Does escort need a captain to join the battle?

[BlueLightning]

I had 1 battle while being escorted, but i never saw my escort ship shoot. is it because it needs a captain to battle?

[Turuk Makto]

You can get a ship to escort without a captain?

[rickcarson]

Originally posted by Fred_VIE:

You can get a ship to escort without a captain?

Yeah, you do this with Lady Adventurous (sp?) very early in the game. [terribly mild spoilers warning]

> I had 1 battle while being escorted, but i never saw my escort ship shoot. is it because it needs a captain to battle?

It should have a captain and you'll need to add guns to it. That should be enough.

Note that Escort is a kind of defensive or 'protective' command - so the ships will try to stay close to you.

To clarify OP - you did actually give it the [escort] command, yes? It was automatically following you when you jumped?

[Turuk Makto]

I wouldnt know I had collected quite a few captains when I got the Lady.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by rickcarson:

Originally posted by Fred_VIE:

You can get a ship to escort without a captain?

Yeah, you do this with Lady Adventurous (sp?) very early in the game. [terribly mild spoilers warning]

I was under the impression that Lady Adventurous has a captain onboard.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by BlueLightning:

I had 1 battle while being escorted, but i never saw my escort ship shoot. is it because it needs a captain to battle?

The escort command break when you use the move command and select other ships to "escort" you thru the command.

I have no clue why the actual escort action break down when you do it. That's utterly stupid. But that's what it is. So if you do move around, you need to select every ship again and tell them to escort you again for it to work.

[Turuk Makto]

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

I have no clue why the actual escort action break down when you do it.

Must be the same logic behind it like with jumping to another system. When it is just one sector away you rightklick it. But farther you need to use the travel command.

I didnt get what it wanted from me when I wanted to travel and the game told me it is just one sector away. Makes no sense to me either to do that differently.

Also I dont get why I get kicked off the ship when I use the travel function.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by Fred_VIE:

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

I have no clue why the actual escort action break down when you do it.

Must be the same logic behind it like with jumping to another system. When it is just one sector away you rightklick it. But farther you need to use the travel command.

I didnt get what it wanted from me when I wanted to travel and the game told me it is just one sector away. Makes no sense to me either to do that differently.

It make tons of sense actually. You simply need to select the lead ship in the map and right click to where you want to go. Or right click and select the coordinates, then orient yourself the ship toward it and jump manually. All your (actual escort command) ships will follow you thru this. The difference between the two is that the escort command in the actual game is the autopilot feature provided by captains while the map commands are manual commands done by the player on the macro level.

It is only when you use the move command in the map and select your ships as an escort that they completely forget what they were doing in the last sector. And the fact that the check boxes say "escort ships" simply add to the confusion. Same name, completely different results. And it is also doubly confusing because if I set any other autopilot command to, say, a mining ship to mine the sector and then ask it to "refine ores" on the map commands then it will remember that its last command was to mine the sector and get at it immediately after respawning. Only the escort autopilot don't do that, with the map move command. This part make no sense, nothing seem to be consistent from one thing to the next in this game.

[Turuk Makto]

Thats might all be valid but I as a new player got confused why travel wouldnt work for 1 sector and the game didnt say... only one sector, just rightklick the target.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

As a new player going in blindly (as in I assume that you didn't watch Youtube videos and such) you are supposed to learn this in the tutorial. Then learn whatever you missed or didn't learn in the tutorial thru the loading screen help sentences.

[rickcarson]

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Originally posted by rickcarson:

Yeah, you do this with Lady Adventurous (sp?) very early in the game. [terribly mild spoilers warning]

I was under the impression that Lady Adventurous has a captain onboard.

No. The [Ships/Commands] mission doesn't even pop up until you hire your first captain. Lady Adventurous doesn't have a captain, you have to (read as: are supposed to) give her one (after the Adventurer hands over control of her to you (which is _after_ the successful completion of the escort command).

There are a small set of orders you can give a ship without a captain, and I think escort is one of them. Ultimately you'll want to give them a captain. You couldn't (just as a for instance) use the travel mission on the galaxy map (the thing the others are talking about) for a ship without a captain.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by rickcarson:

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

I was under the impression that Lady Adventurous has a captain onboard.

No. The [Ships/Commands] mission doesn't even pop up until you hire your first captain. Lady Adventurous doesn't have a captain, you have to (read as: are supposed to) give her one (after the Adventurer hands over control of her to you (which is _after_ the successful completion of the escort command).

There are a small set of orders you can give a ship without a captain, and I think escort is one of them. Ultimately you'll want to give them a captain. You couldn't (just as a for instance) use the travel mission on the galaxy map (the thing the others are talking about) for a ship without a captain.

Aye, I just went back and got the Lady, and discovered this on my own. Luckily, I had a "spare" captain, as I had picked up an unskilled one for my single ship before I found the Miner I was looking for.