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mwen Level 10 
DestroyerPosts: 10 |
I've been playing for a few days and have tried my hand at three missions. Every time, the mission generator page has reset itself (meaning, all lightposts disappear from the page) This sometimes happened more than once, and each time it was while I was typing or placing a new lightpost. On the first two missions I created, I just went back in and tried again until I had completed them. The third time was tonight, and the page reset itself three times total. When I'd go to create a new mission and type in the exact same title I had been using, the lost lightposts would all re-appear. Then, it'd happen again a few seconds later. Finally, right when I finished the mission, I was sent to a 500 page and everything was lost. All this to say - do we need to be concentrating on 4 and 5 lightpost missions instead of 10 or more? Or is this just happening to me? It makes associations other than Pathmaker look lots less frustrating. |
starryice Level 15 
VigilantePosts: 470 |
This is something I have noticed as well, which does not bode well for me as I like to do long missions. I'm very careful with the websites I pick when creating missions (or at least I try to) but I have found if the page has a long load time, many times the mission will reset. |
lord-yo Level 9
VigilantePosts: 46 |
I find that particularly frustrating. I like to write longer lightpost texts, and losing those makes me angry. I started to saveguard my descriptions in local text files in my computer, which helps a little, but it's pretty annoying. In that respect, I find the official Mission Generator subtitle quite ironic: "Hurry, before it self-destructs!" |
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pixielo Steward  Level 20
VigilantePosts: 3659 |
I do all my pre-planning including lightposts, portals and all relevant text before I even think about going to the New Mission Generation page. On my first mission I too ran up against the time limit and was really bummed out when my mission disappeared... Please try to take advantage of the 'Mission Draft' feature if you really don't want to use a text editor for this at all. It's a new feature, and it's cool! |
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justin Trustee  Level 12
DestroyerPosts: 61 |
These are great points - making a Mission shouldn't be this volatile. So we added "Mission Draft" as Pixelo pointed out, and we're working on other changes besides. We hear you! Hang on - thank you for your patience :-) |
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