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No. They now have 1 for completing the main mission and one for completing the secondary success condition popular themes include bringing the enemy back alive, finding the hidden thingamabober, or doing 4 out of 5 clever things in the scenario.
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It sounds like you're looking at the faction missions. They can effectively be ignored, or given to players for flavour. Completing those faction missions yields nothing but a pat on the back.
Sometimes the secondary success condition coincides with a faction mission, but it's rare. Sometimes the faction mission also has extra information about the primary mission, which can help.
Venture-Captain, Texas—Waco
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These scenarios have the possibility of getting up to 3 prestige per scenario (Some of them at least)
Question 1 Do players still get full prestige or are they limited to 2?
Question 2 Do GM's get 3 prestige or only 2?
No regular scenario has ever been able to give 3 prestige, regardless of the season. Players and GMs have always been limited to 2, and as BNW points out the second is not a gimme. The faction handouts are now optional and just for flavor, for over a year now they have had no bearing on how much prestige is awarded. Out of curiosity, where would you get such an idea?
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Okay, a little history is in order.
Season 0, where it all started, you only got PP for completing faction missions, none for completing the Pathfinder mission. At that time, as well, most scenarios only had a single faction mission available, so a "good" result was getting a single PP for a scenario.
With Season 1, they added a few more scenarios with 2 faction missions, one "easy", one "hard", to get the possibility of getting two PP.
A while later, due to comments and complaints, it was decided to make a serious change in how PP could be earned. It was also, in part, a result of the Society getting the number of factions doubled from five to ten. 20 faction missions would have, pretty much, used up the word count available for the scenario. ;)
So, at that time, you could earn one PP for completing the mission that the VC gave you at the beginning of the game. Earlier seasons were retconned to do the same thing, along with allowing you to gain another for completing the faction mission, which worked fine for scenarios where each faction only had one mission. It was under a lot of discussion as to which mission to use for the scenarios where each faction had two missions...
Now, as of Season 5, the way to earn PP was, yet again, updated. Now, you earn one PP for completing the mission you are given at the beginning of the game, usually by a VC. You can earn a second PP for completing a semi-secret goal, not usually explicitly given in the briefing, although it is frequently hinted at there.
For earlier season scenarios, those secondary missions could be as simple as completing the primary mission, or be denoted by actually being told to give out the old faction mission slips. Many of them are in the spirit of helping the Pathfinder Society change its image from MurderHoboBums to the League of Civilized Adventurers.
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And to add to James' post, these rules can be found in the Guide to Organized Play, a free rules supplement that is pretty much required reading to play or run PFS.
