Boarding caps broken?

ragethunder · Post by **ragethunder** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 20:37

Tried to board this capital ship

http://i.imgur.com/0z43ctd.jpg

I waited about 5 minutes and nothing happened the mission you get to blow stuff up as distractions also stopped and removed itself, Not sure if they failed the boarding or it just broke and stopped

The engines and warp drive also kept repairing itself after being destroyed which was a bit annoying

not to mention that the police didn't give a damn I was boarding a capital right outside a station.

Husteln · Post by **Husteln** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 20:40

I wonder if your 'pods' will be named wrecks when you try to target them

csaba · Post by **csaba** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 20:45

not to mention that the police didn't give a damn I was boarding a capital right outside a station.

While I was still trying to get through the 100 E-cell mission I got fed up and went all in on a gas tanker with my mk1 weapons. Took me half an hour but I destroyed it- It launched some drones but nearby ships didn't give a dam about it.

Musashi82 · Post by **Musashi82** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 21:32

Hi,

I have the same problem, i can't board ship because the mission disappeared on its own.
After the pods are launched and successfully landed on the ship, I destroy 1 or 2 thing on the ship as asked and then nothing more is happening.

I tried a lot of different approach but nothing worked so far.

I only succeeded in boarding 1 ship and now I can't get more of them.

I'm playing in free play.

dfm5000 · Post by **dfm5000** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 00:04

1.13 Seems to have broken it but yet fixed it at the same time. During the boarding it would loop endlessly where it would fix the engines and then fix the jump drive even after you had destroyed them.

Now the engines get destroyed and the ship just sits there, but boarding never works any more.

chrisnic6 · Post by **chrisnic6** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 00:18

A few bits about boarding...

1. Boardings can fail. If you run out of prompts for things to do after the pods have landed, your boarding failed.

2. There is no boarding failure notification.

3. If the target ship has a quality engineer pieces can get repaired fairly quickly.

4. A marine officer with better stats and more marines can help your boarding succeed.

Xavior · Post by **Xavior** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 00:50

chrisnic6 wrote:A few bits about boarding...

1. Boardings can fail. If you run out of prompts for things to do after the pods have landed, your boarding failed.

2. There is no boarding failure notification.

3. If the target ship has a quality engineer pieces can get repaired fairly quickly.

4. A marine officer with better stats and more marines can help your boarding succeed.

I have tried at least 5 different boarding operation (trying to get a freighter up and running to ferry cargo for station URV extension thingy).

I have tried looking for at least one star in boarding but nobody has it. Just 4 leadership/2 combat stat at most.

It doesn't make sense that I run out of thing to do for boarding with my 25 newbies marine, 15 medium marine, and 7 elite marine on a large size capital (There are two size of capital large and extra-large).

http://roguey.co.uk/xrebirth/ships/fedhelm/

The ship linked above is the one I keep trying because it is smaller I thought I would have better chance with boarding but nope it fail after about 4 or 5th "thing to do while your marine dies".

I did on purpose targeted capital that DO not have an engineer aboard so I don't have to deal with repairing. For instance I don't target large sul with captain, engineer, and defense officer.

How is it that I keep hearing that people are doing successful boarding operation when I can't even do it on the weakest capital around?!

Katastrophi · Post by **Katastrophi** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 02:40

Xavior wrote:
chrisnic6 wrote:A few bits about boarding...

1. Boardings can fail. If you run out of prompts for things to do after the pods have landed, your boarding failed.

2. There is no boarding failure notification.

3. If the target ship has a quality engineer pieces can get repaired fairly quickly.

4. A marine officer with better stats and more marines can help your boarding succeed.
I have tried at least 5 different boarding operation (trying to get a freighter up and running to ferry cargo for station URV extension thingy).

I have tried looking for at least one star in boarding but nobody has it. Just 4 leadership/2 combat stat at most.

