How to do corporate espionage?

[Endorphinz]

I've seen a few jobs titled as corporate espionage, which says that a specific ship will show up in a system, and you have to scan its cargo. The problem is, I've never seen any of the named ships turn up in any of the missions, and I just wait around switching targets in the system for ages until I'm killed by pirates. Am I doing something wrong?

[Avior]

I've had problems with those missions myself.

[Ker]

Don't quote me on this, and someone else will correct me if I am wrong. I just wanted to be nice and get this out quickly for you:

The ship is supposed to appear in system relatively shortly after you take it, unfortunately it is possible for it to leave the system or land, making the mission nearly impossible to complete after that point. I believe this is fixed as of next update, but am unsure about this as well.

[Trai Kanossi]

Yeah, I tried to do one of these for the Syndicate. I reloaded at least 10 times trying to get it, but the ship always warped off too fast for me to get it done.

[Ironarcher13]

The pay honestly isn't worth the trouble as it's this update.

[Vilscos]

Not worth it, don't sweat it I have problems w it too.

[Scrump]

So I came here to figure this quest out. I guess I misunderstood it. After reading this I ended up getting another one of these quests. All I did was "Depart" and started hitting "N" to target ships in the area and it all of a sudden said I completed the scan. So you only need to target the ships in the area after you depart the planet.

[Ironarcher13]

Please read the stuff on not Necroing.

[Ironarcher13]

If you have a question about one of the missions, it is recommended you create a new thread asking about it, instead of bringing a 6 month old article back to life.

[tehhowch]

Originally posted by Scrump:

So I came here to figure this quest out. I guess I misunderstood it. After reading this I ended up getting another one of these quests. All I did was "Depart" and started hitting "N" to target ships in the area and it all of a sudden said I completed the scan. So you only need to target the ships in the area after you depart the planet.

In the next game version this will not be true. It is only true for you in this one instance because a different ship scanned your target (either a Navy surveillance ship or Cap'n Pester).

In general, corporate espionage missions are extremely difficult to complete due to the high mobility of the target, and the slow scanning speed of the unprepared player.

[tirelessly eats rice balls]

1) Accept the mission
2) Take off
3) Land immediately
4) Take off again
5) Scan target takes off with you
6) Scan it (should be easy)

[Ker]

Locking instead of deleting because this was resolved.

But yea always feel free to start new threads. Part of the necro thing is trying not to bother people with notes on old threads.