I May have fixed the Stuck between Mission 7/8 Problem

[alevel17]

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Ok I started a new game and this time in Mission 7 I docked straight with the Trading Station and saw the BBS message.

I went to the Mine and I noticed I got an Extra bit of Dialogue I didn't get last time.

Normally when I "Cheat" and speak straight to the mine manager I go right to speaking to him.
This time Saya hailed me first and I told her how the clues lead here THEN talked to the manager.
The rest of the missions I did the same only this time after Miria Jumps out of Farnhams Legend she does not come back and sit in space the way my other game does.
She Hailed me over the radio saying she was ready come meet me at my papa's place.

Both games were started exactly the same with the game patched to 1.2 the only difference is one game had the bbs bug in and this one doesn't and got an extra bit of mission dialogue in mission 7.

Could this be where it messes up?
I'm now stuck with a game I've played for a week solid (had a week off work) with a massive army, millions of credits and 2 huge factory loops which I want to keep but the storyline is jammed at an awkward spot with the Paranid faction standing hard coded to Tainted wanderer and various other things.
And this game with NOTHING which I rushed through the missions that works.

ARGHHH at least i've found what causes the bug.
Please fix this in 1.3 it is a game breaker.

[Smegbot]

I restarted as well and I'm just about at the same point - I'll do mission 7 tomorrow night and see what happens...fingers crossed...

[Slade_x]

I have a brand new install of windows and X3 but i did load up a few of my saved games but the bug still presented itself, im just about to load up another autosave:

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Right before where you are even sent to the pleasure complex

So ill see how that works out

[alevel17]

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make sure your stading with the paranid is at least Creature BEFORE starting the mission or you may miss the BB Message.

I started 2 new games

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One I got the bb message with the other I left for a few hours and deliveratly missed the bb message, the bb message one works the other doesn't and Miria sits in space instead of going back to the Marauder.

That pretty much prooves it in my eyes but if someone else can replicate this as well that would be fantastic.

[regnet]

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I actually found the BBS-message and still got stuck with a Miria that just sits there, no message, so I'm not sure there is a connection there.

[alevel17]

dammit =/
Well im stumped then I started 2 new games at the same time, One got the bug one didn't, Please tell me its not just freaking random =/.

[Slade_x]

dammit =/
Well im stumped then I started 2 new games at the same time, One got the bug one didn't, Please tell me its not just freaking random =/.

I reloaded one of my save from just before i went to thuruks pride and amazingly the bb message was there

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then later on miria contacted me

Although i did completely wipe my raid array and reinstalled windows to ensure there was no corruption of game files or any third party software contributing to the bug

[alevel17]

Before I started my 2 new games I backed up my save files the uninstalled X2.
Ran Clean up routines.
Re-installed.
Ran Clean up Routines.
Extracted the patch to a seperate directory and copied the files in manually even renaming the "MOV" folder to "mov" as it is in the patch file.
Loaded the game started 2 new games at the same time.

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Gave one the BB Message and made sure the other missed it, the Latter was bugged and the former worked, I can't think of anything else I can do to resolve this.

The differences in the games I noticed:

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Speaking to the Ore mine Manager
BB Message - You get a bit of dialouge with Saya before speaking to the manager
No BB Message - You go straight to talking to the manager

Miria in Farnhams Legend
BB Message - She jump drives out of the system and does NOT come back, she appears in the station later when she radios you that she is ready
No BB Message - After jumping out the system she will jump back again instead of spawning inside the station and sit in space between the North Gate and the Marauder and do nothing

[Jimmy Jazz]

I am stuck at the same point in the story line
I am saving very often so I have overwritten the old save.
What I would like to know is wether this will be fixed in the upcoming patch without me having to restart the game. I would hate that!!!

As it is right now it is already extremely annoying that the Paranids wont trade with me and there is nothing I can do about it

[Jimmy Jazz]

Sorry for digging out this post, but I might be able to shed some more light on this bug.

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I did the "save the slave girl" mission twice. The first time I got this little message from Saya before docking to the silicon mine. Didn't complete the mission though since I was annoyed by it. The second time, I docked at the trading station, read the message and then left the mission for a long time to do something else. When I returned after several days (Saya was still in the sector) I didn't get this piece of conversation from Saya when docking to the mine. I did the mission but the story line is broken in Farnhams Legend.
It seems you have to read the message and proceed with the story imediately for the plot not to break

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[alevel17]

Im coming to the same sort of conclusion but some users experiences seem to contradict that =/
Until we get a group of people to test this seriously we are just going to have to put it down to lets wait for the patch.

