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Just a brief tip on a minor headache I just figured out. With a healthier cashflow, I purchased several upgrades. The ship engineers installed the new hull and reactor without a problem.

With those installed, I spent some more time in trading runs, and providing some extremely minor assistance against a small attack on Gazer station in Sol/Pluto (the station itself had chewed almost everything to pieces by the time I got there--arrived in time to kill a now-stranded fighter).

Returned back to HQ for better prices, and purchased an engine upgrade. Launched, went to Logistix, Etc., and the upgrade button remained serenely, smugly, unlit.

Scratched my head, doublechecked the inventory. New engine, sitting there, sure enough. Looked through the manual again, brow furrowed. Hmm. Well, the engine's running, perhaps that's the problem--so I shut it down. Upgrade not lit. I drummed my fingers, eyeing the CE. He looked back, calm and silent as a Buddha in deep meditation. Didn't even blink when I waved my hand in front of his eyes. None of the rest of the bridge crew would look at me.

Finally, I remembered one difference between now, and the previous upgrades. I set the ship back on autopilot, escorting HQ. Crossed my fingers, and voila, upgrade button lit, and systems engineers happy to get to work.

I think that the CC not being in AI mode was what was stopping the upgrade from being available--I have to confirm it. (I wouldn't be terribly surprised if I read right past a sentence in the manual that says exactly that, of course.) If that's the case, hopefully this will unstick people with similar problems.

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Originally posted by Drastic:

I think that the CC not being in AI mode was what was stopping the upgrade from being available--I have to confirm it. (I wouldn't be terribly surprised if I read right past a sentence in the manual that says exactly that, of course.) If that's the case, hopefully this will unstick people with similar problems.


Nope. There is NO correlation between the ship's AP and the crew.

Maybe you didn't wait long enough for the CE to even notice (AI dependent) that you had the spare part.

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