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Ok a few times now ive noticed NPC ships show up out of nowhere and its left me completely baffled as to why. I dont appear to have and abilities to summon help and its not part of the missions or what ever i happen to be doing at the time.

Anyone got any ideas as to why?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Jeopardy wrote: »
    Ok a few times now ive noticed NPC ships show up out of nowhere and its left me completely baffled as to why. I dont appear to have and abilities to summon help and its not part of the missions or what ever i happen to be doing at the time.

    Anyone got any ideas as to why?

    How do you know its not part of the mission?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Jeopardy wrote: »
    Ok a few times now ive noticed NPC ships show up out of nowhere and its left me completely baffled as to why. I dont appear to have and abilities to summon help and its not part of the missions or what ever i happen to be doing at the time.

    Anyone got any ideas as to why?

    That's odd. I don't think I've noticed that, unless it was part of the quest ("Hold them off till help arrives."). Weird.

    You don't happen to remember where you were or what you were doing when this happened to you, do you?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Certain missions will send in allied ships from time to time, there is also an ability to create a holographic fleet.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Kassidus wrote: »
    How do you know its not part of the mission?

    I know its not part of the mission because ive had it happen in Deep Space Encounters and PVP too.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    You ever notice that if yer one on one with em, they Full Impulse out of the fight even though they cant be out of combat so they wont take damage from your warp core breach?
    I hate that
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Certain missions will send in allied ships from time to time, there is also an ability to create a holographic fleet.

    Your talking about Photonic Fleet i presume? Well i dont have that (though id like it, just not sure how to get it) But like i said, i dont appear to have any abilities that would cause this.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I am talking about Photonic fleet, since your talking about PvP and DSE chances are its other players using it. Although to be honest I have yet to see it in action myself.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Admiral 3 gains a passive ability called Fleet Support, which has a low chance to summon additional ships to assist you in combat.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I am talking about Photonic fleet, since your talking about PvP and DSE chances are its other players using it. Although to be honest I have yet to see it in action myself.

    Its a fair call and i have thought the same thing, but usually with the photonic fleet the ships are named "Photonic (what ever class of ship it is)" and they just appear in space because obviously they are being projected. But whats going on for me is that the ships warp in to assist. Plus they arnt named Photonic whatever, they are named as youd expect NPC ships to be named, as an example this last time (and the reason that ive made this thread) it was named, and was of course, Vanguard Class Battleship.

    Are you guys seriously telling me no one else has noticed this happen to them or something?? Its happened a few times to me now.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Admiral 3 gains a passive ability called Fleet Support, which has a low chance to summon additional ships to assist you in combat.

    Ahhhh thats it, thanks for the info. Im supprised i havent seen that writen down anywhere. At least that answers it though.

    Thanks again
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Admiral 3 gains a passive ability called Fleet Support, which has a low chance to summon additional ships to assist you in combat.

    That's gotta be it, because it happened to me about an hour ago in a B'Tran Cluster mission. I saw the Typhoon-class come out of nowhere and help me out and I was like "WTF!"
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    That's gotta be it, because it happened to me about an hour ago in a B'Tran Cluster mission. I saw the Typhoon-class come out of nowhere and help me out and I was like "WTF!"

    haha Yeah i know what you mean. Oh well, off to go make a new thread, after all this i want to find out how to get photonic fleet heh
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Just a note that it can only happen if your hull drops below 50%.
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