Mission : Hunting Pirates - HELLO? Oh Pirates... I'm here.

EpicHam · Jul 31, 2014

After trying for like 30 times of relogging and restarting.
I finally could get onto the bulletin board and took up my first mission.

Pirate huntin'
The problem being.... I can't find any.
I tried all the planets .
I tried flying to the unknown signal sources.
I tried flying to the navigation beacon.
I tried lapping the station.

Nothing.
The only place where I see ANYONE is the station entrance and the loitering cargo ship that inevitably get shot down every few half hour.

I'm currently regretting my decision of taking that mission .

stevie · Jul 31, 2014

Yeah me too. I think i had 2 hours to find them. Flew around and found nothing at all.

In my current mission i'm looking for "ARIEL" pirate. I'm guessing it's in the same system, who knows

Cryptonomica · Jul 31, 2014

Found the same thing with this mission. Also the kill counter seems to reset if you dock or change system.

From digging around here on the forums it appears that you need to visit an extraction site to do this mission, but I have yet to try it again so can't say for sure

OriginalBadBoy · Jul 31, 2014

Extraction sites are generally the best place to find pirates as they will be picking on mining ships.

EpicHam · Jul 31, 2014

OriginalBadBoy said:
Extraction sites are generally the best place to find pirates as they will be picking on mining ships.

the problem being.... there are systems that doesn't have extraction sites.... or rings.... or gas giants... only big rocky planets with nothing interesting around....

rootsrat · Jul 31, 2014

Yeah, we could really do with system maps here.

Without being able to tell what the given system consist of, it's hard to find anything!

blacky75 · Jul 31, 2014

stevie said:
...
In my current mission i'm looking for "ARIEL" pirate. I'm guessing it's in the same system, who knows

You must search for a planet with water around... the pirate must be inside it somewhere

EpicHam · Jul 31, 2014

rootsrat said:
Yeah, we could really do with system maps here.

Without being able to tell what the given system consist of, it's hard to find anything!

WELL!
I found some pirates...
3 Eagles against a sidewinder.

It went just as expected.

stevie · Jul 31, 2014

...
the pirate must be inside it somewhere

Hahaha good one

Cowski · Jul 31, 2014

EpicHam said:
After trying for like 30 times of relogging and restarting.
I finally could get onto the bulletin board and took up my first mission.

Pirate huntin'
The problem being.... I can't find any.
I tried all the planets .
I tried flying to the unknown signal sources.
I tried flying to the navigation beacon.
I tried lapping the station.

Nothing.
The only place where I see ANYONE is the station entrance and the loitering cargo ship that inevitably get shot down every few half hour.

I'm currently regretting my decision of taking that mission .

I find them...totally by accident. But this is what I "think" makes them appear.

1. Load up your cargo bay with something.
2. Head towards any LP-xxxx-xxxx system.
3. Get interdiction.
4. Receive communication from pirate saying, "See you in hell!"

Seems that's how I've been finding them...by accident that is.

Cosmo · Jul 31, 2014

The missions need more work. They should add missions for player groups too so people have more reason to group-up.

Hamerstein · Jul 31, 2014

Agreed on the Bounty Hunting. It really doesn't give much to go on at the moment.

What might be useful is being able to receive bulletin board updates on pirate activity, I'd assume the named one's in missions are particularly notorious? At least that'd give us a trail of breadcrumbs to follow rather than flying about hoping to get lucky.

rootsrat · Jul 31, 2014

Well, we're only at 1.01 version of SB. I'm pretty sure we'll see improvements to mission system with the future updates, so I'd just say: post any suggestions in Beta Discussion forum, where they will be more likely to be noticed by the devs, and watch this space.

Cryptonomica · Jul 31, 2014

I've successfully completed a couple of missions against pirates and feds now. What I did was, after accepting the mission, go to one of the systems listed in the mission description.

Once in-system, head to likely-looking planet. When you get close enough to the planet (a few Ls or closer) you start to see new destinations appearing in the navigation list on the left-hand panel. Some of these will be the usual unidentified contacts, while others will be Extraction Zones (usually have a few pirates), Conflict Zones (Feds fighting Eranin or whoever), Distress Beacons or whatever.

If there's nothing near that planet, pick another and repeat :smilie:

EpicHam · Jul 31, 2014

Cryptonomica said:
I've successfully completed a couple of missions against pirates and feds now. What I did was, after accepting the mission, go to one of the systems listed in the mission description.

Once in-system, head to likely-looking planet. When you get close enough to the planet (a few Ls or closer) you start to see new destinations appearing in the navigation list on the left-hand panel. Some of these will be the usual unidentified contacts, while others will be Extraction Zones (usually have a few pirates), Conflict Zones (Feds fighting Eranin or whoever), Distress Beacons or whatever.

If there's nothing near that planet, pick another and repeat :smilie:

the problem being sometimes your employer will send you to a system without ANYTHING and you can only rely on being interdicted...and when you do... its usually not a fair fight .... as a matter of fact.. odds are usually against you.... massively.