Whats up with Naval Progression missions?

[Hekantonkheries]

Like seriously, your supposed to be helping a party, but every version ive seen, not only do they ask for something that cant be bought within 100ly (personal weapons, combat stabilizers), but its always items that faction considers universally ILLEGAL, its like to be promoted from private to sergeant in the army you were required to help drug traffickers smuggle cocaine across the border

but no seriously, even checking the trade function on the galaxy map, the only place i can even find that sells combat stabilizers or personal weapons within 2 hours travel round trip (the length of time these missions tend to be up for), its sold in a station that also prohibits it, and I cant undock AND get outside the mass lock range to warp before local authorities scan me and decide im breaking the law HELPING THEIR FACTION (these guys are green man, didnt they get the memo im on the job FOR them?)

 

[Cmdr Mnumen]

Exactly the opposite here - they always ask for legal items, and usually their purchasable at the very station thats giving me the mission!

 

[porl]

Exactly the opposite here - they always ask for legal items, and usually their purchasable at the very station thats giving me the mission!

So what station/system are you in and what are they asking for, if I many be so bold as to ask?

 

[Cmdr Mnumen]

I'm in Nu, near Achenar. I've been doing the empire missions round here. Sometimes its Combat Stabilizers, sometimes Non-Lethal or Personal Weapons.

 

[Cmdr Itchy]

I have to fly there. I just had THREE Naval Progress Missions on one Board in Sobargo (the system with the slave revolution from the news, I can only recommend to go there for some serious Conflict Zone action) and all three asked for Personal Weapons which are completely outlawed in Empire space.

 

[CMDR Drokath]

I've never had any issues with sourcing what the missions required. Even when the commodities are illegal it's really simple to smuggle some inside a station.

 

[Cmdr Mnumen]

Meliontit sells Personal Weapons and is a High Tech Empire system - its where I get mine

 

[Torgamatic]

Typical mission request will be for the same thing... Find it before mission is offered. Bee-line the mission when offered..

 

[Cmdr Jezath]

I've never had illegal contraband naval missions but then im with the feds Closest I've come to that lot is poxy non lethal's
Empire sounds like fun though
If you aint keen, try the fed missions out m8. It wont hurt your rep or rank with the empire.. (I don't think)

 

[ParaB]

For my 1st ascension mission I had to fly 18 jumps. Then 18 jumps back. Took me a little bit more than 30 minutes.

Since then most missions could be completed within 2-3 jumps.

 

[MagicTofu]

I'm in Nu, near Achenar. I've been doing the empire missions round here. Sometimes its Combat Stabilizers, sometimes Non-Lethal or Personal Weapons.

I found personal weapons in CD-61 6801 after some search, it should be 50-ish ly from Nu. Did not see any combat stabilizers yet though.

 

[Hekantonkheries]

smuggling them INTO a station is no problem, its trying to smuggle them OUT of the station that supplies them, because even though they are for sale i the normal commodities section, theyre outlawed fro that station

and the problem with getting them from everywhere else is that the only time the missions appear for me is when theyre down around the hour hour-half completion time, just seems like there are only certain parts of the empire you ahve any reasonable sense in completing these missions, which sucks because that kinda corrals us from spreading out where we want, may as well have kept the beta bubble