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Idk if that has been posted before, I only saw suggestions about this topic, so I thought I go ahead and post.

I got a Zana mission, which required me to find a map item within the time limit. I entered the map, pretty fast a contract dropped and the mission was fullfilled (i double and triple checked, there is no hidden map or a map somwhere else on the ground). Sadly I only have a screen when it was done, as I didnt think about this earlier, but that confirms, that contracts count as map and therefor should be affected by cartographers scarabs and maybe take away some of the map sustain (not confirmed)

Screen of the drop/mission complete

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over 4 years ago - /u/Bex_GGG - Direct link

Contracts and Blueprints are both completely separate item classes to maps and have separate drop weightings. As a sanity check, we tested this specific scenario to see if we could end this Zana mission by dropping contracts but it doesn't appear to work (nor should it).

over 4 years ago - /u/RhysGGG - Direct link

Contracts (and Blueprints) are not Maps. They cannot trigger completion of Zana's mission to find a Map. This is very simple to verify.

You most likely simply dropped a Map somewhere offscreen (possibly hidden by your item filter).

over 4 years ago - /u/RhysGGG - Direct link

Originally posted by Kazhaar

And doing a low tier heist before logout and you can see you have white atlas mission the morning.

I don't believe this is possible. Your most recently completed Map Tier (used to award daily Atlas missions) is only updated when running an actual Map, otherwise how would it even know what Tier to store? Contracts and Blueprints simply don't have Map Tiers. Area level is irrelevant for this, only Map Tier matters.