Terran Plot stuck at escort TL

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Terran Plot stuck at escort TL

Post by Hwitvlf » Wed, 7. Jul 21, 22:21

I'm at the point in the Terran plot where you escort a Mammoth to Brennan's Triumph Alpha and it builds a TOA. The plot seems to hang here. I think the issue may be that the Pirates claim Brennan's Delta before the Mammoth arrives and build their own TOA. I have a save from right before I placed the 3 relay beacons in Brennan's Alpha, and I've reloaded several times but still hangs. I even tried boarding the Pirate TL before it could build its TOA, but the mammoth still just parks in Brennan's Alpha without progressing.

I'm wondering if destroying all pirate shipyards might prevent the pirates from claiming the sector long enough for the Mammoth to arrive and complete the plot point. Any other advice for progressing the plot?

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Re: Terran Plot stuck at escort TL

Post by Highlander1542 » Fri, 16. Jul 21, 01:34

I have just got to the same problem also hyper speed gate do not unlock after placing relays. Looks like a weeks worth of play down the drain. Unless there is a fix

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Re: Terran Plot stuck at escort TL

Post by Deianeira » Fri, 16. Jul 21, 03:23

You can try activating one of the eleven random HSAPs before doing the terran plot. The AI only claimes a random activated HSAP every four hours or so, giving you some breathing room to build the plot TOA in BT alpha. If all available HSAPs are already claimed, your out of luck and should probably move on, as there won't be any more patches.

If the pirates claimed BT delta, it's already too late...

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Re: Terran Plot stuck at escort TL

Post by Hwitvlf » Fri, 16. Jul 21, 18:30

Highlander1542 wrote:
Fri, 16. Jul 21, 01:34
I have just got to the same problem also hyper speed gate do not unlock after placing relays. Looks like a weeks worth of play down the drain. Unless there is a fix
This may be a planned part of the Terran Plot. You get a message about 'system malfunction' when you place the last beacon, and can not go through the HSAP until the plot progresses and a TL gives you a Trans-Orbital Lobotomy ... I mean builds you a Trans-Orbital Accelerator.
Deianeira wrote:
Fri, 16. Jul 21, 03:23
The AI only claimes a random activated HSAP every four hours or so, giving you some breathing room to build the plot TOA in BT alpha. If all available HSAPs are already claimed, your out of luck and should probably move on, as there won't be any more patches.
I already started over, but that sounds like it might have worked. Every sector where I had activated the HSAP had been claimed many hours before this, but there were a couple sectors where I had not placed the relays yet.

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Re: Terran Plot stuck at escort TL

Post by sideer » Sun, 19. Sep 21, 11:55

Deianeira wrote:
Fri, 16. Jul 21, 03:23
You can try activating one of the eleven random HSAPs before doing the terran plot. The AI only claimes a random activated HSAP every four hours or so, giving you some breathing room to build the plot TOA in BT alpha. If all available HSAPs are already claimed, your out of luck and should probably move on, as there won't be any more patches.

If the pirates claimed BT delta, it's already too late...
It happened to me now. I'm going to buy ship with better "punch" and try to destroy TOA placed by AI or kill TL to see if I can escort it again. If those 2 ideas of mine doesn't work I'm going to start new game again... someday.

Edit: TOA armor is impregnable just like gates. I have destroyed Mammoth to restart mission and result was the same. After clearing both sectors that TOA links mission is still stuck so as mentioned above the only way to fix this is to go back to previous save before accepting terran plot mission or to restart game.

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Re: Terran Plot stuck at escort TL

Post by alexdefelice » Wed, 6. Oct 21, 17:06

This happened to me too. The TL can't build the TOA because the pirates already claimed Brennan't Triump delta and built one. I'm trying to see if I can whip up a script to fix it. It's been a loooooooong time since I scripted in this game.
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Re: Terran Plot stuck at escort TL

Post by alexdefelice » Thu, 7. Oct 21, 01:43

I've been through the wringer trying to fix this. I loaded a save from before the pirates built the TOA and claimed Brennan's Triumph Delta. I killed all the pirates in BT Alpha, and blockaded the system with laser towers. The pirates somehow magically built the TOA anyway (without having a single ship in sector). Watched the HSAP disappear right in front of me, replaced with the TOA, breaking the Terran plot once more. I reloaded the save again, after I blockaded the sector but before the TOA was built. This time, I opened the script editor and killed two scripts that were running as global tasks. They were "plugin.expguild.npc.buildtoa" and "plugin.expguild.npcclaim". THIS finally prevented the pirates from building the TOA and allowed the Terran plot to continue. However, I may have totally broken the Explorer's guild. Maybe I'll find a way to get it running again, but otherwise it's a small price to pay vs. losing the ability to unlock all of Terran space.
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