Question about Black Hole Sun Terraform. (spoilers)

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Cerbius Nirin
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Question about Black Hole Sun Terraform. (spoilers)

Post by Cerbius Nirin » Sun, 26. Sep 21, 06:55

Hi folks,

I've just completed the mission to terraform the Black Hole Sun planet 'Hades'; some way through the mission an argon rep contacts you and then gets fired basically as it was an unauthorised transmission .. After you complete the project mission you get a message from her saying that she's on your PHQ stations and wants a job.

My question is this: Is this a character that can be assigned a role like pilot / manager etc (Because I cannot find her anywhere on the PHQ) - or is it just a generic npc that fades into the obscurity of my 56,000 strong workforce?

I thought it might have been like Haile from the terran plot missions where you get a 'Specialist' crew member to assign.

Hope this makes sense, thanks in advance

- Cerb

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Re: Question about Black Hole Sun Terraform. (spoilers)

Post by multiSnow » Tue, 28. Sep 21, 12:49

You could assign her as a manager or a pilot or something else just like any employee you already hired (a station manager is recommended, considering her skill) as long as you could find out her, but...
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The game script has a bug. It does not check whether the position she would stand is available or not.
It means that, if your HQ are already full with workforce, she will have no place to stand, so you could not find her anywhere anymore, unfortunately.
You can see a error message in debug log in that case.

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Re: Question about Black Hole Sun Terraform. (spoilers)

Post by dtpsprt » Tue, 28. Sep 21, 15:30

multiSnow wrote:
Tue, 28. Sep 21, 12:49
You could assign her as a manager or a pilot or something else just like any employee you already hired (a station manager is recommended, considering her skill) as long as you could find out her, but...
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The game script has a bug. It does not check whether the position she would stand is available or not.
It means that, if your HQ are already full with workforce, she will have no place to stand, so you could not find her anywhere anymore, unfortunately.
You can see a error message in debug log in that case.
I surely hope this bug is been reported...

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Re: Question about Black Hole Sun Terraform. (spoilers)

Post by humility925 » Wed, 29. Sep 21, 11:53

if you hope bug report, then it's better to report, even other people may had already report, but may not report as we hope so, yet to be safe, report anyway when you had not see it in tech support. It's stronger support case of report and more of they willing to look into and able to fix it.

As for that, good to know, I guess better not check on full workforce, but it's turn off, and leave some room might work, maybe?
Had a compassionate when you able... :)

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Re: Question about Black Hole Sun Terraform. (spoilers)

Post by Cerbius Nirin » Sat, 2. Oct 21, 08:37

Thanks for getting back to me folks, and apologies for the delayed response.

I can guarantee this time round that there was sufficient space as the station requires about 55.5k workforce and I have currently space for about 56,250 approx. Just out of habit I always try to keep some free workforce capacity on the HQ as I was worried that the workforce number would diminish below the recommended quota if there was a flurry of crewed ships ordered by NPC factions. Give or take there should have been roughly 700-800 spaces.

It certainly wasn't game breaking or anything, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't being an idiot and had simply misplaced them.

In any case this playthrough is pretty much wrapped up for now.

Thanks again for the responses.

- C

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Re: Question about Black Hole Sun Terraform. (spoilers)

Post by Drylce » Sun, 26. Dec 21, 07:38

I'll note that this is still an issue in 4.20. I've never posted a bug report for this game though, is there a specific method (or place I could find the method) to post the save game so I can file a proper one?

I did manage to get her to board my station after three changes (I don't know which may have affected the bug)

1) I shut down my computer and restarted X4 in the morning
2) I built my first habitat module on the station (finishing constructing it immediately before the terraforming mission finished)
3) I was standing on my station in front of Boso Ta (previously I had been Out of Sector doing something else)

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