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Newcomer / Intro Pirates
- Thread starter wpmaura
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They will never just say pirate, just wanted. I fly around a bit and interdict anything that says it's wanted, and check every unidentified signal source I come across and hope there is a wanted ship there.
If they're wanted you can just fire on them and kill them, they'll probably turn out to be pirates. Though yes, they will likely attack you.
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Unfortunately not every 'wanted' ship you come across is a 'pirate'. Based on my experience usually one of the factions within the system you are in will be the 'pirate' faction, there is some flavour text, that may help, if you select the faction in the system status panel (right-hand panel in the Status tab), or you can try and go by the name, sometimes its obvious with groups called gang or mafia or something criminally sounding. You will need to use the contacts tab in the left-hand UI panel to see which faction your target belongs to. If all else fails just kill everything that's wanted, the best place to do this is at the nav beacon near the star. Ships will regularly jump into the system so you can scan them and hopefully find the 'pirates'.
Fly round that system in Super Cruise, and look for Unidentified Signal Source (USS), target that, and once within range drop out of SC. Then target anything you find. If they're wanted then they could be a pirate, they probably won't be friendly so you might as well take them out anyway. In some cases they won't be wanted, but if you look at the comms panel in the top left you may see the NPCs talking about you and what cargo you may have... They may not be friendly much longer! So if they shoot first, you might as well get rid of them.
To be honest I've had problems correctly idetifying pirates on these missions. I usually end up killing anything that says wanted, or anything that shoots first!
I tryed to make a same mission i thought that wanted pilots are my target but i could not fight against em.
I dont have an interdict module, but seems that you would need one for doing missions like this?
I fly behind a wanted ship in supercruise but how to attack without interdict module?
Is then the only way to fly to the unidentified signal ?
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It sure is like looking for a needle in a haystack esp. when you are given 3 probable systems to look for the 'pirates'
It sure is like looking for a needle in a haystack esp. when you are given 3 probable systems to look for the 'pirates'
For the kill pirate (etc) missions, I think USS is where you have to go.