Bug. Cannot destroy rival power members in weekly assignment.

[xywa]

Has anyone ever managed to find an opponent in this mission? I flew around the Nav Beacon, near several ports - nothing, a few wanted ships. I investigated several Power Wreckage Signatures (Threat 2 and 3), but nothing. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Shadowsnog]

Has anyone ever managed to find an opponent in this mission? I flew around the Nav Beacon, near several ports - nothing, a few wanted ships. I investigated several Power Wreckage Signatures (Threat 2 and 3), but nothing. Am I doing something wrong?

power wreckages (and other power poi) do spawn power ships. Its not always a guarantee but it works... You can also fight enemies around stations (get ready for some fines if its not anarchy, and dont you dare shoot the station or you will be promoted to a ball of fire) or just jumping in an out of supercruise.
Might be worth noting that enemy ships might not be automatically hostile. You have to scan them and when you see them marked as enemy on the bottom left of hud, you can open fire.

However these missions can, depending on your location during weekly tick, send you to a place with no powerplay presence. How would that work there im not really sure.
Seems like sometimes some weeklies are uncompleteable...

 

[xywa]

Obviously, something isn’t working—some weird bug. I spent over three hours searching and found nothing. Missions like this can be skipped; maybe with the next update, it will be better.

 

[UNATALIYA]

For me I have had this a few times where there are no shows of rivals in a specified system and when dropping out of supercruise and looking for powerplay signals in the system fails to turn up any rivals then the only other possible places are megaships and the various Space Installations. I found that dropping in and out of these sometimes works to spot a few rivals (usually a hauler with a couple of fighters). Take down the fighters before the hauler and hopefully that will get your task done.