Just Found a Jump Beacon

RoverTX · Post by **RoverTX** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 09:09

Floating in Terran Space(Megnir). Dropped it and it worked. It would seem there not for sale as much as they are up for being stolen. Will post screen shot of it floating in a second.

PS I run a few mods but nothing that would have placed this, or changed anythings cargo bay hold.

Ripskar · Post by **Ripskar** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 11:16

So If I were to nick the Argon ones, (having got past the defence laser...)

Falcrack · Post by **Falcrack** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 17:14

So how did you aquire the jump beacon? Just run over it with your ship, and it popped into your cargo bay? Or was it in a crate floating in space when you found it?

Catra · Post by **Catra** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 17:51

they'll be in crates, as you have to steal them from ships ferrying them around.

RoverTX · Post by **RoverTX** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 18:13

https://s3.amazonaws.com/forums-rover/2 ... _00001.jpg

Just floating in a crate. Bottom Right.

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Legionos · Post by **Legionos** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 18:15

Funnily enough i was just about to post something very similar.

I killed a Argon Rapid Response Minotaur and it dropped a jump beacon, i havent tested it yet specially because i was going to post and ask if anyone else has picked any up and do they know if you can pick em back up.

RoverTX · Post by **RoverTX** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 18:21

You can't pick it back up, its like a sat in that regard.

Legionos · Post by **Legionos** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 18:59

Cheers

Seleucius · Post by **Seleucius** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 19:12

RoverTX wrote:Dropped it and it worked.

You, sir, have just brightened my day.

Good find!

Moonshield · Post by **Moonshield** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 20:09

so these are only aquired via piracy, and not sold by any factory?

infy dev · Post by **infy dev** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 20:19

RoverTX wrote:You can't pick it back up, its like a sat in that regard.

you can pick satellites back up (luckily, since I accidentally dropped 40 at once just before)

SkyDice · Post by **SkyDice** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 20:30

Moonshield wrote:so these are only aquired via piracy, and not sold by any factory?

Would like to know this too. Are they really not sold anywhere?

Ripskar · Post by **Ripskar** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 22:56

Time to crack out the Aegir...

Neferdias · Post by **Neferdias** » Fri, 6. Jan 12, 08:43

Well I just spent 3 hours scanning every RRF ship I could find and nothing... can someone confirm that they drop on destruction but may or may not be in the cargo hold... I don't exactly have the ordinance in my game to handle an RRF patrol atm and would rather not waste anymore time running around trying to see if they are in the cargo hold of these ships or not lol.

Maahes · Post by **Maahes** » Fri, 6. Jan 12, 10:37

They can be seen in the cargo hold on scanning, and they do drop on ship destruction. However if the ship is an M8 and still has missiles on board the resulting ship detonation will probably blow up the crate too, I suggest letting it fire all its missiles before destroying it

I've now got 4 jump beacons from RRF ships and they work a treat especially for bringing in backup ships on top of you when in a jam.

foxdie01 · Post by **foxdie01** » Fri, 6. Jan 12, 13:52

Can you drop these in the unjumpable terran territories?

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Fri, 6. Jan 12, 18:29

Legionos · Post by **Legionos** » Fri, 6. Jan 12, 19:14

while trading at a shipyward i noticed i was able to sell the hauler that was containing my jump beacon to the shipyard for 272mil

AL'42 · Post by **AL'42** » Fri, 6. Jan 12, 19:35

Legionos wrote:while trading at a shipyward i noticed i was able to sell the hauler that was containing my jump beacon to the shipyard for 272mil

You sold your jump beacon

Where, which shipyard, does it still have it… I’d pay a billion for a jump beacon. The possibilities, empire 200km out from sector centre, your own bit of private universe, I’d have an M2 + 50 fighters guarding it and I will if I ever get one.

Neferdias · Post by **Neferdias** » Sat, 7. Jan 12, 00:06

AL'42 wrote:
Legionos wrote:while trading at a shipyward i noticed i was able to sell the hauler that was containing my jump beacon to the shipyard for 272mil
You sold your jump beacon

Where, which shipyard, does it still have it… I’d pay a billion for a jump beacon. The possibilities, empire 200km out from sector centre, your own bit of private universe, I’d have an M2 + 50 fighters guarding it and I will if I ever get one.

You misunderstood. When you sell a ship at a shipyard... the ship + it's cargo's total worth = sell value. He had a jump beacon in the cargohold of a ship docked at the shipyard and happened to notice the sell value of the ship and JB's are worth an average of 280 mill. Hence why the Nividium mining thing in TC was considered an exploit... cause you could sell the ship with the Nividium in the hold for a pretty penny.

So... I guess then I'm going to have to search out other RRF ships... cause these argon in the warzones don't carry any... nor do they get blown up... looks like i might have to tank my rep with another race... though if i get my hands on a jump beacon... i can just set up my pirate ops in another cross roads sector...

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