1.21 BUG Boarding Guide doesnt work - Resolved in coming 1.30

[Rincewind79]

The search is not working, so maybe this has been posted before.

After I activate the boarding guide, I fly to the spawned ship, clear the mines and scan it. Then the guide tells me to dock, but "docking isnt possible". Now I know there is also the boarding with Marines and stuff, but the guide doesnt mention that. So far I tried to claim two ships, both of the M size. I even managed to enter one by clipping thru the entrance, but I cant interact with anything inside.

Which ships need marines to take over and which can be claimed by just scanning and docking?

And after a successful claim, is it possible to transfer one crew-member to the new ship to pilot it?

[Alan Phipps]

There have been several interacting bugs at play which confused everybody - including myself.

Firstly the intended method of claiming M size ships is via leak scanning as per the tutorial, but that sometimes had a bug that the leak couldn't be found, or another bug that it didn't work if it was scanned. That latter bug was fixed in 1.21 and explains why scanning now turns the ship green.

There is a further bug that some player-owned (green) ships do not let you dock, and that bug is being fixed in the next build 1.30.

Phew! So in future after 1.30, follow the tutorial and scan the leak and claim S and M sized empty ship targets and you should not need the marines.