Tip Off

DragoonKnight · Sep 4, 2016

Hi Guys, I got a tip off but couldnt find anything when I went to visit the given Co-ordinates.
Here is a screenshot in case anyone wants to give it a try. Maybe you'll have better luck than me.

http://imgur.com/a/H4B6D

jasonbarron · Sep 4, 2016

The one time I followed up on a tip off the crashed vehicle was almost 2 kilometer from the given coords and as it was pitch black I had to make careful use of my radar. Did you scour the area thoroughly?

DragoonKnight · Sep 4, 2016

jasonbarron said:
The one time I followed up on a tip off the crashed vehicle was almost 2 kilometer from the given coords and as it was pitch black I had to make careful use of my radar. Did you scour the area thoroughly?

I thought that I did. I even landed and tried to use the wave scanner of my SRV. Found a few cargo containers and some sentries guarding them, but no signals that looked like it could be a ship. I am no great explorer, so if anyone wants to give it a shot then by all means feel free. If anyone does find anything, I would just appreciate a courtesy post to let me know what you found. I never got a tip off before so I was really curious about this.

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Left the planet now
Back to doing data missions for Empire Ranks. I just hit Viscount.

jasonbarron · Sep 4, 2016

DragoonKnight said:
I thought that I did. I even landed and tried to use the wave scanner of my SRV. Found a few cargo containers and some sentries guarding them, but no signals that looked like it could be a ship. I am no great explorer, so if anyone wants to give it a shot then by all means feel free. If anyone does find anything, I would just appreciate a courtesy post to let me know what you found. I never got a tip off before so I was really curious about this.

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Left the planet now
Back to doing data missions for Empire Ranks. I just hit Viscount.

Thanks for the tip off of the tip off, CMDR

Busa · Sep 4, 2016

I had exactly the same tip off. Went to the location and found nothing. Then the wife wants me to help her work the BT box, so I leave my ship hovering the planet surface, and by the time I come back I'm being bombarded with misiles from an NPC and my hull is at 4%. I managed to just get away in time, relieved that my articulated motors are still in my hold after spending 3 days trying to find them, and then had to land on a 2g planet in the same system to get repairs...I have never bricked it so much landing before...I think I'll ignore these tip offs in future.

DragoonKnight · Sep 4, 2016

Busa said:
I had exactly the same tip off. Went to the location and found nothing. Then the wife wants me to help her work the BT box, so I leave my ship hovering the planet surface, and by the time I come back I'm being bombarded with misiles from an NPC and my hull is at 4%. I managed to just get away in time, relieved that my articulated motors are still in my hold after spending 3 days trying to find them, and then had to land on a 2g planet in the same system to get repairs...I have never bricked it so much landing before...I think I'll ignore these tip offs in future.

Its an anarchy system and ships seem to just spawn on the planet surface. I had a pirate in an asp spawn, attack me, crash into the planet hard enough to lose shields and take 12% hull damage, and all of that happened before I even deployed weapons. Then I made his shieldless ship eat several salvos of missiles from my ASP.

Busa · Sep 4, 2016

DragoonKnight said:
Its an anarchy system and ships seem to just spawn on the planet surface. I had a pirate in an asp spawn, attack me, crash into the planet hard enough to lose shields and take 12% hull damage, and all of that happened before I even deployed weapons. Then I made his shieldless ship eat several salvos of missiles from my ASP.

I never reacted so quickly before when I saw my hull at 4%. I use eddi add on for voice attack and when I asked for a ship report he said that my ship was being held together with love....never heard that before and it did make me chuckle.

DukeIronHand · Sep 4, 2016

Out of...curiosity I guess...I like a little a little teamwork and joint info passing like this.

That being said let's say I follow up on your tip and head for and finally arrive - almost assuredly (I think) in a different instance - would the info still be good?
Or...
Does it disappear when the player it was given to logs off or leaves the system.

