I did a quick search of the forums and didn't see anything mention this so I felt I'd ask. I recently bought a D'Kyr (love it, by the way) and am in the process of fitting it with consoles when I decided to give the Tal'Kyr some love. Using Twin Beam Phasers (cause I love that old school look and sound) so I want fit both ship and shuttle with their own Phaser Relay consoles... or at least that's the plan. I bought two, put one on the ship but in putting the other on the shuttle it gets a boundary with a ship icon in the upper left. I surmise this is the symbol that means it's equipped on another ship but I'm not trying to fit the one on the D'Kyr. I've done near everything I can think of, from upgrading one of the phaser relays to playing with loadouts, the shuttle refuses to actually equip the console even with it removed from the ship. Is there something I'm missing, like some master list of shuttle-friendly consoles or something?
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Some of the shuttles DO have crew stations, but quite a few don't, so you can only put in the console for your class.
Crew stations are unrelated to consoles. What the problem is here is that it looks like shuttles have three console slots, when infact they only have one. It's a Universal console slot (a slot you can put any console into) but they implemented it wierd. Instead of showing just one slot and letting us put any console in it, we're given one of each slot but only allowed to use one at any given time.
The second console won't equip properly because there's another console already equipped. Remove that and you'll be able to slot the second console but you can still only have one equipped.
Check out the Type 8 Shuttlecraft at the ship store on Spacedock - it says 1 for consoles, and there's a symbol that means Universal.
There's no consistency. As I said, you may be seeing extra stations because one's a Universal or something - yet the game doesn't explain that. All you see is a wierd icon in the purchase screen and all those item slots in the shuttles inventory screen. The game simply won't come out and tell you why things refuse to equip properly.
When you go to equip the shuttle it looks like you can equip 1 Tactical and 1 Science and 1 Engineering console ie. 3, but in reality the choice is really 1 Tactical OR 1 Science OR 1 Engineering, and the interface does not tell us this. It makes sense those kind of slots may appear on other shuttles/ships too and if they're in tandem with regular slots that's doubly confusing.