how do i get my construction ship into devries?

DrwHem · Post by **DrwHem** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 17:12

they gave me a ship. it has no fuel cells and im not going back into hostile space to get them. is there a way to get my station into devries? if not what should i do with my construction ship?

DrwHem · Post by **DrwHem** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 17:36

bump please

evokeuk · Post by **evokeuk** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 17:40

Mine came with fuel cells, not enough to get to DeVries though, but I just told it to refuel when it messaged me and it did so and followed me there. Maybe your game is bugged out.

Sandalpocalypse · Post by **Sandalpocalypse** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 17:41

hack your save game to put fuel into it.

it's the only way, since the freebie construction ship is unique and the only one that can build the 'integrated urv plant'.

as always, backup your savegame first.

open the XML file for the save,

search for

macro="units_size_xl_builder_ship_plot_01_macro"

then scroll down

find the line that says
<component class="storage" macro="storage_ship_xl_fuel_01_macro" connection="shipconnection"

and paste below it

<cargo>
<summary state="collapsed" connection="cargo">
<ware ware="fuelcells" amount="2200"/>
</summary>
</cargo>

DrwHem · Post by **DrwHem** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 18:01

i never get the option to tell my ships to refuel. also the only known refuel point i have unlocked is in devries lol

DrwHem · Post by **DrwHem** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 18:09

where did u get your xml viewer cause im using notepad and its really hard to find what youre describing. i thought i did it right but it caused my save game to crash so i obviously didnt do it right.

DrwHem · Post by **DrwHem** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 18:27

Halconnen · Post by **Halconnen** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 18:31

I use Notepad++. It works fine for savegame editing.

Make sure you didn't accidentally duplicate the cargo token when pasting that line in.

Post by **Santi** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 18:34

When the message comes that it has no fuel, you can click on the protrait and order to buy cells.

Me, I went where you suppose to be building the station, saved the game, clicked to build the only, one, choice available, completed the process. Went to get my coffee, drank my coffee, read for 10 minutes the news, then went for a hot steamy shower, put clean clothes on, went back and the bugger building ship was just arriving to the where I was.

Radamond · Post by **Radamond** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 18:51

Even if the construction ship has no fuel it manages to get itself to devries... I told it to join my squad once i was at the station where you need to sell the food/build and it got there somehow... Just took it a while (like 10mins+...most of the time it just idled right outside the gate in albion). But didn't have to order it to refuel or anything.

Wolvan · Post by **Wolvan** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 19:24

Cap ships can jump without fuel, it just takes them exponentially longer to do so. I guess they're sitting there charging the jumpdrives off of the batteries or something instead of ramming liquid electricity into the capcitors or some such.

DrwHem · Post by **DrwHem** » Sun, 17. Nov 13, 23:36

ok now how do i solve the problem of supplying 300 foodstuffs from albion to devries? my energy carrier broke my commands and wandered into albion without a trade order and got killed. all i have is a constructor ship and the skunk. and im sure the shipyards are hostile to me so i cant goto albion to buy a cargo ship

vahadar · Post by **vahadar** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 00:59

you can use the constructor for this too

scarshapedstar · Post by **scarshapedstar** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 03:36

Holy crap, thank you. This post should be stickied. It took me like an hour to actually figure out how to wade through all the XML to find the right line, because they all look alike, but now I get it.

Add the following line:

<ware ware="foodrations" amount="300"/>

And you can just go back to Cantera and get the BS over with!

vahadar · Post by **vahadar** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 04:04

on a side note, my game was bugged and i never received the starting freighter Rahanas again after going into Devries. And shipping the 300 food with the construction ship dont work. You can load the food in the shi, but when in Devries at the canteran station, even if the unload process is working the mission wont validate

i'll try with that reaver freighter i just captured ^^

edit : this was done without editing savegame to add URVs to the Construction ship. i'm doing this now i'll update post later if successfull

vahadar · Post by **vahadar** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 04:08

scarshapedstar wrote:Holy crap, thank you. This post should be stickied. It took me like an hour to actually figure out how to wade through all the XML to find the right line, because they all look alike, but now I get it.

Add the following line:

<ware ware="foodrations" amount="300"/>

And you can just go back to Cantera and get the BS over with!

nothing to do with that mission but about xml you can repair ships you board (basically you can modify everything, stats of crew, number of turrets fittied, drones...)
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=350080 (check 1st page in my post middle page)

scarshapedstar · Post by **scarshapedstar** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 04:09

God freaking dammit! Guess I'll be capping a freighter too. Lol.

Sucks because the process of getting the conster ship across the gate was incredibly satisfying. Just sent the trade order and parked on top while it went into warp speed, stayed there to fend off fighters while it lumbered through the gate, then docked immediately on the other side as it was making the second jump.

vahadar · Post by **vahadar** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 04:13

if you cap a freighter you will probably need to repair it

at least its engines, check the link i put in the post right above yours for xml editiong, since fixing a captured cap ship whose engines are dead isnt possible now (only ships with working engines can go to shipyards, but with the xml you wont even need a shipyard, your hull will be 100%, and your engines 100%)

scarshapedstar · Post by **scarshapedstar** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 04:14

Oh! I'm wondering if it's possible to just put some of those cargomover URVs into the ship bay? Looking over the save files to see how this works.

vahadar · Post by **vahadar** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 04:15

check my link i explain how to add cargo drones there too