I've had a similar error: the fifth item in my mission has the description of the first and links to the second.

by einsteinrunner 5 months ago
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I'm not sure if anyone can help. I am working on testing my second mission. In the edit screen, all the light posts work. In the test screen, the light posts won't show up. Sometimes the light post will show up, but disappears before I can do anything. I've noticed the same thing when I take missions. Any ideas?

by cheli42469 5 months ago
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Yeah!! I got it working!! I scrapped my entire mission and started over, which says a lot when there are 51 lightposts. BUT, what I ended up doing, was going to the sites, placing the lightposts and making sure that as each lightpost was added it tested OK before adding the next. Took a while, but check it out..
United States Tour - 102 DP

Coming Soon: US Capital Tour - another 102 DP.. I just have to build up some more DP so I can buy enough lightposts!! LOL

by cheli42469 5 months ago
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I PM'd all of you having issues. Let me know if you didn't get it.

by marc 5 months ago
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OK! I tried it all over again..and it works!

I do have a quick question. Sometime when I come up on user's profiles...the box pops up to take their mission. How would I accomplish that from my profile?
Thanks! :)

by bunni3burn 5 months ago
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Ya and an update...my mission is broke again. Lightposts were wandering, so I edited them back like I already have done a few times. Then the whole thing went broke. Some of the lightposts are going in circles. As in when are taking the mission and click the "next button" it'll take you to a site that you before it. And you end up in a nasty maze/cycle of sites...never reaching the end. I haven't tested is for like for like 6 hours. It's possible it could have magically fixed itself.
I got so annoyed with it, I don't want to touch it yet. lol.

by bunni3burn 5 months ago
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I don't think it is the fact that missions are "simple" or what not, but with the complexities of all the different ways sites can be and probably a few bugs with the lightpost system as is, it just makes for a hit and miss mission making experience. So far I've had it pretty good. Found good sites that the posts work correctly on and only had a few issues that were resolved by taking out a few bad sites that didn't respond well to lightposts and rearranging a few here and there. Also, static sites (ones that the content, layout, etc... don't change much) seem to be more post friendly. Sites without frames, without dynamic customizations based on user or IP, without a bunch of redirection within the domains pages and sites without dynamically sized dimensions all seem to take well to posts.

That's a little funny so let me rephrase:
You may have problems with sites with frames, dynamic content based on IP, a bunch of redirection internally and sites that resize themselves to fit your screen.

by theungodlyone 5 months ago
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I'm trying to create my first mission, and when I go to test it the "Complete this Mission" button appears on the 7th lightpost.. I have a few more listed!

What can I do?

ETA: I can be more clear about this.

I have a list of, let's say, 11 items for the mission. The first time I tested, the link for the 6th one didn't work (the domain root forwarded to /blog/). So I created a new lightpost for the domain.com/blog/, which was added to the end of the list. I moved it back to position #6, copied the original description, and then deleted the original listing of #6.

I tested it again. This time, after #5, I went to #6 correctly, but the "Complete this Mission" link appears on the bottom, even though I have #7-#11 listed after it.

At this point, if I hit "Previous", it goes to #11, and from there correctly backwards until I get to #6 again with the "Complete this Mission" link.

It appears that my #6 link exists as both #6 (when coming from #5) and an invisible #12; except that if I go to my #11 and hit "Next", it just refreshes that page, recognizing that it is the end.

by talbarran 5 months ago
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speaking of talbarran's issue, I had the same problem when trying to create a mission. I'd removed a lamp post for a site I found wasn't working, then added one that did in it's place. Except that I forgot to actually move it from the end of the list to the same place the original was. I came to realize it, moved the lamp post to it's proper spot in the order, and it would show up fine in the order of things, but every time I would get to that page, it would prompt me with the end mission button instead of carrying on past it to the next few pages.

Also, an update on the caching issue I was having before. I let the mission I was having the issue with sit and stir in it's own juices for a day or so, and it now appears to be working flawlessly. I can't entirely confirm it wasn't a caching issue on my local machine, but I refreshed and cleared out the local web browser cache enough times that I really don't think it was a local issue.

by elderpyre 5 months ago
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direct link to emberdione's article for those unwilling to go looking http://pmog.wikia.com/wiki/Missi...

also, it's elderpyre, not ElderPyre ;)

by elderpyre 5 months ago
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