Captured a TL with "Rebuild Station" sticking

[RainerPrem]

Hi,

X3AP Vanilla:

I captured a Paranid Hercules crossing Hatikvah's Faith with a station on board. I had it jump to Home of Legends and want to dock and sell it there.

Each time I give it the "Dock at" command it reverts to "Rebuild station".

I tried to jump into the sector myself, but at that moment the screen turns black and is not coming back to life.

Is there anything I can do?

cu
Rainer

[RAVEN.myst]

You could try dumping the station (never heard of something like this before, so I'm speculating here.)

[Alan Phipps]

You have to fly the captured TL yourself to a destination that you want to build the station it holds. Without yourself at the helm it will keep reverting to its AI commands. Of course if the game freezes when you get IS with the TL then that is more a different issue that may stop you doing that.

See if a save/reload resolves that second issue. Good luck.

[ancienthighway]

So it's not possible to sell the TL with the station loaded on it? Or you can sell it, but only if you pilot it to the shipyard?

[RAVEN.myst]

Sounds a bit like the AI scripts persisting on the Tyrs at the end of Balance of Power (X3TC), which keep following you around if you capture them (or so I've heard, a long time ago...)

[RainerPrem]

Hi,

You have to fly the captured TL yourself to a destination that you want to build the station it holds. Without yourself at the helm it will keep reverting to its AI commands. Of course if the game freezes when you get IS with the TL then that is more a different issue that may stop you doing that.

See if a save/reload resolves that second issue. Good luck.

I gave up after trying several times and having my PC cold resetted once.

Since it wasn't worth it, I reverted to the last save before the capturing attempt and capped the Boreas in Aladna's Hill instead out of frustration.

cu
Rainer

[UnknownObject]

A Russian guide on capturing TLs with stations onboard.

[RainerPrem]

Ummm...

A Russian guide on capturing TLs with stations onboard.

But "the old woman was found proruha."
...
If you can not - you can sit in svezhezahvachenny TL
...

Not too helpful ... But funny.

cu
Rainer

[RAVEN.myst]

ROFL!!! I speak/read (albeit slowly!) Russian, and I can't make heads or tails of that

EDIT: So I got curious and followed the link. Yes, Google Translate does struggle with Russian (what a shocker...), though one can figure out most of what's said through context. However, once in a while, something really entertaining comes along, such as...

"Full Bleed the twenty troopers are not afraid of any alignment, though the earth TL with a polarizer can deliver impressions"

Btw: I read "svezhezahvachenny" out loud to myself and figured it out: "freshly grabbed/captured"

[Jimmy C]

It seems like you have some partial control from your description. Next time, you could try jumping it into the sector then getting onboard and taking control.

[Triaxx2]

Google has trouble translating English to English sometimes.

Best option is to jump your TL to you, instead of you trying to head to it.

[RainerPrem]

Hi,

Google has trouble translating English to English sometimes.

Best option is to jump your TL to you, instead of you trying to head to it.

that's basically not needed, since when capping I was anyway only 4km away to swap the Marines out and some e-cells in. If I had known what trouble was to come up, I'd just transportered myself into it.

Next time I'm better prepared.

BTW: It's interesting that I could learn something new several thousand hours into that game.

cu
Rainer

[RAVEN.myst]

It's interesting that I could learn something new several thousand hours into that game.

That's something I love about the "classic Xs" (ie. not Rebirth), the fact that there's stuff to discover and learn even for extremely experienced veterans. Several years and many many thousands of hours of Xs later, I'm still occasionally either learning something new, or coming up with something new to do or a new way to do something (in fact, I'm currently in the middle of a highly successful experiment that occurred to me a week or two ago.)

Good hunting.