It doesn't make sense that I run out of thing to do for boarding with my 25 newbies marine, 15 medium marine, and 7 elite marine on a large size capital (There are two size of capital large and extra-large).

http://roguey.co.uk/xrebirth/ships/fedhelm/

The ship linked above is the one I keep trying because it is smaller I thought I would have better chance with boarding but nope it fail after about 4 or 5th "thing to do while your marine dies".

I did on purpose targeted capital that DO not have an engineer aboard so I don't have to deal with repairing. For instance I don't target large sul with captain, engineer, and defense officer.

How is it that I keep hearing that people are doing successful boarding operation when I can't even do it on the weakest capital around?!

I have the same problem. The info tab of the target capital ship will still show 11-17 marines on board, but I'll have no subsystems to destroy and after waiting 30+ minutes while watching something else on TV, nothing has changed.

If this is "working as intended" I would request A) failure message, and B) more detailed information on my marines on board the capital ship.

chrisnic6 · Post by **chrisnic6** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 03:21

Katastrophi wrote:
Xavior wrote:
chrisnic6 wrote:A few bits about boarding...

1. Boardings can fail. If you run out of prompts for things to do after the pods have landed, your boarding failed.

2. There is no boarding failure notification.

3. If the target ship has a quality engineer pieces can get repaired fairly quickly.

4. A marine officer with better stats and more marines can help your boarding succeed.
I have tried at least 5 different boarding operation (trying to get a freighter up and running to ferry cargo for station URV extension thingy).

I have tried looking for at least one star in boarding but nobody has it. Just 4 leadership/2 combat stat at most.

It doesn't make sense that I run out of thing to do for boarding with my 25 newbies marine, 15 medium marine, and 7 elite marine on a large size capital (There are two size of capital large and extra-large).

http://roguey.co.uk/xrebirth/ships/fedhelm/

The ship linked above is the one I keep trying because it is smaller I thought I would have better chance with boarding but nope it fail after about 4 or 5th "thing to do while your marine dies".

I did on purpose targeted capital that DO not have an engineer aboard so I don't have to deal with repairing. For instance I don't target large sul with captain, engineer, and defense officer.

How is it that I keep hearing that people are doing successful boarding operation when I can't even do it on the weakest capital around?!
I have the same problem. The info tab of the target capital ship will still show 11-17 marines on board, but I'll have no subsystems to destroy and after waiting 30+ minutes while watching something else on TV, nothing has changed.

If this is "working as intended" I would request A) failure message, and B) more detailed information on my marines on board the capital ship.

More information would definitely be nice. I can kind of understanding there being a certain cap to what more marines can give. Perhaps the awesome capital ships need a rank 3-5 boarding experience leader.

I do know I can board Rihannas, Balor, and Midir any day of the week with my ~20 recruit ~10 veteran ~3 elite and low stat officer.

That being said I've never gotten those ships spaceworthy and usually just sell them.

Starblood64 · Post by **Starblood64** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 03:53

I have captured 7 ion plasma carries and other capital ships... All I do is hack with the trojan drone and then pull up behind it. initiate boarding and do what she says. Also I experimented and noticed I never succeeded with 0 boarding experience. I found a cheery old chap with one boarding experience and he hasn't failed me since. I also just used 50 basic marines. he's currently at 117% leveling progress I don't know if he is a pokemon under that suit of his but he refuses to level up

Xavior · Post by **Xavior** » Sun, 24. Nov 13, 01:41

Starblood64 any tips on to finding a boarding officer that has one star in boarding? Because I tried to hire and fire a few none of them had any boarding experience.

dmk · Post by **dmk** » Sun, 24. Nov 13, 14:07

you need officer at least with 1 boarding skill.
I don't know for which ship you need 2, but for most big cap ships you need at least 1.
do shit smalltalks minigames, when you do around 20 you get one.(no money needed), stats of recommended npc for hiring is opened before hiring.

or you can hire and fire around 10 officers, very probably you will fond one.
(up to 1 mln needed).

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Boarding caps broken?

Boarding caps broken?