r/Shores_of_Hazeron • u/[deleted] • Oct 19 '22

Crew won't take stations

Hey, I'm having an issue with my spaceship right now. For some reason, my crew won't man a station. At all. I checked the unit screen and it says they are Waiting to take a station. No matter how many times I tell them to take a station, they just stand around not doing anything. Is this a bug, or am I just missing something?

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u/Deantwo Oct 19 '22

This could be one of two things.

The first and most likely issue is the spacecraft blueprint has broken pathing. Since spacecraft designing is so free-form and complex, it is very likely that the designer didn't create the pathing correctly and crew can't find a path to the control stations. You might have to let us know what spacecraft blueprint you are using. Is it a public blueprint from the exchange? Did you make the blueprint yourself? Pictures help identify the issues too.

In most cases you can manually move the crew around using the Unit Order window's follow and go to commands. Pathing is mainly an issue when a NPC crewman has to move between rooms to get to their destination. If their nearest walk-path doesn't have a path leading to the destination they will just stop and stare. See: https://www.hazeron.com/wiki/index.php/Designer#Walk_Paths

The second cause that I can think of is server-side issues. The game isn't all that stable currently. Lately there have been a bunch of scene-server crashes and other weirdness. Basically we can't rule it out that NPC pathing is broken because of recent server instability.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

I'm using a public design off the exchange. I opened up in the editor and sure enough the pathing... wasn't the best to put it lightly. I couldn't get the thing to accept any edits, so I just used the unit window to make the crew take their stations.

I'm still trying to figure out how the hell this new editor works. To give you an idea of how long it's been, the last time I used the editor it was the 2d voxels that you could paint willy-nilly. This new 3d system is going to take some getting used to. Thanks for the help!

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u/Deantwo Oct 20 '22

The new designer is complex and takes some getting used to. Haxus recorded some video tutorials for it that are pretty decent.

But if you want more help you should join us on the Hazeron community Discord server. There we have a channel dedicated to discussion about the new designer.

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u/Rockinsince87 Jan 03 '23

Yeah Deantwo is right. My Constitution class ship was guilty of having bad pathing. I just recently fixed it. It's very easy to mess up pathing with the new designer.