Question About Syndicate Marks

[MDrigz]

I've recently been running syndicate missions with a friend. I do Red Veil and Steel Meridian (both of which I have max standings). He has Red Veil, Perrin Sequence, and New Loka. He's not max standings. I can always see the marks in his missions, but he doesn't always see the marks in my missions. There was one instance where he could only find 4. It literally said 4/4. Then I have a 3rd friend that joins us once in awhile. He has no syndicate yet (he's new) but he can find all the syndicate marks in our missions. The question is, how exactly does this work?

[Thumper3]

Good question.

I had a buddy jump into a SM mission with me and he could not see the marks either, I figured it might be because he joined part way through (don't know his standing with SM either) and never really investigated further.

[Demonfr34k]

The mission starts with 0/8 but if you collect them and someone spawns after this they can only obtain the remaining marks.

Edited October 7, 2015 by Demonfr34k

[TARINunit9]

There are three possible situations that are happening:

1) Syndicate missions are divided into five tiers: Respected, Honored, Esteemed, Revered, and Exalted (since you're Red Veil). You get three missions a day from your tier, which I assume is Exalted. If your friend is Revered, and you're Exalted, your friend cannot collect marks if you taxi him into an Exalted mission

 

2) You might be in Europa. Europa is bugged, and can't spawn all 8 medallions in most missions

 

3) If your friend joins halfway through a mission, and you've already picked up 4 marks, those marks DO NOT RESPAWN on his screen

[MDrigz]

We always start the mission at the same time. I guess the only thing that is correct is that he is a lower ranking in his syndicate, but even if we do steel meridian he can't always see them.

[TARINunit9]

Right, Steel Merid has the same five tiers. If you're General and you start a General mission, but your friend is only Protector, the medals won't show up on his screen

[MDrigz]

Alright. Thanks. So people who haven't started a syndicate can see all marks?

[TARINunit9]

Nope, they would be tier Zero, "Neutral"

[MDrigz]

Well that's what I'm saying. The friend who doesn't have a syndicate joined us and can see all of our marks. From every syndicate mission.

Edited October 7, 2015 by MDrigz

[TARINunit9]

That is really weird, it's not supposed to do that

Are you positive he hasn't actually maxed them and just isn't wearing the sigil?

[-Himari-]

Moved to a proper section.

[MDrigz]

He started playing last week. He just became rank 4 recently. He doesn't even know what syndicates are. It's true for my other friend who doesn't have a syndicate either. He can see all of our marks.

[(PSN)Elwenil]

I am guessing that the whole thing is bugged and even DE has no clue what is happening. I have been farming medallions for a while with friends and it's totally hit or miss on who can see them. Sometimes they can't see them but the icon still pops up to pick them up so they still get them. The only constant seems to be that the one who actually has the mission can always see them, other than that, it's totally random. I wish DE would either fix the bugs or clarify the hows and whys of all of it so we can stop wasting so much time.

[MDrigz]

^ I was thinking the same thing.