Recovering Fighters in Combat

[Atilla the Pun]

Hi again, yet another clueless newbie question.

How do you recover fighters in combat? I have built fighters with a one-shot weapon and want to re-arm them after they fire.
Thanks,

AtP

[Sinapus]

Originally posted by Atilla the Pun:
Hi again, yet another clueless newbie question.

How do you recover fighters in combat? I have built fighters with a one-shot weapon and want to re-arm them after they fire.
Thanks,

AtP

You don't. At the end of the combat, all fighters still alive are automatically recovered. You can't have them reload in the middle of a battle.

[Atilla the Pun]

Originally posted by Sinapus:
You don't. At the end of the combat, all fighters still alive are automatically recovered. You can't have them reload in the middle of a battle.

Mine didn't. I'm playing the demo and all of my fighters got "lost" after combat was over.

And not recovering fighters during combat is pretty bogus, don't you think?
Thanks,

[ June 07, 2002, 20:28: Message edited by: Atilla the Pun ]

[Taz-in-Space]

I had fighters fail to be recovered because my carriers had taken damage. But they still showed up as in space at the end of combat. (Had to abandon them at warp point - was in enemy space) Never just lost them though...

...Well ensign, did you remember to open the fighter bay doors after combat?
Ummm, I knew there was something I was forgeting...

[ June 08, 2002, 06:02: Message edited by: Taz-in-Space ]

[Fyron]

Maybe that was just a bug with the demo.

[Krsqk]

If enough of your fighter/cargo bays were destroyed, your fighters wouldn't be recovered due to lack of available space.

[Baron Munchausen]

Not to mention.... did you really watch how many of your fighters were destroyed in combat? Many people don't look closely at the little number next to the Groups. You could have lost many without recognizing it.