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Ah, thanks Stanig. I'll keep that in mind for the future. I did see some other mobs floating around, but avoided them since they weren't what I needed. I forgot to think in terms of placeholder.

Supposedly they are a few klicks west of "Shipyard Beltway 1" in Margesi, but I've been flying around there for quite a while, and in a couple sessions, without seeing even one. Also, when Gwen gives the mission initially she asks simply for Hacking be used on a "Belter", not a "Belter Laborer". Those are found around the area of Shipyard Beltway 10 (+/-1?) in Margesi. I tried one of those, but the mission did not progress (no surprise). It was only when I went back to her after trying the basic "Belter" at the aforementioned nav point that she specified the laborer. A bit frustrating this. Wrong mob type given initially, and none of the right type seem available at the listed spot. Sigh. I guess it is off to Yokan, halfway across the galaxy, for me. Edit: Oh, and the mission text, when you read the full text in your missions listing does not mention either the mob type or the location, so you've got to remember where you were to go and what you were to do. I humbly suggest some improvment could be had on this one.

So, after this afternoon's login server trouble, I now seem to be having this problem or something like it. When I start the launcher I get an odd box asking me for domain credentials. My forum id does not work, not does my game id. However, I can still hit the play button and all seems normal. The only problem is that the news/announcements that usually display in the launcher itself do not appear.

Alas, if a machine restart was part of going live, which I suspect was the case, this did NOT fix the problem. Upon being able to log in today, I created a brand new Terran Scout in slot#5. To my horror, within a minute of logging in with the character, still on the station, ungrouped, I was again receiving "Lava Fang" combat xp. My first character slot , still a JD (all the beta avatars were present, of course, reset to level zero), is still not having this problem. My assumption, which will remain untested for the time being, is that as in beta, all my other character slots (#2-5) are somehow corrupted in this way. I'm not sure where to go from here. Perhaps if it is the game account itself that is corrupted the only solution is for me to create another game account? Except that since others are having the same problem....

Excellent, glad to hear it. I certainly didn't want to flood the system with unneeded tickets. Thanks.

As of 12:25PM today, I was still having this problem. I remain concerned since a GM suggested that having a character with this problem might cause problems in the sector. I had submitted a ticket/bug report a few days ago, at this point I am wondering if I should submit another one for each character on which I'm experiencing the problem, both previously extant and newly created?

So far this morning it doesn't seem to be happening. <fingers crossed> Update @ 10:37AM pacific: Sigh. Started again a few minutes after I logged in, got from Earth station to Somerlad, and then started seeing it. Fangs again.

Okay, screenshot taken and attached, as requested. Hopefully folks recognize the npcs from earth station, and can see that I'm not grouped. I do hope this is resolved soon, whatever the cause, because at present I can only play my JD. Now, I like my JD just fine, but I'm an altaholic, I get twitchy if I don't change up what character I'm playing on a frequent basis.

Hmm. I'd love too, but every time I try to take a screenshot ("take a picture" command), the game crashes. (possibly related? my kb does not have a 'scroll lock' key, so I re-mapped the "picture" command first to 'crtl+\' and then to 'shift+p', using a logitech illuminated kb, ftr) I've looked to see if a screenie was saved just before the crash, but can't find anything. So, if anyone has a solution to the screenshot=crash problem, I'd be happy to provide one. (didn't see a solution in a quick forum search) Or, perhaps one of the other folks who stated above they've had the problem can take a screenie w/o crashing? Update: found a related thread on the screenshot=crash problem. Will try the solution when servers are back up (assuming this reset doesn't clear the problem, just saw the 5min shutdown message).

Logged back in with Oodolf, TT. Current location is in Earth Station. Still getting Warp Fang XP periodically. RW time is 10:28 AM Pacific. Still not grouped, still not actually fighting. I have one current mission "Recruitment Status Report for Lady DeWinter" step 1/4. Current level is 1/0/0. Can you be more explicit with the sort of information you'd like to have? Update: Still NOT getting free combat xp on my JD, as before. Not trying other characters (deleted most), TT- bugged; PP-bugged previously, not checked today; JD - not bugged.

I recently rejoined the EnB world after playing on live, what, almost a decade ago? Anyhow, I dimly recall that the earlier zones (Earth, Jupiter, Mars, etc.) had job terminals that would have things available for and doable by people who weren't not in the ranks of the high and mighty. I.e. I, with my fresh minted JD could go to the Jupiter Job terminal and not have to ignore the 105, 120, and 150 level jobs. Was this a change to the way the job terminals worked in general that I missed? I have been gone a while, but the simple repeatable quest functionality would seem to be a basic and needed functionality for low level folks (while also having higher level terminals giving stuff to the high level folks)? Perhaps the simplest thing would be for the terminals to offer jobs based on the level of the person checking the lists? If such a thing would even be possible.

So, twice now I have created a character (name: Oodolf ship name : Not From Here) as a Terran Tradesman (male) on Sunrise and get an odd effect. The instant I leave the first station, I start getting combat XP from nowhere. I'm not grouped. I'm not fighting anything. The most common mob I seem to be getting xp from is a "warp fang", but I think I've seen one or two others rarely. I can't even recall where to find those mobs, and am certainly not killing them. (played way back in live before I stumbled on this, Yay and TYVM!) Trying to time the kills/xp gifts, at times there are a few minutes between instances, but just recently I had a cluster of 4 or so over a few seconds. I'm running a quad AMD 3.2 GHz on WIn7 with an ATI HD6770, 8GB RAM. I'll be happy to do what I can to figure this out. Update: Created a Progen Privateer (male, name Kodarin, ship Hard Cache) and experienced essentially the same problem, though the mob type was a "Lava Fang". Update 2: I created a Jenquai Defender (female) and did NOT have this problem. Update 3: Created a Jenquai explorer,same problem (male, Name Chodani, Ship Not From Here), xp from "Warp Fang" again. Interestingly, when I was conversing with an npc for a mission the combat xp cause an odd interupt and I was offered the choice of two tasks (instead of the mission I was supposed to be getting), the choices were "RD Jove Hijack" or "ABB Hijack". Update 4: Sigh. Tried another female character (Terran Enforcer), and still had the problem. Warp Fangs again. One more comment. The JD above was actually the first character I made and it sits in slot #1. Every other slot (just tried a TS in #5) are having this funky combat xp gift/problem. M/F, any race/class, doesn't seem to make a difference. (including a second JD in #5)