Remove the 1 hour wait to reattempt "The Hive Hunters" mission. The observer so far has ran into the station upon exiting the dock (and died) and it has died instantly to a aputech immediately after jumping into a sector. Both beyond my control. Making me wait an hour once it dies seems a bit excessive.

recruit some freinds to help you out with protecting it. its supposed to be an advanced mission, so at least wait till you are more capable as a pilot. Even I haven't finished that tree yet, though I do admit lately my focus has been elsewhere.

WTF does being an advanced mission have to do with the fact is has a 1 hour cool down.

Also let me point out that that mission was written before the new aggro bot code was in place so having a cool down on it now is a bit excessive.

+1

Respectively Luxen,

I would say that it is a newbie mission tree with the exception of this specific mission. The mission randomly sends a player to a hive sector. By the luck of the draw you either deal with just collectors (in which case the mission is won in minutes by oneself) or to a sector with ganking aputechs (which is incredibly hard to complete by oneself because the observer has paper thin armor) . You would of course know this, if you had actually played the mission.

But i don't care about any of that. I just want to retake the mission faster. Waiting one hour is too long. Something like 15 minutes would be more appropriate. Not even the capital ship insurance missions have a one hour wait time to retake.

What? The Hive Hunters mission gives you one Overseer if I'm right. I do not remember any Aputech ganks when I was completing said mission. One hour also is not too long a time to wait to fail such a mission...

And if you call this mission hard, I don't see how you did "Research Vessel Defense" in the same tree.

Mission retake delays may seem onerous at the personal level, but are often in place to: mitigate some exploitable situation, simulate some sort of scenario, or merely to serve as a gate-keeping mechanism to intentionally slow things down--possibly for one of the other reasons.

That, said, this doesn't mean that over time some delays shouldn't be reevaluated. Some games will actually remove delays altogether on older content. The big question here is what purpose does the delay serve and would reducing it impact the game as a whole in a negative manner.

Off-topic, trident insurance missions were originally only available once per week, but the time unit of measure was reduced during the first Christmas/New Years and never changed back.

I agree, there should be no time limit for a mission like this, it doesnt providehuge rewards, or invite exploitable behaviour. All the delay does is make life difficult for the player taking the mission.

+1 to removing / reducing the timer.

(Maybe only apply the timer if mission is completed? Unsure if thats easily possible.)

The Hive Hunters can now be attempted once every 15 minutes.