[Suggestion] New Quest Acceptance

[razoth]

Hi,

I'm not sure if it's just me, but for the Way I use the Questlog (active Quests), the behavior of the interface is annoying. When doing quests, I usally set the one I want to do right now on "active" and fly to the designated area. While on my way I accept all the quests on my way, that I consider worth doing. Here comes in my Pet Peeve: Every new quest I accept is set to "active", I have to go to my Questlog, search for the quest I was doing originally and reset the former to "active".

Edit: Even worse is, when your marker is set to a custom target, instead of a fixed mission, because now your target is just gone for good.

In my opinion accepting a new quest shouldn't override your acitve quest. After completion of one, maybe select the next/nearest/latest or whatever.

Better yet would be an option, in the Gamesettings, where you could choose, how new quests are handled.

X4 pilots out there! How do you handle this?

[Hero77]

I am all for this since it seems like something that could be implemented pretty easy as a setting (as you suggested).

[Falcrack]

Also in favor of this. Most times I do NOT want the new mission I've accepted to automatically become my active mission. This has been a bit of an annoyance for me too.

[razoth]

ok, I'm glad, that it's not just me

[Buzz2005]

yes yes yes, please change this

[Roeleveld]

Same here, but please make this a changeable setting.
I don't think making this optional makes it more work as it doesn't affect the simulation at all, just a QOL modifier.

[Jeraal]

I agree as well also too!

[JoeVN09]

I'd like the default to be keeping your current guidance, but with a hotkey available or contextual click/button prompt to switch a newly-added mission to guidance.

Intergalactic domination is a long game, whose objectives cannot afford to be interrupted by every new task that comes one's way.

[dtpsprt]

Definitely it's something the huge majority would want (me included). Unfortunately it was a standard feature of X3 so it got dumped along with it....

[kmunoz]

Kuertee did make a mod to fix this, so if you're not playing a vanilla save, it's the simplest/fastest solution right now. It would be nice if it were implemented in the base game, though. (Currently it does not work when your "active mission" is guidance, unfortunately.)

The other thing I'd like to see is some kind of block against accidentally taking a faction mission if you already have one, since you can only have one faction mission in your list at a time. (Alternatively, allow multiple faction missions.)

[razoth]

I'd like the default to be keeping your current guidance, but with a hotkey available or contextual click/button prompt to switch a newly-added mission to guidance.

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Also a great suggestion, I think.

Kuertee did make a mod to fix this, so if you're not playing a vanilla save, it's the simplest/fastest solution right now. It would be nice if it were implemented in the base game, though. (Currently it does not work when your "active mission" is guidance, unfortunately.)

The other thing I'd like to see is some kind of block against accidentally taking a faction mission if you already have one, since you can only have one faction mission in your list at a time. (Alternatively, allow multiple faction missions.)

Totally agree with your second point about guild missions, happened to me a few times and confused me very much the first time.

How much I like a mod with those kind of comfort features, for me atleast, depends on the changes made to ventures in the comming patch. On 3.XX I could definatly live without that feature and it's rewards. But I have hopes it gets more interesting with it's rework.

Or maybe, if egosoft creates a whitelist and allows you to install some curated, non-balance-changing mods this time around (I don't think so).

[TheDeliveryMan]

In my opinion accepting a new quest shouldn't override your acitve quest. After completion of one, maybe select the next/nearest/latest or whatever.

Yes, yesterday I was doing the HAT plot and was just about to dock at the HAT Trade Station when I spotted a Footshortages mission. I accepted the mission, then Betty said something like "Mission deactivated. New Mission activated." and guidance to Reen was gone. Very annoying.

[Roeleveld]

I'd like the default to be keeping your current guidance, but with a hotkey available or contextual click/button prompt to switch a newly-added mission to guidance.

[...]

Also a great suggestion, I think.

Kuertee did make a mod to fix this, so if you're not playing a vanilla save, it's the simplest/fastest solution right now. It would be nice if it were implemented in the base game, though. (Currently it does not work when your "active mission" is guidance, unfortunately.)

The other thing I'd like to see is some kind of block against accidentally taking a faction mission if you already have one, since you can only have one faction mission in your list at a time. (Alternatively, allow multiple faction missions.)

Totally agree with your second point about guild missions, happened to me a few times and confused me very much the first time.

How much I like a mod with those kind of comfort features, for me atleast, depends on the changes made to ventures in the comming patch. On 3.XX I could definatly live without that feature and it's rewards. But I have hopes it gets more interesting with it's rework.

Or maybe, if egosoft creates a whitelist and allows you to install some curated, non-balance-changing mods this time around (I don't think so).

I think X2 had the concept of "signed" mods which wouldn't mark the game as modified. Those were curated by Egosoft.
The mod introducing marines to operate the turrets and making them far more effective was one of those.

[kuertee]

...The other thing I'd like to see is some kind of block against accidentally taking a faction mission if you already have one, since you can only have one faction mission in your list at a time. (Alternatively, allow multiple faction missions.),,,

already done. you're allowed multiple faction missions.
I just haven't released it yet.

I just set my game to use the 4.00 beta 10 this afternoon - and successfully updated my UI Extensions mod - which 90% of my mod uses.
just playing the game now for the next week to find anything else that i need to fix.
so far with creating a new game, loading a game with a young galaxy and loading a game with a median-age galaxy, all my mods seem to work.

[dreamer2008]

I 100% agree with this suggestion. I was just about to write a question to ask if this was possible already.

[kuertee]

Because i've jumped on this late, here's my mod that addresses this:

Accept Missions For Later Button: https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/590

It requires Sir Nuke's Mod Support API mod.

[kmunoz]

I just set my game to use the 4.00 beta 10 this afternoon - and successfully updated my UI Extensions mod - which 90% of my mod uses.
just playing the game now for the next week to find anything else that i need to fix.

That's exciting news! I look forward to turning your mods back on! (I was having some trouble with missing text and glitches in Extensions Options.)

[kuertee]

I just set my game to use the 4.00 beta 10 this afternoon - and successfully updated my UI Extensions mod - which 90% of my mod uses.
just playing the game now for the next week to find anything else that i need to fix.

That's exciting news! I look forward to turning your mods back on! (I was having some trouble with missing text and glitches in Extensions Options.)

new game? that's a known bug in Sir Nuke's Mod Support APIs.
you need to save then reload the game. or issue the "/reloadui" command in the command console.

[alessandrofavero]

translated with Google

1) You avoid creating an entry at the level of game settings so as not to make them too complex but I absolutely agree that when you accept a new mission, it does NOT replace the previous mission

2) It would be nice to be able to accept more than one faction mission at a time ... that would be a very welcome change, imho

tradotto con google

1) Eviteri di creare una voce a livello di impostazioni del gioco per non renderele troppo complesse ma sono assolutamente d'accordo nel far si che quando si accetta una nuova missione, questa NON sostituisca la missione precedente

2) Sarebbe bello poter accettare più di una missione di fazione alla volta... sarebbe un cambiamento molto positivo, imho

[kmunoz]

new game? that's a known bug in Sir Nuke's Mod Support APIs.
you need to save then reload the game. or issue the "/reloadui" command in the command console.

Yes, a new game, but then saved and reloaded. Back with 3.3 that workaround was fine, but recently in the beta that workaround hasn't solved the problem.

I'm also getting some ==ReadText23423443== type issues (not sure of the exact format) that I think are associated with your station scanner or data leak mod. That issue is showing up in Extensions Options and also in the auto-generated missions that get created when you're in scan mode near a station.