[X3TC 2.6]OTAS representative dissapeared, station not destroyed

[Dantrithor]

I'm doing OTAS corporation missions, and after one that spawned capital ships in legend's home and damaged the station's shields, i was called for another mission. I jumped back about 1 (in-game) hour into legend's home.. just to see the station without any OTAS marked representative on it for comms.

The station could not have been destroyed since my last mission till i got the message, as i'd have noticed (I only left Legend's home to set-up a new destroyer, which took little time as i had the weapons and shields stocked), and i had a ship docked (TM) that is -still- there. Is there any reason this could have happened?

X3TC 2.6 + CODEA carrier script.
OTAS Combat Expert 52%
Inmediate previous mission was a missile delivery mission i rejected.
No OTAS/race ships have been touched/attacked, and the station is not hostile.

EDIT: WOOPS sorry.. didn't know this had to be in spoilers, as it didn't seem to have any secret. Apologies about the problem.

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Message sent by OTAS:
Message from: Nil Sillarn, OTAS (768-05-12 04:53)
Please return to OTAS HQ. We have a job offer from OTAS Corporation.


Current time: 768-05-12 06:07 (And i had time to start the HUB plot..)

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Edit: Images of rank status, and message:

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/3924/x3tcotaslog.jpg

http://img219.imageshack.us/i/x3tcotasrankstatus.jpg/

[StarTroll]

Maybe it was not a message for a mission but a reward. you tried to dock at the station ?

[Dantrithor]

Tried, with no luck. And the message said i was needed for a mission, standard OTAS new mission message.

[StarTroll]

n mod or anything like that installed ? If not (or even if there is one) I don't know why such a behaviour.

[Dantrithor]

No mods, but CODEA carrier mod, which is in no way involved with anything related to plots, or even bases (excluding some minor detail about hiring crew only when you're docked in military outposts, from your own command console)

EDIT: More details like time and message being added to first post.

[Sovereign01]

Look through your message log, see if there are any contract termination messages from OTAS...

[Carlo the Curious]

I've seen them disappear from time to time and then reappear. Just check back later.

[Dantrithor]

No other contact from OTAS since that message. The rest of the log (just a few messages) talk about CLS1 leveling up. Uploading, & linking in first post.

EDIT: Oh... fine. I was just worried that i might have done something odd to break the mission line. I'd not like to start it again from scratch, Carlo. I'll upload all the images though, just in case.

[Sovereign01]

Do you still have an OTAS rank?

[Starlight_Corporation]

They sometimes just seem to disseapear for no reason. The respresentative will return, but sometimes it can take a while. I noticed this behaviour at Terracorp & Plutarch HQ as well. So as long as the station hasn't been destroyed no worries, the representative is just taking a break from work.

[Dantrithor]

And, how long does it take for them to come back from their break? It's been 10 hours since he left.

[Deadbeat_Spinn]

What was the previous mission that you did for OTAS and did you abort it?

[Dantrithor]

Taxi mission, take someone from a station and bring him to OTAS HQ. I aborted it shortly after taking it, and noticing i required a TP (which i had none available at the moment).

I had done that before with no consequences.

[Deadbeat_Spinn]

Taxi mission, take someone from a station and bring him to OTAS HQ. I aborted it shortly after taking it, and noticing i required a TP (which i had none available at the moment).

You just supplied the answered to the problem you're having. Odds are the person you were meant to take to the OTAS HQ was suppost to be the next OTAS representative to offer missions. By aborting you broke the mission line because the representative never arrived at the HQ, hence there will be no missions offered despite OTAS contacting you with a job offer.

I had done that before with no consequences.

From the Corporate Guide,

Concerning the breaking of Corporation missions, it seems that if the Transportation mission is "TP required" and the mission is aborted then the Corporation mission line will break. It also does not matter what the destination station is, be it an HQ or any NPC station, the breaking will still happen. However there is the rare chance that an aborted/failed "TP required" Transportation mission will not break the mission line. Transport missions that have no ship requirement will not break a given Corporation if aborted/failed, but on the rare occassion the breaking can occur when the mission is aborted/failed.

As such you broke the OTAS mission line but if you don't mind the "Modified" tag then you can use the Corporate Reset script to begin anew with OTAS (if you've overwritten any saves prior to accepting the mission). You'll start back at the very beginning with the Escort Convoy mission should you use said script.

[Dantrithor]

Thanks, i missed that paragraph when checking out the Corporation guide. I already have a modified tag because of CODEA, so i don't mind resetting the corporation missions.