Torpedo Maintenance and Reload

[Crallux]

Hey everyone,

I'm getting a bit desperate here... I have the Engineers schedule to include torpedo maintenance and reloading but he always prioritizes damage control instead and never reloads or maintains. Can anyone help me?

Status:

- Alarm
- Tasks 9 (load torp), 7 (Repair), 9 (maintain)

Please help, I'm going insane, thanks.

*Edit* Silent Running is disabled

*2nd Edit* This is getting weird, I clicked and unclicked Silent Running now the Chief Engineer is not going back this his Engine and the Mechanic does his work correctly... has anyone encountered this problem?

[SpaceBikerV]

His schedule is probably set to “rest”. Change it to “anything”

[Kornstalx]

Officers will never reload torpedoes during an Alarm, without a direct order.
Damage control takes priority during Alarms.

[bairdlander]

Originally posted by SpaceBikerV:

His schedule is probably set to “rest”. Change it to “anything”

If set to anything will they sleep when tired or do something till they pass out?

[SpaceBikerV]

Originally posted by bairdlander:

Originally posted by SpaceBikerV:

His schedule is probably set to “rest”. Change it to “anything”

If set to anything will they sleep when tired or do something till they pass out?

They will automatically sleep at around 20% stamina

[hanspni]

Originally posted by Crallux:

Hey everyone,

I'm getting a bit desperate here... I have the Engineers schedule to include torpedo maintenance and reloading but he always prioritizes damage control instead and never reloads or maintains. Can anyone help me?

Status:

- Alarm
- Tasks 9 (load torp), 7 (Repair), 9 (maintain)

Please help, I'm going insane, thanks.

*Edit* Silent Running is disabled

*2nd Edit* This is getting weird, I clicked and unclicked Silent Running now the Chief Engineer is not going back this his Engine and the Mechanic does his work correctly... has anyone encountered this problem?

If it don`t happend automataic i do this. When i want my enginer to reload i use right click to make him go to torpedo room, then first person view. Right click torpedo tube and u can transfer torpedoes and he load them!

[strykerpsg]

MIne are not reloading either, same setup as described above. It's getting a bit irritating.

[Alex Paen (ljekio)]

yeah, it's really weird that this useful feature doesn't work when it's most needed - when reloading in an attack with an alarm. or sometimes it works, but depends on the mechanic's mood (or other crap)

[Svartkladd]

Originally posted by Kornstalx:

Officers will never reload torpedoes during an Alarm, without a direct order.
Damage control takes priority during Alarms.

Strange, I remember my torpedo gremlin loading them even before I asked.

Also if you need to load and maintain multiple torpedoes, you can drag eels from storage to tubes, then CTRL+right click tubes that need maintenance (which should add tasks to queue, but sometime they get cancelled for no obvious reason), then cancel damage control or whatever torpedo guy is doing and he should pick up those torpedo tasks and stay on them as long as there are some in queue.

[SpaceBikerV]

Originally posted by Svartkladd:

(which should add tasks to queue, but sometime they get cancelled for no obvious reason),

They get cancelled because they added a new system where torpedoes on the same column cannot be occupied, and that extends to maintenance even if the tube becomes free after an occupied tube of the same column has been finished

[Alex Paen (ljekio)]

Another bad thing is that he doesn't follow the sequence in which I set these tasks. I would like it if I press to service torpedo tubes 1,2,5,3, he would do it exactly that way, and not chaotically as now.

[Spectre]

I've about had it with my mechanic not reloading torpedoes, and my leaders not calming down crew without direct orders. Just put damage control and command station or whatever ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the priority list and have a 2nd one for during alarms. I'd rather spend the time up front fine-tuning how my crew operates than babysitting them individually during battle. Hell, add "load torpedo" and "calm a ♥♥♥♥♥" to the quick orders menu. That'll work.

[Alex Paen (ljekio)]

The "load torpedo" menu is not so simple, because it is not a direct command, but must call the loading menu. But definitely something needs to be done about it.