Finding a black market in argon space

[Doom]

I'm trying to find a black market in argon space. I've wasted hours, scanned dozens of leaks, and the "Lucrative mission" does not appear. Tried to follow "Delivery ships", found a black market, but in segaris sectors. I need one located in HAT/ANT/ARG.

Is there any other trick to find it? As this is getting tedious, and I'm contemplating whether I should install signal leak hunter mod. Current save doe snot have a "modified" tag, but then again, Ventures aren't coming back, so not much point in worrying about it...

P.S. At this point I'm wondering who the heck thought that signal leaks are so much fun, that you have to hide black market behind them.

[FuryoftheStars]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3278721817&searchtext=Black+market

Worth a shot? You can always use it to find the BMs, then reload to unmodded save and go find em.

[Doom]

Originally posted by FuryoftheStars:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3278721817&searchtext=Black+market

Worth a shot? You can always use it to find the BMs, then reload to unmodded save and go find em.

I'll give it a whirl, thanks. Also, this part of the description is fun:

"This also rerolls Black Market Traders to fix a possible bug in the game where no such traders are found in non-DLC sectors"

Exactly my situation, it seems.

[FuryoftheStars]

Ah, didn't read that in the description. Good to know.

*subscribes to mod* :)

[aFF3_M!T_WaFF3]

took me 2 scans after 10h ingame in Argon Prime in unmodded game...

[Doom]

Originally posted by aFF3_M!T_WaFF3:

took me 2 scans after 10h ingame in Argon Prime in unmodded game...

Like I said, on the current save, I scanned at least two dozen leaks, and none of them offer black market mission. That's over multiple sectors. I get piles of "hack station", "destroy ship", "disrupt shields" missions, where the only reward is money, and I literally wasted hours on this. I did not have this problem in previous save, which was created with 7.0.

Also, see description above. It could be a bug.

[Doom]

Originally posted by FuryoftheStars:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3278721817&searchtext=Black+market

Worth a shot? You can always use it to find the BMs, then reload to unmodded save and go find em.

Well. With the mod, I managed to locate a black market station in region I wanted. However, WITHOUT the mod, there's no black market at that station. Meaning I'm subject to bug where black markets do not spawn in non-DLC sectors. So the only way to go is *modified*.

I think I'll put off the game for a few days, as I've been having a major case of not having fun because of that nonsense. Then maybe I'll start over with every convenience mod under the sun included into the game. Why the heck did egosoft even implemented that *modified* and who thought station scanning is a good idea....

Thanks for the assistance, unsubscribing.

[db48x]

I recommend using shady search[forum.egosoft.com]. It directly shows you which sectors have black marketeers and which don’t. You can use this to directly confirm the presence of the bug.

If you do have a save that exhibits the bug, please upload it somewhere and mention it on the bug report[forum.egosoft.com] over on EgoSoft’s forum. They often don’t fix bugs unless they get a save that demonstrates it, and while people have been complaining about this bug since the day the first DLC was released no one has uploaded a save yet. Personally I have never encountered it.