QQ: How do you make a freighter stop following you?

[Lyth]

So trying to keep all my assets alive, only I cannot get my captains to cease with the following. Am I missing some advanced orders?

I would just like them to stop/hold position.

[DogyAUT]

Deassign from squadron, that's all.

EDIT: Doubleclick on ship and remove from squadron, if you don't know how.

[Lyth]

No, that does not work. That just stops them in zone/sector, the moment you leave the sector they follow you again.

[Halconnen]

I think it -should- stop following when deassigned from squadron.

If you have a stuck trade order on the thing and it displays negative cargo space used, though, I think you're out of luck. The ship is borked to follow forever. :I

[Mysterial]

The order you can give them while they're in your squadron, "take me to..." is actually a standard move order (ignore what the dialog says about "wait for me")

They will not follow you again after the order is complete as far as I can tell.

[Lyth]

No, no trades under way, everything idle and not in my squad.

Current orders are follow your skunk still though.

In your games does this change? Am I bugged then?

I would happilly fire the captain if it meant the ship would stop in space but I cannot seem to do that either atm, should I?

[Halconnen]

Can't fire the captain without first replacing him with a new one, I think.

And when you do that, the order remains stuck on there.

[Lyth]

Thanks anyway, hoped I was just being an R-tard and missing the orders menu somewhere.

The take me to thing dumps them next to major locations where they will get massacred by the police and any hostile forces you choose to make if you want to go pirate or do the plot.

[Baleur]

If you're talking about the ship info where u see the captain and his order, i think it's bugged.
It ALWAYS says "Following you" even if they are on their own way to go do a trade mission.