Hi reinhart,reinhart_menken wrote:I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but I seem to have a problem hacking a friendly ship with a polit in it (though no problem with enemy ships with polits). I went to Freedom's Reach and hacked one of those racers' Arrow, with the pilot in it. The hack was successful and I wasn't caught (well...I wasn't really watching, but I wasn't attacked). The ship became my property, but somehow I can't give it a command. Everything else works fine, transporter, freight transfor, I can fly it, just not commands. And the ship still has the same original pilot in it.
no there should be no problem hacking friendly ships or enemy ships whith the BenCo System Override Software. I have hacked 100's of both. The problem is with those particular racing ships in Freedom's Reach. They are dif than all other ships in the game, ie: they do not have any collision bounding boxes so you can actually fly right through them and you can also shoot at them tell your weapons melt, with no effect. They were put in the game mainly for visual appeal and were not meant for any real Player interaction. The pilot that is in there isn't really a pilot either, as they have "0" value for fightskill, moral, aggression etc. It is best to think of these ships as mere flying transparent icons and just move on to other ships. Sorry, BenCo does not offer fee for service refunds while trying to hack a mirage.