Newcomer / Intro Kill missions NPCs or not?

kris44dad

kris44dad
When you accept those missions to go to a system and kill say 5 traders, are those traders NPCs or are they wanting you to slay other players? What's your 'wanted' state after doing it? What about a mission to kill a number of unnamed pirates?

I'm assuming that the 'Naval progression Opportunity' targets {General Whatshisface}, are always NPCs...
 
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the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
All bulletin board kill missions are aganst NPCs.

If the target is traders, you will get a wanted status if you do it in any system that is not anarchy. If the taret is pirates, you probably won't, but if they show as clean in a non-anarchy system, you can let them shoot first so they get a wanted status.
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
Unless you are prepared to deal with the consequences of becoming wanted, stick with kill pirates and kill smugglers, and even smugglers can be bad choice as they can be tricky to find
 

paul1828

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Avoid all but kill pirate missions.... (They are at uss ,will come up and scan, leave a nasty message and they will be wanted , easy ) .....Traders, bounty hunters all mean getting wanted AND they are a nightmare to find....
 

Negative Entropy

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paul1828 said:
Avoid all but kill pirate missions.... (They are at uss ,will come up and scan, leave a nasty message and they will be wanted , easy ) .....Traders, bounty hunters all mean getting wanted AND they are a nightmare to find....
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Missions to kill traders and bounty hunters in Anarchy/unpopulated systems are not difficult.

In populated Anarchy systems stick to the Nav point and you will not get the annoying mission divert.
The traders will usually be clean (according to KWS scanner) Haulers or Type6s (what they are doing here I have no idea)
The bounty hunters will scan you and if you have no bounty will say something like "We are done here pilot, go on with your business". If you have a 400Cr bounty they will attack you calling you Perpetrator!

In unpopulated systems, you will have to use USSs and your mission will be sabotaged. This is a bit annoying because the USSes that have the traders also usually contain pirates so you risk completing the alternate mission instead of the primary one (I care about this because I only take these missions If I am rep-building for a pirate faction)


The rewards for trader killing missions in non-Anarchy systems are never higher than the bounty that you will get for completing them so I never accept those. (I might do it if I intended to accept the alternate mission for some reason but I think that might be overly tricky)
 

Phyl

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I picked up a kill traders mission last night. Thought I had completed it (and some), but when I tried to cash it in I found I only had 1 qualifying kill and a huge bounty on me! ;). What constitutes a trader kill? I was specifically targeting Type 6, Type 7 and Haulers - got some at a nav-point, some in USSs and interdicted some.
 
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