Newcomer / Intro What is the most efficient way to find that Mission Related Signal Source?

DragonEye501

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My method currently is to scan nav beacon/fly to target interstellar body/orbit up, down and around until MRSS pops. Sometimes this takes seconds or many many minutes. In some circumstances I just give up fly away, go do something else for a few hours, fly back and boom the MRSS pops instantly.

I love the profits from black box and assassination missions but finding these darn MRSS's can be the most frustrating part of the game for me. There has to be a better way, right? :|
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
No, you're doing it correctly. There is a bit of an RNG involved, but to be honest, I never had to wait for the mission USS for more than a half a minute.

If you have a spare room in your ship and spare 1.5 million credits, you can buy an Advanced Discovery Scanner and save yourself the trip to the Nav Beacon, as the disco scanner does the exact same thing (plus, if you are in a new system, ADS means some extra cash from Universal Cartographics)
 

Arry

Arry
Enter system and scan with an advanced scanner.

Then you get the approximate location: E.G. the planet, the target is located. This info is in the left navigation panel. Go to planet and scan at first opportunity. Mission signal source will appear shortly.
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
As the others say, an Advanced Discovery Scanner speeds things up a bit (saves dropping out at the nav beacon).

As to finding the actual USS. It's a bit random, but seems to generally be a bit quicker these days. I get within the Mm (million meter) range of the body. That's not always possible with stars or large gas giants, so I just get as close as I can, then throttle down to zero and wait...

On occasions, if I feel I've waited long enough, I'll drop from supercruise then jump straight back as this resets the instance, and might nudge the game to spawn the USS.
 

Arry

Arry
Faded Glory said:
As the others say, an Advanced Discovery Scanner speeds things up a bit (saves dropping out at the nav beacon).

As to finding the actual USS. It's a bit random, but seems to generally be a bit quicker these days. I get within the Mm (million meter) range of the body. That's not always possible with stars or large gas giants, so I just get as close as I can, then throttle down to zero and wait...

On occasions, if I feel I've waited long enough, I'll drop from supercruise then jump straight back as this resets the instance, and might nudge the game to spawn the USS.
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Dropping to complete '0' throttle; can make you vulnerable to predators,such as pirates, or mission adversaries. Agreed; slowing right down seems to help with the spawning of the signal source.
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
Arry said:
Dropping to complete '0' throttle; can make you vulnerable to predators,such as pirates, or mission adversaries. Agreed; slowing right down seems to help with the spawning of the signal source.
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Reasonable point Arry... :)

Mind you, the only pirates that have interdicted me while I've been waiting are the pirate lords that I was looking for anyway, so saved me the bother of finding them. :D Mileage may vary, of course.
 

Arry

Arry
Faded Glory said:
Reasonable point Arry... :)

Mind you, the only pirates that have interdicted me while I've been waiting are the pirate lords that I was looking for anyway, so saved me the bother of finding them. :D Mileage may vary, of course.
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A ton of Gold, in the hold; can always make a difference, with those missions.
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
Analysis of USS spawning for hunting thargoid items indicates that 0 speed is not optimal. Best to fly at a decent speed (75%ish) anywhere in the named zone. Sticking to the Mm area is a good measure, but not too close as you slow down too much

0 speed is ok if you find it more convenient, but it's not quicker
 
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lI_Simo_Hayha_Il

lI_Simo_Hayha_Il
Sorry for digging that up, but I am a bit stuck...
I did 4-5 "recover encrypted data" missions, but I am having another one, where I cannot find the objects.
I went to the Nav beacon, downloaded the info, says "Dromi system", I am at Dromi (star), have done 10s of passes through the star, the planets and the moons, I stayed still, I cruised around, and although it has been literally over an hour, nothing appears on my map/radar/contacts.
When I am approaching the system, I am getting a blue message in the Info panel, "Discovered mission related signal", but then nothing.

Can you help?
(I just started, so I don't have enough credits to buy an Advanced Scanner)
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
lI_Simo_Hayha_Il said:
Sorry for digging that up, but I am a bit stuck...
I did 4-5 "recover encrypted data" missions, but I am having another one, where I cannot find the objects.
I went to the Nav beacon, downloaded the info, says "Dromi system", I am at Dromi (star), have done 10s of passes through the star, the planets and the moons, I stayed still, I cruised around, and although it has been literally over an hour, nothing appears on my map/radar/contacts.
When I am approaching the system, I am getting a blue message in the Info panel, "Discovered mission related signal", but then nothing.

