Newcomer / Intro Changing ship while on foot.

[Frankymole]

Due to a strange combination of circumstances, my "current" ship is 5 hours' transport time away on the surface of an uninhabited a world in a single-station system outside Colonia.

I am back in Tir system, at Bolden's Enterprise station, on foot. I own many ships in the shipyard here, but the shipyard "shopkeeper" won't let me transfer into any of them (or get them into the hangar to board). His only offer is to transport my "current" ship which will take 5 hours and cost 7,000,000 Credits.

He won't even sell me another ship.

Apex taxis won't take me the 2000ly to my "current" ship's system, nor any other Apex-destination planets en route.

I have a Fleet Carrier in a neighbouring system, but no means of getting to it.

Help! How do I get out of this? I can pay the 7M but don't want to wait all night for my ship. And what if I didn't have 7M? I couldn't sell a ship here. It won't let me. And it'd take forever to earn 7M for on-foot missions.

 

[0threeleven]

Due to a strange combination of circumstances, my "current" ship is 5 hours' transport time away on the surface of an uninhabited a world in a single-station system outside Colonia.

I am back in Tir system, at Bolden's Enterprise station, on foot. I own many ships in the shipyard here, but the shipyard "shopkeeper" won't let me transfer into any of them (or get them into the hangar to board). His only offer is to transport my "current" ship which will take 5 hours and cost 7,000,000 Credits.

He won't even sell me another ship.

Apex taxis won't take me the 2000ly to my "current" ship's system, nor any other Apex-destination planets en route.

I have a Fleet Carrier in a neighbouring system, but no means of getting to it.

Help! How do I get out of this? I can pay the 7M but don't want to wait all night for my ship. And what if I didn't have 7M? I couldn't sell a ship here. It won't let me. And it'd take forever to earn 7M for on-foot missions.

Did you try Horizons, see what that gives you?

 

[nemolomen]

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Another option is to get a ride to your carrier from another commander. But I suspect the Horizon's route will be quicker, but unknown if it will "transport" you to Colonia.

 

[Bantha]

Is this a bug or by design?

 

[Frankymole]

Is this a bug or by design?

I think it's by design, CMDR Buur had something similar in one of his on-foot livestreams. It does seem odd that you can be at the Shipyard geezer's outlet in a major station and not be allowed to get into one of your own ships, so the game is still "the player is the ship" in some ways. The current ship proves who you are, if it's absent you can't change to another one.

Anyway, I restarted from the launcher, in to Horizons and it put me in my ship, 2000ly away back in the near-deserted system out in the Black.

It's kind of the opposite of the Escape Pods on megaship or (other players') fleet carriers, or whichever the heck it was. I wonder if switching back into Odyssey will leave me out here, in my ship, or put me back in the Colonia mini-bubble again? I could still escape-pod back if I need to, I guess.

 

[Chris Simon]

No you will be still in your ship when you re-log into Odyssey.

But now I'm really curious about that strange combination of circumstances that have thrown you so far from your ship. I can't think of anything.
Very peculiar situation. Kind of cool, though, imo. I would probably try to resolve it by "in-game" means just for the entertainment value. But that would probably mean just waiting for 5 hours so not really much of an entertainment.

 

[Frankymole]

It's so weird being able to hop back and forth over two kylies with different game modes... I could commit a crime in Colonia and be unreachably far away in a moment or two.

 

[Frankymole]

No you will be still in your ship when you re-log into Odyssey.

But now I'm really curious about that strange combination of circumstances that have thrown you so far from your ship. I can't think of anything.
Very peculiar situation. Kind of cool, though, imo. I would probably try to resolve it by "in-game" means just for the entertainment value. But that would probably mean just waiting for 5 hours so not really much of an entertainment.

I did try to see if there were 20 stations (Apex limit is 100ly) between my two points of reference but sadly there weren't any!

The original circumstances:
I went to the distant system, landed on the planet in my ship, and summoned an Apex. Used it in-system to travel to the Megaship there, and escape podded from it.

That took me back to Colonia but my ship was still on the planet 2000ly away. This is how things stood at my OP above.

Now, relogging in Horizons I am back at the distant planet, in my ship, about 80km above the surface. Flew to the Megaship in-system, disembarked, used the escape pods, was back in Colonia in station, on foot - but THIS time I can switch ships at the shipyard if I want.

Relogging in Horizons now puts me back in the megaship 2000ly out in the black... in my current ship... so I seem to have a magic portal or "stargate" but can't take my ship through it

 

[aRJay]

I think it's by design, CMDR Buur had something similar in one of his on-foot livestreams. It does seem odd that you can be at the Shipyard geezer's outlet in a major station and not be allowed to get into one of your own ships, so the game is still "the player is the ship" in some ways. The current ship proves who you are, if it's absent you can't change to another one.

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Curious, I earlier today Apexed from the station where my active ship was via an intermediate station to the station I wanted to visit.
When I arrived I went to Inter Astra after checking the message on the hanger lift that you get when your ship isn't in the dock. The NPC at Inter Astra let me into the ship management menu which I could operate with no problems and so I select a ship parked there and set it as my active ship.
The distances were nothing like as big and I had a selection of ships stored at the station I arrived at.

 

[Frankymole]

Curious, I earlier today Apexed from the station where my active ship was via an intermediate station to the station I wanted to visit.
When I arrived I went to Inter Astra after checking the message on the hanger lift that you get when your ship isn't in the dock. The NPC at Inter Astra let me into the ship management menu which I could operate with no problems and so I select a ship parked there and set it as my active ship.
The distances were nothing like as big and I had a selection of ships stored at the station I arrived at.

I've got about 30 ships at this station. the difference is, I escape podded there and there was no intermediate station, also my "current" ship was on a planet but not at a settlement or dock.