Have weapon station, can't hire armourer

[Ook]

I have a weapon station. The quest says to hire an armourer. I found one, but the option to hire him is greyed out. I went to another station and found antother armourer, and again, the option to hire him is greyed out. My only choice is to Decline the offer. How do you hire an armourer, how do you get this to work?

[japp_02]

Check your mission tree, there are other things you need to conclude first, speak with other base specialists, if the hire armorer is greyed-out it's for a reason. And remember where this guy is, you can return later to hire him.

[Ook]

The Gek Overseer tells me to build a weapons terminal and recruit a Vy'keen armourer. The Weapons terminal has been built, and it tells me "You can recruit Armourers in Space Stations...". I go to my teleport terminal and look at available space stations. One of them says "Potential Armourer Recruit". I go there. I find the Vy'keen armourer, and sure enough, "Hire the Technician" is greyed out. I've been here before, I've done this before. This should work, I can't think of anything else that needs to be done that is stopping me from hiring him.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by Ook:

The Gek Overseer tells me to build a weapons terminal and recruit a Vy'keen armourer. The Weapons terminal has been built, and it tells me "You can recruit Armourers in Space Stations...". I go to my teleport terminal and look at available space stations. One of them says "Potential Armourer Recruit". I go there. I find the Vy'keen armourer, and sure enough, "Hire the Technician" is greyed out. I've been here before, I've done this before. This should work, I can't think of anything else that needs to be done that is stopping me from hiring him.

If you have done the quests before why are you doing them again? You know they are not necessary, correct?

[Ook]

So apparently just because one of them asks to be your armourer doesn't mean the game will let you hire them. I had to find another one asking to be my armourer, and I was able to hire him. Go figure.

[Ook]

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

If you have done the quests before why are you doing them again? You know they are not necessary, correct?

Different game....I restarted a while back and am playing through again. Besides, the quest would not be there if I could not complete it.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by Ook:

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

If you have done the quests before why are you doing them again? You know they are not necessary, correct?

Different game....I restarted a while back and am playing through again. Besides, the quest would not be there if I could not complete it.

I understand you started a different game, I am mostly asking why you would waste your time doing those quests again.

[Krash Megiddo]

I had this problem as well. I walked around talking to numerous Vykeen NPCs in the station to raise my standing with Vykeen. At some level the guy walked up to me and wanted to be hired.

[Lindy Bomber]

Try this.

With the mission active go to the galaxy map and see if there is a current mission route. It may want you to hire a particular npc.

Just a guess.

[Ook]

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Originally posted by Ook:

Different game....I restarted a while back and am playing through again. Besides, the quest would not be there if I could not complete it.

I understand you started a different game, I am mostly asking why you would waste your time doing those quests again.

Ok, I understand what you are asking. I guess because I like doing them, and with a new game you need to do it again to get the various terminals and a workers. I have restarted several times as I learned what I was doing just to see if I could play through the early stages of the game differently. With one playthrough I jumped to 20 different systems as fast as i could. Another time I stayed home most of them and maybe hit 8 different systems. Eventually I was satisfied with how I was going through early game stages that I moved on to mid game stage tasks and projects. It's just how I like to play games. I just now decided to take possession of a freighter to see what I can do with it.

[Caramirdan]

Originally posted by Ook:

... I find the Vy'keen armourer, and sure enough, "Hire the Technician" is greyed out ....

Is it possibly the Exocraft Technician you've found instead of the Armourer?

[Ook]

Originally posted by Caramirdan:

Is it possibly the Exocraft Technician you've found instead of the Armourer?

That actually makes sense. You can always get the "please hire me" response from them even if you are not ready to hire them. I just assumed it was the armourer....

[Captain Cosmo]

Originally posted by Ook:

Originally posted by Caramirdan:

Is it possibly the Exocraft Technician you've found instead of the Armourer?

That actually makes sense. You can always get the "please hire me" response from them even if you are not ready to hire them. I just assumed it was the armourer....

They look and sound a lot alike, but I always know the difference. The Exo Tech is often in the bar and wants asylum and a Korvax Priest for some reason, and that never gets expanded on in the story. I have sometimes found the armourer in the bar, but most of the time he's just being some random out in the docking bay lobby. I run into the damn Gek farmer at like every station so much that I've changed his look as much as Polo changes his!

Long story short, the exocraft technician is a denouncer of Hirk / follower of Nal and his people really hate that, even though ATLAS spoke to Nal and not Hirk... not because Hirk was unworthy, but because Nal cried out six times to get its attention, because apparently ATLAS is glitched and its Creator didn't have the time, inclination, or knowledge of how to correct that. Anyway, the armourer follows Hirk and doesn't need asylum, I guess because he's not a blasphemer? He's just old and wants to do something useful in his old age.