Ok...power weekly mission....scan Megaships in Reinforcement systems. First I had to figure out that it was Exploited-Reinforcement systems. Fortified-Reinforcement systems appear to be a no-go...still learning, no problem.

So since I'm not interested in randomly jumping into the Exploited-Reinforcement systems for a crap shoot finding Megaships, I used Inara to locate the Megaships list, and used Inara again to locate my power systems and their state (Exploited-Reinforcing), bounced the first list (Megaship location) starting with the closest Megaship system against the second list (Power systems-Exploited), and once I found a match, bounce that against the Power tab in right panel on they power system map. If they jive, look at the system to verify it's Exploited-Reinforcement.

So head to the system, honk first, then hit the Nav Beacon. Unfortunately, no joy. So had to go to the FSS, and this was a system with 20 bodies. Took me about 5-10 minutes, and finally found the Megaship, proceeded there, scanned the ship, and scanned the two ship log links, for a total of 2 out of the 8 required.

I've never been one to complain about grinding, and I don't mind doing this. I get the scenario, they want to know who's in that system and what they're up to, to build a database and track these potential neer do wells.

But it appears I'm going to have to do that process 4 times to get 8 scans. Of course, I could search and dig a little deeper and find a system that has 2 Megaships or more to lighten the workload.

But is it just me, or does maybe that needs to be cut down to 4 (2 ships x 2 logs each).

I want to get in the habit of completing the weekly grind, but not sure if even I have the patience to repeat this process 4 times.

I'm trying to "spread out the grind" like I do with other grinds / find a way to make it less of a grind, but this one is REALLY going to annoy me, I think.

Is there a better way of doing this? I understand sometimes you luck out and get the Megaship with the Nav Beacon scan, but that's going to be hit and miss, no?