Brotherhood Interview Mission - How To (as of 4/6/2023)

[The Renegade]

I've seen older posts about it; and have done what I've found in the comments and videos online. However nothing seems to trigger completion of this quest. I have attempted the following to no avail:

1) Randomly started attacking ship at Hubs, spaceports and StarGates. Once killed, if they drop cargo, I collect it.
2) Initiate dialog with random ships at the same locations mentioned as mentioned above.
Initiate fight through dialog, fight them, kill them, and collect any dropped cargo.
3) Initiate Raid, destroy all ships, collect loot (should be automatic) and collect any dropped cargo.

All 3 of these actions failed to complete the Brotherhood Interview Quest of "Loot an Civil Ship". I also did this all in the same system as the Brotherhood base I got the mission from was.

Can anyone confirm if the latest version as of today (4/6/2023) has the quest bugged and/or still in development or is there actually something else I'm supposed to do to actually get this quest completed.

[Zalaster]

pretty sure its bugged, ive also been trying to get this completed to get it off my list of contracts and it wont complete no matter what, odd thing is im already in the guild and gaining exp for it. so im about 90% sure its just bugged after one of the patches.

[MilkManSon]

Wow I got lucky then. All i Did was go to a Stargate, Started shooting the first M effers I saw, Then Looted. Bingo Bango.... Done. Yours must be bugged.

[Sternlein]

No its not bugged... you must do it this way:

1. got to Trade Hub, because there are the most civ ships.
2. Press "H" and klick on the Ship list in the sector.
3. Send the Tracker to a the ship
4. Look into his cargo (important for the quest)
5. Aktivate his tracker

Now he is jumping away and u got the message, that his warp drive is stopped.
You can now do the whole process for the rest of the ships, or you warp directly to his location.

6. Press "T" and look for his red Ship signal in a empty area and warp to him
7. Talk to him and make a aggresiv talk to rob him or get money from him.

He dont give u anything (is bugged) and will attack you. Process sucessfull and u can see that the guild process is rising up. You can kill him.

8. Now a timer is starting with 5 min befor the sector security is coming. Warp simply to the next victim or back to the trade hub or other sector location.

I need round about 200 times and 5 hours to get this full. Now its stand by me i should waiting for Brotherhood is contacting me for my rank up.
In all the time with Version 2.2.3 i never get anything from the civ-ships ... no wares and no money so i thing this part is buggy, but the process is raising.

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I hope this helped

[The Renegade]

@Sternlein it's not bugged NOW. One or two updates after that posting they fixed it.

I've been holding off until the next big update to further the story, but I remember after the fix, I just needed to destroy and loot a civilian/guard ship and that triggered the quest being completed.

[Sternlein]

I know that the process raising is not bugged .... but getting money ore loot (not by killing) ... that is bugged.
The process raised after he started to fight with you. Its not necesecery to kill the ship.

[Colmaniac]

I did my first Brotherhood mission, wasnt 100% sure on doing this, the first video on YT showed the player going from the BH HQ direct to the jump point, selecting a ship with ability to com it and selecting attack, I did the same, killed the ship and got mission complete and joined the faction

[Mr.Gibbs]

Hello pilots.

I just completed this mission. I had to fly between stations to find a suitable civilian. The first few were very high level pilots. 7-10 levels higher than mine.
When I found someone more or less suitable (4 levels higher than me), I started a conversation with him. Right next to the station. In the dialogue, I chose the aggression option and said that I would rob him. Eventually it turned red and the aggression timer started for 2 minutes. I killed him. Mission accomplished. I flew away before the system security arrived.

fs. :)

[The Renegade]

@Mr. Gibbs The quest WAS bugged, but it was patched soon after this post was made. I think 1-2 patches after I posted this, the bug was fixed and it started working without issues again. Literally just choose any civilian ship at a port/station/stargate and kill them - mission complete.

[Mr.Gibbs]

You're wrong.
To check this, I started a new game YESTERDAY,
I reached the point where we receive a message from the Brotherhood. Having accepted the quest, I flew to kill a civilian ship, however...
Nothing happened. I reloaded my last save file about fifty times. I flew from the station to the gate, killing random ships in both places. And nothing.
It turns out that the first time I was just lucky, somehow miraculously, I didn’t catch this bug.
As a result, the quest is officially bugged. :)

[The Renegade]

Originally posted by Mr.Gibbs:

You're wrong.
To check this, I started a new game YESTERDAY,
I reached the point where we receive a message from the Brotherhood. Having accepted the quest, I flew to kill a civilian ship, however...
Nothing happened. I reloaded my last save file about fifty times. I flew from the station to the gate, killing random ships in both places. And nothing.
It turns out that the first time I was just lucky, somehow miraculously, I didn’t catch this bug.
As a result, the quest is officially bugged. :)

Are you certain you're using the current version? I was playing a new game just 1-2
weeks ago and had no issues with this. On top of that, since the patch back in April-May that was supposed to address it; I have yet to encounter the bug again.

[Mr.Gibbs]

Naturally. I have Steam set to auto-update games. I'm playing version 3.2.1 And in general, I bought the game on December 26, 2023. So in my case, we simply cannot talk not only about some spring patches, but even about your case a few weeks ago. Like I said - I started a new game a little over a day ago.
It turns out I'm the lucky one who managed to catch the bug again.
I would send the save file to the developers. Tell me how to do this? Do they have a support team, or is all communication through the “Report a bug” window?

Update: I found a Discord channel. Will try to get help there.