I am roaming the star system, and exploring all the signal sources, but it is a desperate search... how can i rise the probability to find what I am looking for? How will I recognize it when i see it?
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Newcomer / Intro black box salvage mission. what shall i look for exactly?
- Thread starter Zeus Cubed
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Reas the mission description again. It usually says something like scanning the NavBeacon or using your Discovery Scanner once you're in the target system.
In these cases, either of those will result in a mission update, giving you a target region (like in orbit around planet xyz). Go there and keep on looking for USS's until you find one that says "mission target".
In these cases, either of those will result in a mission update, giving you a target region (like in orbit around planet xyz). Go there and keep on looking for USS's until you find one that says "mission target".
It says just "search signal sources". But this means that i must exit supercruise at each one to investigate or it will say "mission target" when i scan it?
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Other questions. I am coming across many things labeled illegal salvage. What do I risk if i colkect them? Can i profit from them?
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Other questions. I am coming across many things labeled illegal salvage. What do I risk if i colkect them? Can i profit from them?
Ignore the bit about signal sources. All these sort of missions work the same:
- Go to the system it tells you
- Drop out at the nav beacon
- Target the white dot (nav bacon) on your radar.
- Wait 5 secs for the scan to complete. You'll get a mission update.
- Look at your nav panel for the planet with the mission symbol and go to it
- Fly around the planet.
- After a short time, you get a message to say that the target has been found (special USS)
- Look on your nav panel for the blue target and target it.
- Fly to it and drop out there, where your mission target is waiting to be collected, killed, scanned or whatever.
You can collect illegal salvage. It can only be sold in a black market. Not all stations have a black market, so you might end up carrying it longer than you want to.
If a fed scans you while you have it, you get a fine, so you have to keep away from feds and switch off "report crimes against me" otherwise the feds will come when somebody attacks you and you'll get fined. The feds are waiting to scan you at the station. To avoid the scan fly in straight down the stations axis line from about 6km out. Keep your speed at about 250 m/s until you get to the grille, then you can slow down to come through the slot at about 150 m/s.
Collecting illegal salvage gives you a bit of extra fun because of the risk and tactics you have to use, but the financial rewards are hardly worth the trouble.
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The above post is all you need to know really.
Recovery missions aren't "random". If they were, it'd be like looking for a needle in a solar-system sized haystack.
It's always a case of going to a system, scanning the nav' beacon (or honking with an advanced scanner), getting a mission update telling you EXACTLY where to look, going there and loitering for around a minute, until you get a specific message saying "mission objective located" (or something similar to that).
If you see a signal source but you don't get the "mission objective located" message, it's not what you're looking for.
One thing that sometimes trips me up is that I'll take on a recovery mission, follow the instructions, mooch around in orbit of the target planet, fail to locate the mission objective and then, upon re-reading the mission summary, I'll realise that the mission objective is actually on the planet surface and I need to land and collect it with an SRV.
You can double-check whether this is the case by looking at your navigation HUD too.
If it shows a destination planet with a POI icon next to it, you'll be picking up the objective in space.
If it shows a little square box and a destination site with a POI icon next to it, you'll need to land and pick up the objective with an SRV.
None of which should ever be an issue if you don't have Horizons installed, of course.
Anyway, point being that I find it's useful to build a ship specifically for recovery missions.
I'm currently using a Viper 4 which can be nicely fitted with a #4 cargo bay and a #4 dual SRV bay.
I also have a Diamondback Explorer similarly fitted too.
They're small, fairly manoeuvrable, ships that can scoop cargo in space easily, land and deploy an SRV if they need to and they can take a bit of a beating in case you get ambushed while collecting the items and need to make a hasty exit under fire.
Recovery missions aren't "random". If they were, it'd be like looking for a needle in a solar-system sized haystack.
It's always a case of going to a system, scanning the nav' beacon (or honking with an advanced scanner), getting a mission update telling you EXACTLY where to look, going there and loitering for around a minute, until you get a specific message saying "mission objective located" (or something similar to that).
If you see a signal source but you don't get the "mission objective located" message, it's not what you're looking for.
One thing that sometimes trips me up is that I'll take on a recovery mission, follow the instructions, mooch around in orbit of the target planet, fail to locate the mission objective and then, upon re-reading the mission summary, I'll realise that the mission objective is actually on the planet surface and I need to land and collect it with an SRV.
You can double-check whether this is the case by looking at your navigation HUD too.
If it shows a destination planet with a POI icon next to it, you'll be picking up the objective in space.
If it shows a little square box and a destination site with a POI icon next to it, you'll need to land and pick up the objective with an SRV.
None of which should ever be an issue if you don't have Horizons installed, of course.
Anyway, point being that I find it's useful to build a ship specifically for recovery missions.
I'm currently using a Viper 4 which can be nicely fitted with a #4 cargo bay and a #4 dual SRV bay.
I also have a Diamondback Explorer similarly fitted too.
They're small, fairly manoeuvrable, ships that can scoop cargo in space easily, land and deploy an SRV if they need to and they can take a bit of a beating in case you get ambushed while collecting the items and need to make a hasty exit under fire.
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Done. Eventually it worked like d8vedh said. Thank you very much
Well,I teusted that all these missions work like this... so I took on a navy strike mission... to kill 6 pirates... but when I scannef the nav beacon, I git a message "sorry, we don't know where they are, look for them in the old fashioned way". I looked for the nail in the haystack and in some hour I managed to kill 5 of them. But I never located the last. Absurd.
Pirates are easy to find, make them find you. Get 4 tons of engineer cargo and you will be a pirate magnet.
Did that. I keep being interdicted by pirates that are not the mission target.
Probably the wrong faction. Sometimes USS will have pirates. Distress calls have too many at times.
I have taken an assassination mission before that also counted towards a kill pirates mission.
Otherwise, it's nav beacons, RES or hunting in supercruise.
I have taken an assassination mission before that also counted towards a kill pirates mission.
Otherwise, it's nav beacons, RES or hunting in supercruise.