engineers vanishing from my capital ships

[markusbrody]

engineers vanishing from my capital ships. Is there a mod or a work around for this? It's happening all the time. I have about 10 capital ships all in my squad and my engineers keep vanishing from the crew. its only the engineers that do this. about 3 of the crews will loose there engineers and I'll have to re higher them to find out they just vanish again.

[Orion1632]

most likely it's the bug like this:

1) hire an Engineer, A,ask him to work on the skunk
2) put that Engineer A on another ship
3) hire another Engineer B for the skunk.
4) Engineer A vanishes

Solution.. never put the Engineer that you ask to work on the skunk onto another ship.

Hire Engineer A, ask to work on skunk
Hire Engineer B, ask to work elsewhere

Put Engineer B on the captured ship, Not Engineer A

[markusbrody]

its not letting me hire more than one engineer at a time. I get what your saying and I have done that as well with no luck the engineer vanishes after I leave the system. on another note the landing pad refreshes all the containers as well. not sure if that has to do with it.

[Orion1632]

what do you mean you can only hire one engineer at a time?

who do you have on your skunk?

[markusbrody]

I have a full crew. Def officer, Capitan, marine officer, and engineer. I can hire multiple of any crew but the engineers and the marine officer. for example I have 2 Capitan and 2 def officers on my skunk but anytime I try to hire more than 1 engineer or marine officer at a time on my skunk it just replaces the one I had.

[Mark Laiho]

Just incase

When you have an engineer on board and when it asked you hired it for the ship I assume.

When you hire another engineer do you hire it for the ship? If you do it will either replace the engineer you have or not board.

If you hire and pick for elsewhere he will board. I've had 3 engineers on my ship at one time. But you can only have 1 engineered hired for the ship.
Its actually possible to have 5 people. I had 1 marine officer, 1 pharm spec, 2 engineers and 1 defense officer. I always carry 1 marine officer since I trained him up that leaves 3 places for everyone else but I think you can add 1 specialist to that. I have had 1marine officer and 3 specs onboard.

Note I have over 100 ships with an engineer and a defence officer..... So its not number of officers causing the problem. All of them were hired for elsewhere from patch 1.15 to now. Not all have proper captains that can manage a lot of the default captains which aren't managers are piloting them. You just can't do certain things with those pilots like order them to take you somewhere. The default pilots the shipyards give out can't manage other ships. Only captains you put on can manage other ships or take you places.

[markusbrody]

I'll give that a try thanks.