The mission to get the Extreme Drain Power Cell can be found in Verasi I-5 or L-15. First go to Verasi I-5 and play 'Xithricite Refinery Introduction' then 'Xithricite Apothecarium' until you get to 'Gift of Divinia Spice.' After returning from completing that mission you should see 'Sudden Showdown' at any Axia station in Verasi. The missions link from there.

The Valent bot mission tree begins with 'Party Errand' available at any Valent station from trade level 2 and on.

The Centurion Superlight mission is called 'Corvus System Reconnaissance' and is available at any Corvus station from Combat 4 I think. (This one isn't mine)

It starts with "Hive Cores" at Corvus stations, then to Recon, and onwards.

The following map represents the new missions from the PCC Holiday Contest:



To play you need to have Combat license 3, and go to any commercial station of your own nation (TPG for the UIT). Serco characters don't have access to the Itani side of the tree etc. The manufacturing mission for the Conc Rail becomes available at the conquerable stations with every successful completion of the tree's terminus.

Very nice, and congratulations.

Are concussion rail guns reloadable yet?

I tried out the Hazardous Site Investigation mission, starting at Latos N-15. It set a course for Azek I-12, and I hit a storm in between. Apparently there was supposed to be a bot there. There wasn't. I proceded to Latos H-2, but there was no bot there, either. The mission failed, and I can't retake it... is there any way to get the mission back?

The Concussion Railguns are currently not reload-able, and you are allowed to retake either of the first two missions if you wait one day.

I tried the Hazardous Site Investigation mission several times and I always fail.
When I eventually see the bot I'm supposed to follow it is >3000m away and jumping.
How to deal with that?

(And while I'm at it: how do you win the "Medium Risk Mining Thingy"? The hive bots
always kill the Behemoths...)

Use the 'u' key to find and target the bot, and use repair modules on the Behemoths.

Thanks Phaser.

I know the "u" key. But it didn't help. The first time I see the Bot is when it's far away
and jumping Real Soon Now (TM). Even with an X-1 or Greyhound I'm not fast enough.

I'll try the Repair The Moths approach. Thanks.

Nice work as always, you might've warned about the faction hit with Valent and Biocom though...I kinda liked my gold wall :-)

Also, on the Covert Courier leg the 2 serco vultures in Nyrius were out of sensor range and it took a couple of retries and some luck to eventually find them, kinda tricky when you're on a timer. Was this a conscious decision to have them be hard to find ? The rest of the bad guys pretty much just came gunning for you..

Suggestion: Make the conrail mission only available at a single Conq station for a 2 hour block during "prime time" each day. This will help concentrate our low numbers in a single arena where interesting combat can happen.

Well since everybody elses prime time tends to be my 3 a.m I say screw that

Or -1 as the saying goes

JJDane I know about the 2 vultures spawning on the far side of the asteroid field... it's just another challenge in an already challenging mission. If you sit still they will find you, but you'll burn a minute. On the other hand if you go on a wild hunt they may never catch up. In the end you may learn where they tend to spawn and it becomes less of a challenge, in the beginning though I can see where it may cause a momentary lapse of composition.

I actually had to move the final battle in that mission from the Edras side of the wormhole to Verasi for the same reason (the pirates always spawned well out of radar range in that sector). This ended up creating some interesting dynamics with the border defenses, more dramatic also.

maybe slightly off topic here, but since it was mentioned...
"Jan 11, 2011 tarenty
It starts with "Hive Cores" at Corvus stations, then to Recon, and onwards."

hive research - 10 dentek cores (unlocks widowmaker manufacturing misssion and CSR)

corvus system recon

and some kinda courier mission to yellowspace from corvus. the initial mission text sounds really mysterious, like they dont say where you're going aside from "deep in yellow space" (or UIT nation space, w/e they actually called it). you'll know you're on the right mission if you end up in a superlight when you launch.

then the mission for manufacturing superlight is unlocked, and you get to keep the superlight that corvus provided for the courier mission.

10 Guardian cores, you mean. The third mission is "High-risk Courier."

This is in regards to eht Hazardous Site Investigation Phaserlight describes in is Jan. 16, 2011 post. I am at the point where I start the courier escort mission from Dau K-10. I make the jump to Dau O-6 and take out a single pilot. Then, when I get to the next sector where I am supposed to take out two serco vultures they dont appear, and the map goes blank. I am well within the time frame, over 9 minutes left, and th Atlas i am supposed to be escorting is still with me.

Is there something I am not doing correctly?

Thank you

ojb

OK...OK I got this figured out now... so when you land in the Nyrius system look around for the big lump of astroids and just head off that direction the vultures will find you. Don't tubo or you may go by them so fast you dont target on them or they on you.

The course markers don't show up until you finish a section.

Fly fast.

sticky please! This is a very awesome thread!

Suggestion: Make sure that if one of the target ships are destroyed during "Covert Courier Escort" by someone/thing, that it still counts toward the mission objectives...