Hello,

I would like to report a problem with the quest “Prospecting for Minerals”.

The quest requires scanning 30 asteroid types, and it must be completed 4 times at each station. Since there are 30 stations, players must complete a total of 120 missions to earn the “Prospective Miner” badge.

Problem

The mission tracking is unclear and does not work properly.

After completing, the game does not show which stations already have completed missions and how many times the mission was done there.

Because of this:
It becomes very difficult to track progress, Sian it even doesn’t show from where you pick the question….
Players must manually remember or search stations again.
This leads to a lot of wasted time trying to figure out where the mission was already completed.

Additional issue

This mission already requires a very large time investment, while the reward for one completion is only +300 XP, which is extremely small compared to the time required.

When the progress tracking is unclear, the mission becomes even more frustrating.

Suggested improvement

It would greatly help if the game showed:
Which stations already have completed prospecting missions
How many times the mission was completed at each station (0/4, 1/4, 2/4, etc.)

This would make tracking progress much easier and prevent unnecessary repetition.

Thank you.

It isn't a bug because it is kind of working as intended, but did you know? If you wait a bit, might be a couple of months, might be a year (I doubt it is that long but I honestly cannot remember); but the missions come back to stations you have already done the mission at. This is due to the Serco/Itani thingy and means a Serco can complete all the missions without entering Itani space once. Note: The XP isn't the goal for this mission nor is individual mission rewards, so that makes little difference. The goal is to do them all and get a scanner you no longer need.

Yes, tracking of these missions would be nice, but you can kind of do this yourself already with system notes. But that is for suggestions, not bugs.

Moved to Suggestions

Been awhile since I did this badge, but the missions aren't station specific. Those 4 missions are system specific. You take that mission 4x in each system from any station. If you dont see the mission available then move to the next system. 4 missions per system x 30 systems = 120 missions. The reward for completion is the ability to buy the best large port mining beam for non-capital ships, and best small port mineral scanner.
Agree the mission tracking isnt the best because you gotta hunt for it but all the missions in VO are like that. They never tell you what mission is next really.