I just got a mission to deliver salt to my home city. Its a little odd since they produce salt there but oh well. I just bought 80 salt and then sold it back to them but it keeps say 0 salt delivered to the target location. I then sold some more (about 25 from my warehouse) and it said 9 of 80 delivered.

Anyone know whats going on?

A mission like that can be a bit tricky. If, for example, you accept a mission in Luebck to ship 100 salt to Aalborg, you need to purchase the salt from the market in Luebeck and then sell it at the market in Aalborg. You cannot use it from your own storage.

You describe that you bought it and sold it back to them. That would be the wrong way. You did not purchase in the right city.

The delivery missions can be a bit tricky.

First, you have to wait a little bit for the town's production to update (refresh) after accepting a mission. The town adds the extra quantities you need to buy to its inventory. (You can tell this, because the "buy" price will not change when you purchase the additional amount.)

I usually let the clock run at normal (x1) speed for 10 seconds or so to let this happen, after accepting a mission. Note that if you accept a mission at x0.1 speed, it can take awhile (up to half a minute) for the town burgher's to add the extra stock you need to buy.

Once the town's updated its inventory, you need to buy that amount at the town that gave you the mission. You cannot buy it anywhere else. You cannot have it already in stock. You only get credit for buying it new from the mission's town.

The screen will tell you how much towards the required amount you've bought when you complete the purchase.

Once you've bought the required amount, you need to deliver and sell it to the destination by the deadline. When you do, you will hear two "cash-in's" - one for the sale, and one for the mission bonus payment. (The mission will also check off as complete in your logbook.)

Note there is a danger in all this - if somebody else sails into town while you're waiting for the goods for the mission to be made available, he can buy them himself, even if he doesn't have the mission. (This happened to me once.) You end up having to overbuy from the town's regular stocks, taking the rep hit for purchasing low-stock amounts. (Or, not getting enough to fulfill the mission at all!)

Maybe the mission should be more accurately worded. Or maybe the damn thing should be fixed ...

another bug..

I had the same problem with that mission. I fulfilled all conditions and the mission was failed

If you had fullfilled the mission you won't have failed it.

It was your mistake and your not knowing.

AND NOT A BUG

The aim of that mission is to get ridd of one overproduction from one town and deliver it to an other town who could need the goods.

The town will sell the surplus of goods only after some trader accepted that mission. So you have to wait for the burocrates of that town to bump the overproduces goods on the marked, so you are able to buy them to a reasonable price.

You have to buy the needed amount of that good from that town and than deliver it to the destination town.

And if you do it the recommandes way the mission don't fail.

Hein

I did it the way described by you and the counter of delivered goods reached specified ammount and started over and over till mission failure. I completed that mission several times (for other towns) but sometimes there is a problem.

The mission is to buy from town A and sell to town B, not take from your warehouse and sell.

(21-09-2010 08:15 PM)Bagaluth Wrote:  You have to buy the needed amount of that good from that town and than deliver it to the destination town.

And if you do it the recommandes way the mission don't fail.

Hein

hit the same problem,there are times the towns DONT have the required amount.

You can sell to the town and then buy back from the town. This is one of the things they should have left alone. P3 trade missions made more sense.

I agree that the mission in P3 where much more stabel and logic than they are in P4 at the moment. P4 is a bit like the patched P2.

The mainproblem with the missions "fech and deliver" is, that the goods run over the market and are not deliverd to your ship/convoy. That way you have a time leck between the acceptance of the mission, and the point where the town administrator reacts. And you have a problem with AI traders and office managers, that buy automatic. That way it could happen, that the needed amount is sold before you have a chance to reenter the trademenue. Normally if you leave the trademenue it is shown if you have fullfilled the buy part of the mission, but only if you where able to buy the goods in one go. If you have to splitt the indicator often shows wrong numbers.

And that is a BUG.

Selling is OK but buying is not thought out from the developers and the beta testers.

Hein

i tryed some deliveres last night and its not a working good.

1st the goods should be dropped on the ship.
2nd the end town could at least be needing the whole amounth of goods.

for example i had to load about 80 salt.
and i could not load all 80 because some others had buyed that too.
if you wait a little the stock is filled. but waiting have you lose the mission because of the time.
then i go to the end town and try to sell the goods and i have to sell at low prices because the town don't need those recources.

So i loose more money than what the mission offer...

This logic is wrong...

ageed

hope timo will mail that informations to Daniel and gaming minds. So the developers will work on the missions.

Hein

I've noticed that on arrival at a town that has a buy & deliver mission the commodity for that mission is already well in abundance. So much so that sometimes I'll not bother with the mission and just buy up the goods on the cheap and sell them where I wish.

I'm not aware of any "bug" in this aspect of the game.

i think that failing a assigment will get you bad reputance on the city.

But this too seams to be a little buggy.

When you win the assigment you win reputance in the destination city because of the goods you sell when they most needed.

but i don't see any indication that my rep, growed on the city where i got the mission...

And i think this was the point of doing the mission...

Missions increase you reputation in the hanseatic league.