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dzhedzho
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Controlling your ships?

Post by dzhedzho » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 01:00

Is there a way to somehow control your ships? Like order then to stay put and quit following me back in the hostile areas. Or any way to issue any command other that the trade queue?

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Post by Swallen » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 01:05

As far as my experience goes, it's a bit hit and miss. The AI is pretty bugged, and there is no hidden button you are missing.

They are supposed to idle when they are not in your squad, and follow you when they are. If they have trade orders they will report their current order as "following Albion Skunk", and are supposed to carry on trading, but sometimes they will bug out and won't trade at all (just follow you or idle).

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Post by dzhedzho » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 01:15

Swallen wrote:As far as my experience goes, it's a bit hit and miss. The AI is pretty bugged, and there is no hidden button you are missing.

They are supposed to idle when they are not in your squad, and follow you when they are. If they have trade orders they will report their current order as "following Albion Skunk", and are supposed to carry on trading, but sometimes they will bug out and won't trade at all (just follow you or idle).
Ship is not in my squad still followed me back to the hostile area.


I mean 7 years, and can't make a ship to stay/follow. Not only you can't fly them you can't command them either? We get stuff like simulated economy, but our crew captains are simpler than a dog? I wonder whose genius design decision this was... Or was commanding ships deemed too boring?
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Post by Petroph » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 01:15

Here is a mod that lets you do some basic commands to your owned ships. It is still in alpha, so there arn't many commands yet, but the basic ones.

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

Just shows you how the modding community will come save the day...

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Post by dzhedzho » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 08:42

Petroph wrote:Here is a mod that lets you do some basic commands to your owned ships. It is still in alpha, so there arn't many commands yet, but the basic ones.

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

Just shows you how the modding community will come save the day...
Thanks. It's funny how modders seemed to make this in few days, while Ego couldn't do it in years...
On a side note, are pilots used for anything?

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Post by azile0 » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 09:05

It's hilarious, the level of downgrading friendly AI got. In X3:TC you got so many freaking options- Patrol, trade, idle, escort, attack, etc.

In X:R it's Follow Me or Stay Here.

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Post by TinkerToy » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 09:15

azile0 wrote:It's hilarious, the level of downgrading friendly AI got. In X3:TC you got so many freaking options- Patrol, trade, idle, escort, attack, etc.

In X:R it's Follow Me or Stay Here.

Yup, you have two control options, except one of them doesn't seem to work at all :lol:

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Post by dzhedzho » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 09:33

TinkerToy wrote:
azile0 wrote:It's hilarious, the level of downgrading friendly AI got. In X3:TC you got so many freaking options- Patrol, trade, idle, escort, attack, etc.

In X:R it's Follow Me or Stay Here.

Yup, you have two control options, except one of them doesn't seem to work at all :lol:
I wonder who did the priorities for this game...

Also reaaly cracked me up how excited Yisha was when I got the "terran shields" which are absolutely the same as the shields you can buy from Albion...

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