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Stuck on Casino research...upload surveillance program....to where? - Fix in a future build.

Post by DarkSyd » Wed, 1. Mar 23, 02:45

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I'm at the Teladi phase of the Casino research (have done Split, Paranid, and Argon already)...but I've lost guidance to the objective. I've apparently found a Teladi Hab module at some point (maybe by accident)...that phase is greyed out, and I'm sitting at "upload surveillance program"...but I have no orange mission indicator as to where I'm supposed to be doing so.

I've cancelled and restarted the research, active/inactive the phase, blasted various Hab modules with EMP (didn't help, but got blueprints)...I'm stumped, and I don't really feel like wasting another evening trying to find the one hab module in the universe I'm supposed to be investigating.
Any ideas on what else I can try? Or some way to fully reset the entire mission line?
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DS

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Re: Stuck on Casino research...upload surveillance program....to where?

Post by DarkSyd » Thu, 2. Mar 23, 01:23

Well, I'm stumped. Finished up the Terran branch hoping it might kickstart the other somehow, but nope.

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Re: Stuck on Casino research...upload surveillance program....to where?

Post by CBJ » Thu, 2. Mar 23, 09:33

I don't think anyone is going to be able to help you without a savegame where they can see why the mission might not be progressing.

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Re: Stuck on Casino research...upload surveillance program....to where?

Post by DarkSyd » Thu, 2. Mar 23, 19:32

Thanks, that's a good point.

Now, to see if I can share a save without messing that up too :)

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am5SkSm2z8qNiIo8Nmr ... A?e=0Ejnwg

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Re: Stuck on Casino research...upload surveillance program....to where?

Post by DarkSyd » Thu, 2. Mar 23, 19:43

I have a save from Sunday in which I haven't started those sub-missions, which is good, as I really haven't done much since then other than worry about how to fix whatever I broke :)

Just for kicks, when I've got time later tonight, I want to see if I can break it the same way..."discover" the associated Hab module (which completes the guided portion of the mission)...then leave the sector and see if it breaks the same way for the second part of the mission. I'm guessing those "local area mission markers" (blue & orange square) maybe don't convert to guided markers if you leave the sector.

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Re: Stuck on Casino research...upload surveillance program....to where?

Post by DarkSyd » Fri, 3. Mar 23, 01:15

Hm, nope, apparently Sunday save is broke too...the "Find Teladi Hab Module" step is already complete, and no guide to where to upload the surveillance program.

However!

Split "Find Hab Module" step is ALSO complete, but setting that one to active DOES give me guidance back to a station in another sector to upload the program. So, it would seem just the Teladi step is bugged/broken?

In the save...the Split mission contains target id info, the Teladi (at the same stage) does not. Is this the issue?

<mission id="524947" name="Investigate Split" description="To gather the valuable insights required, we will need to observe individuals during their leisure time. Fortunately, I have devised a number of methods to avoid you having to directly interact with hapless patrons." icon="briefing_boso_ta_01" caption="Boso Ta" faction="civilian" type="plot" level="medium" abortable="0">
<briefing>
<objective step="1" type="find" text="Split habitation module"/>
<objective step="2" type="custom" name="Upload" text="Surveillance program" active="1">
<targets>
<target id="[0xe02ed53]"/>
</targets>
</objective>
</briefing>
<objective step="2" type="custom" name="Upload" text="Surveillance program">
<targets>
<target id="[0xe02ed53]"/>
</targets>
</objective>
<thread id="524884"/>
</mission>
<mission id="524953" name="Investigate Teladi" description="To gather the valuable insights required, we will need to observe individuals during their leisure time. Fortunately, I have devised a number of methods to avoid you having to directly interact with hapless patrons." icon="briefing_boso_ta_01" caption="Boso Ta" faction="civilian" type="plot" level="medium" abortable="0">
<briefing>
<objective step="1" type="find" text="Teladi habitation module"/>
<objective step="2" type="custom" name="Upload" text="Surveillance program" active="1"/>
</briefing>
<objective step="2" type="custom" name="Upload" text="Surveillance program"/>
<thread id="524884"/>
</mission>


I'm guessing based on the above, this is the station and component I'm looking for, but I honestly don't have a clue what to do with that information without a debugger as the value look like maybe a mem address :)

<cue id="524953" state="complete" time="2759135.24">
<vars>
<value name="$Race" type="race" value="teladi"/>
<value name="$LeakLocation" type="componentslot" value="882"/>
<value name="$NearHabModules" type="group" value="20247"/>
<value name="$SurfacePos" type="position" value="395"/>
<value name="$SurfaceRot" type="rotation" value="19"/>
<value name="$DebugChance" type="integer"/>
<value name="$NearestHabModule" type="component" value="[0x0]"/>
<value name="$Station" type="component" value="[0xe06615e]"/>
<value name="$PotentialHabModules" type="list" value="75"/>
<value name="$NearestStation" type="component" value="[0xe06615e]"/>
<value name="$PossibleMissions" type="list" value="38950"/>
<value name="$LeakMacro" type="macro" value="dataleak_s_standard_01_macro"/>
<value name="$Base" type="cue" value="524884"/>
<value name="$LeakLocations" type="list" value="10757"/>
<value name="$Leak" type="component" value="[0x0]"/>
</vars>
<cue id="524954" base="524922" state="waiting"/>
<cue id="524955" base="524931" state="complete" time="3466331.181">
<cue id="524956" base="524932" state="complete" time="3466331.181">
<cue id="524957" base="524933" state="waiting"/>
</cue>

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Re: Stuck on Casino research...upload surveillance program....to where?

Post by Xenon_Slayer » Fri, 3. Mar 23, 15:12

Yep, looks like something ate the signal leak you were meant to scan.

We'll bulletproof and patch the mission so it'll work again. If you want to force it to continue, you could have the Teladi Trade Station in Open Market be destroyed.
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Re: Stuck on Casino research...upload surveillance program....to where?

Post by DarkSyd » Fri, 3. Mar 23, 17:08

If a patch will fix it up, I can wait...lots of other stuff to do. This is my first playthrough, and I'm on super good terms with the Teladi...I don't really want to mess that up :)

Thank you!

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