Boarding the Aran - Is it me or my Kraken? Now successful Thanks.

The Iron Duke · Post by **The Iron Duke** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 16:35

Tried searching, no luck. can someone direct me to threads on Aran boarding for advise?
The problem is found an Aran in my Kraken, repair lasered till hostile, instruct marines to board nearest ship (shown as Aran). "Command rejected"?????

ace_killer · Post by **ace_killer** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 16:54

It might be down to the ship not being able to launch marines. From memory I had a similar thing on a Cerberus... In the end i did it with a TP class ship!

Skism · Post by **Skism** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 16:58

The Iron Duke wrote:Tried searching, no luck. can someone direct me to threads on Aran boarding for advise?
The problem is found an Aran in my Kraken, repair lasered till hostile, instruct marines to board nearest ship (shown as Aran). "Command rejected"?????

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... 42#3538442

TRY THIS ^ also a Cerberus can't launch marines sorry

edit another link:

http://forum.egosoft.de/viewtopic.php?t ... sc&start=0

Triaxx2 · Post by **Triaxx2** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 18:05

@The Iron Duke: Do you have boarding pods on your Kraken?

The Iron Duke · Post by **The Iron Duke** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 18:14

Skism, have looked at the links and both suggest it can be boarded with an M7M, but my Kraken refuses the 'board all marines' command. Tried the 'Piracy' command but the Kraken jus rams the Aran.

The Iron Duke · Post by **The Iron Duke** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 18:39

Triaxx2 wrote:

@The Iron Duke: Do you have boarding pods on your Kraken?

Yep. But they require a target, and u can't target the Aran.

hourheroyes · Post by **hourheroyes** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 20:09

You hit the Aran with your repair laser from space until you hear the hostile BEEP and the music starts. Then get in your Kraken, C-5-Enter-Enter. It should be ablet o launch at the Aran. That's how I did it.

The Iron Duke · Post by **The Iron Duke** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 21:32

hourheroyes wrote:

You hit the Aran with your repair laser from space until you hear the hostile BEEP and the music starts. Then get in your Kraken, C-5-Enter-Enter. It should be ablet o launch at the Aran. That's how I did it

Yep that's the way it should be, but no! Why is the Kraken refusing the command?
If shields were too high it would warn accordingly, is the hull to fragile to accept boarding?
Notice non of the old school cappers contributing?

Allan F · Post by **Allan F** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 21:43

IIRC You need to repair the ship for 10+ minutes to get the hull strong enough to board. And you have checked that you have pods and marines available?

Post by **Alan Phipps** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 21:43

That's the problem; the boarding and the Aran situations have both changed a lot since 'old-school' days. Anyway, as far as I know they have no shields when you find them.

In X3AP I boarded the hostile Aran with no problems by space-walking 8 good marines from an M6. In X3TC I think (as it was a while ago) I last boarded yet another Aran from the later patches by just pointing the M7M straight at a close hostile Aran and manually firing pods like dumbfires.

brucewarren · Post by **brucewarren** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 21:49

Is it only from the Kraken? It shouldn't make a difference, but I had no trouble from my sirokos.

Can you borrow a cobra or something to test?

Board nearest ship ought to work once it's hostile.

One other question. It sounds daft, but might as well rule out all cases. IIRC board nearest ship command allows you to select the guys for the boarding. They were enough guys selected, right?

sadron · Post by **sadron** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 22:13

I specifically went searching for it with my Sirokos. Launch pods are perfect for it.

Triaxx2 · Post by **Triaxx2** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 22:22

Ah ha!

Be sure you hear the music change before trying to launch your marines.

Also, use the launch all marines command which will pick up on the next unshielded ship.

Or select only boarding pods, ejecting other missile types if you have to, and then order a barrage which will suggest the closest target which should be the Aran.

The Iron Duke · Post by **The Iron Duke** » Wed, 9. Jan 13, 23:17

Allen F wrote:

IIRC You need to repair the ship for 10+ minutes to get the hull strong enough to board. And you have checked that you have pods and marines available?

Will try further repair. Pods not an issue as can't be targeted. (Late post suggest an alternative).

I have 5, 5* 100% marines. That's all I've used in previous Aran caps.

brucewarren wrote:

Can you borrow a cobra or something to test?

It's taken three hours to find the damn thing. Have a Cobra but could be another three hours of jumps to find one.

Alan Phipps wrote:

That's the problem; the boarding and the Aran situations have both changed a lot since 'old-school' days. Anyway, as far as I know they have no shields when you find them.

In X3AP I boarded the hostile Aran with no problems by space-walking 8 good marines from an M6. In X3TC I think (as it was a while ago) I last boarded yet another Aran from the later patches by just pointing the M7M straight at a close hostile Aran and manually firing pods like dumbfires.

I'm still in the 'good old days'. Using 2.1. In X3TC.
Kraken refuses to launch marines to space walk, can't manually fire pods in a Kraken without target. <A Kraken is not an M6 or TP. Alan Phipps>

brucewarren · Post by **brucewarren** » Thu, 10. Jan 13, 00:21

Only thing I can suggest is

Save
Patch it up to current patch level
Try again and see if board nearest ship works under the new boarding rules

Triaxx2 · Post by **Triaxx2** » Thu, 10. Jan 13, 02:57

If all else fails, copy the save, go modified and spawn a new ship to try boarding with. If that works, you've got an issue with your Kraken, and if not, then there's something weird with the Aran.

The Iron Duke · Post by **The Iron Duke** » Thu, 10. Jan 13, 14:23

Alan Phipps added:

<A Kraken is not an M6 or TP. Alan Phipps>

So does this exclude the Kraken from capping by space walk? <Yes, Alan>
Triaxx wrote:

If all else fails, copy the save, go modified and spawn a new ship to try boarding with. If that works, you've got an issue with your Kraken, and if not, then there's something weird with the Aran.

Thanks but wouldn't know how to do that. (Computer illiterate

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The Iron Duke · Post by **The Iron Duke** » Thu, 10. Jan 13, 16:54

Triaxx2 wrote:

Or select only boarding pods, ejecting other missile types if you have to, and then order a barrage which will suggest the closest target which should be the Aran.

This worked, dumped all missiles apart from Boarding Pods, ordered a barrage, team landed and took the Arran. Cheers.

The Iron Duke · Post by **The Iron Duke** » Thu, 10. Jan 13, 16:58

Have managed to get a team on and cap the Aran. (Thanks ot Triaxx2s suggestion.)
It appears on my property (Ships) list.
However! I'm alongside in my Kraken and can't remember how to dock. Can't target to order my Kraken to dock. Can't space walk to board, again no target.
What have I forgotten to be able to dock??
Can 'change ships' and jump out of Unknown Sector leaving Kraken behind, but that's not right. Still can't get figure out how to get anything to dock!

<Threads merged, Alan Phipps>

Skism · Post by **Skism** » Thu, 10. Jan 13, 18:21

Shift D I believe or Shift A

edit or possibly Shift E if you ejected

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