Newcomer / Intro Identify Pirates

Universal Evil · Dec 24, 2014

Hi there

How do one Identify 3 or 5 Pirates from a federal mission, within a designated system ?

I mean when I scan ships I don't see any info whether they are Pirate og Federation ships, only the systems authorities vessels are giving me info reguarding what they are...
Everyone else doesn't seem to be listet with a title of whether they are pirates or anything else for that matter ???

Do I have to look for "The Pirates" by the unidentified signals which seem to apear from time to time within every system ?

technophebe · Dec 24, 2014

Your best bet is to go to the nav beacon by the star. Anyone with a 'wanted' status has about a 50% chance of being a pirate; anyone who scans you looking for cargo is *definitely* a pirate.

More ships will jump in over time, so if you've checked everyone just hang out near the beacon for a min, more ships will arrive.

-Baldrick- · Dec 24, 2014

i think everybody who have wanted status is pirate

Bobo · Dec 24, 2014

Get yourself a kill warrent scanner, it goes on one of your utility slots, a cheap one with a 2km range is just fine.
Hunt in either the nav point in the system (have to go into fsd to see it on the nav panel), or search around for uss's. When you find other ships lock on and use your kill warrent scanner, takes 10 seconds and tells you if they are wanted or clean. Note some ships wont need scanning, they will just say wanted. Clean ships are basicly traders. If they wanted, kill em, they are a pirate. After killing one you will notice in your mission panel that it now shows you a total of how many you bagged so far, above how many needed.
Goodluck

Kris · Dec 24, 2014

-Baldrick- said:
i think everybody who have wanted status is pirate

No. Not every wanted is pirate.

Good guide is here
http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2pl6gn/how_to_spot_traderspiratesbounty_hunters/

Universal Evil · Dec 24, 2014

Thank you very much everyone for your quick replies

I'll give a go tomorrow have no more time to play today being christmas and all

btw. merry x-mas to all of you and I hope you'll have great evening and some fine dinning too

anday · Dec 24, 2014

technophebe said:
Your best bet is to go to the nav beacon by the star. Anyone with a 'wanted' status has about a 50% chance of being a pirate; anyone who scans you looking for cargo is *definitely* a pirate.

This can not be true. I was doing a "kill 5 pirate ships" mission yesterday and tried this nav beacon camping tactics. After killing about 20-25 'wanted' ships (Sideys, Eagles, Cobras, Vipers, ASPs) and accumulating a total of 200k bounties for differents factions I had not a SINGLE kill counted towards my mission. I used a kill warant scanner on every single target. I then decided to go with USS. In a single USS I found 3 targets for my mission. A few USS later a couple more. After entering a USS you will soon be able to identify the "pirates" as they are the ones asking you "What are you hauling?", or things alike. They will often scan you as well. So definitely stick to USS!

Gorf · Dec 24, 2014

Universal Evil said:
Hi there
How do one Identify 3 or 5 Pirates from a federal mission, within a designated system ?
?

Drop out of frame-shift at a USS. There will either be ships there, or cargo. (Very occasionally, nothing at all.) Alternatively, wait for an interdiction and zero your throttle.

If it's ships, wait for a scan. If they scan you for cargo, they are a pirate and will count against your tally. Wait 'til after they do this before using your KWS: They tend to be less likely to scan you if you've already scanned them. On your earliest drop to normal space at a USS, you will very often discover a hauler or similar which will offer an alternative goal to your mission, such as taking down authority ships instead of pirates.

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Bobo said:
...When you find other ships lock on and use your kill warrent scanner, takes 10 seconds and tells you if they are wanted or clean. Note some ships wont need scanning, they will just say wanted. Clean ships are basicly traders. If they wanted, kill em, they are a pirate...

Not quite true. Clean ships can have a wanted status with other factions, and are still worth scanning if you have the KWS. Wanted ships are still worth scanning, because you won't be given any available bounty with other factions if you kill them without having scanned them.

Either way, it's possible to be "wanted" without being a pirate. A stray shot hitting an authority vessel, smuggling, not paying your fines etc.