The items that you return to terminals, the "bring back" missions, do work when you complete the mission. But say that you want to forgo the mission reward and keep the item, especially if it's a senpai cloak or non-store nano?
Well, with a cloak specifically, the item you were supposed to return disappears from your inventory after the mission times out or if the mission is deleted.
If you give the item to another person and delete the mission, the item will disappear the other individual's inventory.
I tested this with a guild mate, so it's true. With those impossible to find new nanos, I suspect you may be able to upload the nano before the mission times out/is deleted, but I have not tested this.
Is this intentional? If so, I can only ask that these items be provided as NORMAL mission prizes, so we don't have to "exploit" to get them.
If anybody has found missions that offer these rare items as the actual reward for successful completion, please let me know.
Anyway, I seem to recall that a while back, people were keeping the sentinels/knights armor they would receive as the item to bring back, and this was dubbed an exploit, but perhaps because that armor was never supposed to be in the game for players.
At any rate, just wanted to give people a heads up and warn that those senpai tertius, secundus and primus cloaks may just disappear from your inventory if they were found as a return item. Just be wary of people selling these items after today. I tried to ask a person how he got a q116 primus cloak, and he was kind of shady about it. Of course, if the item was found before today, or it was an actual mission prize, then no need to worry -- won't disappear.
- Miso/Fren/Yards