[X3AP] Nobody can dock at trade stations, including me. New Evidence 24 Jan.

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Post by Catra »

its not AP exclusive.

this can and does happen in TC.
Just saying it forward: I give everyone 2 posts to make good, in context posts(proper english, as always, is optional). After that I'm ignoring what you have to say in that thread that's directed to what we previously were talking about.
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Post by AuroraeEagle »

Catra, the difference is in TC it's due to too many things trying to dock, in AP it's more nothing can dock at any trading station anywhere no matter what it is, either OOS or IS
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Post by TTD »

AuroraeEagle wrote:Here is my vanilla save

http://www.mediafire.com/?bjj0ggyaay8f791

Thanks :D
Just tested.

Something is definitely wrong :!:

I thought I would try buying a Buster and docking with that.
Entered the Buster...

the next screen,before undocking put me inside the trading station looking out through the "rolling drum" , with station structure in front of me :!:
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Post by AuroraeEagle »

Wait, you could dock with the buster? O_O
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Post by TTD »

No,I did not dock with the buster.

I just found myself with that view when I entered the Buster.
Undocked from Shipyard as normal
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Post by AuroraeEagle »

I bought a discoverer that I found for sale inside a trading station, refused to undock.
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Post by Alan Phipps »

@ AuroraeEagle: I am beginning to think that your game is corrupt.

Have you verified gamefiles cache for both TC and AP?

Are you entirely vanilla?

Did you copy a retail version of TC into Steam to save download time? If so had that retail version ever been modified?
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Post by TTD »

AuroraeEagle wrote:I bought a discoverer that I found for sale inside a trading station, refused to undock.
This was and may still be a problem with the Chokaro at the Yaki shipyard.
In that scenario,you have t give it a remote command to follow you or some such.
Get it to either dock somewhere else,or if you have a Transporter device,just beam across to it when within range.
You can then dock and undock from the Yaki shipyard.

May this is similar?
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Post by AuroraeEagle »

The game file caches have been verified several times. Downloaded from steam, no mods installed, completely vanilla.

Also, I made a new save and trading stations are working fine there.
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Post by Alan Phipps »

@ TTD: No that is a completely different TC issue where the Chokaro is sometimes created in an internal fighter dock at the Yaki Shipyard and not on an external docking arm as it should have been.

@ AuroraeEagle: When you say a new save, do you mean further on from the one that didn't work or do you mean you started over again? When you say the Trading Stations work now then do you mean just the undocking Disco or that all your ships and NPCs can dock everywhere now?
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TTD wrote:
AuroraeEagle wrote:I bought a discoverer that I found for sale inside a trading station, refused to undock.
This was and may still be a problem with the Chokaro at the Yaki shipyard.
In that scenario,you have t give it a remote command to follow you or some such.
Get it to either dock somewhere else,or if you have a Transporter device,just beam across to it when within range.
You can then dock and undock from the Yaki shipyard.

May this is similar?
Nothing I can do can get the disco to undock, though I've not tried OOS yet. I've told it to follow me, etc.
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Post by AuroraeEagle »

The trading stations are working fine on a new game, but not on the original save I posted above.

The discoverer on the original save I bought at the station did not undock, it just won't.
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Post by Alan Phipps »

I think you had a corruption that was already stored in a save and all subsequently made ones. Starting again was your best course. If that issue crops up again in the new game then post here again but I think you should be OK now. Good luck and enjoy the game.
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Post by AuroraeEagle »

A very specific corruption that now two people have had? :P
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Post by Alan Phipps »

Two to eight maybe out of many thousands playing the game without seeing that issue. :gruebel:
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Post by Maxumous »

I had that same problem I found the problem with mine. I added extra stations to my Complex and found out that the ships was just circling the Complex. What it was that the first time you put a Complex kit down make sure you get your self a bit of a distance from the Stations. I don't know if that was your issue.
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@ Maxumous: No, this thread is about NPC stations and especially Trading Stations.
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Post by Maxumous »

Alan Phipps wrote:@ Maxumous: No, this thread is about NPC stations and especially Trading Stations.
Thats odd never add a issue there with Npc Stations, unless he putting Stations too close to them.
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Post by AuroraeEagle »

Well, I'm just saying it's a very specific problem that more then one person has had now, might be an underlying cause worth investigating?
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Post by Alan Phipps »

Well I suspect that Egosoft have bigger fish to fry just now in X3AP let alone XR. You cannot investigate a rare and intermittent fault without committing significant developer and coder effort, and those are busy commodities just now. A widely-seen and reproducable gamebreaking failure that exhibits on many different systems (like the current X3AP fps issue) would probably get their attention.
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