Returning to the Hood with Hovis

Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:34 pm by Boscoe

In TNG 2.56, Reynen has basically crippled Hovis so the race is easy to win. With the increase in cruise speed, winning the race was nearly impossible unless he did this.
Anyway, because of this, you need to be quite patient when returning to the Hood. You'll need to stay with Hovis on the return, often going quite slowly, and it takes a few minutes. You can't dock with the Hood until Hovis says you can, so don't try to cruise to it and dock, you won't be allowed. When you both finally reach the Hood, Hovis will give you the OK to land, and the game will continue. This workaround will most likely go into the manual, otherwise Reynen would have to have Hovis go at full speed, and you won't beat him unless you're an extreme ace flyer (face it, you won't beat him at increased cruise speed, ok?)

Edit: This has been fixed and changed in version 2.6.5, see my post below.

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Edited by - Boscoe on 11/6/2004 7:56:58 AM

Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:42 am by Hagan

I have one Big problem, in mission 6 I must race with Holvis, but he crash with one race gate and I thik he has died. With this prob I cannot do a next mission

Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:23 pm by Omega26

I am having the same problem.

Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:35 pm by Major Nick

actualy, if the cruse speed is increased enough, hovis will fly TOO fast and will miss most of the gates, meaning that he will circle around untill he makes all the gates or you win. the formor would take hours, do to his valosity. all you have to do is use your thruster to win. the he will go at cruise to get back to the hood.

Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:56 am by Boscoe

You're correct, this is the way v2.6.5 has the Hovis race working. He appears to be winning, but isn't. This way he's not limping back to the Hood.

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Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:17 pm by protomatter

My problem is that Hovis simply disappears and is nowhere to be found. Are you all saying that he will show up eventually? I can on see two men (in green brackets) showing their names and affiliation as "Q's Men".

The answer seems to be to just hang out at the gate for half an hour until Hovis shows up, right?

Thanks for any help. I am stuck, stuck, stuck and have played this mission twenty times trying to figure out how to get on to Quintain's base.
Protomatter
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Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:55 pm by protomatter

I have waited for well over an hour for Hovis to show up and escort me back to the Hood. he never comes back. Any tips?
protomatter

Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:14 am by protomatter

That is not the problem on my game. Hovis simply disappears and is NOWHERE to be found. I fly at cruise speed back to the Hood and cannot dock. I waited over an hour last night to see if he would eventually show up but he didn't. (See my posts in this thread.)

Does anyone know of a workaround for this issue. I hate the Hovis mission more than ALL the others and want to get to the end of the story line so I can go exploring. Can someone please send me a savegame where I am past this Hovis bug?

Please send a savegame to me at [email protected]
Thanks,
Steve W.
503-816-3946 mobile

Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:33 pm by protomatter

Nevermind. The problem straightened itself out after playing the mission for the 30th time. Thanks to all who responded! (sarcasm)
protomatter

Sun Nov 21, 2004 2:57 am by Boscoe

Steve, I sent you an email on this one. Bos

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