recover ship without steering?

[coCoKNIght]

Hi, does someone know of a way to recover a captured ship that's got no steering thrusters anymore?

[Disiuze]

No.

[coCoKNIght]

not even remotely?

[Disiuze]

Originally posted by coCoKNIght:

not even remotely?

No, if you rip the front wheels of a car off then you can't move it remotely either.

[coCoKNIght]

well the ship can still move forward and it can still jump. It just can't steer anymore. I've noticed that it points in a random direction every time I jump back into the system where it sits. So one way I could think of of remotely recovering it is if by chance it points to the right direction for the jump...

[Amazinite]

Originally posted by coCoKNIght:

well the ship can still move forward and it can still jump. It just can't steer anymore. I've noticed that it points in a random direction every time I jump back into the system where it sits. So one way I could think of of remotely recovering it is if by chance it points to the right direction for the jump...

That may work, but I believe that the jump direction needs to be exact (meaning that it may take hundreds of tries) and you'd need a scram drive since you can't slow the ship down. You're much better off leaving the ship behind.

[coCoKNIght]

there should be some kind of pick-up service in the game ;-) The ship in question is the ring shaped automated korath ship...

[Strap me to a Missile]

If it has a jump drive it might be going slow enough to jump to an outfitter. If not your only chance is to edit its location in the save file or wait and hope in-space outfitting is implemented.

[Mission Failed]

you could try and make it move by... shooting it?

[Amazinite]

Originally posted by Sir Sheepington:

you could try and make it move by... shooting it?

Lol, if someone could legitimately make a ship jump to another system by shooting it, that would be the best. You'd probably need Particle Cannons.