Any way to get the pilot back out?

[Galadhlinn]

So the pilot boarded before I could get to him. I'm preventing him from taking off. Anyone have a trick to coax him back out? 8-)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2799792952
Pretty awesome ship/stats!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2799793531
I should add that this is time sensitive. : /

[tinybike]

Reload your save? Unless you've been on that platform for a really long time and created irreplaceable works while you're there

[Galadhlinn]

Reload and the ship will be gone. Odds of another S-class of this ship with these high stats, well I may not live long enough. : P

[tinybike]

Oh, are the ships that show up not deterministic? I assumed it would use the same random seed if you reloaded, but maybe that's not true

[Galadhlinn]

Originally posted by Galadhlinn:

No in fact if you find a ship you want and want to speed up the process of an S-class version coming in, you keep reloading which increases your chances. I'm in a 3 star economy system, so there is a 2% chance of an S-class. So with watching 100 of this model ship fly in (statistically) 2 of them will be S-class. But this S-class has extremely high base stats, so it is especially rare. I would venture that it is the absolute highest version of this ship (out of the box) that you can get. So pretty rare.

[tinybike]

Welp so much for that plan 😭

[John Titor]

Get in your ship, follow them, and hope they land again.

[Galadhlinn]

Too funny. I was searching online for a possible solution and found this post which perfectly sums up my situation, though I didn't have any hours invested yet. I parked at a trade station and went outside to pull the laundry and came back in and saw the ship land while folding. I ran as fast as I could : P

"After days of sitting at a trade post in a crappy economy because it had the perfect colored exotic ship, the ship I was waiting for finally landed. Unfortunately it landed in the 10sec frame I was distracted and I arrived to it seconds late, and the pilot returned to the ship. Im now standing on top of it preventing it from leaving hoping there is some work around, exploit, glitch, method, anything to get him out before I have to waste another multiple days for it to come back"

[Galadhlinn]

Originally posted by John Titor:

Get in your ship, follow them, and hope they land again.

Interesting! Have you ever followed a ship and seen them land before? I have followed a few for awhile out of curiosity, but always dropped away as it seemed pointless.

[John Titor]

Originally posted by Galadhlinn:

Originally posted by John Titor:

Get in your ship, follow them, and hope they land again.

Interesting! Have you ever followed a ship and seen them land before? I have followed a few for awhile out of curiosity, but always dropped away as it seemed pointless.

I have, but that was many updates ago. Had a group of ships lead me to a trade center. It's not a great suggestion, but it's all I got.

[Galadhlinn]

Originally posted by John Titor:

Originally posted by Galadhlinn:

Interesting! Have you ever followed a ship and seen them land before? I have followed a few for awhile out of curiosity, but always dropped away as it seemed pointless.

I have, but that was many updates ago. Had a group of ships lead me to a trade center. It's not a great suggestion, but it's all I got.

Well I lost the ship, but it was interesting and actually fun. So my ship was up on the hill overlooking the trade station. So I walked to the nose of the ship I was holding and clicked on the landing pad summoning terminal. I thought it might summon my ship on top of me but it didn't and put it on the pad next to me. I jumped in my ship and the ship I wanted was off before I was even in my ship so I took off and followed. He didn't stay on the planet but took right off for space. It seemed he was heading for the space station, so I was really excited. The problem was that this planet was the farthest planet from the space station, and he was not warping, not even pulsing. The station showed to be 24 minutes away at our average cruising speed.

Every time we went into an asteroid field he would wander and loop around sometimes looking like he was gonna return to the planet but every time, he get back on course headed towards the SS. It was fascinating because normally, these ships despawn when they are far enough away from the player. I think my staying with him kept him from despawning.

Then I get scanned by hostile ships. I was like crap! I'm gonna lose him, but he engaged in the fight. I shot down one ship, and while I didn't actually see it, it looked like he was attacking the other ship and then I got the message that all ships were defeated. That right there is amazing. In all my hours in this game I have never seen an npc ship actually kill another ship. Now I'm truly caught up in this. I have to see what happens.

Next I get a message that a freighter is in trouble and needs help. OK freighter rescue missions can start while you are already in the system, but they are rare. I'm like omg! Well I was briefly stalked/attacked but this time the ship didn't partake and kept heading to the SS, so I followed leaving the freighter rescue behind.

Now about three times while in an asteroid field this ship just disappeared right in front of me, but each time reappeared a few seconds later.

Finally, sadly, on the fourth disappearance he did not reappear. I flew to the space station and waited, but no luck. I reloaded a few times, but no luck. : (

Still an amazing little adventure!

[John Titor]

Sucks you lost him, but sounds like an exciting little episode! I'm jealous. I'm going to follow ships more often.