Bought myself an AI Drone last week, undocked and realised i had no thruster. Redocked, discovered you cant buy them separately so just gave a loud Doh! thinking i had sold it when transferring equipment. Went away to my trader character, ground another 13 million, and bought another drone. Transferred my equipment over making certain that the AI Thruster never got touched, undocked and what do you know the bloody thruster vanished again!
So now im down about 30 million and have a Drone with no thruster:(
I've never owned an AI ship, so this is just a wild guess: are you sure you have an AI ID fitted? EDIT: or maybe your install is dodgy. Try adding and then removing the mod through FLMM
Just got a drone today, docked on several bases (AI ID installed), thruster didnt dissapear.
A Psalm out of the outcast history books.
The dons are our shepherds; I shall not want. They make us live with a cause; They lead us trough the still vasts of space. They restore our souls; They lead us in the paths of righteousness For The Orange Dream. Yai, though we fly through the valley of the shadow of death, we will fear no evil; For the Spirits are with us; Your leadership and Your cardamine, they comfort us. You prepare a safe home for us in the presence of our enemies; Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us All the days of our life; And we will dwell in the house of the outcasts Forever
http://discoverygc.com/wiki/index.php/AIThruster says that "This thruster is not sold individually. It may be part of a ship package or not available to players." Maybe you need a better reputation for the thruster? (o_O)
I just reinstalled discovery. Did notice that the mod manager was complaining about not being able to find x amount of ini files from my game. My freelancer folder keeps becoming write enabled for some reason. so i removed the write protect from all the files which fixed the propblem before reinstalling discovery.
I definitely get the thruster before taking off it just vanishes as soon as im in space.
If its not the above that is causing the problem the only other thing i can think off is that i recently set the single player options to give me a large chunk of money and universal friendly rep and a new starting planet so i could trial some ships.
Will go away and make another 13 million and try again:P
All sorted, must have been the discovery mod not installing properly because of write restrictions. Had to buy a different ship thothen an Ai Drone to get round another issue. Have a thruster now.
Thanks for the help. If i see any of you on the server ill be sure to come up and beep at you.
' Wrote:My freelancer folder keeps becoming write enabled for some reason. so i removed the write protect from all the files which fixed the propblem before reinstalling discovery.
It's Tuesday for three more minutes, so I'm still psychic.
You're using Vista or 7, and have Freelancer installed somewhere under the "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" directories.
You should re-install following these directions, part of which is to install somewhere *other* than the program files directory for Vista/Win7. That suggests the desktop, but I find that something like C:\Games\Freelancer is much simpler and works just as well.