recall subordinates

[darkrajin]

So my ship is stuck in recall subordinates, Not even sure what it's trying to recall. But yeah. I can't order it to do anything else. I assume one of the drones left behind while escaping some large xenon ships is the cause. Any fixes without needing to go look for a long gone drone?

[HoloByteus]

What's happened to you is you have cargo drones set on Collect All or one of the other collects. You're drone deployed probably near your last kill or wherever you were that had a drop nearby. Your ship is trying to retrieve the drone. See if you can find it or fly the ship yourself to a Shipyard/Warf and try dumping all the drones. I was able to find mine.. it was busy trying to find me across multiple sectors...lol.

Disarm your cargo drones to prevent this from happening again.

[Wraith]

The best choice is to change your cargo drone assignment to not collect everything.

[Papasaurus Rex]

Początkowo opublikowane przez blackice85:

Yeah selling it is probably the only fix, I'm sure it'll get addressed eventually. I think a simple solution would be a time-out mechanism, basically if the drones can't be recalled in X-seconds/minutes it should abandon them, rather than tying up the ship forever. That kind of fail-safe would make a lot of bugs more tolerable, it's like there's no error handling for when things go South.

Does anyone recall offhand if you can sell the ship straight out for the full value, or do you still need to strip it of components so you don't lose credits?

Not so sure some sort of version of that doesn't already exist. I have witnessed my miner leave drones behind and move a long distance to work elsewhere or to sell its full load.
Maybe it is just bugged or incomplete

[Wraith]

I never saw my miner leave behind their drones.
Only time drones get left behind is when I'm on the wheel and I leave my cargo drone when they decide to go out to grab loot.

[Papasaurus Rex]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Wraith:

I never saw my miner leave behind their drones.
Only time drones get left behind is when I'm on the wheel and I leave my cargo drone when they decide to go out to grab loot.

I never looked to see it before, only happened to notice one day as I was in same system doing something else.

[Ronchi]

If you don't want to sell your ship, fly to a dock manually, sell your drones, cancel the recall order, then buy them back.

[eMYNOCK]

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, but i think the issue has been resolved since 21.April.

[mad-rooky]

Początkowo opublikowane przez eMYNOCK:

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, but i think the issue has been resolved since 21.April.

Nope, playing 3.3, started that safe in this version. Bug still exist and is annoying af. Already sold the drones, but the ship goes to recall order again after a while. Sometimes you can remove the order oos, but most of the time it just reappears the same second. And i really don't want to sell my ship (rattlesnake), its fully crewed and equipped. I know i can send them on a new ship, but what a pain in the...
Btw, it suddenly has a crown, like it had wingmen, but the only wingmen was disconnected and then sold. And i'm 100% about that because it happend before and i had to load an old safe.

[eMYNOCK]

there are only two possibilities for that... eithers its a stray cargo drone or a stray defence drone.

if it is your personal ship it is best to not equip cargo or defence drones at all... a destroyer don't needs any of those.

i am unsure if the problem is savegame presistent... but i know that it can take ages for a stray cargo drone to return to its ship.. especially when said drone went loose some systems away.

if it was a combat drone however i would just select that damn thing and let it commit suicide on a xenon station.

[mad-rooky]

Meanwhile its working again. The strange thing is on this ship i can "rename fleet" despite not having subs. So my best guess is its not because drones. I actually let the ship idle around a while and a stray cargo drone was approaching the ship after a while, but this had no effect. I still can "rename fleet" but the ship is working and not waiting for subs anymore.

[eMYNOCK]

it can only be a stray defence drones that can possible cause this... cargo drones do not assign them self as subordinates.

other possibility... a Crew Transfer Pod.. have you recently transfered Crews to or from that Ship remotely?

[mad-rooky]

Mhh not recently, i use another ship for boarding. This Rattlesnake is only for attack. And im not sure if this is by a mod, recently crew transfer between ships happens instantly. A short while ago it was very painfull to transfer larger numbers between ships. Right now there are not even pods visible. I have a mod installed that actually should help get drones back on board maybe it even helps with crew pods but this is not really a feature of this mod^^

[-Norbert-]

I just had this problem again in the new Cradle of Humanity with hotfix 2.
It happened because I manually piloted my ship through a gate while my cargo drones were still out.
Once I got into a save sector and turned command over to the pilot, he got stuck "recalling subordinates".
Deleting the order while the AI pilot was in charge would just have it pop back in.

But taking personal command of the ship, deleting the recall order while in charge and then handing it back to the AI pilot solved the issue for me. Now my carrier is happily motoring on to where I sent it.

[Bambelbar]

Brand new game, latest update. Still happening.

[Bambelbar]

As this is still a problem for the current version of the game, you may want to know that this is fixable:

Find the missing cargo drones. They are travelling from an unknown sector at 58m/s to their mothership. When you find them, destroy them. They are likely listed under the ship's subordinates in the crew panel. Do not use drones to automatically collect items until this is actually fixed.

If you "sold" the drone to a shipyard, it does not matter--they are still trying to return to their mothership. It does not matter if you replaced them with repair drones in the in your bay. These cargo drones still think they are part of the ship and forcing your captain to create the "recall subordinates" order.

Chances are that your ship has been able to move from one point to another and is now stuck in a new point. This might be an indication that the cargo drones met up with their mothership and are now trying to follow it to the latest destination. So, your best bet is to retrace your steps with a scout and locate them.

Have fun.