So I accepted a Federal Black Ops mission for promotion. Kill General in System. I go to the system and cruise around the Nav Beacon. Did quite a few bounty kills , had to run a couple of times when I bit off more than I could chew, BUT no sign of the General. Tried yesterday and today , mission expiry counter still over 1 day. I assume the General will show as the pilot , true ? Does the target appear somewhere else ? Any clues ?
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Newcomer / Intro Promotion Kill Mission
- Thread starter ceeldee
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You need to go into the Unidentified Signal Sources that pop up as you are flying in the system. Fly slowly and they appear closer to your ship. Check them until you find the one the General is in. Then drop out of supercruise when you get the "safe disengage ready" sign as you fly straight at it. But . . . if you are having trouble with pirates, maybe the General is not for you. Practice your piloting skills. You'll be fighting a well armed Federal dropship. Good luck.
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hmm also make sure you have the cash needed for your insurance buyback before hunting the General again. as jeff3163 said, you should be confidently taking on any type of pirate and winning before undertaking this type of mission - you'll find fighting his dropship similar to the medium Pythons or Anacondas some pirates use (Elite ones are much tougher)
but also take heart from the fact that after you complete this mission, subsequent missions are of a much simpler nature - locate this, deliver that, kill 5 pirates... and so on
The ship will be in the same system, unless you get some kind of update to the mission.
It would be nice if 2-3 people could help each other in souch missions, like If I help out a friend by taking down the Gen. shields and drop him to like 25% hull then disengange my attack and let my friend finish him off.. 
That way we could call this a multi player game
That way we could call this a multi player game
good stuff I just made PO myself in a similar mission, took me nearly 3 hours of USS jumping to find him worst one was I dropped into a USS nothing spawned I hung around for 20 seconds or so because sometimes they are slow nothing appeared I spooled up my drive the countdown started and he appeared in front of me..... he also appeared in the very next USS as well where I killed him.
What ship are you flying?
Ideally, you should be flying something with 4 hardpoints.
I'd recommend a mix of lasers and kinetics. Personally, I like to use 2 beam lasers and 2 multicannon.
I've tried cannon against a Federal Dropship since the patch, and frankly found them almost useless - the shell is very slow, and thus misses a lot. Rearm costs are consequently high.
Multicannon give the best damage per second against hulls and are cheap as chips to rearm. Put them on gimbals.
yeah after version 1.1 misiles has been nerfed down, so multicannons is good but you need some kind of lasers as well for the shield... I found out that missiles seems to have bigger impact when fired vere close to the enemy(maybe be due to defensive wepons on opponant) so don't waste misiles when further away than 2-300....
And like "the100thmonkey" says use a ship with at least 4 hardpoints like 2 lasers + 2 multiguns(or alt. 2 misiles + 2 Beams)
I am flying a Cobra with 2 med gimbal pulse lasers and 2 HS Missiles on the small points. I think you are right UE , I was close when I got in the missile shots , there was a couple of very satisfying large explosions. Stumago did you win on first encounter ? What ship/loadout ? I tried small multicannons before and it looked like I was throwing rather slow pebbles. I think i'll stick to missiles in close for the time being.
I took him out in a Cobra with same loadout.
Missiles are good for large ship combat but I normally swap them out for multicannons for smaller ships. Just a lot harder to hit a small ship with missiles.
I took this guy out with a Viper, 2 x gimbaled Class 1 beam lasers for shields, and 2 x gimbaled class 2 multi-cannons for hull. I think the multi cannons are much better once the shield is down and cheaper than missiles too. If he had ECM it was probably stopping your missiles from doing damage. Chaff is extremely useful in these fights and a shield cell bank if you can fit it in too.
Anyway, well done on you promotion. For rank progression with the Empire that was the hardest mission, they actually get easier now.
Anyway, well done on you promotion. For rank progression with the Empire that was the hardest mission, they actually get easier now.