Pilot Archive
Thread: Docking with neutral freighters and stealing their cargo??...Time to Step Up -Smoke-...help us out!
Envoy3113
Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:27 am
#27
/bump
I'm wondering the same, from computer hardware to trade supplys. These are not mission oriented freighters, just random spawns. I'm a privateer, after dock you transfer the cargo but it is nowhere to be found, not inventory, datapad etc.
No apparent way to trade it in either...has anyone tried a junk dealer?
Kungfujohnny
Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:02 pm
#29
Obeewana_Doobie wrote:
Maybe it's intended, after all, how is one supposed to take the inventory out of a freighters hold and stick it in a fighter?
I also tried it with the Sorosuub which is supposed to have a cargo hold of some sort and still nada.
/up
Tibli
Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:04 pm
#30
even if you did need a "cargo" ship. it wouldn't suprise me if you couldn't use your yacht for that. considering the damn thing is exempt from just about everything
LingusKhanII
Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:33 pm
#32
EuroTrash wrote:
Obeewana_Doobie wrote:Maybe it's intended, after all, how is one supposed to take the inventory out of a freighters hold and stick it in a fighter?
Y wing is 140000 (what Kg? thats 140 TONS). It has room for a crew of two and I am alone in it. I think I should be able to fit "some computer hardware"...? hehe
Actually...140000 would be 70000 tons.....if it were 140000KG, it would be the equivilent of 154000 tons.
LingusKhanII
Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:24 pm
#34
EuroTrash wrote:1 Ton = 1000 Kg ...
1 ton = 907kg (or 2000lbs)
1 Metric ton = 1000kg
Two different animals...but silly argument anyway given we are talking StarWars so realism is a mute point.
EuroTrash
Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:45 pm
#35
Not arguing just asking - had no idea there is a Ton unit in our (what ever is called - non metric) system...
You can tell I'm not from here 
Name gives it away.
Name gives it away.
Seshemw
Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:55 pm
#37
Kungfujohnny wrote:
atat9619 wrote:On the 1st Tier 2 mission i had to disable a ships engine,dock with him for cargo, but i didnt see the cargo so i went back to the Emporers Retreat and he said he retreived the cargo and i got completed mission.Basicly your probably messed up someones mission.When I tried this a couple times, the warning beep that occurs when you fire on a friendly ship or on someone else's mission, did not happen at all. I'm sure of this as it was a tier three freighter and took me a while to disable. I would have heard a beep in the time it took.There are random spawns in space, just like on the ground.So /bump again in the hopes we get an official response.
You only get a beep (or a lockout) on 'mission critical' targets. The ones with brackets around them for the mission holder.
You can indeed fire on, and kill, someone's mission target if it's not one of these locked ones. I did it repeatedly last night (by accident), because I was haunting a ship spawn not knowing it was someone's mission.
They showed up (they had a 'potential target location' waypoint). Were pretty sure what I was killing was their mission, but not positive. We talked, finally got that he was supposed to be looking for data transferred, I disabled the target, he inspected and docked, and got mission complete.
So. I was blowing up his target. It was a 'find the target, disable and dock' mission, so it wasn't a locked target.
That said, I don't remember ANY missions aimed at civilian freighters, so I doubt the cargos being found are the same thing at all.
But I did want to point out that missions aren't completely immune from interference.
Kungfujohnny
Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:39 am
#38
/bump as this is a better post for a dev to answer than some guy who can't contol his Y Wing
EuroTrash
Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:41 am
#39
I have your answer:
BORKED - like 75% of this game (travel, etc.)
BORKED - like 75% of this game (travel, etc.)