This is the SOP. I would add, if the mission turns into a wild goose chase across multiple systems I abandon it. I followed one of those once and it really is a waste of about 20 mins to find the pirate when you can kill the mission and pay a donation to get the rep back much easier. Its really fun when I stack 2-3 kill pirate missions and they all jump me in the same instance. Last night it was me vs 2 pirate lords in their vettes. Good times.
Any one done assassinate missions since 3.3?
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This is the SOP. I would add, if the mission turns into a wild goose chase across multiple systems I abandon it. I followed one of those once and it really is a waste of about 20 mins to find the pirate when you can kill the mission and pay a donation to get the rep back much easier. Its really fun when I stack 2-3 kill pirate missions and they all jump me in the same instance. Last night it was me vs 2 pirate lords in their vettes. Good times.
I agree. What really sux is there's no way to know which missions will turn into this. I'll stack 2-3 knowing that 1 of those will have to be canceled due to this idiocy.
I attempted one the other night.
I'd switched from my Krait to my Corvette, jumped to the target system and almost immediately got interdicted by the target.
"Excellent", I thought, "That'll save me some time."
Sadly, I hadn't flown the Corvette for some time, and foolishly I failed to check the power requirements before heading out.
Less than 15s after the interdiction, with shields still down, I was back at the rebuy screen.
Schoolboy error, but an expensive one.
I'd switched from my Krait to my Corvette, jumped to the target system and almost immediately got interdicted by the target.
"Excellent", I thought, "That'll save me some time."
Sadly, I hadn't flown the Corvette for some time, and foolishly I failed to check the power requirements before heading out.
Less than 15s after the interdiction, with shields still down, I was back at the rebuy screen.
Schoolboy error, but an expensive one.
I attempted one the other night.
I'd switched from my Krait to my Corvette, jumped to the target system and almost immediately got interdicted by the target.
"Excellent", I thought, "That'll save me some time."
Sadly, I hadn't flown the Corvette for some time, and foolishly I failed to check the power requirements before heading out.
Less than 15s after the interdiction, with shields still down, I was back at the rebuy screen.
Schoolboy error, but an expensive one.
50% of the time when the pirate interdicts me, he's not there when its time to rumble. Very annoying.
I've done at least 20 of these in the past 2 days and not once have they dropped in on me at the beacon
Yes it was a chained mission actually!! Now i remember! as i reread the posts.
You checked in supercruise right? You need to scan the beacon then Jump to SC before they will show.
I've had this happen too. I killed the guy four times just to be sure, but never could complete the mission.
I usually wait to see if the target drops in and then jump to SC when he doesn't show.
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The changes to the FSS and how they impact the mission system are great for actually completing them (especially once you've really gotten to grips with the new stuff) but you'll probably be happy to know that it also helps us to more accurately identify any issues you might run into and confidently fix them for you. If you identify a consistent set of occurrences that seem to suggest an issue then grab as many details as you can and drop them in the bug reporting forums and we'll be able to investigate with much higher precision.
This is a great example of the above (though unrelated to the FSS) however we'd need it on the bug reporting forums with a bit more information that we could use to reproduce it.
Overall, we're very glad that you're enjoying the new mechanics.
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I did a bug report about this effect during the beta. It was one of the few, which QA people actually acknowledged and reported to be looking into. But as it happens sporadically (I was unable to reproduce the bug), it's probably also a hard one to track down.
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Just throwing back to this thread that I can now absolutely confirm that it's Chain Assassination missions only which are bugged.
For 5 "standard" assassinations, all had their USS findable either with the FSS or using a nav beacon.
For a further 10 "chain" assassinations, none had a findable USS either using the FSS or Nav Beacon, and their text never updated to provide a near body or location in-system such as a shipping lane. I had to rely entirely on being interdicted by the target, or interdicting them myself which didn't happen in some cases.
Bug report here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...SS-in-the-target-system?p=7291342#post7291342
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Work fine for me. I've been doing them all day.
Use the FSS to locate your target's signal source.
Nice catch
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