Can you help?
(I just started, so I don't have enough credits to buy an Advanced Scanner)
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Should just be appearing as a blue target in the nav panel after you scan the nav beacon - no need to hang around any more. You did actually scan the nav beacon? targeting the white target after you drop out of SC.. some don't realise you have to do that. And check the mission description in the transaction tab - some missions change system on you (I don't think those ones do, but worth double checking you are in the correct system).
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
Yeah, follow the icons.
Check galaxy map to see if you are in a mission system
Enter then scan the nav beacon
Check system map for the mission target icon
 

MoonRacer

MoonRacer
If it says "Discovered mission related signal" then you could try the FSS to find the signal. If you already have scanned the Nav Beacon, you know the systems, so your FSS showns only signals as new things. This can be done without flying to the Nav Beacon (again) and will find every new signal, because if it was not there when you scanned the Nav Beacon it is not in your Nav panel. This works with USS, and I think it will work with mission targets too. After scanning them in the FSS they show up in the nav panel.
 

aRJay

aRJay
lI_Simo_Hayha_Il said:
Sorry for digging that up, but I am a bit stuck...
I did 4-5 "recover encrypted data" missions, but I am having another one, where I cannot find the objects.
I went to the Nav beacon, downloaded the info, says "Dromi system", I am at Dromi (star), have done 10s of passes through the star, the planets and the moons, I stayed still, I cruised around, and although it has been literally over an hour, nothing appears on my map/radar/contacts.
When I am approaching the system, I am getting a blue message in the Info panel, "Discovered mission related signal", but then nothing.

Can you help?
(I just started, so I don't have enough credits to buy an Advanced Scanner)
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lI_Simo_Hayha_Il said:
Sorry for digging that up, but I am a bit stuck...
I did 4-5 "recover encrypted data" missions, but I am having another one, where I cannot find the objects.
I went to the Nav beacon, downloaded the info, says "Dromi system", I am at Dromi (star), have done 10s of passes through the star, the planets and the moons, I stayed still, I cruised around, and although it has been literally over an hour, nothing appears on my map/radar/contacts.
When I am approaching the system, I am getting a blue message in the Info panel, "Discovered mission related signal", but then nothing.

Can you help?
(I just started, so I don't have enough credits to buy an Advanced Scanner)
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Any advice about needing an advanced scanner is at least partly out of date, the modern equivalent of that scanner, the Discovery Scanner, has been built into your ship since last December you just need to bind a trigger to it.

If scanning the Nav beacon as descibed above doesn’t work then you will need to trigger the DS and then enter Frequency System Scanner or FSS to locate signal sources, this requires a lot of key bindings to work so check in the guides section for articles about the FSS or new exploration tools for what to bind and how to use it.
 

MoonRacer

MoonRacer
Factabulous said:
The FSS is a lot slower & more complex than just scanning the Nav beacon. And does not find all mission targets, such as planet based ones, so you are better using the nav beacon. IMHO.

Cue argument :)
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:)

Flying to the Nav Beacon (after jumping into a system) is quite slow, IMHO. Especially if the thing is on the other side of the star. Maybe you are more experienced in this, but it does take me a while. Flying away from the star out of the orbital plane a bit and using the FSS is often faster for me, but I am used to the FSS from exploring. I do scan the Nav Beacon usually in systems where I have no map data, this is clearly faster than FSS scanning a 40 body system.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
MoonRacer said:
:)

Flying to the Nav Beacon (after jumping into a system) is quite slow, IMHO. Especially if the thing is on the other side of the star. Maybe you are more experienced in this, but it does take me a while. Flying away from the star out of the orbital plane a bit and using the FSS is often faster for me, but I am used to the FSS from exploring. I do scan the Nav Beacon usually in systems where I have no map data, this is clearly faster than FSS scanning a 40 body system.
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Yeah, I know how to FSS and the Nav Beacon can take a while to get to - but for someone just starting (like the OP) then the Nav Beacon is a one step solution (well, 2 if you count actually scanning the beacon). FSS can fail to find certain mission targets, and others can require you to zoom in on a lot of planets (not all mission targets show on the top level FSS view, often requiring you to zoom in to a planet to see the mission USS near that planet). Though looking at Dromi it's a small system so the FSS wouldn't be too bad (if the OP had set up their keybinds).

Anyway, hopefully if the OP comes back someone will have given them a hint that will help them solve their issue as between us I think we covered all the points :)
 

lI_Simo_Hayha_Il

lI_Simo_Hayha_Il
Too many answers, so little time... :D
Thank you all.

I did scan the Nav beacon, my mission was updated, and it says go to Dromi system. Nothing more specific.
I am at Dromi system, but no blue icons appear on my Navigation panel.
As I wrote before, I did similar missions before, and were successful, but this one has me baffled.

Do I need to travel to the planets or moons and search there (I did that already, but I may did it the wrong way), or I should be able to view the blue icons anywhere in the system?
 

Codger

Codger
Is there a Nav beacon at Dromi? If not, you'll probably have to use the FSS to locate it. Or fly around and hope for the best :)
 
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