pirate quest?

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I have managed to trade with the pirates but it seems the quest from them eludes me. Would it happen to be to kill the BBW? Because I did that without them offering the quest in my current game.

Anyone know how to find this quest, or which crewmember they had talking with them?

[Botji]

Originally posted by shattered fractal:

I have managed to trade with the pirates but it seems the quest from them eludes me. Would it happen to be to kill the BBW? Because I did that without them offering the quest in my current game.

Anyone know how to find this quest, or which crewmember they had talking with them?

I just recently got this myself, its from talking to the Ganymedians(?)/pirates.

You know how eventually when you contact them they are all like "woah there! we want no trouble with you! peace!" and you get some options to talk with them about their transponders being down, what happened to Ganymedes etc etc.

One of the options is something about "enough talking, lets do business" and they seemingly always decline that they have no business with you.

At some point, either through trading with their station or just chatting them up(might actually have to pick the hang up option a few times rather than ask to make a deal?) they eventually do respond positively to the business option and you can get at least 2 different deals, not done it a lot so might be more variations but anyway at that point you get the achievement.

So its not so much a 'quest' as you managing to do a trade deal with a pirate(ship). Hope this ramble at least sets you in the right direction if you are still struggling with it.

Last tip though, if you have the Ganymede station I suggest going there to mine a bit and then selling whatever you have they want. It seems that its kinda often the pirates spawn around there which makes sense but its a decent way to get some cash and fish for pirates to chat with once per run and trade with their station which might make them like you more?

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Thanks for this. I've done the "let's do biz" about two dozen times now and still nothing. Do you happen to remember what crew members you had for this encounter, or if it was eventually with the Ganymede Station or a random?

I know there has to be a proc somehow...

[Botji]

Originally posted by shattered fractal:

Thanks for this. I've done the "let's do biz" about two dozen times now and still nothing. Do you happen to remember what crew members you had for this encounter, or if it was eventually with the Ganymede Station or a random?

I know there has to be a proc somehow...

I did the same thing with them, tried the business line loads of times with no luck which finally made me try the last option where you end the call and acknowledge that you will leave them alone.

Theory was that basically you contact them, they call for peace and if you select the end call line and agree to play nicely with them that might be what improves relations with them.

Not sure if that is what did it in the end but not that many attempts later, maybe 3-4 times of me ending the call with the peace offer, when I then tried the business option again they offered it to me.


Might be why so few have the achievement if that is the trigger, most people probably try the "business" line which ends the call but does not improve relations?

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I'll return to post details when I figure it out.

I've taken quite a few screencaps of achis for this game and if I'm not lazy maybe there will be an achi guide one day soon...

Thanks again, mate.

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Any news on this?
Still haven't found the Pirate Base, yet.

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Haven't played in quite a while but as I recall the pirate base is a random encounter or results from dialogue in one, as described in the first response to this thread.

Good luck, mate.