why has the option to ctrl drag salvage corvettes over a group of frigates,detroyers etc get taken out of game?
i cant seem to find a way to do it now,you cant select ctrl and left drag anymore over a group
also why would the game when selected for only military ships to be slected on a left drag it doesnt select salvage corvettes but does select the repair corvettes?
it doesnt make sense
is there a hot key that allows you to select their salvage option to left drag on a group of ships?
Hw2 never had that feature as they were coded differently in it…
thats funny cause i just did it with my original 1999 copy of HW 1
also i guess i should have mentioned it was HW1 i was referring to sorry
Yes, but HW1RM using the HW2 engine is why there isn’t bandbox salvage. I mind that less than the limit of 14.
OTOH, the RM salvage corvettes are much better than the original ones – they can grab enemy corvettes and fighters without waiting for fuel to rundown and kamikaze salvage.
They’re also slightly less squishy, which is a little strange since every other fighter and corvette seems to be more squishy.
What I do to quickly capture groups of ships, is select my 14 salvage Corvettes, and send them to capture ONE ship. Shift+click two corvettes on the UI ship list (now you have 12 corvettes selected), send them to another. Shift+click again two times, another ship.
It’s not as quickly, but I find it to be a good way to do it.
LuckyHRE, good tip, thx!
My inefficient old way is to keep around ten salvettes ready at any given time, split into pairs, each pair with its own group #. When I see the ship I want to capture, I select one to three pairs depending on the target… any salvettes that are left over get manually assigned to secondary targets. I don’t tend to salvage many strike craft after Mission 2’s missilevettes- except for the odd swarmer that’s sitting still.
Of course, now it takes a bit more planning to capture hard targets, because it’s no longer possible to stack support frigates on the salvettes…