So I take a mission out of Itani E-7 to mine 500 cu of Xithricite ore. Although it takes quite a while, I stick with it and finally return with the final load. The mission log says: "All 500x of Premium Xithricite ore delivered successfully"; however, the log never displays the complete mission button, never pays me, and the only choice it gives me is to abort the mission. What a frustrating waste of time!

Dumb question: did you actually mine all 500 cu? In other words: did you extract 500 cu of XiRite while the mission was active, or was some of what you delivered left over from a previous mission or elsewhere?

There is a bug with the mining missions that was reported to Ray. I thought initially it was just the Denic mission, but it does so on others also. (tested yesterday)

Basically the way around it is to mine a extra ore until you get a mission completed message.

Yes, this needs to get fixed.

Just to be clear: the way the mission is set up now is that you must mine and deliver whatever quantity of ore is being asked for. The mission doesn't care where you get the ore from. However, if you deliver some of the ore ahead of time (in other words, if you deliver the ore before you mine it, having it stockpiled ahead of time) you still have to go out and finish mining the quantity requested. Both of these objectives should be visible in the mission log, with progress indicators. There is a completion message for the ore delivery that automatically triggers and writes to the mission log when the ore delivery is complete, but that doesn't necessarily mean that both mission objectives are complete (mining and delivery).

That is the current implementation as I understand it. If the mission is behaving otherwise, then there is a bug.

No, it's a bug Phaserlight. Ray kinda blew it off, which is disappointing, since he rated it as a low priority fix. Well, I call bs on that, since it is a bug that was introduced by the the devs in one of the recent updates.

Inc, fix this. Really. All of this used to work just fine, and now it's broken.