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Issues, Workarounds & Localization General Issues
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UPDATE: Creating a support ticket for clarification instead of this thread.

So - today you can carry and assemble a ship in your cargo hold if you have a big enough cargo hold and a device nearby that lets you do so. In space that is.

But the ‘Repackage’ option is not there if you want to go back. Now you are just stuck with the assembled ship in your cargo and you cannot even jettison or repackage it.

I think the Repackage feature would make a ton of sense here with the device still nearby.

You could even treat us a little by making it a new shiny item like a ‘Mobile Ship Maintenance Unit’.
That way I dont need to repackage, I can just move it to that and launch the (now assembled) ship into space from that.

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Are you saying you can assemble a ship in your cargo while in space?

And this assembled ship cannot be jettisoned?

That’s the first time I hear this is possible, this doesn’t seem to be intentional. Instead of a repackage option it might be better to get this bug fixed.

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It is very intentional. It has a very specific message ingame saying you need to be near a device that allows you to do so. And this device enables this specific feature for you. So there is actual logic setting this flag. Its not a bug.
So technically you are right though - It is not purely ‘in space’ - you cannot do it mid warp.

And having that feature I would say it should enable the inverse feature as well. To repackage it back.

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So you’re saying it is intentional that the game allows us to assemble ships in space in our cargo but not jettison or otherwise use that assembled ship?

Just because you need to be near a device to do so?

That still sounds like an unintended bug to me.

Can you explain what exactly the device and the interaction is?

I haven’t tried it, but here’s my guess:

  1. You’re next to a mobile depot
  2. The mobile depot allows you to equip modules on your ship in space
  3. These modules could be packaged, so the mobile depot allows you to assemble the modules in your cargo
  4. The mobile depot accidentally also allows you to assemble other non-module objects like ships in cargo
  5. You now found a trick to have an assembled ship in non-SMB cargo, even though you’re blocked from doing so in any other situation and the ship cannot be jettisoned, reassembled or used in any way

Correct?

Sounds very much like a bug to me.

Just because you need to be next to a mobile depot to assemble objects in space and can assemble ships in your SMB while in space does not mean this message is meant for ships; it is meant for modules.

The appropriate action to me seems to fix step 4 so it cannot happen in the first place, not to add the ability to let players revert this very rare bugged and useless situation.

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You may very well be right.

Neither of us knows whether this is an intended mechanic or a bug without hearing from the people who actually implemented it.

I’ll close the thread here and submit a support ticket to Fenris Creation instead. They can clarify whether this is intended behaviour or not.