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stupid shuttle

rallilancerxrallilancerx Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited September 2013 in The Academy
i have two shuttles and all i can make it do is come out behind my ship and fly around, it wont attack and i cant figuare our how to pilot it, i can get on the bridge of it but that is it, i have a danabee and a yellowstone shuttle, how do i make them do something other than take up space...
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  • imperatorpaveliimperatorpaveli Member Posts: 346 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Go to your shuttle's bridge, and go to the ship selection screen. In the bottom left hand corner of the selection screen, set "active starship" to "shuttle". This will allow you to fly your shuttle.

    You can also discharge your Danube, because it's the same ship as the Yellowstone. The Yellowstone is really just an alternate C-Store Danube constume with a cool engine (the tet-plasma ones.)
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    It depends on what kind of shuttle you have.

    If it's a cosmetic shuttle pet, then it won't fight no matter what. If it's a hangar pet that you launch from a flight deck ship or a full carrier, then you have to issue commands to it. If it's a playable shuttle then follow imperatorpaveli's post.

    From the way you phrased your post, it sounds to me like you have a danube and a yellowstone playable shuttle, but are confusing them with a cosmetic pet that you're using. The bridge that you're going onto is not the bridge of the pet you are launching.

    What ship are you flying?
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  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    lan451 - I'm surprised you didn't advertise your very excellent shuttle thread here. I hope you don't mind: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=849771

    OP, I hope the link above helps some :)
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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    cmdrscarlet wrote: »
    lan451 - I'm surprised you didn't advertise your very excellent shuttle thread here. I hope you don't mind: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=849771

    OP, I hope the link above helps some :)

    Oh I don't mind at all! I'll always take some good publicity. ;)

    The only reason that I didn't link it is because my guide is targeted specifically at playable shuttles. From the way the OP phrased his post, it sounds like he's confusing his playable shuttle with a cosmetic pet. The Yellowstone shuttle comes with a cosmetic pet just for fun, so it sounds to me like the OP might think that he's launching his playable shuttle under the impression that it will fight along side him when it's really just a fun little pet that follows you around for show.

    I was just attempting to get a few more details out of him to see if that was indeed the problem. After that I might have linked him to my guide if he had more issues with his playable shuttle.

    It's all good though! The more help we get out to the new players, the better. :)
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  • key2007key2007 Member Posts: 30 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    rallilancerx wrote: »
    i have two shuttles and all i can make it do is come out behind my ship and fly around, it wont attack and i cant figuare our how to pilot it, i can get on the bridge of it but that is it, i have a danabee and a yellowstone shuttle, how do i make them do something other than take up space...

    how do you get a shuttle to fly around your ship? thats my quesion...
  • tlamstriketlamstrike Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    key2007 wrote: »
    how do you get a shuttle to fly around your ship? thats my quesion...

    He probably has the Pet in his inventory. Most of the shuttles in the game have a non-combat pet that comes with them.
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  • key2007key2007 Member Posts: 30 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    tlamstrike wrote: »
    He probably has the Pet in his inventory. Most of the shuttles in the game have a non-combat pet that comes with them.

    Well i bought a shuttle from ESD A wile back and i think it would look really cool to have it fly round my ship... can someone please explain in detail how this is done(asuming i have no idea what this "pet" thing is)
  • f9thaceshighf9thaceshigh Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    ok, well, all of the Zen purchasable shuttles come with a little device with a picture of a shuttle, which you can find in the shuttle's device slot (you can move it to your inventory, it actually won't work if you keep it on the shuttle). If you right click on the device and click use, it will summon a little tiny shuttle that will follow your ship out of combat, this is the shuttle pet they are referring to (it will not fight along side you in combat). These automatically come with all shuttles you can get in the C-Store, however they do not come with the Type-8 you get with the mission, the Danube you can get from the ship vendor, any lobi shuttles or the Captain's yacht vet reward. The type 8 pet can only be gotten from a special offer they had through the restaurant Del Taco prior to launch, and the other pets can be gotten from the Lobi Store.

    Hanger pets on the other hand, are shuttles that will fight in combat, but can only be used on ships with hangers.
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