1:25 Station building stuck

oldviper585 · Post by **oldviper585** » Mon, 3. Mar 14, 00:49

Building in OL, eternal dawn. Section 3 stuck at 80%, needs Vlauncher but no buy emblem on CV. Any suggestions?

old viper

Post by **Santi** » Mon, 3. Mar 14, 00:55

Go out of sector for a bit, a lot of issues when you are in sector and building a Station.

oldviper585 · Post by **oldviper585** » Mon, 3. Mar 14, 01:09

This station has been stuck for three days. I have been in and out the sector several times. I'm building a second station in the same sector with no problems.

Endeavour79 · Post by **Endeavour79** » Mon, 3. Mar 14, 10:00

Edit your savegame and put the ware in the Construction Ship storage...
My Construction ships "lost" all their trade offers and never received the wares needed. Save Game editing was the only solution..

oldviper585 · Post by **oldviper585** » Mon, 3. Mar 14, 11:04

Thanks for the replies. Can you show which lines to change?

Old viper

Endeavour79 · Post by **Endeavour79** » Tue, 4. Mar 14, 06:17

Okay..it may look difficult but it's as easy as copy&paste!

Before you start, install and use Notepad++!

In the savegame xml file search for: owner="player"
keep jumping through the search results till you find this:

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<component class="ship_xl" macro="units_size_xl_builder_ship_macro" connection="connection_builddummy01" owner="player" knownto="player" id="[0x28b73f]">

The entry might be different for the connection and id value but you're looking for the units_size_xl_builder_ship_macro owned by you.

That's your construction ship.
Go down line by line till you find something like this (needed resources):

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<build start="32753" steps="7" update="1" type="build" state="waitingforresources">
<resources>
<ware ware="energycells" amount="3034"/>
<ware ware="fusionreactor" amount="384"/>
<ware ware="reinforcedmetalplating" amount="2036"/>
<ware ware="bioopticwiring" amount="1436"/>
<ware ware="shieldgenerator" amount="11"/>
<ware ware="dumbfireturret" amount="2"/>
<ware ware="machinegunturret" amount="33"/>
<ware ware="plasmaturret" amount="14"/>
</resources>
<components>
<component component="[0x29f121]"/>
</components>
</build>

Copy all the <ware...../> line into clipboard.

Go down some more lines till you find a section like (your storage):

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<cargo>
<summary connection="cargo">
<ware ware="reinforcedmetalplating" amount="975"/>
<ware ware="shieldgenerator" amount="100"/>
<ware ware="fusionreactor" amount="114"/>
<ware ware="dumbfireturret" amount="8"/>
<ware ware="energycells" amount="20000"/>
<ware ware="bioopticwiring" amount="621"/>
</summary>
</cargo>

Paste all the <ware..../> entries from your clipboard as shown in the above example.

Save the file and reload the game.. Then your CV should start building immediately.

Cheers, End

Endeavour79 · Post by **Endeavour79** » Tue, 4. Mar 14, 06:21

Oh..btw..the V-Launcher is the dumbfireturret..

oldviper585 · Post by **oldviper585** » Thu, 6. Mar 14, 01:25

Well, the CV has all the resources it needs, but build is still stalled at 80%. has been this way for 24 hrs. The construction drones are flying aimlessly around the station in a long line. Guess station building is still bugged, huh.

Post by **linolafett** » Thu, 6. Mar 14, 11:12

Savegame for me to take a look at it?

Endeavour79 · Post by **Endeavour79** » Thu, 6. Mar 14, 13:45

Here is one for the stuck station trading..in case you want to look at it too..

https://www.dropbox.com/s/njcweszhbo5nuof/quicksave.rar

Check out the huge pile of NPC cap ships trying to trade with my station but nothing is happening.. Plus some small traders idling around my CV, same problem..

Post by **linolafett** » Thu, 6. Mar 14, 15:28

Endeavour79 wrote:Here is one for the stuck station trading..in case you want to look at it too..

https://www.dropbox.com/s/njcweszhbo5nuof/quicksave.rar

Check out the huge pile of NPC cap ships trying to trade with my station but nothing is happening.. Plus some small traders idling around my CV, same problem..

Your Savegame is modded, i can not work with these savegames as the mods will (or can) cause issues.
Also please stay on topic, we are looking into a station building issue, a savegame with a trading issue is off topic and doesnt help to solve the building issue. Please create a new thread with a vanilla savegame. Thanks

Endeavour79 · Post by **Endeavour79** » Thu, 6. Mar 14, 21:54

linolafett wrote: Your Savegame is modded, i can not work with these savegames as the mods will (or can) cause issues.building issue. Please create a new thread with a vanilla savegame. Thanks

I don't expect any help from you. I uploaded the savegame for you to help you track down issues with your game. There are countless forum posts of stuck trades and trading problems, idle trade ships etc. since patch 1.25. This is the only post I can see any Egosoft employee active. So I just wanted to give you guys as much info as I can.
Regarding the mod's.. if the game would work in any way as promised I would be very happy to play without mods. It's not playable the way it is.
Anyway..back to topic..

Post by **Santi** » Thu, 6. Mar 14, 22:14

Endeavour79 wrote:I uploaded the savegame for you to help you track down issues with your game.

If your game is modded, Linolafett cannot load the savegame and test it to start with, he will need to load all the mods you are using, and then try to work out if the issues are caused from Rebirth or the Mods, for bug testing only a vanilla game is acceptable if you want any chance of reproducing the bug.

Endeavour79 · Post by **Endeavour79** » Thu, 6. Mar 14, 22:31

That's why I added my zipped extensions folder to the savegame upload..
Anyway..I thought it might be helpful...
No offence linolafett!

oldviper585 · Post by **oldviper585** » Fri, 7. Mar 14, 00:41

Evidently I had a bad save game. Not only was the build stuck but several other problems showed up; freezes on menus, freezes while flying, CTDs and very slow loading. I have several mods running but the freezes and menu problems started with 1.25 patch.

Thanks for attempts to help.

Love this game, most of it anyway, keep patching Ego.

old viper

Zetoss · Post by **Zetoss** » Sun, 9. Mar 14, 12:25

I've tried building about 10 stations at different times and locations over the last two months and so far none of them has ever finished... Every single time the construction ship has become stuck (yes, I've equipped cargo and construction drones) so that eventually no trades work and if I save+load or go out of zone and come back the ship has reverted to the undeployed state. To work around this I tried filling the ships with all the resources before starting construction, only to run into "obstruction" and pretty much every other bug I've seen reported. Not gonna tell ES how to run their show but if it was up to me the station construction problems would have the highest priority possible by now because this is a massive moodkill, I've lost count of how many times I've started a new game (at least once for EVERY patch to be sure no old bugs could linger) and worked my way up only to hit a brick wall...

I refuse to cheat by messing with my saves so don't even suggest it.

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1:25 Station building stuck

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