Long Jack will let you run his missions at level 25 but will not introduce you to Tobias Hansen after 24.

[Major_Decoy]

This is particularly obnoxious. I hit level 25 finishing Stephanie Peebles' arc, I can't do Long Jack's missions in Ouroboros yet, so I have to go talk to him and he starts giving me missions. I can do all his missions except the very last one, which is just "Hey, talk to this guy Tobias Hansen for me."

 

Tobias Hansen doesn't even let you run missions until you hit level 25, there's no reason to cut off one mission and one mission only at level 25.

 

Now if I want to Tobias' arc I have to go to Ouroboros and do the whole mission chain a second time.

[srmalloy]

That's fascinating, because I had him refer me to Tobias Hansen at 27, but I got his referral before I finished his story arc.

[isawa koi]

This is, I think, a result of them adjusting the level range of Long Jack's storyarc from 20-24 to 20-25. The trick being that there is one mission that's not part of his story arc (a hunt 20 Family in Port Noble mission) that he won't give you at 25. Which in turn means his reputation bar will never reach 100%, which THEN means that he won't introduce you to Tobias until he thinks you've outleveled him completely (level 26).

 

(To be clear - the introduction to Tobias is separate from his story arc and is a part of how the contact system works in the game.)

 

So in this case, the workaround is either:

1) get to level 26, whereupon the game thinks you've outleveled Long Jack completely and he'll introduce you to the next contact in the chain,
OR

2) Flashback to his arc in Ouroboros (you can flashback to arcs you've already completed, regardless of what level they are - it's why the level 50 block at the Crystal unlocks when you've done the Ouroboros intro arc, because its range is 25-50) to completion, whereupon the flashback will add the rep bar from the flashback to his current rep bar, filling it to 100% and making him introduce you to Tobias.

 

In srmalloy's case, it is likely that they started Long Jack's arc but didn't complete it before levelling to 26-27, whereupon the game automatically introduced him to the next tier of contacts (because it thought they outleveled Long Jack), while still leaving Long Jack's arc open because it was already in progress.

[UltraAlt]

10 hours ago, Major_Decoy said:

This is particularly obnoxious.

 

For a while now, I've been running with teams that run mission arcs together. We are very careful to turn of earning XP to make sure that we don't outlevel contacts.