Seeking luxuries

Sherlock161 · Jan 18, 2015

What is that for? I visited them, there were a few freighters, thats all, no one has a bounty, are there siting targets for pirates only?

Monk · Jan 18, 2015

I think they will buy performance enhancers at a good price. I learned from a video.

Elite Dangerous - Seeking Luxuries - Making Money…: http://youtu.be/npUUV5RAXP4

Further verification
Elite Dangerous - Seeking Luxuries - Making Money…: http://youtu.be/aXJ7D8D7Slg

Spiridon · Jan 18, 2015

They seek luxuries. Want to buy V pills (performance enhancers), progenitor cells etc. You'll earn 800-900 per t. Find a nearby station that sells the stuff, stock it up and fly to Seek Luxury ships. Approach to less than 500 meters and the transaction will happen. Your cargo hold will be empty, and you'll get notice of how much you earned. Rinse and repeat.

Sherlock161 · Jan 18, 2015

they will? so it isn't finished?

Snowdog · Jan 18, 2015

Interesting.. thanks for posting the vid.

FoxTwo · Jan 18, 2015

A warning though - selling to them = smuggling. Your rep with whatever controlling faction in that system will drop.

So if you're working on rep, you might want to be aware of this.

Scienti5t · Jan 18, 2015

They happen when a system is in boom state, no?

Spiridon · Jan 18, 2015

Scienti5t said:
They happen when a system is in boom state, no?

Yes, in boom systems. Some players were lucky to find Seeking Luxuries ships in the same system wit the station that sells V.

DYSEQTA · Jan 18, 2015

*dons cynicism hat*

So no magic tractor beams, but magic cargo teleports are cool?

*removes cynicism hat*

Spiridon · Jan 18, 2015

DYSEQTA said:
*dons cynicism hat*

So no magic tractor beams, but magic cargo teleports are cool?

*removes cynicism hat*

Not even magical radio report on prices on all the stations in the system. Not even a telegraph.

Katkon · Jan 18, 2015

FoxTwo said:
A warning though - selling to them = smuggling. Your rep with whatever controlling faction in that system will drop.

So if you're working on rep, you might want to be aware of this.

Ooh - didn't know this. Made several million last night. Am allied w/ the Empire and local faction. It didn't seem to affect me but will take a closer look.

Ydiss · Jan 18, 2015

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/search.php?searchid=1523387

Sherlock161 · Jan 18, 2015

Spiridon said:
They seek luxuries. Want to buy V pills (performance enhancers), progenitor cells etc. You'll earn 800-900 per t. Find a nearby station that sells the stuff, stock it up and fly to Seek Luxury ships. Approach to less than 500 meters and the transaction will happen. Your cargo hold will be empty, and you'll get notice of how much you earned. Rinse and repeat.

No transaction happened. bugged?

Trueno33 · Jan 18, 2015

And how should i know that those are luxury commodities?
I love ED but this is the kind of stuff i dont like in games. Unless i am missing some blatantly obvious piece of info somewhere. Forgive me if that's the case

Sherlock161 · Jan 18, 2015

Yeah game tells us absolutely nothing. So I suppose they don't take progenitor cells.

Ydiss · Jan 18, 2015

Trueno33 said:
And how should i know that those are luxury commodities?
I love ED but this is the kind of stuff i dont like in games. Unless i am missing some blatantly obvious piece of info somewhere. Forgive me if that's the case

Not obvious. Just clever. People worked this out by scanning the cargo of the t9 to see what it was carrying.

This is the kind of stuff I love in games. Not being told how to work everything out without using our brains.

Sherlock161 · Jan 18, 2015

Nothing common with using brain, I just have no cargo scanner, I have no space for it.

VRMan · Jan 18, 2015

Ydiss said:
Not obvious. Just clever. People worked this out by scanning the cargo of the t9 to see what it was carrying.

This is the kind of stuff I love in games. Not being told how to work everything out without using our brains.

Good point. I came across a "Checkpoint" in a system yesterday. Didn't know what it was, so I stopped in. There was one L9 and some support ships puttering about. Couldn't figure out what was happening, so I just jumped out again. I didn't even think to scan the L9. Doh!

Aquila Oculus · Jan 18, 2015

Sherlock161 said:
Nothing common with using brain, I just have no cargo scanner, I have no space for it.

Make space for it if you want to know. Then once you know go back to previous ship config. Simple. This game takes effort

Trigg · Jan 18, 2015

I know what the Seeking Luxuries are for and all that, but I can't see any in-universe reason for them.

Why don't they just go to the station and buy these goods themselves?
Why only that one luxury and nothing else?
Why is selling to them considered smuggling?

It all feels like something that has been added but not fully implemented, or a place marker for some future mechanism