Mission length | Jump Space | Page 1

oak pond Sep 21, 2025, 6:57 PM

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This game is wonderfully fun however I am concerned that the mission length may limit it's popularity.

Working full time, being a parent and a gamer finding 90 minutes to do a single mission (longest have seen so far) feels like there is not much consideration for the time that gamers have to invest into games for rewards.

Does anyone else feel like this?

My suggestion would be to quiz the community on the mission lengths being suitable as outside of some Warframe events and mmo raids spending 90+ minutes on a mission it a heavy investment of time.

hollow cradle Sep 21, 2025, 6:59 PM

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i did one that said 1.5hr+ i also didn't sleep that night!

quartz locust Sep 21, 2025, 7:02 PM

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It would be nice if missions refreshed every now and again like in DRG so you can have a wider selection of options.

wintry hawk Sep 21, 2025, 7:13 PM

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The length of the missions just means how many jumps you need to get to the end. I think it's great that there are 20 - 1.5+ hour missions.
That way, I can always choose what I want to play depending on how much time I have.
It's also true that so far, I've only needed a maximum of 60 minutes for each 1.5+ hour mission and have looted everything.

In other games like Helldivers or Cult of the Lamb, where you always have your mission or run, it's structured similarly.

willow sparrow Sep 21, 2025, 7:21 PM

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I think it's more the distribution of available missions. Quite often when I've looked at the board there just haven't been short hops (or at most one so you're limited on type and difficulty). https://discord.com/channels/617783429446238266/1419075303237619813

oak pond Sep 21, 2025, 7:49 PM

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wintry hawk The length of the missions just means how many jumps you need to get to the end....

Different people will progress at different rates though, so unless the majority progress faster than the projected time given by the developer (which makes it meaningless) the guide being accurate is the baseline I am going to hold accountable to n

sharp spear Sep 21, 2025, 8:34 PM

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Agreed that this is an issue. If I want to unlock components, I need to pick a 1.5 hr mission to make sure that one of the zones will have them available.

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Even adding the ability to save when jumping zones, like Void Crew implemented, would be huge.

spark ice Sep 21, 2025, 8:41 PM

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We totally agree. We will look into this. And make sure mission lengths are distributed in a correct and fair way as well as making sure it doesn’t feel like you have to play the 1,5hr missions to progress.

That was never our intent.

opaque spear Sep 21, 2025, 8:47 PM

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Unfortunately, some sectors are limited to a select few missions, particularly the longer ones (I’m looking at you Pillars of Quara), and the missions that are on the shorter end like Sabotage don’t allow you to earn components or map charts making them redundant for progression

spark ice Sep 21, 2025, 8:48 PM

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Yeah i get it. We will discuss this internally tomorrow.

oak pond Sep 21, 2025, 8:50 PM

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Thank you @spark ice

turbid storm Oct 15, 2025, 4:20 PM

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I just started playing and got to the third sector and pretty much only have 1 hour to 1.5 hour missions available. The horrible part is yesterday i was like "ok.. im gunna do a 1.5 hour mission to progress" then coming up to the end of the mission my game crashed and because missions dont save your progress at all it was a complete waste of time. Can we make missions be able to save progress? like at each jump point have an option to return to a "sub-hanger" or "port" or something to save the progress?

tawdry robin Oct 15, 2025, 4:24 PM

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I do find the missions can go for a very long which makes them rather time consuming
While the time shown is around how many jumps there are, some of the missions have absolutely taken a very long time

turbid storm Oct 15, 2025, 7:02 PM

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I agree, I really love the game but I find it hard to dedicate 1.5 hours during my normal schedule to play so that only leaves the weekend or at night. Most of the time I actually think damn I want to play JumpSpace but dont have 1.5 hours time to progress so I go play something else. Great game though, Good graphics, smooth game play, great concepts, really look forward to how the game evolves. The mission lengths has been my only pain point so far.

tawdry robin Oct 15, 2025, 9:40 PM

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Like honestly I ended up opting to more salvage runs because they are way shorter
So I get to have more time in the rest of my day

oak pond Oct 15, 2025, 9:56 PM

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spark ice Yeah i get it. We will discuss this internally tomorrow.

What was the outcome of the meeting? Did you manage to discuss this? I hope it won't go into tech debt backlog as we all secretly know that that is where ideas go to die of old age 🤣

tawdry robin Oct 15, 2025, 9:57 PM

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spark ice Oct 16, 2025, 4:43 AM

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We will have a better distribution of missions with shorter lengths as well.

jagged mural Oct 16, 2025, 7:35 AM

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I like long missions

graceful lantern Oct 16, 2025, 10:27 AM

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we could just forego the whole discussion about the accuracy of the length display if it would say "8 Jumps", "3 Jumps" instead of a time, but i accept if this is a less liked solution

sweet aspen Oct 16, 2025, 1:59 PM

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Honestly, each mission type should have a slider attached to it with a min and max number of jumps, and let the players set it as they want. It shouldn't be hard to tweak the procedural mission building to accommodate that, while adjusting rewards accordingly.

tawdry robin Oct 16, 2025, 2:40 PM

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sweet aspen Honestly, each mission type should have a slider attached to it with a min and m...

Like the shorter the setting
The less high tier stuff might spawn
But the longer
The more?
Am I getting it right?

sweet aspen Oct 16, 2025, 3:15 PM

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You could do that, but i was thinking the ingots, cash, xp

tawdry robin Oct 16, 2025, 4:11 PM

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Oooh yeah yeah that also makes sense

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