Ballot boxes mission - out of time always!

Hi, in Frozen Heart I've got the ballot boxes mission from Faust in the Reformation system - but there is not enough time to complete the mission. I always miss it by one day.

I got to Carinae by the most direct route, collect the ballot boxes from the derelict Marie Celeste but always arrive back in the Reformation system on the day I was supposed tomhave delivered them - and receive a Mission Failed message.

I have an Artemis ship, upgraded to a top speed of 450 but it still seems to take me 2 days to make a system jump. I've read elsewhere I think that it's not the speed of the ship bu the size of the ship that matters in how long it takes to do a system jump. Does this mean I have to downgrade my Artemis so that I can complete this mission in time? Can I ignore this mission or is it vital to the plot?

I'd rather not downgrade, as you seem to lose money on trade-ins and it took me a while to get my Artemis so nicely rigged.

Any solutions anybody?

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Glynnor

Your only choice is to get a decent ship for this job (or almost any, for that matter), like the wanderer.

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"First of all, Broccoli is an evil vegetable; it tastes like butt hair."
- andrew

That's correct, it's the mass of the ship that matters when determining how long your jump time is. You need a light ship with a jump time of one day to complete those missions.

Here's how the masses and times run:

Ships having a mass of 1-99 tons take one day to jump.
Ships having a mass of 100-199 tons take two days to jump.
Ships having a mass of 200+ tons take three days to jump.

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Heh, ballot boxes.

How ironic with the current situation...

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