Problem with Taris Bonus Questline

I'm a new player to the game, only started about 2 weeks ago and still working on my first character. Really enjoying this game so far and glad I subscribed. And I already know this problem has been brought up in the past, because it is an old problem according to what I was able to read about it online. But it's an old problem that was never fixed and it really bothers me, so I wanted to raise it myself to remind people that this is still an issue, especially for new people like me who are still learning and don't know all the ins and outs of this game yet.

The problem is that some of the planets including Taris have 2 separate questlines, as I have discovered, with the second one supposed to be a sequel to the first one for people that already did the first one so they could have a reason to go back and check how things are doing on the planet after all their hard work of helping the people there, which is cool. Except some of these secondary questlines, particularly the one on Taris, have not been scripted properly to only be offered by the NPCs in the zone after the player has completed the first questline.

Normally I would not bother to complain about this if it weren't for the fact that this issue actually causes the second questline to be unable to be completed if a person accidentally did some of the parts of the second questline while they were still working on the first set, because then the initial quest of the second questline wants you to redo those quests it is supposed to lead you to that you already did when the game will not let you get them again, and there is nothing you can do about it. Resetting from the mission log doesn't help (I tried that) and there is nothing you can do about it except delete the bonus series from your journal and forget about it, which sucks, especially when Taris is my favorite planet so far.

The reason why this happens is because, especially if you are new to the game, you go to these planets and start picking up quests from all NPC's that are asking you for help. I want to help everyone so I get as many quests as possible at one time and try to do as many simultaneously for efficiency's sake. But as a new player I have no way of telling what NPCs are giving me quests that I'm not supposed to be getting yet, because there is no spoiler warning tags on these quests, and it stands to reason they simply should not be giving me the quests yet. But I didn't figure that out until after the fact when I got stuck at an NPCs my mission told me to go to to help, but that person just thanks me for helping them with the quest I already completed earlier and won't give it back to me so I can continue with the rest of the second questline.

Anyway I have also submitted a bug report in-game in addition to making this post to try to raise attention to it again, after researching the past complaints about this problem so I could make sure what was happening.I think this is something that should be patched and there is no good reason why a problem like this should still be in the game after years of people already reporting it. I really like this game a lot and I'm not going to quit the game over it or even threaten to, but not only will I report this I will even give you a suggestion on how to fix it:

It should be a pretty simple fix, honestly, all you have to do is make sure all of the quests that are tied to the initial quest that is given by the NPC named "Strom" in the spaceport of Taris, which is called "Taris Bonus Mission", are flagged properly so they will not be given until after the completion of the final quest in the original Taris quest series. And for people like me who are already stuck and still want to be able to complete the second questline on Taris, just make it so that resetting the "Taris Bonus Missiion" in your mission log will actually reset all of the parts of that entire questline, including the parts we did early by accident, so we can actually re-do the entire bonus mission and actually finish it properly.

Sorry for the long post and I hope this makes sense. I'm just hoping the reason why this has still been a problem for so long is because it hasn't been explained as precisely as the dev's need to understand what is actually going wrong. I noticed that Tatooine has a similar problem with it's bonus mission, except in that case I was able to avoid the problem there since the initial questgiver of the second series on that planet was the one trying to give me his quest as soon as I had landed on the planet for the first time, instead of it being an NPC later on in the second series liked it was on Taris, and it just so happened to be obvious to me via his dialog that I wasn't supposed to be talking to him until way later on. Although it is the same kind of problem in that case as well, and he should not be offering people the bonus series until after they have completed the original one either.

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