Search & rescue

Kenneth McGrew · Oct 2, 2017

Erm so I see this is a "thing" in 2.4 within the contacts area but I have no idea what to do with this information it was all red when I looked at the station services.

is it a case of finding "stuff" in the void and brining it back & these red shaded areas will turn orange (lovely orange) to sell? or am I missing something?

I thought a search and rescue would be along the lines of;

ship lost contact around system "xyz"
go to system "XYZ" and search for potential planets by surface scanning
Locate wreckage and load up the black box and survivors via SRV
Take them home

^^ is this just a fantasy?

marx · Oct 2, 2017

Yeah, it's just scooping up canisters of salvage that you can find out there, and selling them via the contact.
I don't know if the rewards are static or dynamic, but I should find out in a couple of days. To be honest, I don't know why they'd make a new contact for this if it's the same as selling cargo on the commodity market.
Missions dedicated to this, like you wrote above, would be great, but I haven't heard about any such things popping up.

Also, during this year's LaveCon, Frontier promised a bit more, and showed a screenshot with a targetable salvageable wreckage: see here. This was supposed to come for 2.4, but no word yet on whether it's actually in or ended up cut.

SMGfan · Oct 2, 2017

I thought so too Kenneth. I would love these types of missions.

Kenneth McGrew · Oct 2, 2017

marx said:
Yeah, it's just scooping up canisters of salvage that you can find out there, and selling them via the contact.
I don't know if the rewards are static or dynamic, but I should find out in a couple of days. To be honest, I don't know why they'd make a new contact for this if it's the same as selling cargo on the commodity market.
Missions dedicated to this, like you wrote above, would be great, but I haven't heard about any such things popping up.

Also, during this year's LaveCon, Frontier promised a bit more, and showed a screenshot with a targetable salvageable wreckage: see here. This was supposed to come for 2.4, but no word yet on whether it's actually in or ended up cut.

SMGfan said:
I thought so too Kenneth. I would love these types of missions.

sigh... I thought it was too good to be true and my hopes of user error were slim but ill found

a sad day indeed.

thanks for the link Marx, it would be cool if they were planet side too revealed with the surface scan, one can dream I guess.

Tommy Angelo · Oct 2, 2017

Greetings CMDRS,

I actually had one of those, here's the link: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/379819-Need-help-with-Search-amp-Resque-mission

Kenneth McGrew · Oct 2, 2017

Tommy Angelo said:
Greetings CMDRS,

I actually had one of those, here's the link: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/379819-Need-help-with-Search-amp-Resque-mission

where did you get the mission from though? I haven't seen them on the mission board yet?

I was given a S&R mission ages ago randomly in a system to investigate a crash site but I was only asked to scan the data point and sell it =/

marx · Oct 2, 2017

Hm, I was originally thinking about wreckages in distant systems, but I suppose near-bubble missions are at least there.
I second what Kenneth said, and it would be good to know where (which system, base?) you got the mission. Unfortunately, as things stand, there are various kinds of missions which show up rarely and are thus rather difficult to find.

Tommy Angelo · Oct 2, 2017

Got it just from the Missions board, nothing extraordinary =) Saw S&Rs several more times, but I must agree that such missions are not the ones you get to see often.

D.D.Hariman · Oct 2, 2017

I found the Search & Rescue Agent because I had a load of OEP's and couldn't find them in Commodities anymore.
I have since received another one of those INCOMING MISSION CRITICAL MESSAGES that wanted me to go pick up some salvage someplace.

The only one I tried nearly got me killed because someone didn't want me to delivery the stuff and when I targeted it to pick it up it said it was ILLEGAL SALVAGE.

Are these now going to be "legal" missions or is this simply making it legal to pick up a bit more stuff out in the middle of nowhere and haul it to a station for sale??

Kenneth McGrew · Oct 3, 2017

marx said:
Hm, I was originally thinking about wreckages in distant systems, but I suppose near-bubble missions are at least there.
I second what Kenneth said, and it would be good to know where (which system, base?) you got the mission. Unfortunately, as things stand, there are various kinds of missions which show up rarely and are thus rather difficult to find.

I was too, one day... one day