1.21 BUG Cannot board claimed ship - Resolved in coming 1.30

[DnBrn47]

I found a couple of abandoned

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Tern Sentinels

surrounded by mines in

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Hewa's Twin III

, destroyed the mines, played the scan to override mini game in order to claim the ships and am unable to board them. I am unable to send Pilots to them to fly them and since I own the ships, I am unable to board them with Marines. The ships can be sold but no other interactions will work with these ships.

[FankX]

As a workaround is to teleport in the ship.

[VincentTH]

I found a couple of abandoned

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Tern Sentinels

surrounded by mines in

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Hewa's Twin III

, destroyed the mines, played the scan to override mini game in order to claim the ships and am unable to board them. I am unable to send Pilots to them to fly them and since I own the ships, I am unable to board them with Marines. The ships can be sold but no other interactions will work with these ships.

The workaround is to NOT scan it (or the ownership just go to you without you having a chance to send the pilot over, and you can't enter the ship yourself for some reason). Just claim it from the seat of your ship in order to send the marine over.

[Alci]

yeah, same. "Board" was the only change in before 1.21. Now it can be claimed manually, but "docking denied". I have even my boarding pod flying around the ship but can't dock, can't be picked up, it's just flying aimlessly around my "new" ship, not taking any commands

[Scoob]

I've found that when attempting to Claim Medium ships, it's best to just send a Marine. If you get the "static" sound, find the damaged bit and scan it in the space suit, you become unable to board the ship - "docking denied". I had this with a ship this evening, reloaded my save and boarded via a Marine and it worked fine

Also, I've noticed that if I fire off a Marine from my S-Class ships (Elite and Kestrel) the Marine flies around and around the target, only landing when I leave the sector. If however I fire off the Marine from one of my M-Class ships (Cerberus) the Marine flies straight and true directly to the target.

As an aside, claiming small ships works just fine by the scanning method. I then dock with them in the space suit and all is well.

Scoob.

[XTC0R]

Sending a marine is a solution. But when you want to actually want to fly the ship you can't board it in space only on stations.
which is pretty annoying if you use your spacesuit and your own ships doesn't let you dock afterwards....

I don't have a teleporter so far, so this might solve it later. But still this bug is annoying.

[Mileron]

The first abandoned ship I ever discovered in 1.0 - a Cerberus Sentinel - suffers from this problem.

I cannot dock while in a space suit, and I cannot dock while in a ship.

[Paddyy]

Maybe it has something to do with ships that are spawned for (future) missions. But on the oher hand small ships are working normal.

[Ranix]

yeah, same. "Board" was the only change in before 1.21. Now it can be claimed manually, but "docking denied". I have even my boarding pod flying around the ship but can't dock, can't be picked up, it's just flying aimlessly around my "new" ship, not taking any commands

an inexperienced marine can only land the boarding pod if you are within 50 meters, which is crazy close for a big ship you are basically touching it

[DnBrn47]

Yea, workarounds are great, but let's keep it a bug report so it can be fixed, thanks.

[Alan Phipps]

There have been several interacting bugs at play which confused everybody - including myself.

Firstly the intended method of claiming M size ships is via leak scanning as per the tutorial, but that sometimes had a bug that the leak couldn't be found, or another bug that it didn't work if it was scanned. That latter bug was fixed in 1.21 and explains why scanning now turns the ship green.

There is a further bug that some player-owned (green) ships do not let you dock, and that bug is being fixed in the next build 1.30.

Phew! So in future after 1.30, follow the tutorial and scan the leak and claim S and M sized empty ship targets and you should not need the marines.

[DnBrn47]

There have been several interacting bugs at play which confused everybody - including myself.

Firstly the intended method of claiming M size ships is via leak scanning as per the tutorial, but that sometimes had a bug that the leak couldn't be found, or another bug that it didn't work if it was scanned. That latter bug was fixed in 1.21 and explains why scanning now turns the ship green.

There is a further bug that some player-owned (green) ships do not let you dock, and that bug is being fixed in the next build 1.30.

Phew! So in future after 1.30, follow the tutorial and scan the leak and claim S and M sized empty ship targets and you should not need the marines.

Awesome, thanks Alan!

[wilsonlaizo]

Phew! So in future after 1.30, follow the tutorial and scan the leak and claim S and M sized empty ship targets and you should not need the marines.

The problem with this is that after you claim you will need to fly the ship yourself, right? Well ... depending on the Medium ship you would be able to dock and transfer, but if it does not have a dock, like miners, you wont be able to transfer a pilot.

Wouldn't be better to check if the ship have an hangar and if it have, you use the scan method and if it does not, the mariner needs to claim it?

I believe I saw this somewhere else, but when I claim a ship using the mariners, a lot of times it will be there floating around and not really taking the ship. If you leave the sector it will claim it instantaneously. This happened to me three times:
1) The first time I lost my patience (and didn't knew that leaving the system would solve) and just claimed manually the ship by scanning it and after that the marine kept floating and to fix it I had to fire him and then sell the pod at a shipyard (this was a Cerberus)
2) The second time I moved out of the map and it fixed (this was a medium miner)
3) The third I sent the marine, but I was doing a mission, so, I just went and did the mission, then I killed some Xens and after like 10 or so minutes running around, the marines finally took the ship (without me leaving the system)

[Phoynix]

Turrets are also broken on claimed ships.

There have been several interacting bugs at play which confused everybody - including myself.

Firstly the intended method of claiming M size ships is via leak scanning as per the tutorial, but that sometimes had a bug that the leak couldn't be found, or another bug that it didn't work if it was scanned. That latter bug was fixed in 1.21 and explains why scanning now turns the ship green.

There is a further bug that some player-owned (green) ships do not let you dock, and that bug is being fixed in the next build 1.30.

Phew! So in future after 1.30, follow the tutorial and scan the leak and claim S and M sized empty ship targets and you should not need the marines.