So today I have taken out several big bosses (a dark shadow ring, a lazuli station and a few others) all by myself. Why? because I can't alert my legion for another 8 hours. I don't normally play at night so that means that a lot of people have missed out on some really cool artifacts and a lot of experience.

Can we please remove the NPC alert timer?

By the way, possibly the greatest artifact I have ever seen I gained (and you guys missed out on) because of the NPC alert problem...

Dark Smugglers Cache:
A large cache of data and goods of various types. When opened, it grant 8 hours worth of planetary production, not to exceed your planetary and rank capacity.

(In the wiki it says 4 hours but the artifact description in game said 8 hours and provided 8 hours of production)

Yep. I got that one too before and it's my most favorite artifact off NPCs heh. 8 hours rules! To others, BE sure to empty out minerals, artifact and research points to get full benefit of the cache!

it was 4 hours, then changed to 8. i got both types.