How can I complete "Omega: Packages For Ish"?

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In the assignment Omega: Packages for Ish, I picked up the packages he wanted from Illium and from the Citadel, and then I delivered them to him. I then chose the paragon option of talking him into not using them, at which point he thanked me for probably saving his life and left.

However, the assignment is still open in my journal. What do I need to do to close this out? I tried talking to Aria and to Anto after talking to Ish, but neither had anything to say about it.

tiddy · Accepted Answer

This is a known bug in Mass Effect 2, and as of the most recent patch/steam version, is still in effect. There is no current solution.

These are the possible paths to take when starting this mission for the first time. Bringing the package to Anto will allow the quest to properly close, but locks you into the rewards and responses from that decision - which you may not want.

From the wiki, these are your options:

If you bring the package to Ish, you can either:

Give the packages to Ish for +50 experience, +4500 credits, and +5    Renegade points.
  Or convince Ish he's in over his head for +40 experience, +3375    credits, and no morality points; yet the mission remains open in the
  journal.

If you bring the package to Anto (one of Aria's bodyguards in the
  Afterlife Club) - which you can either do first or after convincing
  Ish to leave as described above - you can either:

Give the package to Anto for +5 Paragon/Renegade points. 
  Or extort money from Anto for +40 experience, +2250 credits, and +5      Paragon/Renegade points.

In either case, no one will hear from Ish ever again if the mission is
  turned in to Anto. Should you choose the middle option of "Take care
  of Ish", Shepard will simply suggest that Anto "clean up the mess" by
  killing Ish, which Anto does. And if Jacob is in the squad, he finds
  Shepard's choice to be harsh, though he still sees that Ish deserves
  such an end. If Miranda is in the squad, she'll say that "that's
  exactly how [she] expected Ish to go out".

Current Bioware Forum BUG thread: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/888625/5

Ishmaeel · Answer

If you don't mind messing around with save files, there is an out-of-game solution for marking this assignment complete. You will need Mass Effect 2 Save Editor.
Not my solution. I found it elsewhere and it worked for me. Make backups first.

Complete the assignment with the Paragon option with Ish. This will leave the assignment open, but the summary will state both packages
were given to Ish.
Open the save file with the ME2 Save Editor, and open the Raw tab.
Under the "3. Plot" directory, expand ME2 Plot Table, close to the bottom locate Quest IDs
Open this and you will have an Int32 Collection Editor open listing the quest ID values associated with each quest you've acquired, in the
order you've acquired them. Locate the quest with 9672 as it's
integer, this is "Packages for Ish". In the save I was experimenting
with the quest was number 89, but this will depend on when you
acquired it.
Now open the QuestProgress table located right above QuestIDs, and find the quest number associated with the assignment, 89 in my case.
On the right hand side expand history.
There should only be 3 members in the bugged option, 0, 1, and 2, with 0, 1, and 2 their respective values (assuming you gave him the
first package). Add a new member and assign it a value of 4. This will
add a completed flag to the assignment and close it out in your
Journal.

Source: http://fextralife.com/forums/p5385009/packages-for-ish-hex-editing/

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