escort mission ship not going faster than 50 m/s

[Crustacean]

i am new to the game and confuses on how many things work. I took a mission where i escort a ship to a docking station. that ship is going so slow and at its speed it will take an hour or more to arrive? am i supposed to sit there with it for an hour? why isnt it going a normal speed?

[Wenzilber]

Is this a trade ship that you need to escort out of the sector that Boso Ta instructed you as part of unlocking your Player HQ?

I've had that happen to me once. Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix it. I just went to make dinner and coffee while I wait for it to crawl to the jump gate.

If you really want, try restarting the mission by loading a save game right before you started the mission. It might "fix it".

[Crustacean]

Originally posted by Wenzilber:

Is this a trade ship that you need to escort out of the sector that Boso Ta instructed you as part of unlocking your Player HQ?

I've had that happen to me once. Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix it. I just went to make dinner and coffee while I wait for it to crawl to the jump gate.

If you really want, try restarting the mission by loading a save game right before you started the mission. It might "fix it".

to be honest, im not real sure how i got the mission, i was flying around aimlessly till a mission popped up in the menu. It says i have to make sure a ship arrives to his destination so 2 parties can have talks. Its not very far, 60ish km but im really not understanding if 50ms is how fast they are supposed to go. and yes, it is a tradeship i believe

[ArcticISAF]

If it's the Boso Ta one (strange blue creature) then yeah it's normal. It is slow as heck and the objective is to guide it to the jump gate. Two fighters likely will attack it at some point but after it makes it you're free. But this 2 parties can have talks doesn't seem to ring a bell. I could be just not able to remember all the missions though to go through where that matches.

[Crustacean]

Originally posted by ArcticISAF:

If it's the Boso Ta one (strange blue creature) then yeah it's normal. It is slow as heck and the objective is to guide it to the jump gate. Two fighters likely will attack it at some point but after it makes it you're free. But this 2 parties can have talks doesn't seem to ring a bell. I could be just not able to remember all the missions though to go through where that matches.

Originally posted by ArcticISAF:

If it's the Boso Ta one (strange blue creature) then yeah it's normal. It is slow as heck and the objective is to guide it to the jump gate. Two fighters likely will attack it at some point but after it makes it you're free. But this 2 parties can have talks doesn't seem to ring a bell. I could be just not able to remember all the missions though to go through where that matches.

Its called Accompany the Dignitary

i have to escort the ship from arg food ration factory to arg solar power plant.

It appears to be going there on its own but now that we are way from the station its still going no faster than 50m/s
I tried going out ahead of it but it stays going 50

edit: ship is called incarcartura vangaurd if that matters at all

[Wenzilber]

Oh! I had that once in Black Hole Sun

It paid really well for an escort mission. I don't recall having to deal with spawns like escort miner mission spawns A LOT of Khaaks that kill the miner ship in seconds.

It took a while for the ship to be escorted to get its destination though. Just wait it out.

[bunnyboy396]

just skip it and go to the HQ. mission sucks and is bugged. just don't pay attention to the ship.

[Hydra_360ci]

If you have multiple ships, you can assign some as an AI escort and just let it play out.
Or you can create a Seta upgrade, and use that to advance time.

These X games has a lot of random missions that are just there to give you something to do and most are just more time consuming versus other types. And others are just impossible for the sake of being impossible. You'll eventurally learn which are which.

As for escort missions... the higher your fighter rank the more dangerous the attackers and in X3... no one would bother with them, unless they needed to friend a race that was currently an enemy just to spawn enemies into a given sector.... so they could kill them and get friendly rep for the sector.

[Vali]

Hm, 50 m/s are 180 km/h. You need for your 60 km 20 Minutes.

This game is slow and a lot of quests take this time.

If I play X I have usually a clean flat. :-)

[Meemai]

I assume what you are escorting is an L size transport, correct? If that is the case, the ship is likely going at its maximum non travel mode speed.

Seems like escortees never use travel mode (same happens with the miner escort missions), so it kinda makes things a bit exhacerbating if you are escorting an L size vessel.

If you have some extra ships, just give them an order to defend that vessel and forget about it. Unless the mission takes place at some dangerous sector, such as Hatikvah's Choice or similar, it should likely just be fine to delegate it to your other pilots.

[conrado.lacerda]

If I remember correctly, this was a bug with 6.0 that caused ships to get stuck with 50m/s max speed and not retract their landing gears after undocking from a station. It was eventually fixed, so no need for this discussion anymore.