Scanning Sirius Atmospherics

[Pops64]

I've watched lots of videos and read alot about this, but I still can't do it. So if anyone could help me out I'd be very grateful. I'm trying to do Passenger missions - taking tourists to Sothis A5. I find Sirius Atmospherics, but here the problems start. I don't know what Scan I'm supposed to use, how I should set it up, and how to use it. Been trying to figure it out for three days now. My ship is a Python.

[Sighman]

If you target the beacon (white marker, not the yellow one), then point your ship at it, the scan is automatic. Bottom left you'll see 'scanning..' for a few seconds, and then it will complete.

[Pops64]

Hmmm.... I'll try that. Should I be in Supercruise or not ?

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Pops64:

Hmmm.... I'll try that. Should I be in Supercruise or not ?

No, drop out of supercruise

[BloodravenD]

Tourist spots are pretty much like the nav beacon, at least the ones I've come across have been. You want to go from supercruise to normal space, and then target the tourist spot, and have it relatively in front of you. After a few seconds it'll "scan" and you will get credit for it, as well as a a little message about the tourist spot, and I believe it adds an entry into your codex as well.

[Parminio]

Originally posted by Pops64:

I've watched lots of videos and read alot about this, but I still can't do it. So if anyone could help me out I'd be very grateful. I'm trying to do Passenger missions - taking tourists to Sothis A5. I find Sirius Atmospherics, but here the problems start. I don't know what Scan I'm supposed to use, how I should set it up, and how to use it. Been trying to figure it out for three days now. My ship is a Python.

Your onboard ship scanners will do it automatically. All you have to do is target the beacon when you get there. That's it.

Here's a video I did of me doing it. Again, all I do when I come out of super cruise is aim at the beacon and hit the T button to target it. The ships scanners will then scan it automatically. Once that scan is done, I head out back to Robigo Mines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_s8g9hk7uI&t=682s

[Pops64]

Wow ! Thx alot. I'll try that first thing tomorrow.

[Pops64]

One more thing - if a passenger wants Consumer Technology, what do you do ?

[Sam Willet]

I ignore them.

You can go and buy what they want on the way if you feel like it. You get some bonus credits, but it doesn't affect the mission.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Pops64:

One more thing - if a passenger wants Consumer Technology, what do you do ?

Either waste 10 minutes looking up the nearest location that sells them, go fetch them, and get a slap in the face as payment for your trouble...

Or do what every body else does as it's pretty much never worth doing: politely point out you've been contracted for a journey, and there will be no deviations (because we're not allowed to dump them out of the airlock). Or to put it another way: Do what Sam does...

Originally posted by Sam Willet:

ignore them.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by funkynutz:

(because we're not allowed to dump them out of the airlock).

No, we are not. The contract says that they will be demanding, so being demanding is allowed by the contract.

[Pops64]

OK, thx.

[Sam Willet]

I like the good old days where you could 'forget' to install the life support module and then you arrived with a hold full of fertiliser.

[MrHappy]

Originally posted by Pops64:

One more thing - if a passenger wants Consumer Technology, what do you do ?

Originally posted by Pops64:

One more thing - if a passenger wants Consumer Technology, what do you do ?

But if you want to don't want to ignore them and get them completed fully.... Most of the things requested by passengers can be found in Sothis (where Sirius Atmospherics is located) or one of the 3 or 4 systems that you go through to get to Sirius from Robigo.

[Pops64]

A HUGE thank you to Parminio. I'm finally able to do the missions. No mentioning the targeting in any guids or tutorial videos. Sadly on my first run I somehow got one Illegal Passenger onboard, and my ship was destroyed right outside the station on my way back. I don't understand how this was possible. No-one seemed illegal when I accepted passengers. Weird.

[Parminio]

Originally posted by Sam Willet:

I ignore them.

So do I.

Any message you get while you're doing runs like that you can completely ignore. They will automatically be marked as read and not be relevant when you finish your run and cash in the mission.