Suddenly have Warmaster wingmen

[ComGaunt]

I am not sure what I did, but the two Warmasters I have have been following me around helping missions. I think it is great but again, I am not sure what I did to activate this. Previously I had sent them ahead to a mission area which worked sometimes. How do I manage the warmaster wingmen?

[Sern]

I'm still figuring some of that out myself. But I can tell you that if you want them to follow you, you select them on the map and then right click on yourself. You should see a link icon appear. This means they will follow you.

I started a new game++ since our old saves had to be wiped sadly but I fully understand and respect that decision. Unfortunately one of my warmasters is in a silly gunship while I'm in a Zodiac cruiser. So the first spout of combat we went into the gunship was almost immediately destroyed by what I think was another cruiser.

When your wingmen/warmasters's ships are destroyed in combat they don't die but you must rebuild their ships. They will also level up and upgrade their ship classes as you progress yourself.

Right now I have the one remaining warmaster following me around, because why not. I could also attach them to a war fleet and send them off to engage or capture another sector but I'm not at that point yet as I started my new game++ last night. I still am getting my home system up and running and have no fleet to speak of just yet.

Thinking about using some console commands to get my Zodiac back to where it was pre save wipe as well. I'm gonna be starting all over from the beginning anyway when the storyline comes out toward the end of May. XD

[ComGaunt]

It sure is not consistent... when I assign individual ships to mine, it does not work. However, when I combine two warmasters into one fleet and tell it to go to a mission area, they'll start following me for missions, which is great btw.

[AngerMirth]

Originally posted by ComGaunt:

when I assign individual ships to mine, it does not work.

So for example you can't have Tara in her own fleet, select it from the Star Chart and then right click on your own ship and have her fly around with you? That's how I've been leveling those squishy Warmasters up by having them all follow me around 24/7 which I assume is working as intended.

[nobrien]

do trade escorts and def instulations as they have the least amount of enemy ships in large groups and in a cruiser you should drop 90% of those spawns b4 your WMs get to them.

they get a lvl every 1m+ coin payout msn that i do baasicly till 10-11 then its 2 missions and your llving upaswell and making some decent cash fairly quickly.

[AngerMirth]

Agreed, non-combat missions is easiest to level WMs (personally prefer Salvage Missions) however I think OP is saying he can't always get WMs to fly with him and has to send them ahead to the mission waypoint to get them involved?

[Simplewanderer]

It seems if you click on a fleet [+/- WM] and onto your ship, when they fly over to you and are hidden by your ship [lining up perfectly], then that fleet will follow you everywhere, even if you T jump or t gate. You have to redo this after each reload

[AngerMirth]

Hmmm, I can't speak for how things are meant to work but for me all I have to do is right click my own ship icon with any fleet selected. That fleet's travel path with flash between yellow and blue and once they reach me they will fall into escort patterns. By reloads do you mean loading a save game or docking/undocking?

[Simplewanderer]

Reloading after a crash [grrrr]

[nobrien]

yea loseing view of the wingman now too, after several missions i forget to chk as theres so much going on in combat and esp keeping traders in range, { failed 4 escorts at the end after all the fighting and flying cause you cant follow anymore into SL flight you just get stuck turning slowly around esp in bigger ships cruiser + } and they cant be seen range of target untill you turn to get them into flying closer then bam msn failed too far away,

but back to the other issiue with WM staying in formation but not visable now its happening alot it seems and they get no benefit exp.