Boarded Enemy Ships Automatically Attacked By Fleet

[Zathus]

I have successfully boarded, dismantled, and commandeered a Watchtower Battleship in the past. These were captured in various space battles. I pilot a heavily modified version of one of the captured battleships as my main vessel with a fleet of 5 other support ships. Of late I've encountered bugs trying to capture ships on the ground:

1) On those very rare occasions where I can sprint fast enough to reach a grounded Watchtower vessel, I cannot enter the ship, the message "Inaccessible" is displayed.

2) When I board to capture any other enemy ship on the ground it will take off as usual but then my fleet in space immediately opens fire on this ship, with me and my companion aboard, and destroys it.

These two issues are major bugs in my opinion as they disable several key games elements.

 

[Lostinwhere]

I have successfully boarded, dismantled, and commandeered a Watchtower Battleship in the past. These were captured in various space battles. I pilot a heavily modified version of one of the captured battleships as my main vessel with a fleet of 5 other support ships. Of late I've encountered bugs trying to capture ships on the ground:

1) On those very rare occasions where I can sprint fast enough to reach a grounded Watchtower vessel, I cannot enter the ship, the message "Inaccessible" is displayed.

2) When I board to capture any other enemy ship on the ground it will take off as usual but then my fleet in space immediately opens fire on this ship, with me and my companion aboard, and destroys it.

These two issues are major bugs in my opinion as they disable several key games elements.

Grounded Watchtower ships by design, are not intended to be boarded. In post by twolargepepperoni on June 25, 2025, https://forum.kinggathcreations.com/threads/cannot-salvage-ships.653/#post-3336, she stated:

"Hi there - I've actually just discussed this with the developers and can confirm that blocked access to landed ships is intentional. This is to prevent niche issues occuring, such as Watchtower ships taking off with the player on board before they've learned how to pilot them. It's possible we may be able to work around this handling in the future, but for now the intention is for landed ships to be inaccessible."

There are ways of boarding these landed Watchtower ships, but the mods developers don't want them boarded or captured. I do it all the time, but I simply loot what little is on the ship and then mark it for salvage. I've never had one take off into space and I've never intentionally lifted off in one.

Your other issue is something I've never had happen. One, I have no fleet following me. Two, the vast majority of the times that I capture a vanilla enemy ship on the ground, they do not take off with me a board. That usually only happens when I engage the landing party in a firefight while boarding, or if it's one of those ships that's scripted to dump it's landing party and immediately take off. So if you're getting shot at by your own fleet in one of your newly captured enemy ships, that might be a bug, or you might not have gotten to the cockpit in time to gain ownership of the ship.