Capture Raid control questions

[JAAAAAAWN CEEEEENA]

Hi,


I'm trying to capture a minor system and I've taken control of all 2 POIs in space (green icon). The last POI seems to be on the planetary surface because there is nothing in space and the red dots seem to be located on the surface. When I activate the warp drive, the only POI where the dots are is "obstracted" so I can't calibrate a flight path there. If I fly down manually the location is gone an i also clipped into a mountain and got ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ frustrated.
My drop ship troops are located somewhere else on the planet and don't move.

Frustrating as ♥♥♥♥...

[Noobelwerfer]

I feel your pain, I have only managed to capture 1 system so far. Everytime I try my fleet just stays put on the outskirts of the system! Today I had 110 enemy fighters at a Star Gate and none of my fleet there to help.

[CatSlave]

Make sure after you capture all the space stations etc you warp to a different sector then come back again. It will only show the loot option if you do not do that. I am not sure why but it has thrown me off a number of times. I also have never had to capture a planet, honestly kind of looking forward to that

[DeLindsay]

I'm not sure I understand the question, or your game is bugged. Are you trying to Conquer a Solar System? If so, it has nothing to do with Planets, only the Stargate, Escape Route(s), Beacon(s) and any Stations/Outposts you didn't conquer prior to taking the System (excluding Guild, Hub & Faction Stations).

I've completely taken 3 Sectors and now have 59 Solar Systems under my control. The highest number of (red circles) you will see under the "Toggle Raid Mode" after hitting "T" while in System is 6, and that's almost exclusively for the Hub Systems like Joker.

If by some chance the game placed a red circle over a Planet, then either that specific System is bugged or your game is. We're all experiencing all kinds of bugs, and not all the same ones except everyone has the Warp-crash bug.

[vanishing]

Originally posted by Noobelwerfer:

I feel your pain, I have only managed to capture 1 system so far. Everytime I try my fleet just stays put on the outskirts of the system! Today I had 110 enemy fighters at a Star Gate and none of my fleet there to help.

HI,
When you are in a capture situation, your fleet you allocate to the system you manually move, open the T menu while sitting in system, your ships will show as green fleet icons, click them then click to POI to send them there, rinse repeat till you have positioned them all at with the star gate, or escape route etc, they will then kill the enemy ships and the control timer will count down as you take the system, took me ages to figure it out but I now own a lot of space, same for raiding, you can move your fleets in the system using this approach to the civilian fleets.
Hope that helps!

[Andreas Spanakis]

Originally posted by JAAAAAAWN CEEEEENA:

Hi,


I'm trying to capture a minor system and I've taken control of all 2 POIs in space (green icon). The last POI seems to be on the planetary surface because there is nothing in space and the red dots seem to be located on the surface. When I activate the warp drive, the only POI where the dots are is "obstracted" so I can't calibrate a flight path there. If I fly down manually the location is gone an i also clipped into a mountain and got ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ frustrated.
My drop ship troops are located somewhere else on the planet and don't move.

Frustrating as ♥♥♥♥...

Known bug (or mis-behaviour of the poi jump sequence) with easy workaround.
You are at the problematic planet/poi and you see the red dots on the opposie side (and if you try to reach them you end up on planet surface).
Leave and go to jumpgate. DO NOT warp to planet POI directly. First jump to the middle POI (usually the escape route). Then jump to planet POI.

[JAAAAAAWN CEEEEENA]

Andreas nailed it.

[JAAAAAAWN CEEEEENA]

Follow up question:

I'm currently trying to capture a system that belongs to Seragon, there are no structures in it aside from a guild station. I can't select capture. Is ist because of the guild station and if so, how can I make take control of the system?

[DeLindsay]

You can't conquer Guild or Faction Stations. I've got control of all Seragon's Systems and after taking 75 Systems to date (3.5 Sectors), never seen one that didn't have the "Toggle Raid Mode" at the top. Granted I'm only taking on Independents so far, not Factions.

I'd say report it, just like with the bug you had in the OP.

[Noobelwerfer]

Originally posted by vanishing:

Originally posted by Noobelwerfer:

I feel your pain, I have only managed to capture 1 system so far. Everytime I try my fleet just stays put on the outskirts of the system! Today I had 110 enemy fighters at a Star Gate and none of my fleet there to help.

HI,
When you are in a capture situation, your fleet you allocate to the system you manually move, open the T menu while sitting in system, your ships will show as green fleet icons, click them then click to POI to send them there, rinse repeat till you have positioned them all at with the star gate, or escape route etc, they will then kill the enemy ships and the control timer will count down as you take the system, took me ages to figure it out but I now own a lot of space, same for raiding, you can move your fleets in the system using this approach to the civilian fleets.
Hope that helps!

Thanks for your advice, my game has just crashed after 45 mins of p[lay and me forgetting to save, so I'm a little annoyed at it right now but I will try this tonight.

[½-ŠmºkëÐ]

Originally posted by Noobelwerfer:

Thanks for your advice, my game has just crashed after 45 mins of p[lay and me forgetting to save, so I'm a little annoyed at it right now but I will try this tonight. [/quote]

F6 is the undocumented quicksave, otherwise known as warp insurance.

[JAAAAAAWN CEEEEENA]

Originally posted by DeLindsay:

You can't conquer Guild or Faction Stations. I've got control of all Seragon's Systems and after taking 75 Systems to date (3.5 Sectors), never seen one that didn't have the "Toggle Raid Mode" at the top. Granted I'm only taking on Independents so far, not Factions.

I'd say report it, just like with the bug you had in the OP.

I can toggle raid, but capture is greyed out.

[=EaSy= matou78]

Originally posted by Noobelwerfer:

I feel your pain, I have only managed to capture 1 system so far. Everytime I try my fleet just stays put on the outskirts of the system! Today I had 110 enemy fighters at a Star Gate and none of my fleet there to help.

you need to place your fleet by hand , click on 1 fleet then right click where you want them , same for the others, and you can move them in battle same way from the star map