Ferengi salvage ship bug

posted on August 13th, 2009, 9:12 am

I'm not sure if this is WAI but I'm guessing not.  If you set yourself as an Observer in a game, when you select the Ferengi Salvage Ship you get a command tray.  You can't control anything except turning off (but not on) the tractor beam if the ship is towing something.  If you turn the tractor beam off, the ship will not re-tractor it and continue on its way.

Extremely minor bug, but still a bug.

posted on August 13th, 2009, 1:35 pm

Very very interesting. How unusual 

posted on August 13th, 2009, 2:33 pm

I propose that Ferengi Scavengers should be under full control of the observers. You can pick which ship to tow and the path to tow it in. Each observer can control up to 2 marauders.

posted on August 13th, 2009, 2:35 pm

That would defy the point of observors... 

posted on August 13th, 2009, 7:12 pm

this is known and yes, considered a minor problem. not much of an exploit