Bail Mechanic Bugged?

[Lt. Nate Drake]

Engaged a Mercury Vanguard (Trader) Ship and reduced its hull to 15% and shield to 5%. Asked for Surrender multiple times over 10 attempts , each 30 secs and it didn't bail. One of its crew bailed the first time i engaged, the 9 remaining didn't falter.

[Venerable_Sin]

Continue tickling it until everyone bails or carry out the threat of destruction and make it real. :) Don't count on Egosoft fixing anything unless you have a presentable problem along with a solution in hand for them. Even then it's a crap shoot. After all, In their eyes you are a free game tester that pays them for the privilege.

[Snork]

it's not bugged, it's based on a relationship of fractions/percentages.
shi
your rank/rank of the attacking ship has a major effect on the bail rate.

Also if I remember right, in vanilla, for some bizarre reason the default bailing behavior is set to be more likely if the attacking ship is smaller than the one being attacked.

[Killzad]

No need to lower it's hull to 15%, only need to strip the shields keep fire persistent with some low damage weapon like a MK 1 pulse. Every 90 seconds a check roll and crew will bail. the smaller your ship the better, light fighters or scouts are the best for this.

[SirProsik]

Some ships like Discoverer Vanguards just have a very low chance at bailing where as the Discoverer Sentinel is much much easier to make vacant.

Hull vs Hull smaller the attacker the better I hear.
Lots of hearsay on this some say only use beam weapons some say
ARG ion weapons work great too.

[Sticky]

I have a high success rate at getting ships to bail and boarding ships. First get shields down with all your weapons on and Hull to maybe 50-75%. Have a setting that only 1 of your guns are shooting to keep the ship from using boost and shields. Comm the ship repeated but stop shooting for 5-10 secs before you spam comm. Spam until I'm not talking to you turns into what do you want, order him to surrender. Then repeat until the ship bails. Argon has weapons Ion MK2 version that does high damage to shields and low damage to Hull, its helpful but not necessary.

[PeaceMaker]

Originally posted by Lt. Drake:

Engaged a Mercury Vanguard (Trader) Ship and reduced its hull to 15% and shield to 5%. Asked for Surrender multiple times over 10 attempts , each 30 secs and it didn't bail. One of its crew bailed the first time i engaged, the 9 remaining didn't falter.

i guess the first guy was too scared and jumped, and the others were like, "Pah! Coward! We can handle this!"

[simeon]

In regards to the bail mechanic, one might read the relevant chapter in this in-deph FAQ to better understand:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3120616748