I've had soooooo many of these. I've tried to track when they occur and if there is any way to reliably cure them. I have tried accepting other missions before the golden nugget ones, I have tried clearing them, I have tried NOT clearing them, nothing! Logging in/out (or changing modes does seem to have some effect but it is also not a perfect cure. I've also considered that the mission slot might have gotten "poisoned" so I've tried filling it with something less valuable first. The only perfect solution is to walk away from the game and do something else in RL....



Last night a nice tasty 3 mil local delivery mission (Boom - mission failed), so I cleared the mission and dumped the cargo on the pad. Took another nice looking mission 2 mil (Boom - same thing). So I tried accepting a Data Delivery Mission (that one got accepted just fine). Took another 1.5 mil mission (Boom!) . At that point I was done and got up and walked away...



It seems to happen mostly in very popular systems/stations and perhaps during very popular play times. I'm a computer guy and my gut tells me this might be some sort of a communications issue with the server(s). I.E. Server not being able to journal the mission because of high instance workload... Just a guess...



Who gives a crap if we can make our own look-alike avatars if the game is unplayable because of bugs? (In fact, who cares about avatars anyway? What a waste of time and it doesn't improve the gameplay!)



There is also a well know refinery bug that causes large refineries (i.e. 4A 10 bin) to simply lock up if you have 4-6 limpets running.... Had to give up on mining as well as I got tired of logging out every time the refinery locked up just to spawn back in and then have the obligatory pirate come by to say hello...



There are a lot of well known bugs in this game. The devs ought to be fixing them FIRST before I get to select how many pimples I have on my avatars face....