[1.2 RC1] Volkov Bug?

erik dela cruz · Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:19 pm

Our friendly neighborhood wingman seems to be going loco. After some bouts in St.K he excuses himself for repairs but after that he won't respond to my call. I really think this is a bug:

erik dela cruz · Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:24 pm

...he answers on status inquiry "repairs almost finished " when he's just flying around the armor dealer along with the other ships. What's wrong with the guy? (found his wife 2 systems beyond Sanctuary) tsk,tsk,tsk.....

Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:43 pm

he need to dock at the armor repair station, but his orders get jammed because he is stick in the traffic queue. Try using a really weak weapon to scare off some docked freighters from the armor station (a single hit should scare them off.. dont kill them). Eventually enough of them should be able to process through to let volkov dock and repair, thus enabling control.

Really though, the wingmen should give up or switch stations if they cant dock, for whatever reason

Armor dealers could probably do with significantly fewer defenders, but honestly there are a lot of underlying problems that need to be addressed with the docking situation.

Amilir · Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:44 pm

In one of the recent versions, ships will not dock with a station that has only one open dock, in order to keep the player from having to wait. However, armor stations do not always HAVE more than one open dock, so you get a queue of ships waiting to dock with it that will never find a spot. The easy fix is to shoot at some of the docked ships. Just remember that the station may not be friendly with you after.

erik dela cruz · Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:07 pm

Shoot at the the other ships? Seriously? .....and be charged as a pirate again?hehehe

erik dela cruz · Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:27 pm

.....oh forgot to mention that Volkov's armour was totally repaired(see screen cap with his shield?) by the time he is being recalled even if he's just flying around.

Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:46 pm

You only need to hit them once to scare them off. If they dont run off immediately, just wait for them to undock.

Actually, have you tried exiting out the gate? Does Volkov follow you if you do that?

erik dela cruz · Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:29 pm

Yes I did several times but sadly the response is still the same.

Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:06 pm

looks like you will have to let all the ships in the traffic queue go through. if that station has nothing of value to you.. and you can survive the guards, you can probably get off with killing the guards to make more docking space

erik dela cruz · Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:46 pm

I did shoot them, and some did fly off but Volkov just kept flying around. I even docked with the armor dealer but crazy Volkov kept ignoring me. I infer that this has something to do with that weird behavior of these ships that got my wingman hooked on, gravitating Volkov's ship..... or something. There has to be something, a code on ship behavior by the Trans AI perhaps. I'm no Einstein anyway.

erik dela cruz · Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:50 pm

Oh yeah and this has happened before but with an auton, also in in St.K. When I left a battle auton in the center of the arcology, I came back later to fetch it but got no response as well(1.2 Beta 3 i think).