Hunt Down Pirate Mission (how to complete?)

[Aduh]

How to complete Hunt Down xxxx Mission?
I've been wondering around the sector/map without leaving the system, but I couldn't find any of the pirate. Any help to complete the mission?

[Hexarobi]

Probably your best bet is to just hang out in the system they tell you he was seen in and just wait. You don't have to do anything special, they just eventually are there when you jump in, or jump in themselves.

[Aurelia]

They are not always in the system marked. They DO travel around a bit, but stay somewhere within proximity.

These are one of the missions I tend to accept and forget about... hours later, i'll be fighting pirates as i'm traveling around the galaxy, and then the popup says i've completed the mission.

[mzahniser]

The pirate you are hunting for will always be within 2 jumps of the system named in the mission.

[Aduh]

Thanks for the hints. I managed to get one done.
I guess I just accept all the hunt missions, and they'll eventually solve themselves whenever I'm around the system and the pirates appear :D

[Nesano]

Originally posted by mzahniser:

The pirate you are hunting for will always be within 2 jumps of the system named in the mission.

Necroing the thread to check and see if this statement still holds true. I just found and killed a pirate fleet 3 jumps away from the system I got the quest from, was it increased to 3 jumps maximum at some point?

[Amazinite]

Originally posted by Nesano:

Originally posted by mzahniser:

The pirate you are hunting for will always be within 2 jumps of the system named in the mission.

Necroing the thread to check and see if this statement still holds true. I just found and killed a pirate fleet 3 jumps away from the system I got the quest from, was it increased to 3 jumps maximum at some point?

Marauding fleets are potentially further away, but normal bounty fleets are still within 2 jumps.

[Ker]

The answer is that the game has indeed advanced beyond this being exclusively, absolutely true.

[Belteguesian]

Originally posted by Aduh:

Thanks for the hints. I managed to get one done.
I guess I just accept all the hunt missions, and they'll eventually solve themselves whenever I'm around the system and the pirates appear :D

Be carefull because this way you may have to fight 2, 3 or more bounties at the same time!!!

[Nesano]

Originally posted by Belteguesian:

(Above Comment)

Which is extremely annoying. It's also bad for the budget because you have to take a huge fleet with you just in case.