Quick Commercial Agent question?

[MarkusXL]

X3R - bonus Pack Q

Hi,

I made the mistake of telling a CAg to "Start Commercial Agent" after either doing a Manual Trade Run or after I had to micro-manage their way out of pirate trouble.

But this resets their experience level to Apprentice! Dang!

What is the trick to get them going again without level reset?

T H A N K S ! !

[MarkusXL]

I dug and dug and think I found it:


Second Procedure
1: Ship menu
2: Commands
3: Configure intermediate stops
4: Input "6"
5: Input "0"
6: Input "0" <-- Should hear a friendly beep
7: Esc back to commands
8: Trade
9: Start external commodity logistics


I'll post up if it don't worky...

[MarkusXL]

I don't think this procedure is working... CLS seems to be different from CAG.

Anyone know the trick to "restarting CAG" after its interrupted (without resetting the pilot's skill level)?

Thanks!

[rod finley]

What were you doing with your ship before hand, buy/sell for best price, manual trade runs? I stop my CAG's all the time for manual runs and salvage operations and the rankings don't change. It sounds like you just activated it for the first time.

edit
just a minute to late. I now see your using cls. I tried using it a few times but I found it to be even more of a learning curve. I just find that CAG's work the best in the aspect of less work to them. After your CAG's get the experience they work quite well. I'm sure others will tell you CLS is better but it's just a matter of what you prefer.

[Kor'ah]

I don't think this procedure is working... CLS seems to be different from CAG.

Anyone know the trick to "restarting CAG" after its interrupted (without resetting the pilot's skill level)?

Thanks!

"Start Commercial Agent". The TS should return to it's homebase and then go back to work as normal.

No idea why the pilot's rank is resetting. It's something I've never seen in the CAG/CLS1&2 scripts...


EDIT

I dug and dug and think I found it:


Second Procedure
1: Ship menu
2: Commands
3: Configure intermediate stops
4: Input "6"
5: Input "0"
6: Input "0" <-- Should hear a friendly beep
7: Esc back to commands
8: Trade
9: Start external commodity logistics


I'll post up if it don't worky...

That isn't CAG. It's CLS2 for training a fresh pilot from scratch. It's ment to be use with an empty ship that has no pilot hired.

[MarkusXL]

Whew thanks for the quick help! I am burning my brain on this!

So, I think you guys are suggesting I have a non-problem, that is, I should be able to start and stop CAG freely without getting the pilot skill level reset to Apprentice.

I will try again, and on a few more ships, to confirm. Maybe the bug is in ME, and I've gone X-eyed. heh.

Thanks!

[MarkusXL]

Ok, that's more brain-burn at work.

I tried it on another TS and and the Pilot level was not reset! Yay!

This seems to be User Error. Imagine that. lol.

Thanks!

[KoshZdryh]

Actually I found an interesting thing.
The UT pilots the are assign to CAG do reset their rank.
Or rather the rank of an UT pilot has nothing to with the rank of a CAG pilot.
I think it would be cool if it had, cause I find training UTs easier than training CAGs.

[perkint]

I find training UTs easier than training CAGs.

Try the guide in Kor'ah's sig...



Tim

[eladan]

@Markus - please use the 'edit' feature to add to a previous post, rather than posting multiple times in a row. Also, in case you miss the message I placed in your post in the Commercial Agent thread, please don't cross post - ask your question in one place only.