How to summon a stored ship from a station that has no ship services
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Viajero
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If there is no Inter Astra shipyard service where you are then I believe you can’t. Need to fly to a station (space or land) that has one.
Did you try to go to the elevators? Your stored ship should be offered when using them.
If it´s the same station, your ship is already there. Go to the hangar elevators. Edit: didn´t read the part about swapped ships
Yes says ship is "unavailable" from storage I believe. (Correction: "No Accessible ships docked")
Took a shuttle, no station services option.
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Took a shuttle to a big station, and summon your ship there in the inter astra desk.
Yes ended up doing that, why I need an entire office branch to "retrieve the car from the garage" is a special kind of stupid as far as game design is concerned. Why there isn't just a "Select Ship to Retrieve" option from the elevator is beyond me.
I did the equivalent of booking a jet to another country, paying to have my car shipped there, just so I could be allowed to drive it back from where it was shipped from.
Small stations don't have shipyards so there's no Inter-Astra. If we continue your silly plane analogy, it's like going to a train station and demanding an air flight, the facilities don't exist.
Yes, I can see what happened, but it is a bug/feature.
Even though Odyssey lets you leave your ship behind, it still tracks your "current ship". That's the only ship that is directly accessible from the station concourse... if it's at that station.
You swapped ships while elsewhere. So your "current ship" is no longer the one that you left parked at that station.
You could try logging in to Horizons, but presumably that will teleport you to your "current ship" at the other station, rather than the one you left parked at this station.
There ought to be a better way of resetting your "current ship". If you try to use the lift from the concourse, and your "current ship" isn't there, but another ship is... that should become your current ship (though it could be a bit more complicated if you have more than one stored ship at that station).
Even though Odyssey lets you leave your ship behind, it still tracks your "current ship". That's the only ship that is directly accessible from the station concourse... if it's at that station.
You swapped ships while elsewhere. So your "current ship" is no longer the one that you left parked at that station.
You could try logging in to Horizons, but presumably that will teleport you to your "current ship" at the other station, rather than the one you left parked at this station.
There ought to be a better way of resetting your "current ship". If you try to use the lift from the concourse, and your "current ship" isn't there, but another ship is... that should become your current ship (though it could be a bit more complicated if you have more than one stored ship at that station).
Then why can you leave your ship behind?
Hmm?
I didn't think his analogy was stupid at all.
Actually, this could be incorporated into a QOL improvement, if you have more than one ship stored at a station: when you take a lift from the concourse, you get to choose which hangar you go to, rather than being forced to board your "current ship" before swapping ships. That would also solve the OP's problem.
Or just a simple "summon ship from storage" menu at the elevator. I don't need an entire shipyard for that.
Have you tried any witchcraft spells?
Rain dances mostly, local witch doctor booked through the week. Will have tea next tuesday.
As someone already pointed out, the error message is "No accessible ships docked" while you have an accessible ship docked. Not sure why the snark was needed here, if ever.
His "current" ship is docked at another station because he swapped to another ship while there, presumably using inter-astra, then he used a shuttle to go back to the other station where presumably there is no inter-astra because there is no shipyard, it's not accessible because his current ship isn't docked there, it's docked at another station, so he will need to go to a station with Inter-Astra service to call the ship he has docked at the station with no Inter-Astra and he can then swap back to it there.
He can't swap back to the ship he has docked there because the station doesn't provide the required service. So no, he doesn't have an accessible ship docked there, his accessible ship is docked at another station while the one at this station is not an accessible ship. This seems clear, the station obviously doesn't provide the service to swap ships.
Whether or not it's reasonable way for it to work is irrelevant, I agree it seems a bit silly, but ED has been focused on player as ship for so long it's probably built deep into the software, that's the way it seems to work.
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