also, there are some really bad bugs and even account breaches, I think, regarding orichalcum and the quests. I noticed that on the first time I met the orichalcum merchant in Phokis, my then-stash of 37 suddenly...disappeared. It was no longer in my material list--even the icon was completely gone, and I didn't have enough to purchase the cheapest, 20 ori item.
so I reloaded various other saves before activating that merchant, and it was still gone. I did this a few times, and eventually it popped back up on my account. That is the first time that happened. I was searching for this bug in forums, and saw that there was a data/account breach or something with Ubi servers and people were losing this from their accounts. Apparently, ori, the ori missions, and items are stored separately on your account--kinda like their own independent login server from all the other stuff on your account. This way, it logs whether or not you have done the weekly or daily missions, and whether or not you have spent it--you can't for instance, buy the grab bag, reset if you don't like the item, and keep doing it until you get something you want. It's like an MMO loot box. ...but then it would be nice if that actually worked.
I've so far had 2 weekly and one daily mission just disappear from my log on re-loads so far. 5 days to complete...oh, suddenly you aren't doing this anymore and you can no longer access it on the bounty board. sucks to be you. Oh, you opened this one an hour ago, 12 hours to complete, logged out and came back? Sorry, we removed it. The only ori mission that is now available--wasn't there an hour ago!--is "expired" for some reason. so you can't do it.
This is very annoying. I recognize a lot of this is bugs that will likely be patched, but the idea of logging in on a daily timer to catch whatever reset time is for missions before they expire, and have the real life time to finish them before they expire...is really annoying. I also realize that eventually one will be able to quickly complete some of these, but early in the game when you have weekly that wants you to win 3 occupations for one nation across the world...which essentially means removing power in three different regions--killing soldiers, burning stuff, killing leaders...then winning those battles....you simply can't do that in the time frame. Those really don't seem to scale like they should.