Newcomer / Intro Mission problem with finding the targets.

[MrLegionAMV]

How do i find merchants? I have a mission to take out 2 merchants but when i go to the system where they should be i dont know what to do. How do i know if a vessel is a merchant or not.
At the beginning i thought that the target will be called "Merchant" i was looking for this like for an hour and nothing.

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

Merchants will be any ship hauling cargo. For that you will need a cargo scanner. They are usually clean targets, and they don't hang around but head towards stations. The wanted targets are usually pirates, and they hang around the nav points and main star to catch traders as they arrive.

 

[yurtpoh]

hey, i've got this same problem. how can i identify Bounty Hunters if they don't comm me? i have a mission to take out 2. i found the first one immediately. he gave me the option to abandon the mission for half the credits, but i refused and killed him. i've been flying for 30 more minutes now and i can't even find a single more Bounty Hunter. all the Unidentified Signal Sources i've been finding are crashed ships/cargo, and harmless nomads/merchants... there's only one star system in the description, so how am i supposed to finish this if the game won't let me?

edit: now it's been an hour... still no progress...

 

[yurtpoh]

bump? it's been over an hour and a half... i just gave up. but it'd be nice to have an idea of what to look for, for future reference...