TuxedoSteve · Sep 5, 2016

It skips to a second second line, but if you look at the latitude number, it's actually -22.87. So there's your problem

Twiggier · Sep 5, 2016

TuxedoSteve said:
It skips to a second second line, but if you look at the latitude number, it's actually -22.87. So there's your problem

Ha! Maybe that's my problem too and why I've given up on Tip Off Missions. I always have the hardest time trying to find the darn coordinates. Where's GPS in the 34th Century?

Codger · Sep 5, 2016

I video'd a couple I did. They can be interesting. Here's one of them. The others are on YouTube in the same channel.

[video=youtube;KEpm5-cFAl8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEpm5-cFAl8[/video]

Mr T · Sep 5, 2016

Busa said:
I had exactly the same tip off. Went to the location and found nothing. Then the wife wants me to help her work the BT box, so I leave my ship hovering the planet surface, and by the time I come back I'm being bombarded with misiles from an NPC and my hull is at 4%. I managed to just get away in time, relieved that my articulated motors are still in my hold after spending 3 days trying to find them, and then had to land on a 2g planet in the same system to get repairs...I have never bricked it so much landing before...I think I'll ignore these tip offs in future.

As the saying goes, "Better to ignore the tip-off than to ignore the wife"... at least I think that's how it goes..

Niamhy · Sep 5, 2016

Twiggier said:
Ha! Maybe that's my problem too and why I've given up on Tip Off Missions. I always have the hardest time trying to find the darn coordinates. Where's GPS in the 34th Century?

this.

my 21st century phone has better mapping and direction tools than my 33rd Century Starship

Grumpy181155 · Sep 5, 2016

I had the same tip off and the lat /long coordinates are correct; - 22 and - 161. I found about 4 crashed ships and some scattered containers. There is one Anaconda on it's side that has a data core that is hard to get to, you have to drive onto the Anaconda to download the data core. What I would like to know is how to "....earn some real money" from the info I downloaded?

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Niamhy said:
this.

my 21st century phone has better mapping and direction tools than my 33rd Century Starship

But your phone only has to worry about your neighbourhood and it gets all it's information from Mr Google. Google was bought out by the Federation and closed down in the year 3000 and when they decided that Google and free navigation information was going to get in their way for universe domination.

Troy_McClure · Sep 5, 2016

jasonbarron said:
Thanks for the tip off of the tip off, CMDR

Jason? Surely that new avatar does not possess the requisite 'camp quotient' for you ie no Freddie Mercury tash

..wait a min..is that a pearl necklace?

DragoonKnight · Sep 5, 2016

TuxedoSteve said:
It skips to a second second line, but if you look at the latitude number, it's actually -22.87. So there's your problem

Good catch. Thanks. I'll make another attempt at finding it then.

CMDR Digiel · Sep 5, 2016

DragoonKnight said:
Good catch. Thanks. I'll make another attempt at finding it then.

Same thing caught me out when I got this tip off - didn't notice the minus sign due to the line break and began my search in completely the wrong location. Once I realised what i'd done, the crash site was easy enough to find and even had the bonus of experiencing my first low altitude dogfight when an npc python showed up before landing.

PSA: The data cache was worth around 700k but I didn't see any 'valuable' cargo - just a few containers of coffee, fruit & veg, etc. The site was kinda spooky though and worth a nosey around.

DJ · Sep 5, 2016

Having stumbled over this thread and new 'tip-off' concept (new to me) what triggers getting a tip-off in the first place? Is it a totally random event or loyalty based?

Grumpy181155 said:
What I would like to know is how to "....earn some real money" from the info I downloaded?

Me too for future reference. Do tell... :S

Grumpy181155 · Sep 5, 2016

DJ007 said:
Having stumbled over this thread and new 'tip-off' concept (new to me) what triggers getting a tip-off in the first place? Is it a totally random event or loyalty based?

Me too for future reference. Do tell... :S

I have no idea on both counts. If I find out how to earn some money I will post it.

A word of waning because you will spawn a heap of 'littlies' so if you have anything in your hold dismiss your ship.

Grumpy181155 · Sep 7, 2016

I found out how to redeem the data from the shipwreck. I am at a Federation Military base and under Contacts it is offering me 550,824 Cr for the data package. I have been to a couple of other places prior to this but I can't remember if I checked the Contacts tab.