Can we have wingmen in the game?

feeltheat · Post by **feeltheat** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:09 pm

Hi All,

I notice that we can actually purchase fighters in the commercial/trading screen.

Are there just part of our cargo or they are actually can be used as wingmen?

Please help.

Thanks.

Regards

Dilloh · Post by **Dilloh** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:25 am

Both, though you won't make any profit hauling ships. But you can buy stock ships as wingmen and when you launch them, they'll be armed properly.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:55 am

You could go to a Kilrathi held system and suck up a ship and you have wing men in your hold.

P.S. You have to have a drayman or some other cap ship.

feeltheat · Post by **feeltheat** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:38 am

micheal_andreas_stahl wrote:You could go to a Kilrathi held system and suck up a ship and you have wing men in your hold.

P.S. You have to have a drayman or some other cap ship.

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Currently, i have 2 ships in my cargo hold. I have modified my Centurion to have 5000 cargo hold space.

how to hire wingmen to pilot my extra ships in cargo hold?

feeltheat · Post by **feeltheat** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:03 am

Dilloh wrote:Both, though you won't make any profit hauling ships. But you can buy stock ships as wingmen and when you launch them, they'll be armed properly.

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how to launch them? i bought two centurions in my cargo hold, and also i have kill a retro and use tractor beam to take in his damaged talon ship.

beside selling the talon ship can i repair it and use it as my wingman?

Dilloh · Post by **Dilloh** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:29 pm

No need to repair the ships. Launch single ships by hitting ctrl+x, the ship will be fully repaired and piloted. Ctrl+a to attack your target, ctrl+h to help you. For more read the manual. Note that your wingmen are a lot dumber than the ki foes.

feeltheat · Post by **feeltheat** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:00 pm

Dilloh wrote:No need to repair the ships. Launch single ships by hitting ctrl+x, the ship will be fully repaired and piloted. Ctrl+a to attack your target, ctrl+h to help you. For more read the manual. Note that your wingmen are a lot dumber than the ki foes.

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there is a game manual specially made for remake 1.2? where to get it?

Dilloh · Post by **Dilloh** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:31 pm

http://wcuniverse.sourceforge.net/downloads/manual.pdf

feeltheat · Post by **feeltheat** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:23 pm

Dilloh wrote:http://wcuniverse.sourceforge.net/downloads/manual.pdf

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by the way i read the manual. it say when picking up prisoner you press M and then press alt+s??? but i thot using tracking beam can haul in the prison??? i done that thru tractor beam. alt+s does not seem to work.

by the way i just manage to use tractor beam to haul in the whole Paradigm ship hehe.

Sligor · Post by **Sligor** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:50 pm

feeltheat wrote:by the way i just manage to use tractor beam to haul in the whole Paradigm ship hehe.

Be careful! If you start to haul in bases like Perry or New Detroit you might get into trouble resupplying your ship.

feeltheat · Post by **feeltheat** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:40 pm

Sligor wrote:
feeltheat wrote:by the way i just manage to use tractor beam to haul in the whole Paradigm ship hehe.
Be careful! If you start to haul in bases like Perry or New Detroit you might get into trouble resupplying your ship.

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wow .. oh yeah by the i dont think you can haul object that got a mass larger than your cargo hold right? can we??

Sligor · Post by **Sligor** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:56 pm

I don't know. But I also never tried to swallow a Paradigm with a Centurion

Dilloh · Post by **Dilloh** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:41 pm

You can tractor in everything if you hack. But it won't be useful - I once tractored in an empty navpoint (without hacking btw), I sold it for 10 creds. Nothing you can do with that, except of dropping it elsewhere when it's still in your hold, e.g. in Pender's Star, so you'll have a navpoint avoiding the asteroids. But I'm not sure if it's still there after save/load.

feeltheat · Post by **feeltheat** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:30 pm

Dilloh wrote:You can tractor in everything if you hack. But it won't be useful - I once tractored in an empty navpoint (without hacking btw), I sold it for 10 creds. Nothing you can do with that, except of dropping it elsewhere when it's still in your hold, e.g. in Pender's Star, so you'll have a navpoint avoiding the asteroids. But I'm not sure if it's still there after save/load.

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i really got hook again by this game!!!! with all these "modifications" available i can actually spend months doing testing and playing to have fun.

oh yeah cause i didnt know i can actually tractor in "live ship". i found this out by accident. i was fighting a group of talon. all my guns were on including the tractor beam which i didnt notice it is on. suddently i hear this tractor beam sound. when i landed on the mining station i saw there is a talon in my cargo hold and thats got me thinking can i tractor in ships?? next round i when to take on a hunting mission. so instead of killing all the ships i haul them in with my tractor beam. but i got problem with the kamesh. so i change the units.csv in gemini gold to make centurion.begin to have 100000 cargo space and save the game and load that in remake. I went to cap ship hunt again and i manage to haul in a paradigm haha. what a discovery.

Sligor · Post by **Sligor** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:33 pm

That's it! Taking my big vacuum cleaner Paradigm after adding a few zeros to the cargo hold and devour everything in space...bases, ships, asteroids, navpoints. Yeah, that sucks!

Privateer 3: The Harvest

feeltheat · Post by **feeltheat** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:16 am

Sligor wrote:That's it! Taking my big vacuum cleaner Paradigm after adding a few zeros to the cargo hold and devour everything in space...bases, ships, asteroids, navpoints. Yeah, that sucks!

Privateer 3: The Harvest

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haha. i think i overdid some changes and now instead of cruising at a 7000 speed my speed was crawling slowly up to 1200 from -negative 2400.