you may accidentally have reassigned the hail function to another key, or assigned another function to the "P" key. to hail somebody, you need to select them, then either press the shortcut key, or click on the picture of a radio dish in the lower left hand corner of your HUD, just above the objects list.

Pesuming this is for the SP game, is it possible to hail another ship and demand their cargo like they do to you?

Finalday

"Revenge is a dish best served cold...and it is very cold...in Space... "Khan Noonien Singh"
Kahn, I'm laughing at the supieror intellect.. "Adm. J. T. Kirk"

nope, you have to blow them up. Would be a cool feature though...


Aceaz---Like a U-boat, unnoticed, surfacing only for a second, then vanishing without a trace....

Hailing doesn't do a whole much though. It just tells you what the NPCs are doing and where they're going. Everything else you can find out faster by looking at the targets list and/or pressing "O" to scan them.

Select a ship.
Default hail key is P, but it doesn't work for me.
Alternatively you can click on the second (or third) symbol to the left on the top of the scanner. That actually works for me. But there's nothing interresting they say, nothing else then the general comm-chatter you hear. This is me, I'm going to this place trading that thingy, need a few more waypoints, blah, blah, blah, that sorta thing.

Edit: Damn spelling.

- I'm not crazy, I'm a car. And if you don't believe me, you can get out and walk home. -

yes that would be a cool feature! I think, if you come up to a ship who is neutral, you should be able to push a button to tell them to drop the cargo! And if you have a better ship, or at random, they will. and you rep lowers with them. Not to get off subject. It IS my thread.

We don't own this place, but we have an understanding with the people who do.....

Yah, there's lots of options people would like to have. Such as selling commodities to NPCs, tipping off the cops, selling information, etc.


BlazeME: Flameus Muchus n00bus

It would be esspecially useful when dealing with other players. Typing out "Drop the cargo" when dealing with a freighter can usually mean they get the time needed to restart thier cruise engines.

~ DaVoid, Expert Star Diver

or you could even be able to type in numerous things! i played a game once called win adventure, you type in job to a person and they tell you their job, name and they tell you their name.. stuff like that. that would be good.

We don't own this place, but we have an understanding with the people who do.....

but we are sorta straying from the subject here. I TRIED to assign a keyboard key to the hail control, but it is not in the list! it is not even under the user interface controls.

We don't own this place, but we have an understanding with the people who do.....

Being able to ask for their cargo in MP would be cool.

A good use for sp hailing if you cant find a jump hole base etc.
is to find someone who is traveling somewhere and join formation.
i found masses of stuff that way

R

Mr Wiggles