Coffee break time? Guess I'll die!

[ZarPof]

When it is their coffee break time they'll refuse to calculate a jump. If you manually assign it they will calculate it. Once done they'll leave the console before you can jump. AKA making it impossible to jump until they finish their coffee. Don't mind that 12 tonne projectile puncturing holes in the hull, enjoy your dark premium roast Darrel.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Use the crew commands and set your navigation to red?

[Dervantar]

Doesn't help. Forced work, nav station max prio ... the guy goes and takes a ♥♥♥♥ while i am beeing bombarded. Another time, same scenario my navigator takes a damn BREAK while beeing shot by pirates.

Also: Why do crewman sit on stations that have no priority whatsoever. My shield guy sits on weapons while the weapons guy does nothing but standing around.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

It works brilliantly.

It might work better for you if you don't wait at the very last second to assign them to their duty and they have to walk the whole spaceship to get there.

[DoctorDanny]

Yeah, this seems very poorly designed (or I'm just missing something).
Pirates arrive when my crew is sleeping and they start to demolish the ship.
Crew wakes up and instead of manning the shields and guns they have a nice chat in the kitchen.

Come on.

[Agmar]

Originally posted by DoctorDanny:

Pirates arrive when my crew is sleeping and they start to demolish the ship.
Crew wakes up and instead of manning the shields and guns they have a nice chat in the kitchen.

I take it that pausing the game then changing the work schedule from 'Free' to 'Work' for the current hour time slot isn't an option?

[kasnavada]

Originally posted by Agmar:

Originally posted by DoctorDanny:

Pirates arrive when my crew is sleeping and they start to demolish the ship.
Crew wakes up and instead of manning the shields and guns they have a nice chat in the kitchen.

I take it that pausing the game then changing the work schedule from 'Free' to 'Work' for the current hour time slot isn't an option?

Your crew isn't supposed to shoot back if they're not drafted, and draft happens independantly of schedule.
"Red" color stations also worked all the time for me, with one exception. They finish their current move and once that's done, the ones that have been selected move to the station. How is this an issue, when you have 8 hours warning before pirates jump on you, I do not know. If you jump on them, then it's your fault for not using the red mode first.

[The_Daleatron]

my favorite so far was when i was being attacked and they decided better go to bed then i blew up.

[Agmar]

Oooh, good to know!

Thanks.

[DoctorDanny]

Originally posted by Agmar:

Originally posted by DoctorDanny:

Pirates arrive when my crew is sleeping and they start to demolish the ship.
Crew wakes up and instead of manning the shields and guns they have a nice chat in the kitchen.

I take it that pausing the game then changing the work schedule from 'Free' to 'Work' for the current hour time slot isn't an option?

Going to give that a try. Edit: Did the job. thanks.
Feedback to devs: A ' Red Alert' / 'Battle Stations' Button would be useful.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

There. Already. Is. One.

[ZarPof]

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

There. Already. Is. One.

Is there already a red alert? Where? Because the tutorial didn't point it out.

[Wantoomany]

Originally posted by ZarPof:

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

There. Already. Is. One.

Is there already a red alert? Where? Because the tutorial didn't point it out.

Its not as elegant as a single giant red alert button, but something similar exists. Each station has an alert setting. From blue, yellow, to red. If you set a station to red. The crew member assigned to that station will man that station without breaks or sleep until they literally drop from exhaustion.

[ZarPof]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

Originally posted by ZarPof:

Is there already a red alert? Where? Because the tutorial didn't point it out.

Its not as elegant as a single giant red alert button, but something similar exists. Each station has an alert setting. From blue, yellow, to red. If you set a station to red. The crew member assigned to that station will man that station without breaks or sleep until they literally drop from exhaustion.

Thanks for the heads up. I do like this game, just a few things are a bit... confusing might be the right word?