1.0HF1 Cannot Move Claimed ship without a pilot?

[Legionnaire]

I managed to force a pilot to bail, then decrypted the Signal, repaired the damaged ship, then the damaged Wiring, but now i cannot figure out how to get a pilot onto it in order to move it to a station for upgrades.

I also couldnt get the Teladi pilot on the ship i had to build to blow up for the Experiment to get off the ship, so he exploded with it.

Currently the only way i can think of to do this would be to fly first shipo to a station leave it there, and fly back to second ship as a spacesuit, but there must be a better way that I cannot figure out. Any help is most appreciated.

Legionnaire

[wwdragon]

If you are claiming the ship personally, you have to fly it to station.
Then you can open map, select your ship and then right click in space and select 'dock at my location' for your other ship; that other ship needs an npc pilot of course.

Alternatively use a single marine to capture the bailed ship and you'll already have them as a pilot, then you can tell it to dock and meet it there to reclaim your marine if you want and put a random person on it as the pilot.

[Legionnaire]

The Capturing Tutorial does NOT explain this It tells you to capture it yourself and I have been unable to get any npc pilot onto a ship I am the pilot of.

Hence being stuck in this rediculous position.

Legionnaire

[Cisor]

I managed to force a pilot to bail, then decrypted the Signal, repaired the damaged ship, then the damaged Wiring, but now i cannot figure out how to get a pilot onto it in order to move it to a station for upgrades.

I also couldnt get the Teladi pilot on the ship i had to build to blow up for the Experiment to get off the ship, so he exploded with it.

Currently the only way i can think of to do this would be to fly first shipo to a station leave it there, and fly back to second ship as a spacesuit, but there must be a better way that I cannot figure out. Any help is most appreciated.

Legionnaire

Get a pilot/captain for your ship, Spacewalk, select new ship, Shift D into it when close enough (< 10-ish). Tell old ship to dock at station, fly and dock at station yourself. Get new ship a pilot or sell for profit.

[Legionnaire]

I managed to force a pilot to bail, then decrypted the Signal, repaired the damaged ship, then the damaged Wiring, but now i cannot figure out how to get a pilot onto it in order to move it to a station for upgrades.

I also couldnt get the Teladi pilot on the ship i had to build to blow up for the Experiment to get off the ship, so he exploded with it.

Currently the only way i can think of to do this would be to fly first shipo to a station leave it there, and fly back to second ship as a spacesuit, but there must be a better way that I cannot figure out. Any help is most appreciated.

Legionnaire

Get a pilot/captain for your ship, Spacewalk, select new ship, Shift D into it when close enough (< 10-ish). Tell old ship to dock at station, fly and dock at station yourself. Get new ship a pilot or sell for profit.

HOW do you get a pilot for a ship you are piloting? I find a pilot on a landing pad, slect hire, and when i select my ship, even if it has a crew space and 2 passenger spaces, i cannot complete the Hire.

[Omexo]

X4 comes with the great new feature of removing ai piloting from all ships and now requiring a captain in its place. You know like x stillbirth and not like x3, because stillbirth was the success i guess?

I dont know how to help you get a pilot if the standard hire a person as captain marine or crew isnt working for you. For me I can literally go to anyone on the station and choose hire, if that isnt available then i would suggest going to owned property, bring up the information for the ship docked at the station that you want crew on, find the tab that i think is called personel (sorry not in game the frustration has gotten to me) then burried another 5 or 6 folders in you will find all crew and you can see if you already have crew (though if you have never hired any this should be empty). If you do have crew then in the same information section for personel there should be a tab called pilot and you can promote a crew member to be pilot.

[Slamdance_Kozmopolis]

I managed to force a pilot to bail, then decrypted the Signal, repaired the damaged ship, then the damaged Wiring, but now i cannot figure out how to get a pilot onto it in order to move it to a station for upgrades.

I also couldnt get the Teladi pilot on the ship i had to build to blow up for the Experiment to get off the ship, so he exploded with it.

Currently the only way i can think of to do this would be to fly first shipo to a station leave it there, and fly back to second ship as a spacesuit, but there must be a better way that I cannot figure out. Any help is most appreciated.

Legionnaire

Get a pilot/captain for your ship, Spacewalk, select new ship, Shift D into it when close enough (< 10-ish). Tell old ship to dock at station, fly and dock at station yourself. Get new ship a pilot or sell for profit.

HOW do you get a pilot for a ship you are piloting? I find a pilot on a landing pad, slect hire, and when i select my ship, even if it has a crew space and 2 passenger spaces, i cannot complete the Hire.

This is the EXACT SAME PROBLEM I AM HAVING. I hove one ship docked at a station and one ship floating pilotless in space. BUT, I cannot hire a pilot for my docked ship so that WE can fly back to claim the other ship!

What's the secret here?

[Kaeltheras]

Get a pilot/captain for your ship, Spacewalk, select new ship, Shift D into it when close enough (< 10-ish). Tell old ship to dock at station, fly and dock at station yourself. Get new ship a pilot or sell for profit.

HOW do you get a pilot for a ship you are piloting? I find a pilot on a landing pad, slect hire, and when i select my ship, even if it has a crew space and 2 passenger spaces, i cannot complete the Hire.

This is the EXACT SAME PROBLEM I AM HAVING. I hove one ship docked at a station and one ship floating pilotless in space. BUT, I cannot hire a pilot for my docked ship so that WE can fly back to claim the other ship!

What's the secret here?

Just talk to any of the NPCs that are literally hanging around the docking areas and running about, hire them, and tell them to be a pilot/captain during the hire menu cascade

[Alan Phipps]

The 'secret' is in post 2.

[Slamdance_Kozmopolis]

HOW do you get a pilot for a ship you are piloting? I find a pilot on a landing pad, slect hire, and when i select my ship, even if it has a crew space and 2 passenger spaces, i cannot complete the Hire.

This is the EXACT SAME PROBLEM I AM HAVING. I hove one ship docked at a station and one ship floating pilotless in space. BUT, I cannot hire a pilot for my docked ship so that WE can fly back to claim the other ship!

What's the secret here?

Just talk to any of the NPCs that are literally hanging around the docking areas and running about, hire them, and tell them to be a pilot/captain during the hire menu cascade

Yeah, that's not working for me. When I talk to someone and click "hire" it take me to another screen where I should be able to assign them. I right click on my docked ship, click "select" and nothing happens. The NPC just wanders off. There's no "cascading menu" just "select" after I RC my ship. Is this a bug?

[Legionnaire]

I got that frustrated with this i just reloaded and sent a marine over to cap the ship.

I had found a pilot on a station prior to getting and pilots to bail and had tried to hire them for my personal ships, but i couldnt set a place of work for them so I had to cancel the hire.

What are Service Crew for?

Legionnaire

[captaincelt]

For hiring a crew member:
After you right-click your ship and select it, you need to go to the grey bar with the down arrow on the right side and choose your ship. Then you can go below that and choose a role for the new crew member.

[Ghostar]

Honestly pretty stupid you cannot send your hired npc in your ship to do an EVA to the other ship and then autodock in a station.