Newcomer / Intro Help. How to find a contact?

Caty_Feila

Caty_Feila
I just left the beginners zone a few days ago.
Today while I was bounty hunting I received an Incoming Critical Mission message or something similar.
It told me to go to a certain system and contact a person to deliver data to another system.
I arrived at the system where I am supposed to meet the contact but can't find this person in the contacts list.
How am I supposed to find him?
Also I clicked on the green checkmark on the message thinking that I might have to click on it to accept the mission and then the contact will appear on the list but instead, the message disappeared.
Does it mean I dismissed the mission?
 

Krieger

Krieger
Sometimes it takes quite long until the contact appears in super cruise. Dropping from super cruise and going back to super cruise a few times usually helps.
 

Caty_Feila

Caty_Feila
Krieger said:
Sometimes it takes quite long until the contact appears in super cruise. Dropping from super cruise and going back to super cruise a few times usually helps.
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Wait, do I have to meet him in flight?
I am docked at the only spaceport in the system.
 

Caty_Feila

Caty_Feila
Ok... I didn't get any message when I arrived so I go check the nav beacon.
I hope I didn't dismiss the mission when I clicked the checkmark.
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
Strange that the mission disappeared... Is it in your transactions tab?

But yes, when you jump into the system you should get a message (while in supercruise) from the NPC that you were told to meet, and they'll send a second message telling you to follow their wake to normal space.

When they drop down, target their low wake and head for it, try not to overshoot, just like with a station, and when it tells you it's safe to drop, drop and the NPC will be there and will give you whatever message it's supposed to.

If you drop to the nav beacon and scan it, that might prompt the NPC to spawn if it otherwise hasn't. Don't worry too much if this one goes wrong, there'll be others, and this same mechanic is sometimes used in assassination missions also.
 

Caty_Feila

Caty_Feila
Faded Glory said:
Strange that the mission disappeared... Is it in your transactions tab?

But yes, when you jump into the system you should get a message (while in supercruise) from the NPC that you were told to meet, and they'll send a second message telling you to follow their wake to normal space.

When they drop down, target their low wake and head for it, try not to overshoot, just like with a station, and when it tells you it's safe to drop, drop and the NPC will be there and will give you whatever message it's supposed to.

If you drop to the nav beacon and scan it, that might prompt the NPC to spawn if it otherwise hasn't. Don't worry too much if this one goes wrong, there'll be others, and this same mechanic is sometimes used in assassination missions also.
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Ah, the transactions tab. I forgot to check it. Yes, it is there.
So how do I follow their wake and target their low wake? Do I need a scanner?
 

Caty_Feila

Caty_Feila
Now I am feeling very stupid.
I went out on supercruise and got the message from the contact asking me if I can follow him.
But I don't know how to respond.
I never used the communication panel before.
I select his message but when I click on the "Enter" button on my HOTAS it doesnt do anything.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Caty_Feila said:
Now I am feeling very stupid.
I went out on supercruise and got the message from the contact asking me if I can follow him.
But I don't know how to respond.
I never used the communication panel before.
I select his message but when I click on the "Enter" button on my HOTAS it doesnt do anything.
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No, just look at the message. Note their name. Now go into Contacts and find the ship (if its still in SC) or a wake (if they already dropped out of SC)
Target the wake, approach it and drop in the same way as you are approaching station, for example.
Once you've met up with the contact, you should receive another message and when you approve it, your mission destription in Transaction panel will update with a new location (for whatever it is you're supposed to do)

Yes, it's complicated
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
Caty_Feila said:
...after a loop of shame when chasing the low wake :LOL:
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Probably the most difficult approach in the game... ;)

Since there's no distance / timer indicator you can't simply throttle down at the 6 second mark. That said, you get a distance / speed indicator in your target info box (bottom left in the HUD) and with practice you will get the hang of when to slow down, and if in doubt just keep your throttle in the blue zone.

As others have said, no need for a wake scanner (that is used for tracking ships high waking to another system - and getting data) and the easiest way to target wakes is to select them from the contacts panel. When it's an NPC that is part of a mission then it will always have their name next to it.
 

Caty_Feila

Caty_Feila
So I finished the mission and got a message saying there's a secondary contract for me in the mission board.
I checked the board and didn't see anything that was obviously related to the mission I finished so I just left the starport and went back to the system I am camping at and went bounty hunting.
While I was at it, I got a voice message from COVAS saying something like Mission Objective Detected.
I didn't have any message in the comms panel nor new items on Transaction.
Anyone has any idea of what could it be?
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
The secondary mission will be a chained / follow on mission. You might have to refresh the board to see it and it will come from a specific faction, the one that sent you the message if you still have it. It will be at the top of their list of available missions and will have a chain icon next to it signifying that it's a follow on. It will be available for a week, so there's no hurry to take it. (They aren't really special missions, just trying to add a sense of 'story'.)

The random Mission Objective Detected is I think a bug, so no need to worry about it. I have read somewhere that it might be a signal source with a couple of NPC's wanting to buy commodities that you can go off and find, but can't confirm that.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Caty_Feila said:
Ah, ok. Got it.
So I suppose there's no problem if I just ignore it.
Thank you.
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You can also ignore the mission critical update messages as well if you aren’t currently running a mission. I get them popping up when I am doing well bounty hunting and consider them a trick by the faction whose ships I am shooting or their friends to try and get me to go away and stop shooting at them it doesn’t work.
 
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