Quince datas scan missions, no danger or bug
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If it's a public beacon you can scan it without incident.
If it's a private beacon, you get a bounty when you scan it and attacked by any ships/skimmers/guns nearby.
Generally higher grade missions have private beacons, but not always. There's no way of telling if it's a private or public beacon before you take the mission (as far as I can tell)
Yeah, if it's private you'll get eaten alive. Public data points = no danger.
Do you mean Palin? I'm trying to figure out why you need specialized firmware.
Derpy me, I got killed at an outpost in Quince yesterday. First time I found one that was a trespass zone and I landed right next to it. By the time I got back in my ship it was already down to 11% hull. Now I check by flying over and will land well outside range if I will be trespassing.
Just buy a Sidey at Millerport and use self-destruct. Or let outpost guns take care of it.
As far as I can tell in planetary scan missions, rather than for scanning the beacon, you pick up a bounty for "trespassing" - being in the red exclusion zone for more than a few seconds - and once you have that bounty, you're going to be noticed and attacked.
It seems to be just about possible - from the times it's happened to me - to scan the point without quite entering that zone, if you're very careful and approach from the right angle - and if you manage to do that they won't notice, and you won't get a bounty.
They never stopped working. Only the passenger missions got hit with the nerf bat.
They work, but you have to relog in order to get a good board.
This phenomena is galaxy-wide: Quince just saves you a hyperjump. So no need to go all the way to Quince.
It's bloody good fun as well. Get a Dropship with 2 beams on top and dumbfire missiles for the rest and destroy all the big base defences. Land and scan.
Good fun when a Goliath or two is thrown into the mix
This is true. I stumbled across the same thing at Niu Hsing via chained planetary scan missions. Not nearly as fun (profitable) as Quince, though.