Liberate missions only viable way to get Biotech Conductors and they’re broken

FatFreddysCoat

FatFreddysCoat
I don’t fly in a wing so I can’t complete any of the massacre missions, and I’m not a cruise ship captain so I don’t fancy carrying passengers tens of thousands of LY for a handful of mats, so I thought I’d try to liberate some rare gems for BC’s.

Flew into the system, Type 9 appeared. Plenty of shooting and taking out cargo hatches / power plants later and the T9 still manages to fly and shoot with zero power and it has jettisoned about 100 food cartridges and not a single gem has popped out. I’m about out of limpets by this time and the T9 keeps launching fighters and it gets to the point where it blows up as I kept poking the cargo hatch to encourage it to spit out even a single gem and it blows up. I think, as my sole collector limpet brings me some illicit food cartridges, so I jettison them and go back to base to restock on limpets.

I see ILLICIT CARGO showing - strange - so I look and there are 2 cartridges still there so I jettison them but, with zero cargo, I’m still showing ILLICIT CARGO.

Jump back to base - 2 more cartridges are now in my hold again. Jettison them - still showing illicit cargo. Eventually dock under silent running, with no cargo in the hold, and figure I’ll see if the black market wants my invisible cargo. Nope, the BM is redded out on the station.

Re-log and there’s a bloody food cartridge showing in my hold again! Launch and boost away in case of scans, jettison it and - finally - illicit cargo disappears. Re-dock and swear to never do a liberate mission again.

These are so broken it’s ridiculous. I’m now in the position where I can’t get the mats I need unless I do attempt it again, and I can’t guarantee it won’t repeat the way it just did.

Looking on forums this has been reported as bugged way back in 2016 - what’s going on here?
 

C64Fan

C64Fan
They are quite common as rewards in passenger missions actually.


EDIT: The same applies to Modified Embedded Firmware and Exquisite Focus Crystals.
 
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Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
High-end solo cargo hauls will offer them (Palladium, Gold, that sort of expensiveness of goods)

You can also get them from Elite-ranked surface scans
 

galahad2069

G
Wing assassination missions are by far the quickest way to get loads of BC IMO.

If you don't want to wing up, solo them. It's easy in a well engineered medium ship (FAS, FDL), but small ships like Vultures can work wonder, too.
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
Biotech Conductors are plentiful from various missoin types. Skimmer kills, assassinations, wing deliveries, surface scans.

You need to be allied to get those kinds of missions, though, so do the legwork of data deliveries first if you want to make the big bucks and mats.
 

rekurzion

rekurzion
It might be something has cracked since the update but for a long time i thought liberate missions were broken too. Then i figured out how to do them. You just have to solve the puzzle. It takes practice and patience but not broken. Remember by default your least valuable cargo gets jettison first and most often. This is for npcs as well as yourself. A t9 has a lot of cargo so they are going to dump a lot of non mission junk. Whatever you do don't destroy it. You can always follow it if it jumps or find another uss of your timer hasn't expired.

The food container thing is a different story. I've only had that happen to me in an srv where the cargo was stuck like that, and since you can't leave cargo in your srv i had to scuttle it.
 

nosleepdemon

nosleepdemon
You can get them from planetary scan missions. I've a favourite wee place that hands them out like sweeties, and the factions have about 30 missions each no lie. There's even an IF round the corner from the mission office. No, I shan't be telling you where it is ;)
 
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