Issues between Contracts and Jump Drives

Crawler3 · Post by **Crawler3** » Tue May 29, 2012 8:25 am

when ever i have a contract open and opt to jump to the nav point given, the contract is immediately failed as soon as i arrive.
if its a bug, is there a hot fix for it
if this is purposeful, it's annoying as hell

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Tue May 29, 2012 9:04 am

Hi and welcome!

It is not a bug. You either manually adjust the jump point (don't do that) or you use
Alt F2 (I think it is) for max jump. That will make you leave the sector and fail contract.

Simply just accept a contract and press F2 (default).
Continue forward until you see a purple blip on radar if your contract is to find a item.

Good luck!

Post by **DaveK** » Tue May 29, 2012 9:08 am

It's not a bug nor a deliberate irritant! But it is a common confusion because there are two ways of using your jump drive: F2 and Alt-F2

For contracts, don't use the Alt key when jumping to the contract's waypoint. Alt-F2 produces a maximum jump which depends on the class of your jump drive. A Class 2 jump drive would cause you to jump two sectors. If you jump out of the sector then the contract automatically fails. If you use F2 you jump to the contract waypoint (which is always in the sector)

MiaZ · Post by **MiaZ** » Tue May 29, 2012 10:58 am

I think this problem is happening a lot mostly for mouse and keyboard control users.
The alt key is used to disable flight control temporarily to enable the mouse to click the "Jump" button on screen.

Don't use that, Use F2 alone instead.

[Edited on 5-29-2012 by MiaZ]

Busch · Post by **Busch** » Wed May 30, 2012 2:38 am

Yep, Bro M has the right of it. Alt-F2 usage in rare circumstances only. Toggle F2 solely for ALL missions/contracts in-sector should be inscribed in stone somewhere.

Oh yeah. It don't matter what "jump drive" yer usin'. Works the same fer allus.

[Edited on 5-30-2012 by Busch]