Locate stolen goods mission

Hi Commanders!
I'm trying to get the hang of all of the various missions so I accepted a 'heavy duty heist' mission to locate a load of combat stabilisers (stolen) from Shaver Dock over in Lacaille 8760. So, having never tried piracy before, I kitted out my Cobra with many gizmos such as FSD interdictor, Cargo scanner, Kill warrant scanner and decent weapons. I headed over to an anarchy system in imperial space (approx 90LY) that sells Combat stabilisers (Caelottoxica) and tried different strategies (USS, Nav beacon, interdiction, submitting to interdiction. Has anyone got any suggestions as to how to go about doing this as I'm out of ideas.
Thanks
 
Hi Commanders!
I'm trying to get the hang of all of the various missions so I accepted a 'heavy duty heist' mission to locate a load of combat stabilisers (stolen) from Shaver Dock over in Lacaille 8760. So, having never tried piracy before, I kitted out my Cobra with many gizmos such as FSD interdictor, Cargo scanner, Kill warrant scanner and decent weapons. I headed over to an anarchy system in imperial space (approx 90LY) that sells Combat stabilisers (Caelottoxica) and tried different strategies (USS, Nav beacon, interdiction, submitting to interdiction. Has anyone got any suggestions as to how to go about doing this as I'm out of ideas.
Thanks

Yep. just don't bother with those missions, they're too hard and not enough payoff.
 
anything more constructive?

Yep. just don't bother with those missions, they're too hard and not enough payoff.

That's all very well, but not particularly constructive. The idea is to explore what the game has to offer so actually completing these missions at least once is worth doing
 

Philip Coutts

Volunteer Moderator
The easiest way (and it isn't very easy) is to take on missions to deliver something and before you click on "give cargo" check the bulletin board for stolen ads for the items you are carrying. If you find someone looking for the items you are supposed to be delivering then abandon the delivery mission (the cargo will then become stolen) and give the stuff to the criminals instead. Hey presto mission completed but beware because the faction you were supposed to be doing the original job for are not going to be happy with you because you ripped them off. Basically this relies on luck that you are carrying the exact thing they are looking for. You can also do this in reverse so accept the stolen goods mission and go looking for delivery missions with the stuff they want on it.
 
That's all very well, but not particularly constructive. The idea is to explore what the game has to offer so actually completing these missions at least once is worth doing

unfortunately its a part of the game that is currently poorly executed. hopefully future updates will remedy it, but right now just don't bother with them basically.
 
The easiest way (and it isn't very easy) is to take on missions to deliver something and before you click on "give cargo" check the bulletin board for stolen ads for the items you are carrying. If you find someone looking for the items you are supposed to be delivering then abandon the delivery mission (the cargo will then become stolen) and give the stuff to the criminals instead. Hey presto mission completed but beware because the faction you were supposed to be doing the original job for are not going to be happy with you because you ripped them off. Basically this relies on luck that you are carrying the exact thing they are looking for. You can also do this in reverse so accept the stolen goods mission and go looking for delivery missions with the stuff they want on it.

Hi, thanks for your reply. That's an interesting take on it and one that I hadn't considered, but since Combat Stabilisers are pretty much outlawed in Fed space that's pretty tricky.Also it's a 'cheat'!! It's a bit like accepting slave procurement missions from stations that sell slaves. Easy money.... I could look in the anarchy system I suppose. I did actually find an Orca carrying 22 of them, guarded by sidekicks, but I couldn't persuade the Orca to part with them before I blew it up hoping to get a few bits of cargo, but no. Getting ships to part with cargo before they jump is very difficult and with no additional space for a wake scanner it's nearly impossible. Hey ho..
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