Assassinate Known Pirate Question

[Karmix]

Hi everyone,

For Assassinate Known Pirate and Take Down Known Pirate missions, is there a way to avoid the ones that have you go to the system, then realize the contact is in another system, go there, follow them, find out where the pirate is then go to another system? These seem to glitch once in a while and take way longer than the normal missions.

I'm hoping that by choosing the right type of Assassinate or Known Pirate missions, you can just do the ones that take you to a system, cruise around and the Mission Target just pops up on your navigation screen. Way faster and easier to complete.

Also, does anyone kill all the ships for these missions or just the main pirate? I target him, then when done fly off and leave the other red wing team members. Any point in getting them all?

Thanks for the help.

 

[R4dioS1lence]

There is no way of avoiding them, sadly. They don't strictly often bug out, but some systems that get targeted as reroutes have awful spawning points for the contact, which can make the contact take ages to find you. Systems with multiple stars have done this to me often, because the target would spawn on the secondary star and fly towards the primary (no matter how long it takes). Changing the area you get these missions from for at least 20/40 ly may help (I forgot the possible radius of locations for pirate targets, so double that to rule out all current systems near you that may be causing problems on reroutes). Once it actually bugged out so hard for me that I had to interdict the contact because he was ignoring me and going on a direction that was completely off from the primary star.

If you don't mind the slight negative repercussion, you can stack a lot of them and just drop whichever ones rerouted you.

As for wingmates of the multi-crew pirates, they do have bounties on them, but not comparable to the pirate themselves, and even worse when you account the time it takes to kill them (these Vultures are almost as sturdy as the FDLs they protect). Unless you're looking for materials and want to scoop theirs and the pirate, it's best to ignore them (I don't think I even saw any of these multi-crew targets actually drop any G5s, so I even stopped getting these targets myself).

 

[Karmix]

Thanks. I've been doing just that. Take 7 to 10 at a time, dump the 1 or 2 "find the contact" ones, take the rep hit and when I turn all the others in the rep returns to Allied.

I'm going for the mats with Wing missions so my partner can cash them in too. Money not a major thing.

Thanks again.

 

[Schmack]

I abandon them. There's enough rep to recover from the rest of the stacked missions. Just make sure you abandon them before you turn in your competed missions.