Search NPC from a mission

[moacir.silveira]

I have a mission, where I must get some documents from a person in the Tiolce system.

I'm in the system, but I can't find that person. She send messages to me via chat, but doesn't tell me where she is, and doesn't even give me clues. Tried navbacon but nothing. I tried to travel by supercruiser, but nothing too.

Does anyone know if there is any other method to find this NPC?


Thanks

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Log in to one of terminals at a settlement, and look through lists of people there. You can find your person in that list, and mark him to find him easier.

P.S. Wait, are you doing a delivery to a surface settlement in Odyssey, or is your contact flying a ship? If it's a ship, then you should find him in supercruise, and follow his wake when he drops to the normal space.

[moacir.silveira]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Log in to one of terminals at a settlement, and look through lists of people there. You can find your person in that list, and mark him to find him easier.

P.S. Wait, are you doing a delivery to a surface settlement in Odyssey, or is your contact flying a ship? If it's a ship, then you should find him in supercruise, and follow his wake when he drops to the normal space.

I understood. I think it's a spaceship, because I only get messages from it when I'm in space. I will try to super cruise again...

thanks

[ShelLuser]

Be very careful here though... because if you need to follow wakes then DO NOT blindly go there without double checking.

The problem is with Odyssey: many NPC's park their ship right next to the star in a plain out impossible to reach position. So if you go there you'll overheat and drop out of supercruise long before you reach it.

[moacir.silveira]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

Be very careful here though... because if you need to follow wakes then DO NOT blindly go there without double checking.

The problem is with Odyssey: many NPC's park their ship right next to the star in a plain out impossible to reach position. So if you go there you'll overheat and drop out of supercruise long before you reach it.

Thanks for the alert, it happened to me with another NPC... the position was on the star, and I gave up, because I had no way to get there...

But this NPC that I'm looking for now, I still haven't found it... In fact, I ended up giving up. I spent almost 20 minutes going around the system, with this NPC sending me messages, but I couldn't find him...

I will try again with another mission today

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by moacir.silveira:

I spent almost 20 minutes going around the system, with this NPC sending me messages, but I couldn't find him...

There is a contacts list on your left screen, 3rd tab. Have you tried to look him up there?

Also, don't fly in supercruise too slow. Your sensor range is being calculated as seconds till target, and with slow speeds the range is decreased and the NPC may disappear from your sensors.

[moacir.silveira]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Originally posted by moacir.silveira:

I spent almost 20 minutes going around the system, with this NPC sending me messages, but I couldn't find him...

There is a contacts list on your left screen, 3rd tab. Have you tried to look him up there?

Also, don't fly in supercruise too slow. Your sensor range is being calculated as seconds till target, and with slow speeds the range is decreased and the NPC may disappear from your sensors.

really, I didn't remember this tab... damn, it can help a lot.... and thanks for the speed tip in supercruise, I'll take care of that... thank you