A Lucrative Opportunity ( Spoilers )

[NewtSoup]

I was just offered a mission that gave me access to the black market ( at least at one station )

The mission giver asked for 4 AG Heuristic cores.

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I landed at the station, went to the bar, saw that the guy there was the mission giver. Saw that he had 9 of what I wanted for sale so I bought them off him and turned them in for the bonus prices. So basically he just gave me money and access to the black market.

Is this normal or was I just really lucky?

[Alan Phipps]

You were lucky in the sense that in this case the devs did not appear to think to include a check making sure that the dealer had no such mission items for sale.

That said, it is unusual for you to be able to buy stuff from the dealer in the bar before concluding the mission that first unlocks the bar. Are you sure you had not somehow already unlocked the bar?
I have also noticed that new shady missions for the same station as one completed before create a second bar even if there is already one open there.

PS: You don't need spoiler tags in the Spoilers forum. Spoiler information is always assumed present here.

[NewtSoup]

You were lucky in the sense that in this case the devs did not appear to think to include a check making sure that the dealer had no such mission items for sale.

That said, it is unusual for you to be able to buy stuff from the dealer in the bar before concluding the mission that first unlocks the bar. Are you sure you had not somehow already unlocked the bar?
I have also noticed that new shady missions for the same station as one completed before create a second bar even if there is already one open there.

PS: You don't need spoiler tags in the Spoilers forum. Spoiler information is always assumed present here.

The only other missions I had done were for Boso Ta.
That NPC was my mission giver so I wonder if he alone was unlocked to me so that I would be able to turn in and the ability to trade was due to that unlocking.

The mission text said something like "My runner failed, I need you to fetch some stuff from my supplier". So I assumed it was a fetch and carry mission.
Then when I accepted I saw that I had no guidance as to where to find these cores.

Had the mission giver not had them for sale how was I supposed to find 4 of them in an hour? Is that just the time limit for the bonus reward?

[jlehtone]

Had the mission giver not had them for sale how was I supposed to find 4 of them in an hour? Is that just the time limit for the bonus reward?

Destroyed ships tend to drop inventory items. However, that is all random (except some items drop only from certain ship types).

If you don't deliver in time, then you fail the mission.

I tend to check my inventory before I accept a mission. If I already have the items, then I accept the mission. Otherwise, I pass.

(For that reason Guild missions are IMHO infuriating: one has to accept a chain before seeing the details.)

[NewtSoup]

Had the mission giver not had them for sale how was I supposed to find 4 of them in an hour? Is that just the time limit for the bonus reward?

Destroyed ships tend to drop inventory items. However, that is all random (except some items drop only from certain ship types).

If you don't deliver in time, then you fail the mission.

I tend to check my inventory before I accept a mission. If I already have the items, then I accept the mission. Otherwise, I pass.

(For that reason Guild missions are IMHO infuriating: one has to accept a chain before seeing the details.)

I am not sure in this instance that I could have checked my inventory. It was from one of the sparkly things on the station hull and I did see if I could just close the dialoge without accepting or declining but I could not see a way.

Now I just need to find that black marketeer again.

[jlehtone]

All the signal leaks are not black marketeers. Marketeers spawn randomly. I'd presume that it will vanish if the mission fails -- will not "establish a shop".

Station icon (at least used to) has a hat when the station has black marketeer.