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okay, this crazy. i'm rushing home during lunch to see if my post has pissed you off. the worst part is i left my crew working and if you think resnik is bad you should see my guys. i have come out of hyperspace into the centris system towing the shuttle that is towing the cap ship. i'm in vtol with zero speed. i wait for the jump engines to recharge. i then target the orion. i go shift-9 and get the jump profile confirmation. i get h/s reading next to the svi, but then nothing; no jump. at this point i can't get back to vtol or break the tractor lock. from your last post i now think i am stuck in hyperspace, but i don't know why. i'm going to restart the tutorial[i need the repetition anyway] and see if i just picked up a corrupted save or something. it can't be me, it must be marine #1 in the shuttle cocking around. maybe i'll blow his ass up. since i'm restarting the tutorial i'll get my shuttle back anyway.

okay, i understand the speed issue while towing. but i still am stuck in h/s and not able to break my tractor beam hold on the shuttle. in fact i can raise my shields at this point and not lose my tractor hold on the shuttle. just restart the tutorial?

i understand what you're saying.i am certain that the h/s engines were fully recharged and that i was far enough away from the target to hyper jump.[i am a noob but i did check that]. when this happened i was never able to get back vtol or break my tractor lock on the shuttle. i thought maybe i stopped too fast coming out of hyper jump and the shuttle went up the cc's tailpipe. or maybe i have a corrupt save. i'll start again.

so now i seem to have an interesting problem. i am towing the shuttle which is towing the disabled craft following the tutorial. what has happened to me twice is that i appear to get locked up command wise. the first time i was in nevuela trying to hyper jump to the centris jump point. i got the compute profile message and then nothing happened. it showed hyperdrive but then i kept getting "can not compute jump profile" message. at this point i couldn't disengage the tractor beam and i could fly no faster than 50. i reloaded. this time i jumped to the centris jump point. told sc1 to tow the ship to me. sc1 gets to me and i tractor it. then i fly thru the jump point to centris. all three of us arrive and now when i try to jump to the orion i am stuck again. can't compute jump profile, can't break tractor lock on shuttle. any ideas?

i am loving the tutorial. i am back at uc with a vengeance. i posted a long post over at gone gold, but i just wanted to thank you again for the tutorial. it has just made the game[and manual] so much more accessible to me in the amount of time i can spend with it.