I have just relocated my home station, so I figured a quick way to rep up with the local factions would be to take some +++ rep passenger missions, irrespective of other rewards. However one such mission was paying just over 3 mill for a one hop mission, so I grabbed it. Now I did not really want a mission where the client wanted to be secretive and not be scanned, but that was totally my fault for not reading properly, but at 5am in the morning not all of my brain cells are active.
So off we go and we just arrive at the destination when ping, incoming message, she wants to go and look at a local visitor sight for 100k. Ok no problem I am in this for the rep, so off I go. We arrive at the visitor beacon, scan it and jump back into her destination system. Ping. Some bad guys are after her, please take them out for an optional x amount of credits each. Well it’s a good job that’s optional because the only way I am going to take them out is to ram them to death, and somehow I think their shields will be stronger than mine. Besides one of my stacked passengers does not react well to danger and will become unhappy if I take hull damage……….. in fact I think it’s her! Lol
We just start to throttle down for the station when I get interdicted. I submit and escape, but as soon as I dropped out of FSD they scanned me. We almost reach the station just a second or two before I drop out of FSD when I get interdicted again. Same routine and of course I get scanned. Ping. Commander we have been scanned, this is intolerable, take me to the nearest station and I will get a competent commander to take me. It’s only a game, but some very short words pass my lips as I arrive at the nearest station which is of course her destination. Ping. Although you have completed your mission, blah blah blah. In short, no payment and take a rep hit
It did have me chuckling as we know the game is not perfect and some things just make it look silly, but the question. Even if I had been aware at the start of the mission that she did not want to be scanned, how could I have avoided it?