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Is it possible to board a ship M6,M7,M7M on a return ship mission?

I forgot to say with marines

Yes you can board a capital twice if you want, if it is a return mission from a station that does not allow capital docking (M7s). Rather a game exploit though.

Yes. In fact, those are among the easiest to board. Target has no shields, no marines, no equipment, and nobody seems to get upset when you do boarding.

I wish I would find more of those missions, for I have marines that need to train their fight skill.

I know this may sound strange but how to make it hostile.

First try comming it with the standard 'surrender' type options, next try scanning it, and lastly try shooting at it or nudging it. Something there will work. [This is assuming it has a pilot and is not already abandoned.]

Also the action of manually launching boarding pods straight at it (or dropping spacewalking marines for M6s say) would make it go hostile too.

One does not have to make the abandoned ships hostile. Then again, I have always simply told M7M to board them. I don't think that the Pods require a hostile target.

Hmm, I recall using the suit repair laser to make the abandoned Aran in UFJD space hostile and conventionally boardable (and to repair the hull a bit too). Maybe I am mistaken?

I do know that you can launch unguided boarding pods straight at a large neutral ship sitting in front of the launcher. The intended target having no shields helps.

The Aran is a special case; it does not show on scanner by default. Being "invisible", it cannot be targeted. Making it hostile (with the repair laser) makes it viable target for boarding.

The "Return Abandoned Ship" targets are targetable. I have simply jumped in sector, targeted mark, called in M7M, and ordered boarding "at my target", without shooting, or even being anywhere near of the mark at any time.

Ah, OK. Thanks.

jlehtone wrote:The Aran is a special case; it does not show on scanner by default. Being "invisible", it cannot be targeted. Making it hostile (with the repair laser) makes it viable target for boarding.

The "Return Abandoned Ship" targets are targetable. I have simply jumped in sector, targeted mark, called in M7M, and ordered boarding "at my target", without shooting, or even being anywhere near of the mark at any time.

Yep (see sig)

OK thanks for the suggestions, I'm going to be using a tp as I've not got a m7m yet

The ship types that can spawn are determined by the race rank the player has with the mission giver. You will need +10 for M7M ships to have a chance to spawn.

From my experience in boarding an uncountable number of ships. When boarding Abandoned Ships to reclaim them, save the pods and just use spacewalk boarding out of a TP. The target isn't moving or resisting anyway.

That depends on the mechanical skill of the marines being used since pods equivalently double it.

What would be the minimum difficulty of boarding abandoned ships? I only keep for use marines with at least 2 stars in all skills. I never ran into insufficient skill problems after that.

Some numbers and equations: https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence ... ding+Hints

For bare minimums there are some tables here: https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence ... WIKI/Ships

In general never hire marines with under 26 fight skill and throw them into training till they have at least 13 mechanical and hacking.

With 40 mechanical you can board most commonwealth ships.