@Aeios
Would you please tell us which system and planet you encountered the IBB contact?
I too have been playing for hours with the version Dark posted on Discord, and have yet to encounter the IBB character in any planet's bar.
The unique ships and bounties are probably my favorite thing to do in StarSector, so the info would be much appreciated.
Hey man, as you might have noticed from my post in Vayra's thread, I'm also playing with this and have been getting IBB bounties with no troubles. I've found about 5-6 IBB bounties by now pretty much all around the sector (I'm in mid game I'd say, around cycle 210 as I'm taking things very slowly), and had found even more in my previous campaign that was cut short because Vayra's bootleg came out.
IBB NPCs in bars are subject to the RNG gods (although yeah, limited to certain vanilla factions, I'd say indipendents and Hegemony for sure, I *guess* League too but I wouldn't swear on it), so yeah, it's a matter of luck.
From my understanding, the bar code also limits the available interactions to 1-3max, so if you have other mods that add quests, encounters, contacts etc in the pool from which the bar code pulls them, that can further lower your chances of getting the IBB one (which is also probably set to have a relatively low spawn/priority chance).
The only other thing I can think of is some mod incompatibility. Do you have any other mods which add things to the bar that might overwrite this one's code? (I'm obviously also using Nex, so that can't be a suspect either).