Why isn't the game keeping track of all completed missions?

EVE Technology and Research Center Player Features & Ideas
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I had to check some missions I did last year in October and for my unpleasant surprise, the game had deleted everything I did mission wise prior to January 1st 2025, so all the missions I did in October, November and December were wiped off the standings window for all the categories - faction, corporations and agents! GONE. Are you that low on SERVER space that you have to delete rows of data that contain information about the missions that looks like this.

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0.100, 0.120;

?!?

One hard drive of 1TB storage can store ROUGHLY 1 MB of info for the missions done by one character for 1 M characters. And how long is it going to take for ONE character to fill that 1 M of data with rows like this one???

I have over 500 MB of data in Gamelogs folder spread across over 15000 files, most of which is useless style information like “<color=0xffcc0000>” about the hits during combat, BUT even in the gamelogs there is ZERO information about the actual mission , like

[ 2025.01.01 12:00:00] (notify) You accepted the mission “<mission_name>” with id <mission_number> from <agent_name> in <destination_system_name> against <hostile_faction_name>

then half an hour later

[ 2025.01.01 12:30:00] (notify) You completed mission <mission_number>
[ 2025.01.01 12:30:00] (notify) Your standings with <agent_name> have increased by <standing_change_value>
[ 2025.01.01 12:30:00] (notify) Your standings with <corporation_name> have increased by <standing_change_value>

If you are so short on space on your servers that periodically have to purge the mission date why can’t the game store that information on our end?

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You have notepad. Write down the dates you completed the various Epic Arcs…

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The server keeps a record of completed missions for at least 90 days. I haven’t noticed if it keeps them longer than that because I’ve never had to go that far back.

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Since they discontinued the Tracker I created my own MySQL database and I have been putting in it missions new and old. The old take a bit longer to do as I have to go through the character’s Wallet and find the exact time as the one of the completed mission when I had bounties for killing enemies in what system and the pay offs for completing the missions, so while I did those for some of the agents I didn’t do it for all and now they are gone. When going through the log files I couldn’t find anything useful. I might be able to eventually but have to write a script that reads the files, filters the info about the ships I have killed in a room then compare the number and type of ships to the number and type of ships that are in a room for a particular mission and deduce from that what mission it was, in what system, and against what hostiles, a task that would take me some time.

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I do the same, except I just write it all down. Literally. Every bounty, every mob, every mission payout, every scrap of loot. The mission section of the Wiki has a lot of the same information.