Grapefruit wrote:I have been trying this skimish thing for myself, I saw that a player on the gossip page was on my list of player targets for a nation mission so I attacked, I was expecting to gain ten ranks towards my next loyalty point, but they have not appeared. I did suffer a connectivity issue as I tried to repair any damage, so I tried again, this time I noticed that the message said he had no cargo so I looted nothing, but still no ranks. Is this a clause I have missed? I admit I often only skim read longer posts. I tried again on a different fleet of the same player but the result was the same. Can anyone shed any light on this? Do I actually have to steal some cargo to gain the ranks? Or do skirmish attacks never count towards nation missions?
For some reason, while I specifically remember typing it, I cannot find the quote where this was explained. We have updated it to the game help file just now though:
-Skirmishes do not count for any mission unless they are specifically named.
In different wording, we are diversifying a skirmish from an attack. Even in news events, you will get the messaged skirmished instead of attacked. The reason behind this decision, is that skirmish would simplify all current missions if it was allowed to count like an attack in the mission engine.
But what about fame? I long ago learned to ignore that stat, but it is still disheartening to see it plummet rather then slowly rise. This of course is due to the attacks skirmishing fleets will inevitably receive after gaining danger. The more fame you have the worse it is, and that kinda removes skirmish as an option if you are trying to accumulate it.
