[Feature Request] Ship Capture Mode

[Geldric]

I was building out my fleet of Crimson Fleet Phantoms and had a "destroy" mission, which my fleet did in like 3 seconds However, I wanted to disable and board this ship... so I had to go and Unassign Crew to all three of my fleet ships.

Unless I've missed it, there seems to be no way to set my fleet to allow me to capture (board) a ship. I tried setting Behavior to Defensive but that didn't change anything... that I noticed.

Spoiler: Gren Spoiler

Gren mentioned something about capturing Watchtower ships & he would scrap them. I never got around to this on my 1st run through of the MOD.

I started a new save just for this mod and having a ball! Although, fighting level 38 Watchtower goons when I'm level 20 was a bit of a challenge but the "Regrets" mod offered me some really good starting gear.

Oh and here's a screenshot of one of my Phantoms. Once fully built each one will have 8 Skydrop locations and still have 100 maneuverability.

 

[DathLascivi0us]

I loaded my fleet ships with 1 set of laser weapons and everything else EMs. Shuts the enemies down and you can pick off all but the one you want to board.

 

[Geldric]

I loaded my fleet ships with 1 set of laser weapons and everything else EMs. Shuts the enemies down and you can pick off all but the one you want to board.

DOH! That is excellent and very helpful - thank you

I just dropped a bunch of $$ on switching over my fleet to "B" reactors and weapons. It will take me a bit to work up the credits but I'm stoked to give this a try. Thanks again

UPDATE: This worked GREAT, thanks again. I was finally able to get my 30 ship kills for Piloting "C" class.

 

[Arvyn]

Something like a "mode" or other means for different intents/scenarios would be still be nice. I didn't bother trying to hijack ships with my fleet around because I know I won't have the time window to disable and board them.

 

[Geldric]

This play thru by Kinggath has lots of great information... twice now it has answered some questions I was going to post about.

Back on topic - under Settings -> Game Options there is this (my second DOH!)

Edit: If you view the star map (if you are seated in your ship in space, get up first) you can use the F1 key to show the actual linked (2nd screenshot)