PP2.0 Hack holographic adverts in a specific system

[geoffrey.hdt]

Hi Commanders,

Got a weekly task to hack 12 holographic adverts in a specific system which is one of my Power's strongholds.
The system has only one space station and I found there one holographic advert that has been hacked by another power. Got it, hacking adverts in your Power territory means to restore them back to normal.

But then, what? How may I find the other 11 adverts required for the task?
I checked one of the scientific installations, but none, as expected.
Surface stations, maybe?
Or just relog (yep, I did that, what a drag...)

 

[Bigmaec]

Hi Commanders,

Got a weekly task to hack 12 holographic adverts in a specific system which is one of my Power's strongholds.
The system has only one space station and I found there one holographic advert that has been hacked by another power. Got it, hacking adverts in your Power territory means to restore them back to normal.

But then, what? How may I find the other 11 adverts required for the task?
I checked one of the scientific installations, but none, as expected.
Surface stations, maybe?
Or just relog (yep, I did that, what a drag...)

Yep, relogski.

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

Yep, relogski.

Oh my...noted, thx.
I will avoid this kind of tasks in the future.

 

[Ydiss]

Replace 12 with 1 and you've got a sensible task.

Really unclear why there's this continued adherence to arbitrary target values when it's been acknowledged many times before, with patches reducing said targets to sensible values in order to reduce senseless repetition, that it's not popular.

It's enough to ask someone to go do a thing once for something like this. And if not, then tell us where to go to do it 12 times.

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

[...]It's enough to ask someone to go do a thing once for something like this. And if not, then tell us where to go to do it 12 times.

It's easy actually: just do it once a day! Oh, wait... ;-)

 

[Ezekiel Quinn]

I faced the same problem. And relogging does help. In fact, I found that if I leave the station and enter supercruise, then return to the station, the advert respawns and I can hack it again. Still a repetitive loop and senseless . . . but a little less lore-breaking.

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

I faced the same problem. And relogging does help. In fact, I found that if I leave the station and enter supercruise, then return to the station, the advert respawns and I can hack it again. Still a repetitive loop and senseless . . . but a little less lore-breaking.

Yeah, I did that too. But relog was actually faster.
I won't do this kind of missions again...have more fun mining Platinum...

 

[Ezekiel Quinn]

I came to the same conclusion and stopped doing these missions. Spending the same time on mining platinum is was more productive.

 

[Ashnak]

There are multiple such PP tasks - as long as you don't get them in your initiation round, it's fine to just skip them. I drew "collect bounties". In a system with a barely 5 figure population and no RES. Tried the only available PP conflict zone and found out that a) PP conflict zone ships are of similar toughness to ordinary conflict zone ships and b) a kill gets you a measly 100 Cr. bountry .

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

I usually ignore the hacking weeklies unless they are very easy. This week I got the task to hack in acquisition systems, and as it happens the tiny outpost I built has three holoscreens, so it was fairly easy. But those hacking tasks that send you to a specific system for a dozen hacks, and the system has only one holoscreen in total? I just ignore those.