[MarkB]

I just went right through this point of the game without even realising that it was possibly the broken mission. I had intended to stop storyline progess before I got here, but I was actually enjoying the story that I simply forgot that it may still be bugged and went ahead regardless.

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At least I am on talking terms with the Paranid again, but this mine they put into Priest Rings, does it actually work?

I mean is it worth me getting supply ships for it or was it just a way of ripping 400,000 credits from the players bank balance?

[anima36]

im sorry to resurrect this whole thing again but i have redone the pleasure complex mission 3 times, two of the times i used a cheat script to get my rep with the split higher so i could dock with the trading station before the message dissapeared, so i got the message and go and speak to the ore mine manager at the silicon mine (is that mistake there for everyone) and do the mission but miria still sits in her ship by the north gate afterwards, WHAT ELSE CAN I DO. i have 1.2.01 installed.

[donotdespisethesnake]

Yeah, I'm stuck here as well, this is a real pain. Do I have to go back and keep trying until I get lucky?

I am running 1.2.01, I had hoped that fixed all the mission bugs.

[giskard]

This may help.

X3 is very sensative to fragmented drives. I found that defragging my drives cured several odd issues nobody else could explain.

Like not being able to change the keys in the game and controls menus amongst many other things.

It also helped cure the constant freezing i was experiencing too.

Giskard

[donotdespisethesnake]

OK, I have defragged to no effect. At least I have a tidy disk now

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Tried going back to a save game just after rescuing the 'ladies' and before taking to Don again, but always get stuck when Maria returns to Farnham's and sits there in the Tempestine. Now I will try going back further, pity I hate mazes

Do we just wait and pray this will get fixed in the next patch? I am told we should post problems in tech support and not whine, fair enough, but I haven't seen any official response to this problem, just lots of other people saying they have the same problem and no work around.

Please please please Egosoft, gives us a sign...

[giskard]

Well we know this mission works in 1.2.01 because its been tested and found to work.

However, if memory serves me correctly there was issues in earlier patches which may mean your 1.2 and 1.2.01 patch didnt install correctly.

Just a guess, but it might work if you reinstall.

Giskard

[donotdespisethesnake]

Well we know this mission works in 1.2.01 because its been tested and found to work.

However, if memory serves me correctly there was issues in earlier patches which may mean your 1.2 and 1.2.01 patch didnt install correctly.

Just a guess, but it might work if you reinstall.

Giskard

Ok, I will try that. I need to install original, then 1.2 patch then 1.2.01, is that right?

I've noticed some options get set globally and some according to the savegame, so maybe some settings somewhere are getting confused between versions.

Cheers

[giskard]

Forums very slow today hummm.

You will need to install the game again, a clean install is best. Then install the 1.2 patch and finally the 1.2.01 patch or if your a win98 user, you could try installing the new patch released today that deals with the patch issues.

Heres the news release for the new page in the quotes below.

Update for Windows 98 SE & ME users for version 1.2.01 (9 Comments)

Following the recent update 1.2.01 it was discovered that clearly there was a fault with the update for users of Windows 98 SE and ME.

The new download fixes these problems. Even better, you just need to download the new update and install it over whatever 1.2 version or higher you have already.

IMPORTANT: Any other Windows users should NOT install this update as there are no added fixes nor features added.

If it helps, be sure to let us know so we can tell others of the fix if we see their posts.

Anyway, to put your minds at rest here is the plan.

First we are eliminating all the likely causes, which is a corrupt install right now. But i have learned in my time modding stuff never to dismiss an issue however unlikely because sometimes the player is right and the impossible actually happens.

So if a clean install and reinstall doesnt help. I will be asking you guys to send me a save game and setuping various ways for you to send them to us.

No point me trying it here on my saves because they work.

Im going to need one of yours. Im sure you see the logic in this. The idea is, if the saves bad, i will see the problem. If the save is not bad, then i will not and it will confirm the corrupt game issue or reveal another issue that may not be directly plot related. Either way it elimates or confirms this as a plot issue. One more item dismissed from the list of possibilities.

If i can confirm it in your saved games then i can make a full report to the plot programers and pass on your saves to them as proof. Until i can do that, there is very little they can do. So any information we can gather before then will be useful later.

Anything i report needs confirming too, so matt will probably help confirm it and get it all down official like fairly quickly. After that its out of our hands and in the hands of those who can fix the bugs.

So your feedback here is the key to fixing this issue.

Giskard

[coranthia]

Missed the BBS breadcrumb... WHERE DO I GO NOW? I heard talk of a silicon mine but where???