[X2] cappable ships

[ISammael]

Can't find a sticky, and the search feature is still lost on me...

discuss?

[BoronSticks]

Normally up to and including M3's can be captured.

Assassination mission targets can never be captured.

Khaak can only be captured if you have either not bought the Khaak ship information, or have achieved a combat rank of Ace of Aces 3rd. Only Khaak up to M3's can be captured even so.

There are only 2 cases in which capital ships can be captured.

1) The occasional escort M6 for an assassination mission. Only a few are flagged 'capturable' and you can't really tell except to blast away at them a few times. Only a few percent seem to be capturable.

2) Xenon K in a 'Xenon Taxi' mission. These are the cheap ones offered for about 10k that say to take a guy straight to some other station but there might be hostile Xenon on the way etc. Capturable K's only appear once you have attained the combat rank of Ace of Aces 1st. Every single one of these is capturable however, given patience.

In any event, the magic number is 87.5% hull. The ship must be damaged below that point to be capturable as well. The display however does not round off but truncates, so when a ship says its at 87%, there's a chance its actually higher than 87.5%. Check the actual hull value remaining against the ship's max value to get a precise hull % to know for sure. Then you can use Ion Disruptors if you are patient and don't care too much about salvaging equipment, or PSG's or something else if you are less patient.

[gerrythegremlin]

There is a mod to capture and fly Khaak M1s and M2s - hunt around

[ISammael]

What about TS' and TLs? What are the abilities on these?

Thanks for the quick replies, guys.

[thenormalman]

TS and TP are capturable

TLs are not