Argon vs Holy Order - Person carrying Decryption Module - Improvement coming in a build after 2.60.

[LTerSlash]

Is how this works? i have to go scanning blindly every ship in the universe until i found someone who has it? I guess it has to be in Argon sector.s

[LTerSlash]

No one did this yet?

[raythnor]

I'm having the same problem, I've been flying around scanning ships all over, I'm guessing there is either a trick to it, or there are just a few random ships flying around in each sector waiting for it to occur.

I tried a fair number of the random criminal ships that get exposed at the stations but it doesn't appear to be one of them. Is there a sector we can go to, at which we can find lots of criminals carrying them?

[lavadingdong]

In the Mission Briefing it specifies a ship ID number, for example in my mission it's QJY-240. You can search for it in the map search and it will appear if it's in your sensor/satellite range.

[LTerSlash]

There is not such thing in my mission.

[multox]

I'm having the same problem. Scanned ships for half an hour and gave up from boredom.

[Revenant342]

You think that's bad, I'm supposed to find a Xenon carrying Spaceweed.

Unless Elon Musk made the original Terraformers, I don't consider that likely...

[AkiraR]

Yeah same problem, what is it we are supposed to do? do we fly next to a ship using the Shift-2 mode and that counts as scanning them? and just do that until something happens?

[Revenant342]

Yeah same problem, what is it we are supposed to do? do we fly next to a ship using the Shift-2 mode and that counts as scanning them? and just do that until something happens?

To actually scan a ship, you need to be in shift2 mode, click on them, select "scan" and hold them in the reticle for a second or two.

[raythnor]

In the Mission Briefing it specifies a ship ID number, for example in my mission it's QJY-240. You can search for it in the map search and it will appear if it's in your sensor/satellite range.

No, it does not have an indication of a specific ship, it simply indicates to scan a ship to find someone carrying a decryption module. I have a related mission which I think I'm supposed to do after this one for spaceweed on another ship.

[AkiraR]

Yeah same problem, what is it we are supposed to do? do we fly next to a ship using the Shift-2 mode and that counts as scanning them? and just do that until something happens?

To actually scan a ship, you need to be in shift2 mode, click on them, select "scan" and hold them in the reticle for a second or two.

Yeah I figured that one out, spent the last hour running around scanning ships... still no dice pretty frustrating if you ask me. Is there a certain type of ship I should be looking for, or ships from a certain faction?

[TyelcaNarmo]

Same issue.. did anyone actually find any sort of freight while scanning? The civilian ships and criminals always show 0 storage for me, even though they drop stuff when I kill them.
I also have a police licence, yet they complain that my scans are illegal.

It really seems that noone playtested the war missions at all.. I have yet to complete a single set, because there is always at least one bugged mission involved

On an unrelated note, it's kinda funny that I'm doing my best to wage war on the Holy Order, but they totally love me, because I killed so many of their criminals for this quest

[AkiraR]

Same issue.. did anyone actually find any sort of freight while scanning? The civilian ships and criminals always show 0 storage for me, even though they drop stuff when I kill them.
I also have a police licence, yet they complain that my scans are illegal.

It really seems that noone playtested the war missions at all.. I have yet to complete a single set, because there is always at least one bugged mission involved

On an unrelated note, it's kinda funny that I'm doing my best to wage war on the Holy Order, but they totally love me, because I killed so many of their criminals for this quest

Yeah I haven't been able to complete any of the war mission sets either... always at least one mission that is totally bugged out and I can't complete

Also at about 20 hours in space has become quite boring. I never see any pirates anymore and I hardly see Xenon, even in border systems I never see any hostiles and my mining and trading ships never get bothered. It definitely feels like they didn't do any extensive playtesting.

[raythnor]

Yeah I haven't been able to complete any of the war mission sets either... always at least one mission that is totally bugged out and I can't complete

Also at about 20 hours in space has become quite boring. I never see any pirates anymore and I hardly see Xenon, even in border systems I never see any hostiles and my mining and trading ships never get bothered. It definitely feels like they didn't do any extensive playtesting.

I had been noticing the decline in random battles and enemy ships myself. The old games seemed to have a healthy amount of it popping up every once and a while. I had hoped it was just random and the amount I saw would spike back up again.
It does feel like they rushed the game, it certainly has a lot of good stuff, it just needs tweaking and playtesting.
Missions in which we might be hunting for one or two random ships in the universe without a guide doesn't seem to help.

[Enyaron]

Doing the Holy Order Vs Argon version for Spaceweed, spent nearly 8 hours looking for ships with it in and I honestly think it either doesn't exist of they didn't add in the ship your supposed to scan.

[Wilson1133]

Same issue here. It’s damn frustrating. And it’s only 110k credits for like 8 hours of work lol

[Agatum]

I'm having the same problem. Scanned ships for half an hour and gave up from boredom.

RNG is a nasty god. I'd say developers like Egosoft should know by now that you never ever rely on pure RNG. What I mean that if there is a mission 'find ship having decryption module' or 'find needle in haystack' you code in a fallback: keep track of how many times user has scanned a ship / tried finding a needle in haystack during a mission and if that number exceeds for instance 20 then automatically return true, otherwise return true/false using RNG. After all we (players) are playing these great games for enjoyment, NOT finding specific needle in stack of needles.

[argon_emperor]

So is it actually possible to complete this specific one? I mean, Decryption Modules are inventory items, not cargo items, do you get some kind of notification if someone has it?

[beanmix]

So is it actually possible to complete this specific one? I mean, Decryption Modules are inventory items, not cargo items, do you get some kind of notification if someone has it?

I'm still wondering this. Scanned for hours around stations. Hundreds of mass traffic. Found nadda.
Scanned all the ships in two sectors (obviously new ones come and old ones go, but essentially all the ships). Still nadda.
Hacked the savegame file, added the "<inventory><ware ware="inv_decryptionmodule" amount="1"/></inventory>" tags to the NPC piloting a known ship (in my case DXG-450) ... scanned the ship. Nadda.
Found a black market mission. Didn't complete the mission.
Completed the black market mission by deliverying the goods. Ironically I had to deliver 3x Decryption modules. And checked his sold wares, there's 12 decryption module. Didn't complete the mission.
Finally I deleted the mission from the "mission thread" tags in the savegame, essentially skipping it and moving on to the next in the line. This resulted in the complete thread bugging out eventually when I finished all the remaining missions and I had to abort anyway. So also, not a means to skip the mission.

So if anyone knows how to complete this freaking mission. Please post the answer!

[Dirk-Jan]

I think in general the game isn't up to par yet to a level that the missions are do-able. I'm in a resource scanning mission that cannot be completed because the resource is not present in the required level in the appointed sector.
As there are still an awfull lot of bugs in the game (one might say that it is released in beta version) we can only wait untill the devs solve the bugs.

It'll be a long wait.