I recently managed to swallow my disappointment, took me 3 years, and decided to try X:Rebirth. I was very pleasantly surprised, but not by everything.
I did not come to make a review though, I have some questions :
(main client, 100% vanilla : no mods, no DLC, no beta / free play start)
1°) I bought 20 small ships and put them under the control of a capital ship. I then put the capital ship under the lead of (the defence officer of) a construction ship, so that the group would protect the construction site. I was also IS (more specifically in zone, right next to them), to protect the site myself.
What ended up happening however is this : the escort of small ships began to furiously ram the leading capital ship, which was very slowly patroling over the construction ship. In fact, they killed themselves on its hull. After 1 hour, and without being attacked by anything, I had lost 3 small ships. Head banged too hard, it seems. Many of them had damaged hull, <50% or so. But full shield.
I figured I may have bought too many (20), so I sold the damaged ones and kept only 10. But they kept exploding, without any attack yet. When I was down to 7, I sold every small ships back.
-> What's up with that? What did I do wrong?
2°) The said construction operation was conducted on an empty zone. I'm playing on very hard, so I was terrified to go there, expecting marauders waves to pose a very serious threat to my endeavour. Which also was... the interesting part.
But it never happened.
When I build in regular zones (zones with npc stations in them), I get swarmed by marauders, it's insane. I lost 25M worth of military on my first station, lost the construction ship on the second one... it's good, I like it. We have a game going, I picked very hard, bring it on.
However, when I build in an empty zone, where I was expecting things to get REAL, with no npc station to go hide to... nothing. Nothing happened. I built 3 stations in 2 empty zones in Albion, and never got attacked once. Not once. Not even the odd nps ship flying with 20% hull left, nothing. No enemy whatsoever. Very hard.
-> What's up with that? Is it intended, is my game acting?
3°) What is a welder drone, why do my engineers have a welder drone counter (0/50), and where can I find one?!!
4°) Can one use the enemy escape pods? Can we hire/force the pilots to work for us?
5°) Is there a way to repair small ships in bulk? One by one + not being able to queue the commands but having to wait for each of them is... I mean, come on. Also, is the repair price bugged? It looks extremely high, maybe even higher than buying a new one?!
Any help/infos would be appreciated
