Another Problem with the Energy Cell Mission

[farondk]

So for the first two days playing this, I was stuck on purchasing the energy cells during the tutorial. Not selling, purchasing. My trader would just sit there after I made the buy order. I tried this several times and tried just about every solution on the board here (leaving/joining squad, leaving sector, editing the save file to remove the trade queue) but nothing would get the damn trader to actually MOVE.

So I did some experimenting last night, and discovered that if I made him purchase energy cells from another array, lo and behold it WORKED, although I couldn't progress them mission. What i suspected was correct; the solar array (IV) that was chosen for me to interact with was so backed up with other freighters that it was literally broken and the AI apparently just shut down.

I have seen this happen before, especially on escort missions. I watched as my freighter I was secorting was getting attacked and right as the enemy engaged, he entered a highway. The enemy AI immediately just shutdown and stopped, making for easy kills. When I arrived to rejoin my freighter, he too was lifeless and dead and I couldn't complete my mission.

So this morning I restarted the campaign, and guess what? I was assigned a DIFFERENT array for the mission and it worked, although the trader is slower than mud. Another interesting thing about this is that the broken array's in my previous attempts, I was only allowed to purchase 100 energy cells max. This time, I could buy up to 100,000 or something like that. And I had no issues selling and progressing with the story.

So TL:DR for players; if you can't purchase energy cells, I suggest retrying and plowing through the tutorial again to this point.

TL:DR for devs's: Put some code in your AI to check for blocked queues, especially when its a mission target.

[Nightdragon81]

from what they said the "AI is fine, but what it is that the order isn't given the AI. So its some scipt or variuble issue that isn't saving to the variuble correctly or isn't reading correctly from it.

Or maybe the AI is broken who knows.