How i do level up the skill "ship command"

[gkz015]

Hello,

can anyone tell me how to skill "ship command"? This is the only skill that is either bugged or I don't know how to skill it. I am supposed to take 2 crew members with me when conquering ships. But I can only take one crew member at a time. How do I take 2 with me?
Alternatively, I should have more than 2 crew members with me when destroying ships. I even have 4 on my ship. Nevertheless, nothing is counted when destroying ships.
The official description ist : " Destroy or board 5 ships with a crew of two or more."
What am I doing wrong?

[Prowl]

By conquering does it mean boarding? I haven't invested in the skill so I don't know for sure.

[Yhtill]

Buy a ship. It doesn't count ship kills with stolen ships or ones you've taken over. I had the same issue earlier today. Supposedly it works with the original ship, Mantis ship etc but I was going to buy one anyway. As soon as I did, the counter started going up (might have to unassign/reassign the crew).

[Prowl]

Originally posted by Yhtill:

Buy a ship. It doesn't count ship kills with stolen ships or ones you've taken over. I had the same issue earlier today. Supposedly it works with the original ship, Mantis ship etc but I was going to buy one anyway. As soon as I did, the counter started going up (might have to unassign/reassign the crew).

That sounds......expensive just to level a skill. I assume you have to purchase more and more each skill level?

[Yhtill]

No. Just the one buy. And I'd try the original Frontier or Mantis (or others you get with the story) which you get for free. As I said, I was already planning on buying a C class starter anyway.

Edit: It doesn't matter the level of the ships you kill. Just have the required number of crew on board when you do it.

[gkz015]

I have just found this reddit thread with different solutions: (Did not find the thread in the last days)


Is the ship command skill bugged?

Stolen ships do not work.
The original ship works or if you buy a ship.

[Jaggid Edje]

You don't need them "with you" you need them assigned to your ship that you are using when you do it.

I can confirm that it works with ships you earn from quests. I ranked it up to 4 while flying the (heavily modified) Prison Shuttle from the Crimson Fleet questline.

Just modify the frontier, or any other ship you have earned rather than captured, so that it has enough crew capacity to do all the skill challenges. It's super, super cheap to switch out just a cockpit or hab to increase the crew stations, and then you just need enough weapons as well so that the crew capacity is also high enough.

[Dark Thoughts]

Originally posted by Prowl:

Originally posted by Yhtill:

Buy a ship. It doesn't count ship kills with stolen ships or ones you've taken over. I had the same issue earlier today. Supposedly it works with the original ship, Mantis ship etc but I was going to buy one anyway. As soon as I did, the counter started going up (might have to unassign/reassign the crew).

That sounds......expensive just to level a skill. I assume you have to purchase more and more each skill level?

You get several ships for free, like the Frontier, Razorleaf, the one from the Freestar Rangers, the one from Stroud, optionally the one from your parents if you picked that trait, the shuttle from the Crimson Fleet quests, etc.

Are you telling me you sold all of them for some random boarded ship?

[Yhtill]

They didn't say anything about selling the free ships. You can't sell the Frontier in any case. The 'sounds expensive' was just an off the cuff comment, I think. Also it might be good to point out, money ceases to be much of an issue after a certain point not terribly far into the game.