[BUG] No Captain crash cause and Engineer issues

[ShadowWolf_Kell]

I disovered the cause of the No Captain bug when buying ships at the shipyard. Apparently doing any kind of modification to a ship will bug all future ships to be made with no captain aboard. As long as you don't modify an existing ship, the bug doesn't seem to crop up.

I haven't tried repairing yet to see if that causes it also, but equipping drones or ammo does (and the ships won't load ammo anyway.)


As for the engineer bugs I've run across, I've had 3 types show up. One are engineers (and defense officers) that you cannot hire, even if you have no crew aboard your ship.

The second are engineers who pop up with Working on your ship, or somewhere else. These particular engineers cause a hiring loop bug but also I've had them make ALL the engineers on all my ships disappear after hiring one. The best way to get around this is to go look for another engineer that simply has the hire option and nothing else. I'm not sure if it's a Cantaran related problem or global since I've been hiring all my crew in RoC space.

[Mordegar]

I have currently the same problems regarding engineers.
My *hire* option disappeared and instead i had a *transfer to skunk* or *transfer to* option when i tried to hire a new engineer and the old ones on my ships disappear shorty after.

[werewolves?]

I just managed to land and put a new captain on a new ship without crashing. Is the crashing fixed in 1.15 or is it an intermittent thing?