Overview
This guide includes a video as well as a worded step by step method on how to board a ship using the Star Gazer class. (Or any AOG ship). There is also a small section how to board without an AOG ship and will still apply the same boarding technique as any other ship.
The Main Overview of What to Do.
Below I have posted a link to the video I made on how to board a ship with a Star Gazer class. This ship is the easiest to get into ship boarding I believe so that is why I chose it. There are other ways to board ships though, which I will explain in a later section of this guide.
The Link:
Summary of the Video.
Here I would just like to make a very quick summary of what to do:
Step 1:
Before dropping warp in system, activate the cloaking system of the ship.
Step 2:
Once in system and cloaked, initiate a scan to detect any boardable ships, drones are not able to be boarded so do not bother trying to to!
Step 3:
The Star Gazers science suite comes equipped with the ‘Gentlemen’s Welcome’ and ‘Block Long Range Comms’ virus’. Activate the ‘Block Long Range Comms’ so that once you board the ship (and possibly claim it), you do not get the ‘Flagged’ status.
Step 4:
Proceed to the engineering section which contains the transporter and science station, and activate ‘Gentlemen’s Welcome’ from there. There may only be a short window for when this activates and disables the quantum shields of the enemy ship so you must be quick to board. If you are doing this with an AI crew, set the ships order to [u[‘Abandon Ship'[/u], this makes all the crew board the enemy.
Step 5:
Once on board, head straight for the bridge, having two weapons is usually good, I like to have a phase pistol and split shot rifle. Stand in front of the screens on the bridge to claim them. Once enough have been claimed, you can remove the enemies claim. There will also be another option to claim their ship, if this is selected without ‘Block Long Range Comms’ activated then you will become flagged.
Step 6:
Enjoy the spoils of war! Hopefully this method should allow you to take an enemy ship without damaging your own.
Important Notices:
Depending on how well equipped your ship is, the reactor may overheat and shutdown, this will deactivate the cloaking device and leave you vulnerable. I would advise reducing all power to every system other than science, and even then I would advise reducing as much power as possible on the science power bar to increase the time it takes to overheat the reactor.
If doing this with other players, attempt to follow the same steps and head straight for the bridge together. This is not a fool proof method and you may die doing it. If you are not well equipped personal weapons wise, you probably will die and have to respawn. Just reorganise and communicate with each other. This is key.
How to board without virus’ or cloaking devices.
This will be very brief as it is very similar to the Star Gazer method.
Instead of using a cloaking device or virus’, you simply need to use brute force.
Set your AI to abandon ship, and start attacking the enemy ship with your starships weapons. Once the quantum shields are below a certain level, the AI crew will run for the transporter and beam over. Then simply follow the same boarding steps as with the Star Gazer.
Thank You!
Thank you for using my guide and I hope it was helpful.
If you have any questions just simply leave a message below as well as any criticism or suggestions! Just keep it civil! If anyone would like any other guides or guided videos I will happily make another.