How you can trigger your placed bombs while being far way from the target?

[dmansail]

If you are close they shoot at you , should be a way that you can activate the bombs from inside your ship , at a distance.

[Colmaniac]

What are you placing bombs on? If its a station you can try and land and then disable the weapon systems, or fly you ship close, wait by the air lock, trigger the bombs, dock to ship and fly away as quick as possible.

[dmansail]

Simple, i want to sabotage competitor factories, so blow up their production modules. The problem is that if you trigger the bombs while you are close - you are dead....and also after i placed 13 bombs , the production had not been affected !!! IS it a bug?

[Colmaniac]

Originally posted by dmansail:

Simple, i want to sabotage competitor factories, so blow up their production modules. The problem is that if you trigger the bombs while you are close - you are dead....and also after i placed 13 bombs , the production had not been affected !!! IS it a bug?

dont think the game works that way, you can blow up the storage modules and they may spit out the wares, but yea that is considered an attack so they will retaliate. But any sabotage can be done on station, you can then sabotage production storage, etc

[Wraith]

You use the trigger button I think it the same one you use to shoot missle

another way is to have your bomb selected and manually triggering it while inside the ship with the interaction menu


What your trying to do is weird though as there hacking for sabotaging a station that last much longer then your simple bomb trick

[Mechanical]

Hacking their stuff lasts several hours. You can get permanent discounts from a station. Shut down production for several hours, force the station to eject some/all of its cargo. Sadly you can't make them poor, as NPCs have unlimited funds.

[eMYNOCK]

using space suit bombs to demolish a station is the most ineffective way to do it actually.

(admittedly, there was a time were it was effective.. for removing admin modules in a happy little accident... but that has been changed since.)

you can use those bombs to demolish surface mounts in a whim if you are not yet at bad relations with the station because the station may turn hostile the moment the first surface element explodes... while it can be multiple small elements with one bomb.

however...
sabotaging a station by using a security decription thingy on one of the terminals in the engineering section will guarantee that the station ceases to function for a couple ouf hours.

compared to a blown up module wich can be restored within 20 minutes thats a much better outcome.


so, no.. thats not a bug... its a false assumption on how to sabotage a station.

if you want to cause damage.. bombs and mines are the way to go short term... if you want to disable a station with a virus.. its hacking a terminal.

if you want to remove the competition permanently.. you also take the reputation hit and simply get rid of the station... permanently.

[dmansail]

Originally posted by eMYNOCK:

using space suit bombs to demolish a station is the most ineffective way to do it actually.

(admittedly, there was a time were it was effective.. for removing admin modules in a happy little accident... but that has been changed since.)

you can use those bombs to demolish surface mounts in a whim if you are not yet at bad relations with the station because the station may turn hostile the moment the first surface element explodes... while it can be multiple small elements with one bomb.

however...
sabotaging a station by using a security decription thingy on one of the terminals in the engineering section will guarantee that the station ceases to function for a couple ouf hours.

compared to a blown up module wich can be restored within 20 minutes thats a much better outcome.


so, no.. thats not a bug... its a false assumption on how to sabotage a station.

if you want to cause damage.. bombs and mines are the way to go short term... if you want to disable a station with a virus.. its hacking a terminal.

if you want to remove the competition permanently.. you also take the reputation hit and simply get rid of the station... permanently.

So, mines and bombs are useless in the game as it stands. Also is no way to defend a satellite from BUC attacks. I placed around the sat, 12 Laser towers , but they destroyed it in an instant. This looks a bit ....

[flywlyx]

Originally posted by dmansail:

So, mines and bombs are useless in the game as it stands. Also is no way to defend a satellite from BUC attacks. I placed around the sat, 12 Laser towers , but they destroyed it in an instant. This looks a bit ....

You have the option to use mines as dropped bombs: https://youtu.be/e7b66yf8RJ4

[dmansail]

Yes , but they do not cause much damage....