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Hudson

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  1. I still remember the time my bud crashed his CC into an ocean on some planet and the systems were so damaged he couldn't get her to take off again. He ended up hitting the Alt-E key and found himself swimming. Next thing I know I get this phone call and he's yelling at me saying "Maaaan, I'm swimming in the water and my CC keeps floating away from me faster and faster, I can't catch it!!!" Eventually the poor heavy carrier sank and all that was left was the poor commander swimming alone in the middle of the ocean... (from that point you can cut nicely into the beginning of Castaway)
  2. I eventually figured that out SC, but at the time when I didn't it was amusing.
  3. Can I ask one more question Epsilon? How do I locate the drones myself when I'm flying the shuttle?
  4. That bit about you hopping out of your ship on the planet and it suddenly taking off just made me laugh cause it reminded me of one time I was deep in space and my Aestrom was badly damaged and I couldn't jump back to the star base to get repair parts (i seem to have bad luck with my cargo bays always getting blown and I also didn't know about towing my CC with a SC) and not really knowing what i was thinking I hit Alt-E for who know's what reason and I'm sitting there in space looking at my CC and it suddenly turned around and started limping off the other way. Cried as I might, they wouldn't turn around for me. Something tells me the crew had a problem with me changing the rules in which they had to start paying for all their meals. Sometimes that extra money just isn't worth it, or at least it isn't when the chance of you floating alone in space exists. Welcome to the game, btw. Hudson
  5. Ahhh!! that got it, when i left my ship, due to it being severely damaged in a recent fight it seems that I ran out of Radium (i think) and my reactor shut down so I couldn't re-dock with the ship. It was my own fault actually cause I was trying to cut corners at the Tradecom and squeeze as much money out of the resources that i DID have in order to get stuff that I didn't. Lost one of my cargo bays in the fight and all my spare parts just burned up in re-entry of the planets atmosphere. Thanks for the help, got me looking in the right place. I love the complexity of this game.
  6. I was in a battle and severely damaged and my bridge viewer is down to 4% and all my bridge windows report malfunction and i can't see anything. I've got 4 mining drones down on the planet surface ready to be picked up. I know how to get them by setting waypoints using the tacops view and all, but I can't access it due to the damage (880k for a new unit, plus my workers want overtime pay) and I don't know how to do it otherwise. I went through the manual shuttle control menus and I cannot locate a function that seems to relate with picking up a mining drone. Can I do this any other way or am I screwed? This game I just started is less than a day old, but I like trying to recover from difficult situations and I wanna try to pull this off. Any help would be appreciated. Hudson
  7. I tried issuing it but the shuttle just sits dead in space.
  8. Hello, time for another question. I was in a bad fight and my CC (Firestorm) has been almost totally crippled. I sent my AE to the shuttle craft and I was going to make some parts runs to the nearest station. I set my ship to halt mode and left it in A/P so it wouldn't go anywhere, I left in the SC and verified my ship was there and after launching I realized I didn't load up any cargo that I can trade with to buy my parts (broke otherwise). I turned around and I targeted my CC in Tacscan and I hit alt-D to dock and nothing happens. I verified in the tutorial file this was the process to run and now I'm confused why I can't get back onboard my ship. I even exited the shuttle and spacewalked over to my CC and still couldn't board it there either. What course of action do I need to take in order to get my AE back on the bridge of my ship? Hudson
  9. Here is a side question regarding the non-transferrable cargo. I know they're assigned to Cargo-1, Cargo-2, etc..., but is it possible to transfer them to a shuttle craft so in essence you're still storing them just not in the assigned cargo bay?
  10. Thanks, I've looked through that file frequently for the ship and fighter stuff but I didn't realize all that info about the crews was there as well. Hudson
  11. Ok cool, thanks. Can I ask a second sorta related question? It's about my flight officer. I read in the manual that after fighters dock that either I need to manually assign flight engineers to the craft to repair/ready it for flight again or else if I don't that the Flight Officer with automatically assign engineers for me. I docked 4 fighters and left them alone for an hour and after that hour the FO still had not assigned engineers to them to get them ready again. The entire time he was "On Station" but nothing ever happened. Is there something else I need to do to get him doing his job? Btw, great game SC, the only thing that came/comes close to this game (IMO) was Privateer by Origin back in the days, but obviously this is so much grander and deeper than that game. Thx!
  12. Hey guys, I'm semi new to this game and I just recently noticed something about the Super Carrier Aestrom (the one I'm commanding). In the html appendix it states that the Aestrom has 4x L-Fighter, 2x Infiltrator, 2x Mantis, and 2x Interdictor. That's 10 fighters and when I'm in the main bridge view or in the Tac computer under launch I only have 8 fighters listed. I don't see any way to access the 2 Interdictor fighters that I supposedly have. I even went so far as to get one of my figheters destroyed to see if it would auto populate and fill in for the destroyed fighter but to no avail. I checked through the manual and tutorial and I didn't see anything about that, of course I may have just overlooked something. Is this a typo or how do I get access to those other 2 fighters? Hudson
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