I can't capture a harvester

[Starship_Yard]

Unfortunately I think you just have to wait for the mission to pop up.  Some people say they have went a long time without it appearing.  I ran out of research projects for a month or so on my first game.

Brett

[ManicMiner]

I've captured 2 harvesters and have captured / dismantled both a scout and a fighter, but still can't research them. Nothing else is available in the tech tree.

For a long time the tech tree at my home base had various techs I could research based on the recovered items from the scout, but no other base could research those items even when I transferred those items across.

I now have 60 scientists twiddling their thumbs, 1 harvesters, 1 fighter and 1 scout all in the process of being dismantled. Hopefully this'll allow me to research something new!

[EchizenR]

Sorry if this may be irrelevant, but may I know the necessary structures needed to store a firebird/ silhouette/ saracen? I get confused with the large and small hangars.

[BTAxis]

Keeping in mind the design (as opposed to the current state of the implementation), interceptors go in medium hangars (2x1), dropships go into large hangars (2x2) and UAVs go into small hangars (1x1).

[Destructavator]

The "Base Summary" button gives a good idea of how much of what type of space is used up.

In some builds of the game - I can't remember if 2.2.1 does this or not (haven't played 2.2.1 in a long time) - if a large hanger is free it can also be used to hold multiple smaller craft.

On the aircraft purchase screen it displays, as one of the stats, how large the aircraft is.

[Satanic Mechanic]

Base summary screen was unavailable in 2.2.1

Also, Large medium and small hangers.... oh dear, looks like I'm going to need dedicated research/construction and operations bases in the future

[Chriswriter90]

Wait Wait Wait Wait.

Lets clarify:

1) Do harvesters fit into small UFO Hangers or not in 2.2.1?

2) Will this change in 2.3?

I have some unrelated ideas, but they can wait for another day.

[BTAxis]

2.3 will likely have the off-base UFO yards, so there won't be any UFO hangars at all anymore.

[EchizenR]

Oh yes, I was wondering about the UFO yards in 2.3 Dev. Would it allow the storing of captured UFOs? And sorry to bring this up again, I have several large UFO hangars in several different bases. But every time I do a mission, the store UFO option is always blurred out and I end up having to sell the UFO away. Are there more prerequisites to store UFOs than just a large hangar, living quarters, power plant and command center?
 

[geever]

Fighters and scouts need small ufo hangar.

-geever

[Coconut Jonlan]

I'm having a similar problem and I've tried everything - I have sold / transferred everything in my base - I have transferred the only UFO I had in storage so my hangars, UFO hangars,  and stores are all completely empty - but I still can't recover the UFO - what's going on?

I've recovered a scout and a fighter no problem, is this a bug?

[vedrit]

Just wondering, as I have no idea, but cant it be worked so that large hangers (Both UFO and human) can store either 1 large craft or 2 small?

[geever]

@Coconut Jonlan
Which version? In 2.2.1 you could only recover UFOs which landed AFAIR. Crashed UFOs were not recoverable.

-geever

[Coconut Jonlan]

@Coconut Jonlan
Which version? In 2.2.1 you could only recover UFOs which landed AFAIR. Crashed UFOs were not recoverable.

-geever

This was happening in 2.2 - I've since given up on it and restarted with 2.2.1

[Coconut Jonlan]

OK - now its just getting annoying - what is it with Harvesters and the inability to recover them???

I've got another landed Harvester mission - this time on completion of the mission the Recover UFO button is no longer greyed out, and I get a message telling me that the UFO will arrive at my base in 2 days - so far I have waited 10 days and it has not arrived