 pm