User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E6 -Known By It's KRAAAW - Impressions/Recap/@comment-26397825-20171122003657/@comment-25936766-20171122210948

@73: "In progress" = "Someone already took it and hasn't finished it nor put it on hold nor abandoned it".

Very different from "Open", which at the very least implies the mission is available for whoever wants to give it a try and no one has taken it yet.

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@Chish: The thing is, that if they just used "Terminated" as a generalizing term for "KIA, Abandoned, or Fired", it would be more than 100% unnecesary.

Not just because it makes the "status" more vague than it needs to, but also because, in programming, adding code so a screen shows a bigger variety of simple sentences, has been and still is not only simple-stupid to do, but also outstandingly cheap in terms of number of bytes required.

It really costs them effectively nothing to use more terms than just "Terminated". Such a thing would weight like less than 1Kb, and we already have reached the level of multiple Terabytes, let alone the more advanced Remnant.

Also, there's no real info given on the missions. And depending on where they go, communication with the Kingdom might be impossible. Shiro, or others, could've picked missions that involved going very far away from the Kingdoms, and the journey alone could take a long time, while they can't even send a :D to the guys in Mistral.

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I like those ideas you mention in the last paragraph.

The way Qrow expresses his thoughts doesn't really say "are they all being killed?" or anything like that. I saw it more like "I understand some Huntsmen not being available, but all of them being unavailable?".

Or at least if the board was more descriptive. "Carmina is on a Search and Rescue mission that's been in progrss for 8 weeks". Okay, but who is she rescuing and where? Is it villagers in a town near Mistral? Soldiers on the other side of Anima? Scientists in another freaking continent?

(And yes, it does say "Progrss")