How do I know if they're prisoners?

[MISCHI3F]

I know how to tell if someone's a pirate, bounty hunter, authority, but I've never seen prisoners before

 

[Arktac13]

I know how to tell if someone's a pirate, bounty hunter, authority, but I've never seen prisoners before

Agreed, I've never seen one of these missions before. Good find! tell us how it goes.

 

[palefire]

In escort by authority vessels, maybe? Not seen this one before.

 

[Boobytrap]

Ive asked this same question myself. Looked on other threads with the same question. No one knows. I suspect its a bug. However, an NPC will offer you an alternative after a while. I suggest you take it

 

[MISCHI3F]

I didn't take it. I thought it could be a bug.
Also was filling up my cargo hold with rares.
I learned the hard way about taking missions I didn't know how to complete.

 

[DUST2DEATH]

This is an issue as well.

Why are there no clear mission rulesets?

I picked one up to destroy traders in 2 systems, target number of 4. I go to both, drop into every uss and kill the haulers I find and split. I took out 5, but I couldnt tell if I had met the requirements or not. I head back to the station I got it from and nothing. Obviously not complete. Frustrated I abandoned and took the rep hit.

I hopped online and found out it needed to be done whilst in supercruise, with an interdicter. Well wouldnt it have been nice to A) know this first and B) be told you are missing a required module to complete the mission?

 

[MISCHI3F]

This is an issue as well.

Why are there no clear mission rulesets?

I picked one up to destroy traders in 2 systems, target number of 4. I go to both, drop into every uss and kill the haulers I find and split. I took out 5, but I couldnt tell if I had met the requirements or not. I head back to the station I got it from and nothing. Obviously not complete. Frustrated I abandoned and took the rep hit.

I hopped online and found out it needed to be done whilst in supercruise, with an interdicter. Well wouldnt it have been nice to A) know this first and B) be told you are missing a required module to complete the mission?

I have done a few of these sort of missions and if you look in your transactions tab, the mission should update with how many of the targets you've destroyed, but have also noticed it not showing up. Could be server not updating it quickly or just a bug.

[EDIT] sorry just skimmed it, I never noticed the text that said to pull them out of SC, I think that's what I was doing though.

 

[DUST2DEATH]

I have done a few of these sort of missions and if you look in your transactions tab, the mission should update with how many of the targets you've destroyed, but have also noticed it not showing up. Could be server not updating it quickly or just a bug.

[EDIT] sorry just skimmed it, I never noticed the text that said to pull them out of SC, I think that's what I was doing though.

But thats the problem. At no point in the mission brief did it specify. And there was no updates on the transactions tab, no count. I ignored the alt ending to the mission and continued hunting.

The game just assumes you know all these things, when really the mission brief should state it needed to be done in super cruise and that hey, you dont have an interdicter but will need one to complete it.

Its like I read that for the pirate version you need to be in USS. Which again, basing the outcome via RNG seems to be bad design decisions.
So traders are in supercruise, pirates are in uss. Why cant both count?

Too much disorganization within the missions.