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How do I get my shuttle off my UI and Repair STF inflicted Damage more quickly?

sonulinu2sonulinu2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
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?
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    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!

    :rolleyes:
  • sonulinu2sonulinu2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    So there's no know fix and we have to wait for the devs to um, correct this? Is it on their list or is this one of those working as intended bugs?
  • tc10btc10b Member Posts: 1,549 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    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.
  • luxchristianluxchristian Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Rename your shuttle. The ships in UI are ordered by alphabetic order :-)
  • skydawnknightskydawnknight Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    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.
  • deianirrahdeianirrah Member Posts: 236 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    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.

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  • hereticknight085hereticknight085 Member Posts: 3,783 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    There is a reason I call my Runabout the annoying ****tle. Same goes for my Toron.
    It is said the best weapon is one that is never fired. I disagree. The best weapon is one you only have to fire... once. B)
  • sonulinu2sonulinu2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    tc10b wrote: »
    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.
  • foundrelicfoundrelic Member Posts: 1,380 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Rename your shuttle. The ships in UI are ordered by alphabetic order :-)


    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.
  • tc10btc10b Member Posts: 1,549 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    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.
  • synkr0nizedsynkr0nized Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    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.
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