(TC) Capturing passengers on TL

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(TC) Capturing passengers on TL

Post by Insatiable » Mon, 27. Dec 10, 06:39

Hello. I've been capturing CV TLs lately for fun and experience. What I really want to do, though, is capture the passengers with the ship. I just caught an Orca that had 4000+ passengers and even though I got the ship without a problem and with all it's shields, the passengers had mysteriously disappeared. :(

Is it possible to capture a TL with passengers still inside?
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Post by Aenir » Mon, 27. Dec 10, 09:47

Did it still have the CLS on it after you captured it? If it didn't they all would've died that way.

Otherwise I don't know. That'd be a lot of slaves.
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Post by XB-7 » Mon, 27. Dec 10, 10:39

LOL! I wonder what would happen if you blew out the cargo expansion software? All that cargo would expand and blow out the hull. :)
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Post by SIMON POPPLEWELL » Mon, 27. Dec 10, 11:20

Aenir wrote:Did it still have the CLS on it after you captured it? If it didn't they all would've died that way.

Otherwise I don't know. That'd be a lot of slaves.
CLS is automatically installed when you board the vessel, otherwise your marines would die as they entered the ship. :wink: But I did read in another post that someone did capture a hospital ship that passengers onboard.
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Post by Insatiable » Mon, 27. Dec 10, 21:52

Aenir wrote:Did it still have the CLS on it after you captured it? If it didn't they all would've died that way.

Otherwise I don't know. That'd be a lot of slaves.
Yes and yes. :twisted:
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Post by Insatiable » Mon, 27. Dec 10, 21:55

XB-7 wrote:LOL! I wonder what would happen if you blew out the cargo expansion software? All that cargo would expand and blow out the hull. :)
No cargo expansion on most TLs, I'm afraid. In fact, I think only the Ozias has it. Maybe the Ryu.
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Post by Alan Phipps » Mon, 27. Dec 10, 22:06

Did the Orca have all those as passengers with individual names before capture, or just 4,000+ of the ware called 'passengers'? If the latter it is just a local colour ware like promotional plates and vacuum cleaners that you cannot do anything really useful with (eg cannot enslave them) and even if any do remain amongst the usually little cargo left after a claim, they are almost valueless. It is the same with 'patients' on hospital ships, 'patrons' on casinos, etc. I think I once saw a floating crate after an NPC fight whose content was shown as a few tens of 'passengers'.
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Post by Insatiable » Wed, 29. Dec 10, 05:44

Ah, bummer, man. Oh well, at least I've got a bunch of TLs now.
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