So I went to the shipyard, saw I could have my captain's yacht and my 'escort both showing up on my UI. Was told this will facilitate entering into missions that require either the small or large ships without my having to go to a shipyard and manually change back and forth. Sounds great, so I did it. Boy do I regret it.
Every time i'm in an STF and get hurt, i do what we always do to repair and get back into the fight. I hit 'U' but behold! instead of my scort my shuttle shows up, and of course it's not damaged because it wasnt in the fight. So I have to click on my scort, click repair damage, and guess what? My Shuttle shows up again! And of course, as I said before, it doesnt have any fricken damage on it so why does it show up on this screen?
I then have to manually pick my scort from a drop down menu, repair the damage, which takes too many steps in the first place (but thats another story) and by then my CD already ended and ive wasted precious seconds of Borg pounding time.
Every single time my main ship gets injured i have to go through this tedious and ridiculous process. Is this a known issue and when will it get fixed. Or am I doing something stupid on my part and there is an easy fix?
Agreed. The game seems to think your shuttle is the main ship, but you're still flying your ship. People want to know what kind of ship you're flying, they check your info, and they see your shuttle instead. Want to repair? Shuttle comes up first. Leave "Set Shuttle" option selected at the ship selector and beam back to your ship, guess what? YOU GET BEAMED TO YOUR SHUTTLE.
You know what, TRIBBLE MY SHUTTLE! *decompresses shuttle bay* SO LOOONG!
According to the latest ask Cryptic blog, they are looking to change the mechanism for repairs entirely so don't hold out for a fix on it.
If you dismiss your shuttle and reclaim it but don't "ready it" it somewhat solves this problem particularly if you don't often do the material requiring a shuttle.
Rename your shuttle. The ships in UI are ordered by alphabetic order :-)
I'm not sure if that works. My ship name starts with a "C". My shuttle name starts with an "S". When I check my info, my shuttle still shows up instead of my ship.
Same here, and I actively renamed the shuttle to start with a letter further down the alphabet. I still get the shuttle first when calling up the damage screen.
According to the latest ask Cryptic blog, they are looking to change the mechanism for repairs entirely so don't hold out for a fix on it.
If you dismiss your shuttle and reclaim it but don't "ready it" it somewhat solves this problem particularly if you don't often do the material requiring a shuttle.
Can I dismiss my captain's yacht and reclaim it for free? I don't want to run the risk of having to buy it again or use up a shuttle token. Not that I use it often, but why lose a ship due to the game's bug. I have this problem on 2 of my 4 VAs. Ya, took me 2x to learn my lesson.
I'm not sure about the Captains Yacht. I thought it was a free claim for being a 400 day veteran and so once it's unlocked it's unlocked I would have thought, like most account bound C-Store Ships.
The amazingly convenient swap feature has so far only been useful for Voldermort ship bugs.
In a similar vein, when will they fix the injured boffs? I miss being able to click the Injured button and heal the injured boff and not scroll through my now long list of Boffs.
Any word on this changing?
NPCs seem to also defer to my runabout at times, and it's showing in bio as my current ship despite having a starship selected.
Comments
You know what, TRIBBLE MY SHUTTLE! *decompresses shuttle bay* SO LOOONG!
:rolleyes:
If you dismiss your shuttle and reclaim it but don't "ready it" it somewhat solves this problem particularly if you don't often do the material requiring a shuttle.
I'm not sure if that works. My ship name starts with a "C". My shuttle name starts with an "S". When I check my info, my shuttle still shows up instead of my ship.
by @Skydawn - member of Starbase UGC
Taskforce 47 Falkenwacht (Federation) / Greifenreiter (KDF)
(at) deianirrah
Free Gear and where to get it
Can I dismiss my captain's yacht and reclaim it for free? I don't want to run the risk of having to buy it again or use up a shuttle token. Not that I use it often, but why lose a ship due to the game's bug. I have this problem on 2 of my 4 VAs. Ya, took me 2x to learn my lesson.
No they're not.
My SHIP name starts with an A.
SHUTTLE name starts with an S.
Try again.
I too would like to just ditch my shuttle all together, I've used this "amazingly convienent swap feature" all of once, and the mission failed anyway.
The amazingly convenient swap feature has so far only been useful for Voldermort ship bugs.
In a similar vein, when will they fix the injured boffs? I miss being able to click the Injured button and heal the injured boff and not scroll through my now long list of Boffs.
NPCs seem to also defer to my runabout at times, and it's showing in bio as my current ship despite having a starship selected.
equal parts cynical and helpful