Station Build Failure

[PokerBratXXX]

Hi, It seems to me that there appears to be a lot of station building problems since the new 1.22 patch.

I too am having problems with station building!

My problem is that I can not build past stage 2 of the initial build, the reason is that it says in red

"Build Location Obstruction, Waiting For Ships To Clear The Area"

I have checked the area and the only ship anywhere close is the construction vessel!

I have tried this several times, with and without any mods and have had the same result, even tried different Zones but to no avail.

Never had this problem until the new patch was installed

All resorces and credits are in place tried with mods running and with no mods at all, nothing seems to work.

Totally frustrared with this game now

[dijital]

The obstruction check mod (I believe) needs to be installed before even starting the station, for what it's worth. Agreed, it is very frustrating. Try leaving the zone (sector/system even if needed) and come back after a bit to see if it started itself. I think this check only occurs when you are in the zone with it. Sucks, because there's a certain appeal to watching it build.

[PokerBratXXX]

Hi Dijital,

Yes have seen that posted in other threads, I tried your suggestions but no change, also tried reverting back to Version 1.21, but even that wont work now either even though I had no problem building.

I might try starting over with 1.21 to see if that makes a difference, had to restart due to crash which lost my previous build and when I started it again it was after the new patch.

But I do agree with your statement about watching it build.

It's just a pain to have to restart yet again.... but hey ho!

Thanks for your advice though.

[INSTG8R]

How do you plan to go back? It is now up to 1.22 via Steam. You can't rollback Steam.

[dijital]

You can manually keep a copy of the game at each version, then put those files in place with Steam offline to go back. Another way (I don't know the details because I never bothered to try) is to rollback just the files that were changed, and again run it with Steam offline.

[PokerBratXXX]

Ok,

Restarted with 1.21 (With steam off line as said by Dijital) managed to build 2 stations complete without any problems.

Also managed to run a completion with 1.22 thanks to (ID shawnbrown40) who found the following in the save file:-

<value name="$obstructed" type="integer" />
<value name="$obstructioncheck" type="integer" value="1" />

You have to change the value to "0" and then it removes the obstruction, only thing is, when you try the next stage, the obstruction returns, save the game and reset the value to "0" then complete next stage... and so on.

You have to save and reset at every build stage in order to complete, hopefully someone will write a mod to take care of it... would myself if I knew how... lol

[Atreusqynn]

1.22 (fr.)

I have the same pb. ...
Write "0" in <value name="$obstructed" type="integer" />
<value name="$obstructioncheck" type="integer" value="1" />
Then try to ReBuilt ...
But : have to ReWrite "0" ...
Then try to ...

[shawnbrown40]

it seems that when the cap ships get with in 10 kn of the stastion your trying to build it gives the error with or with out the obstruction mod.

[bioscmos303]

i had the same and i just fix it !!(empty resource list and red line that say clear some space)

well its not really a bug..its just a bad logic/game developing/bad tips system to help the gamer to under stand what he need to do!

happen because when your Integrative urv forge run out of :
Cargolifters URV or if at your Construction vessel you didn't order your architect to equip Cargolifters drones before starting another plan.

and also can happen when you give more then 2 ships a selling/buy orders together to the same station that don't have Enough drones Available for it ..
if you selling to your stations(Construction vessel or Integrative urv forge ) at the same time that other ships you don't owned are trading with them can also conflict if they short on drones.

can also happen if you owned a lot of big and small ships that block some space and sometimes they are intrepid,overrun,interceptor drones that not moving that can also block(if you cant collect them just shoot them),so we need to clear it out!(keep reading m8s-fix is on the way)

Also happens
IF YOU DIDN'T EQUIP DRONES FOR YOUR Construction vessel-to fix it
just talk to your architect before starting another building plan
and if its to late for that just do this things

FIX:
FIRST we need to clear and to make some space at the zone we constructing(this go's also if you didn't equip drones for the vessel)

1. move to another system/zone and dock at any station
call to all your ship to join you with join your squad(i Recommend all of them )and wait for them..
2. then see/check if all of them are with you at the same zone! -if not:
go to:
info\property owned- and search for the ships that in your squad but didn't join you! - this is not a bug they just on:HOLD POSITION status for some reason (go to ship details and in - Management - COMMAND - If the order is:WAIT - this is why they didn't join or not doing anything)

sooo to fix this one just tell them to STOP CURRENT TASK
then: sometimes they join you and sometimes they will finish the trading/last order they had before(you can also sometimes tell them leave my squad also helps the ships to reorder the Planned trips they have(check it in show ship details for planed trips-if you don't see such line its because they don't have any)

NOW !!!! we reorder the selling we want but first sell the things that the
Construction vessel need

BUG:
empty resource list for Construction vessel: HOW TO FIX
even if the - show resource status is empty - you can still sell them from the trading menu!!!!!! and after the first trading is done you will see the list Appears as it should

1. so we moved to another zone and land on station remember?stay there!!
2. now open menu and go trading\TO Offers -
(IMPORTANT-don't do it at the same zone that your Integrative urv forge/Construction vessel are!!)
on Offers list - under Ware search for products with GREEN COLORS
BUT FIRST !! check if one of the green one's is : Cargolifter URV - if its green first sell this one and wait for the sell to finish
then sell the other produces that green

this is how it fix my problem ..hope it helps others

[Scoob]

Build obstruction was fixed a few patches ago. You can see it briefly, but any obstructing ships will move out of the way. Usually waiting no more than 5 minutes will see the Station/Extension skeleton placed.

Scoob.

[Masten]

Fixed a few patches ago??? I have build 210 and I have been waiting over an hour for the obstruction clear. How many more patches are expected before this bug is fixed?

[Tidaar]

I think certain scenarios leading to 1. Bulk tube rotation 2. Station obstruction , have not been fixed yet.

Some players report no issues , others do. The fact that some people are reporting playing the latest version and still have this problem means that it is worth checking if the fix made in previous patches covers indeed all scenarios.

Its a step back to check if previous fixes actually work 100% but it is worse if you move forward and pretend everything is ok.