Control Room Interaction

Rykaird · 03-23-07, 01:56 AM

I'm enjoying the game, but I'm struggling with something (beyond figuring out manual targeting with a new system!)

We were told that the tradeoff for not having some of the eye candy stations like the SHIII Captain's cabin was that the stations we would have - though limited in number - would be far more interactive.

Well, unless I'm doing something wrong, I can't for the life of me figure out why I would ever set foot in the control room. As far as I can tell, there is absolutely nothing to do there. I can't click on the crew to bring up their relevant orders, or go to their stations, or use or interact with any of the equipment. I can't transit to the nav map, attack map, or crew management panes through the control room. I can't even get a full set of information from the gauges - no C02, no battery, etc. As far as I can tell, the only thing I can do in the control room is leave the control room.

I'm just starting out, so I'm probably missing something. But the Captain's cabin, so derided by many as useless eye candy, was in fact MORE interactive than the SHIV control room. I could lie down in the captain's bunk. Yup, lying down was a higher level of interactivity than I'm getting with the SHIV control room . . .

I'm more than happy to be the bonehead that can't figure this out if it means having a control room station that does something. The conning tower works fine - I can use the sonar and radar by going to the stations. Any help here would be appreciated.

03-23-07, 01:56 AM	#1
Rykaird Weps Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 356 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	Control Room Interaction I'm enjoying the game, but I'm struggling with something (beyond figuring out manual targeting with a new system!) We were told that the tradeoff for not having some of the eye candy stations like the SHIII Captain's cabin was that the stations we would have - though limited in number - would be far more interactive. Well, unless I'm doing something wrong, I can't for the life of me figure out why I would ever set foot in the control room. As far as I can tell, there is absolutely nothing to do there. I can't click on the crew to bring up their relevant orders, or go to their stations, or use or interact with any of the equipment. I can't transit to the nav map, attack map, or crew management panes through the control room. I can't even get a full set of information from the gauges - no C02, no battery, etc. As far as I can tell, the only thing I can do in the control room is leave the control room. I'm just starting out, so I'm probably missing something. But the Captain's cabin, so derided by many as useless eye candy, was in fact MORE interactive than the SHIV control room. I could lie down in the captain's bunk. Yup, lying down was a higher level of interactivity than I'm getting with the SHIV control room . . . I'm more than happy to be the bonehead that can't figure this out if it means having a control room station that does something. The conning tower works fine - I can use the sonar and radar by going to the stations. Any help here would be appreciated.