Newcomer / Intro Can't assign a pilot to my fighters.

TrangleC

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Hi.

I'm new to the game... kind of. I played for a while 6 years ago, then rage quit and just came back a few days ago.

Now I'm trying to use NPC controlled fighters for the first time.
I bought the hangar and 2 fighters, they are in the hangar.
I hired 2 crew men (women) and set one as "active" before leaving the station.
I tried to launch a fighter, but I only get the option to pilot it myself.
No crew members show up in the "lap" panel, when I click on "deploy", only my main character.

I found a thread from an other user having the same problem and tried to comment on it, but during the log in process, I was thrown out and had to manually get back in to the forums and now I can't find that thread, so I'm opening my own one.

In that other thread, the other guy got the advise that he has to assign the crew member to the fighter.
I went back to a station and I can't find any way to do that.
All I can do is to set one of them as "active", but that didn't help the first time around.

Can someone please help me with this aggravating problem?
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
You seem to have followed the correct procedure.

The advice from the lost thread sounds like horse manure, like you spotted, you cant do that.
 

Craith

Volunteer Moderator
Craith
Setting it active should have enabled you to deploy the fighter - they stay active until you switch to a ship not able to support crew or until you set them to inactive.

One thing that could have happened is that you switched to a different ship before launching, maybe to transfer some parts?

Apart from that I can't see anything you did wrong.
 

d8veh

d8veh
They're lazy and use any excuse to become inactive. Check that they're active last thing before you leave the station and you should be good to go.
 

Deleted member 38366

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The fact that they don't show up in the lower Panel seems weird.

They should definitely show up there, either both inactive or (when everything is working correctly) one as active and one as inactive.

I guess restarting the Game once >might< fix such a weird issue.
(never had such issues myself - when an active Crew was AWOL, it was usually me either having changed Ships inbetween kicking the NPC out or I simply forgot to set one as active)

Otherwise, with an NPC Crew onboard, there's only a few areas where they can't be deployed (while landed or docked, inside of a Station, after having an active docking clearance from a Station).
 
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