Stored player ship

[RodentofDoom]

When you dock somewhere
get out the ship
and whilst your gone the ship gets placed in "storage"

apart from clearing all orders and then issuing a move/dock command

why isn't there a simpler way to get them back ??
why don't they 'unstore' when you approach the dock area ??

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

I believe if you press Shift D, it has the option to bring it out of internal storage.

[Miniding]

I believe if you press Shift D, it has the option to bring it out of internal storage.

Tested and working!!! You make Something a bit confusing Something very cool on my Destroyer!!!

Thanks for the tip!!!!!

[Onearth]

On the Osprey I posses, a defence drone is stuck at the landing platform.
The Eclipse in the internal storage will not go up to the landing platform. (Nor by pressing shift-D).

I cannot sell the drones and unfortunately it doesn't launch by a threat.

After that I send them twice to venture mission, but the drone is still stuck.

[Bozar69]

Dock a fighter on it and the drone will return to internal storage.

[Xcaliber]

On the Osprey I posses, a defence drone is stuck at the landing platform.
The Eclipse in the internal storage will not go up to the landing platform. (Nor by pressing shift-D).

I cannot sell the drones and unfortunately it doesn't launch by a threat.

After that I send them twice to venture mission, but the drone is still stuck.

I had this problem flying an Osprey, a drone would get stuck when returning to dock. I had to target the drone ( Target key or use mouse) then right click the drone and select withdraw from combat and it would move away. Hope it works for you.

[Onearth]

Thank you for the replies.
With the second fighter, the drones(3) were manually destroyed and the Eclipse reappeared.

Very nice

[RodentofDoom]

I believe if you press Shift D, it has the option to bring it out of internal storage.

It does.

Thanks

[Socratatus]

I believe if you press Shift D, it has the option to bring it out of internal storage.

This is what I do. Although sometimes it don`t work (maybe cos docks are too busy). I hate teleporting so I wait.

Maybe it`s better now, but I have the game on hold.

[graphicboy]

I believe if you press Shift D, it has the option to bring it out of internal storage.

Tested and working!!! You make Something a bit confusing Something very cool on my Destroyer!!!

Thanks for the tip!!!!!

I stumbled into that feature by accident, while standing in the Trader's Corner (or whatever). Sirens, and a wall coming up out of the floor. Very, very nicely done.

[Vuffy]

Setting another fighter to dock didn’t work for me. What I ended up doing was right clicking the drone sitting on pad and sent to to be sold at a wharf. Immediately somehow that drone goes red and all my other drones launch and attack it. Smh

[Vyrebird]

The relevant tutorial ("Platform Tutorial", I think?) actually has you return to your ship via Shift-D. While it doesn't explicitly mention stored ships (as far as I recall), I think that's supposed to be the lesson teaching you how to "reliably" return to your ship (and thus, covering this stored-ship scenario).

[Sam L.R. Griffiths]

The relevant tutorial ("Platform Tutorial", I think?) actually has you return to your ship via Shift-D. While it doesn't explicitly mention stored ships (as far as I recall), I think that's supposed to be the lesson teaching you how to "reliably" return to your ship (and thus, covering this stored-ship scenario).

Unfortunately, there are cases where you can Shift-D all day and be unable to return to a given ship. The dock management in X4 v2.0 and prior is anything even close to perfect, and the drone AI in V2.0 is severely flawed.

[Miniding]

The relevant tutorial ("Platform Tutorial", I think?) actually has you return to your ship via Shift-D. While it doesn't explicitly mention stored ships (as far as I recall), I think that's supposed to be the lesson teaching you how to "reliably" return to your ship (and thus, covering this stored-ship scenario).

Unfortunately, there are cases where you can Shift-D all day and be unable to return to a given ship. The dock management in X4 v2.0 and prior is anything even close to perfect, and the drone AI in V2.0 is severely flawed.

I don't use drones anymore since 1.5 I think... I prefer having my wing ships, eclipse VG, on my destroyer and send them to attack if needed... what I don't do as I still get no reward for defending allied stations if I'm not at the command of the killing ship... but when I want to...

The MAJ+D works like a charm in my configuration... I would like to be able to do so when plotting my destroyer though...

[Sam L.R. Griffiths]

The relevant tutorial ("Platform Tutorial", I think?) actually has you return to your ship via Shift-D. While it doesn't explicitly mention stored ships (as far as I recall), I think that's supposed to be the lesson teaching you how to "reliably" return to your ship (and thus, covering this stored-ship scenario).

Unfortunately, there are cases where you can Shift-D all day and be unable to return to a given ship. The dock management in X4 v2.0 and prior is anything even close to perfect, and the drone AI in V2.0 is severely flawed.

I don't use drones anymore since 1.5 I think... I prefer having my wing ships, eclipse VG, on my destroyer and send them to attack if needed... what I don't do as I still get no reward for defending allied stations if I'm not at the command of the killing ship... but when I want to...

The MAJ+D works like a charm in my configuration... I would like to be able to do so when plotting my destroyer though...

IME Regardless of drones, the Shift-D will not remove a ship from a surface dock and if all docks are populated/active for some reason then you are a bit up the creek.

If you have internal launch tubes for the relevant ship size (e.g. S/M at some stations and S on some ships) then that will mitigate the issue somewhat but surface pad/dock management really needs work regardless.