Gryphnn

SakashiroI think what's happening there is that settlement kills add some 0.x to notoriety, but the effective total (to be displayed and used to block interstellar factors) gets rounded up to the next integer. And since the decay rate is always 0.5 per hour, it only takes a few minutes for this notoriety to go from 1 to 0. Ship kills on the other hand add 1.0 to notoriety, but only if there's already a bounty on the ship player, i.e. the first ship kill is basically free. The first settlement kill apparently isn't.

At this point I just feel ignored, that's exactly what I have said.

SakashiroToday I met that shady guy at the outpost who offered me a mission: kill all the occupants of a particular settlement. Sounded easy enough, so I accepted. I went to the settlement, disabled the alarm, and then went on a killing spree. First I took out all the guards by sniping them with my Scarab from a distance. Then I went into the buildings. After killing 11 of 12 NPCs, I found there was no one left to kill. Did someone get away? I saw ships come and go, so I thought destroying one of those might count against the total. I recalled my Courier and ended up fighting various ships above the planet surface, including this T-9.

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Quite an interesting experience. Unfortunately none of the ship kills counted against the total required to complete the mission. And then this happened:

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I regret not looting the empty settlement before beginning aerial combat. Now the settlement will probably reset, so I have to do it all again.

Kurakil

SakashiroToday I met that shady guy at the outpost who offered me a mission: kill all the occupants of a particular settlement

For settlement clearing missions, sometimes there is an inhabitant that either does not spawn, spawns outside the game space, , wanders off into the wilderness (I've had to chase them down for over 1km before) , or does spawn but does not render (you can see him on the radar and he can hear you but that's it).
For scavenger missions, I've had some reinforcement ships unable to deploy, so I blow up the ship and the reinforcements just disappear. No kills, no anything. Also reinforcement ships can deploy well outside of settlements so they might not show up on your 1km radius detector.

Burstar

Kurakil
For settlement clearing missions, sometimes there is an inhabitant that either does not spawn, spawns outside the game space, , wanders off into the wilderness (I've had to chase them down for over 1km before) , or does spawn but does not render (you can see him on the radar and he can hear you but that's it).
For scavenger missions, I've had some reinforcement ships unable to deploy, so I blow up the ship and the reinforcements just disappear. No kills, no anything. Also reinforcement ships can deploy well outside of settlements so they might not show up on your 1km radius detector.

Yeah any mission of that type can bug out. It's quite annoying. I find it helps if you use the Taxi service but that could just be coincidence. Definitely do a loop around the base with a radius at at least 2km from the marker point. The 'walking map' (or whatever FDev calls it that sets the available paths for NPC's on zone in) only extends about 1km around the base so expect to see a group of adds just standing there twiddling their thumbs because they can't move. No guarantees though. Sometimes (especially with massacre raiders missions) the correct # of NPCs just doesn't spawn in no matter what you do. Any more that add in later just add to your total needed kills so they don't help.

SakashiroThe second attempt completed successfully.

After that I took another mission, a simple courier job, threat level 0. The NPC at the target settlement seemed to accept my delivery, but the package remained in my backpack, and the mission did not proceed. After relogging, the transfer worked. But it's mind-boggling how buggy this is after nine major updates and more than half a year.

Kurakil

SakashiroThe second attempt completed successfully.

After that I took another mission, a simple courier job, threat level 0. The NPC at the target settlement seemed to accept my delivery, but the package remained in my backpack, and the mission did not proceed. After relogging, the transfer worked. But it's mind-boggling how buggy this is after nine major updates and more than half a year.

There is still at least 1 bug leftover from pre-release ED 1.0. Apparently you are not actually supposed to be stuck waiting for the stow animation to complete when unequipping weapons in outfitting. Did I improve your confidence level?

Light-HawkAdmittedly this stuff about bugs and such makes me depressed about the future of Elite. Almost like they need to make an Elite Dangerous 2 with a whole new game engine (unreal 5 maybe?). But that would require a development team that even cares about the series anymore.

Kurakil

SakashiroThe second attempt completed successfully.

After that I took another mission, a simple courier job, threat level 0. The NPC at the target settlement seemed to accept my delivery, but the package remained in my backpack, and the mission did not proceed. After relogging, the transfer worked. But it's mind-boggling how buggy this is after nine major updates and more than half a year.

There is still at least 1 bug leftover from pre-release ED 1.0. Apparently you are not actually supposed to be stuck waiting for the stow animation to complete when unequipping weapons in outfitting. Did I improve your confidence level?

Burstar

Kurakil

SakashiroThe second attempt completed successfully.

After that I took another mission, a simple courier job, threat level 0. The NPC at the target settlement seemed to accept my delivery, but the package remained in my backpack, and the mission did not proceed. After relogging, the transfer worked. But it's mind-boggling how buggy this is after nine major updates and more than half a year.

There is still at least 1 bug leftover from pre-release ED 1.0. Apparently you are not actually supposed to be stuck waiting for the stow animation to complete when unequipping weapons in outfitting. Did I improve your confidence level?

Psshhh... There are still bugs in the mission system for pre-ED:O missions. Scan Megaship missions will send you to ones you've already scanned, or allow you to take multiples of the same one even though you can only scan it once, for example.

Rayman.So.. the only "life forms" unable to scan are bacterium, tussock and frutexa. The common ones. Atleast for me. But the rare tussock thing i am able to scan. I am still frustrated because before the update i was scannig bacterium ones where there was only one bio signal detected on some planet. Such a quick "scan and get out" thing. I hope i'll hit the elite rank after spending long time in deep space because this is the last one I have left. Then I will do some role play.

Hangfireflip

Rayman.So.. the only "life forms" unable to scan are bacterium, tussock and frutexa. The common ones. Atleast for me. But the rare tussock thing i am able to scan. I am still frustrated because before the update i was scannig bacterium ones where there was only one bio signal detected on some planet. Such a quick "scan and get out" thing. I hope i'll hit the elite rank after spending long time in deep space because this is the last one I have left. Then I will do some role play.

I have found a work around for frutexa which may also work for tussock. I have discovered that if you check each individual plant in a cluster, one or two may be able to be scanned. I havetried this on many different planets and in two different systems and it has consistently worked. Have not had the opportunity to try it on tussock yet.

That said I have had no joy with bact colonies.