Scanning vessels for water in Hatikva's

[Sticky Wicket]

So I accepted a mission where I am supposed to scan a transport for water in Hatikva's Choice I.
I stationed myself hovering near the docking port of the spacefuel factory (cause it needs water) with scan mode on and pressing Ctrl+F to scan cargo of passing vessels. Quite a few vessels are moving too fast to scan them and some I can scan but I'm not getting any water showing up and I'm thinking maybe I'm doing this wrong?

Answers appreciated. :)

[conrado.lacerda]

I would suggest you to camp near the gate to Morning Star (close to the trade station) because there are water refineries in Morning Star IV. Also, do your surveillance via the map screen (easier to spot ships and their names) and only scan ships with "water trader" or "agricultural trader" or similar words in their names.

[Sticky Wicket]

Thanks I will try that

[Shardik77]

fun fact, you can also get one of your own ships to carry water and scan it to complete the mission

[conrado.lacerda]

Originally posted by Shardik77:

fun fact, you can also get one of your own ships to carry water and scan it to complete the mission

The ultimate cheese... LOL

Edit: What about your own ship? Buy water, undock, go outside and use the spacesuit scanner...

[Sticky Wicket]

Thanks for the added responses. Scanning your own vessel seems silly, but necessary if I guess if a water transport cant be found.

[seePyou]

The thing I found about scanning missions is that noone cares WHERE you scan them. So it can literally be done anywhere in the galaxy.
I had a ANT mission to scan for spaceweed because they don't like it, so I went to a Teladi sector (because Teladi sector's don't list it as illegal) with a spaceweed factory and scaned the first ship out of it.

[Sticky Wicket]

I'm really having trouble with this. I did as Conrado suggested and targeting water vessels in map view at the morning star gate but they just move to fast to scan....? by the time the scan finishes they are out of range and the radar just turns red and blips put. What am I missing ?what do other people do? Do I need a faster upgrade to the ships scanner or a scanner with longer range to do this?

[conrado.lacerda]

Originally posted by Sticky Wicket:

I'm really having trouble with this. I did as Conrado suggested and targeting water vessels in map view at the morning star gate but they just move to fast to scan....? by the time the scan finishes they are out of range and the radar just turns red and blips put. What am I missing ?what do other people do? Do I need a faster upgrade to the ships scanner or a scanner with longer range to do this?

A well-placed shot will force it to drop out of travel mode. I guess EMP missiles are kind of made for this, but I've never used them...

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by conrado.lacerda:

Originally posted by Sticky Wicket:

I'm really having trouble with this. I did as Conrado suggested and targeting water vessels in map view at the morning star gate but they just move to fast to scan....? by the time the scan finishes they are out of range and the radar just turns red and blips put. What am I missing ?what do other people do? Do I need a faster upgrade to the ships scanner or a scanner with longer range to do this?

A well-placed shot will force it to drop out of travel mode. I guess EMP missiles are kind of made for this, but I've never used them...

I'm really supposed to just randomly open fire at trade vessels to get this to work? This is beginning to sound ludicrous.

[conrado.lacerda]

Originally posted by Sticky Wicket:

I'm really supposed to just randomly open fire at trade vessels to get this to work? This is beginning to sound ludicrous.

LOL

Originally posted by seePyou:

The thing I found about scanning missions is that noone cares WHERE you scan them. So it can literally be done anywhere in the galaxy.

If this is true, then just go to Morning Star IV and ki-... scan them while they're leaving the station!

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by conrado.lacerda:

Originally posted by Sticky Wicket:

I'm really supposed to just randomly open fire at trade vessels to get this to work? This is beginning to sound ludicrous.

LOL

Originally posted by seePyou:

The thing I found about scanning missions is that noone cares WHERE you scan them. So it can literally be done anywhere in the galaxy.

If this is true, then just go to Morning Star IV and ki-... scan them while they're leaving the station!

So you obviously haven't done this, all your advice on this is actually just theoretical.

[Pandorian]

Does the mission specify that the ship has to be in Hatikvah's Choice or was that just where you accepted the mission at? The wording of your original post makes that a bit unclear.

I usually don't do scan missions because they seem pointless to me but if you really HAVE to finish it and are unable to find a ship you can load a cheap ship up with water then sell it to a faction. Once that old ship turns over to that faction you can scan it and finish the mission. This is of course the ultimate desperation move and I'd suggest just abandoning the quest and moving on.

Now if you want to do it the legit way you just find a station that needs the ware and wait for the ships Conrado mentioned to approach. They have to drop out of travel drive in order to dock and that will allow you to more easily scan them. Use shift + f when in range so you don't have to click on the ship and start scan the slow way.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by Pandorian:

Does the mission specify that the ship has to be in Hatikvah's Choice or was that just where you accepted the mission at? The wording of your original post makes that a bit unclear.

I usually don't do scan missions because they seem pointless to me but if you really HAVE to finish it and are unable to find a ship you can load a cheap ship up with water then sell it to a faction. Once that old ship turns over to that faction you can scan it and finish the mission. This is of course the ultimate desperation move and I'd suggest just abandoning the quest and moving on.

Now if you want to do it the legit way you just find a station that needs the ware and wait for the ships Conrado mentioned to approach. They have to drop out of travel drive in order to dock and that will allow you to more easily scan them. Use shift + f when in range so you don't have to click on the ship and start scan the slow way.

The quest says it has to be in Hatikva's Choice, and the reward was 50,000 cr which is why I have been quite persistent about doing it, but I am going to just abandon the quest because the logistics of actually doing it are ridiculous. It's rated as a *very easy* quest but it's obviously not, Iv'e wasted more than several hours trying to do it and I'm going to go back to a previous save.

As you say from now on I'm ignoring any scan vessel missions since they are obviously just a wind-up. The ship scanner obviously needs to be a lot faster and/or have a much longer range for things like this to be viable.