Newcomer / Intro Salvage Missions: Anything that helps to get it to show up?

Rock Hunter

Rock Hunter
I've been collecting Blueprints, Art works and all sorts of salvageable cargo today and it's been interesting to see quite how long you can wait before cargo canisters appear. I was curious whether there is anything a Cmdr can do to help themselves in this situation.

I've flown between the blue 'Orbital' cruise line and the lower yellow line, I've flown above the blue line, sat facing the planet with my engines at their lowest hoping it will pass me by, I've adjusted my flightpath around the planet/star to ensure I don't miss it by flying the same route, I've honked, opened by cargo bay expectantly and coquettishly given 'the eyes' to quite literally any passing trade in the system.

Does anything help?
 

Maenden

Maenden
Not as far as I know.
Try not to fly too slowly so you cover a greater distance and don't get too close to the planet.
 

Ophion

Ophion
Nope. It's RNG so your best bet is to get near the planet so you can see the whole planet in front of you (but not too close), throttle to 0 in SC and wait, it'll pop up. At least that's how I do it.
 

Kefhyr

Kefhyr
Well usually it takes 20-40 seconds for signal to appear. Just fly in planet blue zone on medium/slow speed.
 

Rock Hunter

Rock Hunter
RNG indeed, or simply random everything. So, Ophion (if I've read correctly) you stay far enough away to see the whole planet whilst Wydocq, you fly in or around the blue zone - which is what I've been doing...mostly.

It seems that almost anything is good enough and it's just a case of waiting. I may try staying far enough back for a bit as I've heard the message to say the signal is around but not been able to see or target anything. I guess I've just been too close.
 

Ophion

Ophion
After you hear the signal "mission objective detected", I hope you don't drop to normal space before you target the blue icon floating in space and approach it to safely drop in. If you can't see it, locate it from your left hand nav panel.
 

Rock Hunter

Rock Hunter
No. Not normally at least :)

I have dropped to normal space once I've targeted it but have lost it a couple of times during the drop from supercruise. I suspect I've taken too long to make the drop and it's passed by me.

It's just the fact that I can be flying around the planet for some minutes and not get a signal, or sometimes I'll hear the signal but can't locate the blue icon. I know that I can locate it on the contacts panel once I'm in normal space and target individual canisters ready to scoop, am I able to locate the icon (once you've had the mission objective detected signal) from your left panel whilst still in supercruise?

Everytime I think I'm getting to grips with this game it shows me I'm still at the foot of an almighty curve!
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
OMiT said:
am I able to locate the icon (once you've had the mission objective detected signal) from your left panel whilst still in supercruise?
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Yes. If you don't see the mission USS when the ship announces it you can target it in SC from the left HUD target panel.

Personally I believe it's just RNG as to when the mission USS turns up. That said, there was a thread a few days ago where the OP suggested a way to find them more directly (it still requires something to spawn), so might be worth taking a look at that thread.
 

Ophion

Ophion
OMiT said:
Everytime I think I'm getting to grips with this game it shows me I'm still at the foot of an almighty curve!
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Don't worry about it, the game is rather complex and even a veteran players like myself don't know everything, far from it!
You just need to play and have fun, you'll figure thinks out eventually and if you have any problems you can't solve, forum members will always help you out :)
 

Rock Hunter

Rock Hunter
Faded Glory said:
Yes. If you don't see the mission USS when the ship announces it you can target it in SC from the left HUD target panel.

Personally I believe it's just RNG as to when the mission USS turns up. That said, there was a thread a few days ago where the OP suggested a way to find them more directly (it still requires something to spawn), so might be worth taking a look at that thread.
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Aha - that's good to know. I think I panic a little when things start to happen so opening up panels, scrolling through tabs and down columns can be daunting when something comes toward you at a rate of light seconds. I'll try to remain calm and panel surf.

Thanks for the link to the other thread, I'll go and have a read through.

Ophion said:
Don't worry about it, the game is rather complex and even a veteran players like myself don't know everything, far from it!
You just need to play and have fun, you'll figure thinks out eventually and if you have any problems you can't solve, forum members will always help you out :)
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Thankfully as I'm finding out. A good forum is due to it's membership....so thank you all
 

Ophion

Ophion
Well, no need to panic, the target won't go anywhere :)

After you find and target the signal source in SC, you can slow down all the way to 30 km/s and turn your ship towards it (HUD compass can help, if little circle is hollow, the target is behind you, if it's full, target id ahead) and approach safely by keeping your throttle in the middle of the blue zone, that way you won't overshoot it.

I would recommend you try the training mode of the game, it will explain all the basic stuff and there you can practice without any consequence to your commander or your credit balance.
 
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Dommarraa

Dommarraa
USS spawning has been investigated in great detail by people hunting thargoid items. For the details, you might try to hunt that data down. Basically, flying fast within the planets zone (the planets name is in the bottom left)
I tend to go at 75% at about 10mm
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
Dommarraa said:
USS spawning has been investigated in great detail by people hunting thargoid items. For the details, you might try to hunt that data down. Basically, flying fast within the planets zone (the planets name is in the bottom left)
I tend to go at 75% at about 10mm
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This is the way. I used to have trouble with these, I don't anymore. What I tend to do is fly toward the planet at an angle which suggests I want to enter orbit, then as I get to about 5Mm out (kinda depends how big the body is), I point back out into space, it usually pops between 8 and 10Mm (15 to 20 for larger bodies). If not, simply repeat that, go close, then move out again. Be going quite fast and when moving away, try to go in a straight line. I always get them within a minute tops now.

I'm not convinced by the thread saying ot look for spawning ships cos this happens often as a result of encoded emissions, combat aftermath and weapons fire detected USSes too, which are just as prevalent. The zone in which the mission can spawn is huge, a couple of times when I've been approaching a station around the target body the blue USS pops up, sometimes as much as 5 or 6ls form the target body, but I've definitely had more success in that sweet zone of 5 to 20Mm
 

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Someone suggested recently, in regards to assassinations, that if you see ships spawning near the planet, they are spawning out of a USS and you should make a dash for their spawn location. You could try that, OP?
 
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