While at the table, the advisors will engage in dialogue with each other. Scouting operations are always completed instantly and cost power instead. The times presented here are without agents but with the preferred advisor time reduction taken into account. Additionally, some operations have a preferred advisor who can complete the task 20% faster, however this doesn't always lead to an ideal result. To combat this, recruited agents lower completion times by 5% for the advisor to which they are assigned. This allows operations that are otherwise quite long (18–24 hours long without agents) to be completed within a reasonable period of real world time. The file loaded upon selecting 'Continue' on the title screen), and even when the system is powered off and unplugged.
Any save created after the mission is begun will count down the timer, even when the file is not the 'active' file (i.e. Mission timers run in real time, independently of the save file's time. The rewards and overall completion time may change depending on the advisor deployed. Mission operations take time to complete and generally gain the Inquisition rewards and/or influence. There are two types of operations – mission operations and scouting operations. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the war table is used to send advisors and their forces to complete various operations around Thedas in order to unlock locations, receive rewards, gain influence and/or progress the story.
